A Buncha Weeks To Oscar*

It's almost over.

It hasn't even begun.

That is the story of this *Oscar season.

Netflix seems to have blown off the extended Oscar calendar. They are already all-in. They have a couple more movies that will go public this month and next... but media and Academy voters have access to everything now.

Nomadland has become Fox Disneylight's only title of weight... and it has gotten a deep embrace by the film critics groups that decided to announce around year's end. The film is the lost soul of the season, as it would be in any season, except that most of us are feeling like lost souls after nearly a year in COVIDLand.

People are trying to get revved up for the final films to enter... but sorry... not gonna happen. The only movie I can't speak to directly is The United States vs. Billie Holiday, which Paramount just told us isn't quite good enough by selling it off to Disney's Hulu. I mean, there is no easier Oscar dunk right now than this year with a game-changing movie. They don't have to s…