THB #244: 20 (Long) Weeks To Oscar

This is the moment before things really start revving up for Oscar. But I don’t remember the village being any quieter at the end of October than it is right now… even in the Oscar Season of the Woman™

We’re 3 weeks from The Governors Awards and The Deadline Contenders marketing event. And it feels almost as though everyone is waiting for that week (November 18-21) to bring their wares to the Oscar market. But the only sure winners in that weekend are the Governors Awards winners (Peter Weir, Diane Warren, Euzhan Palcy and Michael J. Fox this year… since you didn’t know) and Deadline’s bottom line.

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The only real action seems to be around movies and performances that were not really expected to be in play this season. AppleTV+’s Causeway, which has a performance by Brian Tyree Henry that could make a serious play in the soft Supporting Actor category.

Jennifer Lawrence, in Causeway, is in the “perfect performance, but will it excite peopl…