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The Oscar Contenders Who Got the Biggest Boost From Tastemaker Week
The first week of December is always a whirlwind, marking the official arrival of Moira Rose’s favorite season.
On Tuesday night I attended events for Wicked and Emilia Pérez, which meant in a two-hour span I was in the same room as Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez (the closest I have ever come to feeling like Zedd), while further uptown A24 threw a screening of Queer — though I don’t know if the timeline worked for anyone to be able to catch this season’s Boston-coded double feature. Still, few could have predicted how heavily they would fall for Wicked, handing the musical Best Film and Best Director honors plus a special award for “the creative collaboration of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.” While I’m skeptical a studio filmmaker like Chu will find the same favor from the Academy’s snobbiest branch — Maverick ’s Joseph Kosinski never came close to cracking the Oscar lineup — if these laurels continue, I may need to reconsider. It’s a slightly puzzling pick: While Fanning gives a strong performance, like a lot of people in A Complete Unknown she mostly alternates between gazing longingly at Chalamet’s Dylan and being fed up with his bullshit, and most pundits pegged Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez as the movie’s better Supporting Actress play.
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