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The Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar Nominations
Barbie suffers irrepressible thoughts of death, and Nyad does indeed exist.
Not only had Team Killers made the adaptation process one of the central planks in their campaign, often telling the story of how the script was rewritten to include the Osage point-of-view, but Zone, a film with a loose dramatic structure and dialogue that plays as if it’s improvised, was not an obvious pick for screenplay recognition. This year’s victim was American Symphony, a heart-tugging portrait of musician Jon Batiste navigating newfound fame and his wife’s leukemia, which was backed by the Netflix machine and offered a potentially winning combination of artistry and emotion. Live-Action Short is perennially one of the most dismal Oscar categories, but this season’s crop was primed to have plenty of star power, with Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptation The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and Pedro Almodóvar’s gay Western Strange Way of Life both in the mix.
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