THB #295: 10 Weeks To Oscar/5 Days To Nomination Voting

Oh my! I haven’t put out an Oscar column reasserting the same stuff I’ve been asserting for months in a couple of weeks!

Apologies.

Okay… let’s try to shake it up a little.

Best Picture

I keep getting asked the same question… all of us who do this do… what’s going to win.

The Critics Choice Awards will be interesting. Not an indicator… but a legit reflection of a populist, critically light group choosing their fave. It may be damning with faint praise (and I am a member), but this is what is most valuable about the opinion of this group.

If CCA goes Banshees of Inisherin, the movie becomes the shocking frontrunner, because its been an underdog from the start and this kind of affirmation suggests that it’s a popular choice, even at $9.1 million at the box office after 12 weekends and landing on HBO Max.

What’s frustrating is that had this movie not been pulled into the maelstrom of Streaming, it likely would have been in a 50-screen coma for the last 5 weekends, ready to re-emerge when O…