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Oscar Voting Panic; Plus, ‘Poor Things’ Tries To Defy Expectations; Annette Bening, ‘American Fiction’ & More Tales From The Trail – Notes On The Season


A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. “Happy first day of voting,” a publicist told me over the phone late Thursday afternoon while still pitching last minute interviews before final Oscar ballots are due back on Tuesday. I didn’t realize the first day of voting was becoming like a national holiday and […]

So the campaigns are still out there in full force and believe it or not so are the Q&As which for some films, American Fiction and Killers Of The Flower Moon in particular (Apple is pouring considerable cash into print ads and constant TV advertising for the latter, the strategy that made them still the only streamer with a Best Picture Oscar) will be going throughout the weekend, even as SAG, Indie Spirits, and the Producers Guild Awards are all also happening. At this final SAG Q&A, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander, Jon Ortiz, and Jeffrey Wright all seemed fresh as the first time I interviewed them all in the Fall when they left their own L.A. premiere and came over to my KCET Cinema Series in Westwood for a Q&A before heading back to the film’s reception. SAG could turn out to be an important night as though both Wright and Brown are up in their respective lead and supporting categories, but the whole ensemble is competing for Cast in a Motion Picture against heavy hitters like Oppenheimer , Barbie, and Killers Of The Flower Moon.

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