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As box-office bets start racking up points, we tally exactly how many awards and nominations your $5 picks will need to keep up.
The drafting window for this season has closed, but you can still sign up to get the newsletter, which provides a weekly recap of box-office performance, awards nominations, and critical chatter on all the buzziest movies. Its main competition for animation awards is Inside Out 2, a movie that got credit (along with Deadpool & Wolverine) for rescuing the summer box office, so the more The Wild Robot can also become a financial success story, the more it can neutralize Pixar’s advantage. Venom: The Last Dance is the latest film to go the all-box-office, no-awards route, while Conclave will open wide and hope the appetite for Vatican intrigue and Ralph Fiennes is strong enough to attract some ticket buyers.
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