I predict that this is the year we find out whether the Academy's attempts to diversify their voters have had any effect.
If the voters are still dominated by rich men in their 70s, The Fabelmans takes the top prizes, because a) it's a lovely film and b) it's by a rich man in his 70s, for people of a similar generation. It also gets bonus points for being largely about Steven Spielberg's mother Leah, who held court at her restaurant on Pico for decades. Leah was a lot, but everyone loved her. Everything Everywhere All At Once gets everyone else's vote, because it's a movie for basically everyone else. Rich dudes in their 70s can like it if they want to, but they're probably actually voting for The Fabelmans or The Banshees of Inisherin. (Also a lovely movie - somehow simultaneously the funniest and saddest of the year.) Likeliest outcome is probably EEAAO wins Picture, Spielberg wins Director, and Banshees upsets them both for original screenplay. All Quiet on the Western Front wins International Feature, but it doesn't matter because it wasn't up against Decision to Leave. The performance of Naatu Naatu at the ceremony launches a thousand memes. I never catch up on all the sleep I have missed today and am making stream-of-consciousness guesses well into July. --Rose On Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 6:05 AM danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote: > [obwnn: from the NBC Blue Network, the home of WNN!) > > > https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/oscar-nominations-2023-96609253 > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > dan...@panix.com > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAFc2C0Zgt52ym6DE-AcbqBy7T57BmqeeRUkZ6UdvWbOZSF4i%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
