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Why the Oscars Ignored Challengers
When last week’s Oscar nominations had been read, the tennis romance received nary a mention.
No Justin Kuritzkes matching his wife Celine Song ’s nomination in Best Original Screenplay, creating a tense marital atmosphere that can only be relieved by the reappearance of an enigmatic man from their past. Think of the way Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, and Ariana Grande honed the message that Wicked was not just a remarkably successful capitalization of Broadway IP but a tribute to radical joy. Of course, even if Challengers had pushed its release date to May, played in competition at Cannes, and brought back the Concorde to enable Mike Faist to attend the Hamptons, Middleburg, and Mill Valley film festivals, that still may not have been enough.
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