THB #43: Oscar Films All Seen... Still No Frontrunner

Okay… going to be knocking out a lot of awardsy/reviewy stuff in the next 48 hours. The West Side Story embargo releases on Thursday morning. Nightmare Alley launched without an embargo. And I have now seen Licorice Pizza a fourth time and am ready to review.

But here is the headline… there are six surefire Best Picture nominees…

West Side Story, in. Nightmare Alley, in. Licorice Pizza, in. Belfast, in. King Richard, in. The Power of the Dog, in.

There is no real order to that list, aside from an inverted schedule of when they were first shown.

I could put them in order of which I like the most to the least. But I won’t. It’s irrelevant.

While 4 other movies will be nominated for Best Picture, these are the 6 strongest and thus, stand a better chance of winning than the next group.

But this doesn’t mean that the winner will not come from left field.

It’s unlikely.

But it’s possible.

I can make a legitimate argument for every one of these 6 to be the winner. And I can make a legitimate argu…