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THB #275: 14 Weeks To Oscar - To Do List

THB #275: 14 Weeks To Oscar - To Do List

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Dec 12, 2022
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The game is now afoot… and more than ever this season, it feels like everything is up for grabs.

Usually, by this time of year, I am comfortable about where each of the players sit. Then it is up to holiday viewing and how the narratives are pushed by each film. As Bill Condon coined it, The Great Settling, that occurs in the next few weeks.

But this season, my sense that The Fabelmans was the default movie since TIFF, meaning the movie that is likely to win Best Picture if nothing else steps up and takes its position, has faded. I don’t know that I see the default title at this point. Maybe Everything Everywhere All at Once… but the feeling that the movie is a cult more than a mainstream lingers. (Don’t get pissed at me… I pre-bought the 4K as soon as it became available and own a set of Hot Dog Fingers. I am part of the cult. But I don’t have blinders on.)

The Banshees of Inisherin is gathering the air of inevitability. But to win? That certainly does not seem locked in at this point…

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