With awards season already launched, the path to the Oscars is outlined. The filter for the highest film award began on November 15 with a preliminary list of eight categories that closed on December 18, and from December 21 to the recent January 16, the official nominees were voted on and made official this December 23. January, to then choose the final winners, who will be known on Sunday, March 10 when the 96th edition of the Oscars takes place, which is now heading towards its centenary.
Among the favorites are “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie”which have just won at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday the 14th, in which “El Oso” and “Beef” were also celebrated, along with “Succession” and “The Holdovers”.
The ceremony held at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica was hosted by Chelsea Handler for the second year in a row. She humorously began her opening monologue by calling herself “microdose Barbie” and made a comment about studio executives who were “forced to take vacation” for six months due to the writers and actors strikes.
And she also honored “the great year we just had for women.” “We won everywhere. Barbie at the box office, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé with their tours… Women dominate our culture. You could almost say that it was the year of the woman…” said Handler, applauded by the female and male audience alike.
Precisely among the women, the actresses Lily Gladstone (from “Killers of the Flower Moon”, produced by Apple Original Films), Carey Mulligan (for “Maestro,” the Oscar-winning film that Netflix financed), Margot Robbie (star of the blockbuster “Barbie”), and Emma Stone with “Poor Things” are a luxury package for red carpets and award ceremonies, complete with Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”), Penelope Cruz (“Ferrari”), America Ferrera (“Barbie”) and Jodie Foster (“Nyad”) as actresses and cast.
Predictions
The Golden Globes They consolidated “Oppenheimer”, Christopher Nolan’s historical drama, as an Oscar favorite. And they made other contenders regroup and rethink their campaign strategies. The Universal Pictures after-event party showed Nolan’s executives and team excited about their journey. “Oppenheimer” took home five statuettesthe most of any film, and the most important of all: best drama, prevailing over its closest competitor, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, Martin Scorsese’s film from a script by Eric Roth, which starred Leonardo Di Caprio.
“Barbie”, which equaled the record for the most nominations at the Globes, had a weak performance at the Golden Globes, and seems ruled out in the fight for the top statuette at the Oscars. Although “doing too well” in the preview can sometimes be a disadvantage for the Academy that always seeks to take a turn that makes a difference: Oscar favorites have stumbled at the Globes before to recover and vice versa. The case of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in 2014, which beat the future Oscar best picture winner, “Birdman,” at the Globes. Or “The Banshees of Inisherin” which last year surpassed “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, which had an overwhelming success in March 2023.
So, “Poor Things” remains a viable candidate. AND “The Holdovers” from Focus Features, with Paul Giamatti and winning supporting actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, are also in the fight. “Barbie” is a candidate for adapted screenplay and original screenplay, so nothing has been said yet. And “American Fiction” (MGM), “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon), “Maestro” (from Netflix, with Bradley Cooper) are among the contenders that complete the list, while Scorsese, Nolan, Alexander Payne and Greta Gerwig They are the favorites for Best Director.
“The Boy and the Heron,” “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” (Netflix), “Elemental” (Pixar), “Robot Dreams” (Neon) and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures ), ready to compete for Best Animated Film. While “Fallen Leaves” (from Finland and developed by Mubi), the Spanish “The Snow Society” (from Netflix, about the tragedy of the Andes), the German “The Teachers’ Lounge”, and the British “The Zone of Interest” (by Jonathan Glazer), would go for the title of Best Foreign Film.
by RN
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