Even more jaw-dropping: Angela Bassett has only been nominated once before (way back in 1994, for What’s Love Got to Do With It).
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at OnceĪ truly astounding fact: Jamie Lee Curtis has never been nominated for an Oscar before now. Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once But our fingers are crossed for the Daniels duo.Īngela Bassett in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Marvel StudiosĪngela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Who We’d Personally Like to See Win: Honestly, it’d be great to see Field or Kwan and Scheinert win this. It feels somehow rigorous and like a stream-of-conscious nightmare, especially in that last half. Tár is not only one of the most astute comments on power, how it gets (ab)used and who gets to wield it - the film is also one of the best collaborations between a director and his lead actor in recent memory.
The odds are good that this year almost assuredly won’t give us the ninth instance. There have only been eight instances where the DGA winners haven’t synced up with the Academy’s picks. “Daniels,” didn’t just score an unlikely - but highly deserved - hit for A24 with their story of an “ordinary” woman timeline-hopping to save the multiverse they’ve also managed to be the belles of the awards-season ball and nab the Directors Guild Award (DGA), which suggests they’ve got a strong chance of taking this category at the Oscars as well. One made his first film in 16 years, which ended up launching a thousand Twitter arguments and twice as many memes one finally told the story we’d been waiting 40 years for him to tell, gracefully veering into blatantly autobiographical “memory movie” territory one is an international auteur known for his feel-bad social satires one is a world-class playwright-turned-filmmaker and the last two are the guys who gave you Michelle Yeoh with a googly third eye, butt-plug fight sequences, and “Raccacoonie.” Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, a.k.a. Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin The phrase “Oscar upsets” exists for a reason.ĭaniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, directors of ‘ Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Allyson Riggsĭaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once There’s no such thing as a 100-percent sure thing when it comes to the Academy Awards, of course, and not even something as celebrated and consistently praised as, say, Brokeback Mountain or Saving Private Ryan - or even this year’s heavily-favored Everything Everywhere All at Once - can be said to have an unbeatable, unbreakable lock on things. We’re definitely not immune to the allure of guessing which films and artists are going home with a little extra gold on awards night, and on the eve of the ceremony’s broadcast on Sunday, March 12, we have a good idea of what the winner’s circle is going to look like. Predicting the Oscars has become it’s own bloodsport, with an entire subset of the Entertainment Journalism Industrial Complex dedicated to crunching numbers, reading the tastemaker-screening tea leaves, and peering deep in to the FYC crystal ball.
There were some early favorites, but it was still anyone’s race. Veteran performers and previous Oscar winners shared the acting categories with newbies and first-time nominees the directing category was a who’s who of the season’s big names, if regrettably a bit of a sausage party. The expected standouts from the fall festival circuit - your Tár, your Fabelmans, your Banshees of Inisherin - were nestled up next to some popular box-office favorites ( Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis). 24, the lineup was a traditional combination of the usual suspects and welcome outliers. When the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Jan. We have just one question for you regarding the Oscars: How do you feel about hot-dog fingers?
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