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The Five Oscar Nominations We’re Most Afraid of
As Oscar pundits, we try to be fair to everyone, but we know who we’re rooting for — and also, who we aren’t.
In her defense, Gomez’s role would be tough for most actors to pull off: As Jessi, a gangster’s wife locked in a custody battle with the woman she doesn’t know is her spouse (who has secretly transitioned), she must navigate an underwritten part, a language she’s not fluent in, and some truly wild plot developments in the movie’s final act. An expert might note that “the camera direction, lighting, and color grading are not meaningfully working in tandem with one another.” A layman might simply observe that, for all its other joys, the movie’s visuals are often quite poor: muddy, underlit foregrounds; a desaturated sheen that makes even the practical effects look like CGI. Not only would this be another regrettable case of the Academy rubber-stamping a Best Picture nominee into a craft category where it doesn’t belong, a nod for Wicked could have the knock-on effect of bumping Nickel Boys, a film whose cinematography genuinely pushes the medium forward.
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