(The true purpose of the Zimmer score, perhaps?) But everyone I’ve run into has at least seen it, either on (shudder) HBO Max or at one of the many, many screenings held for voters on the Warner Bros. I’ve spoken with many who respect the scale, even if they needed to be occasionally nudged awake.
I’ve spoken with a few academy members who love Denis Villeneuve’s polished, ponderous adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic.
Or maybe I should say, in honor of Hans Zimmer’s molar-rattling score: DUNE WILL BE NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!Īnd it would have been nominated even if the rules hadn’t changed. “Dune” will be nominated for best picture.
#Oscar when movie
For one thing, academy members will now once again rank 10 movies on their nomination ballots instead of five, a mind- and bias-freeing improvement that will open up the best picture pool in a way that should satisfy anyone championing that proposed Popular Film Oscar three years ago.Ĭonsider the movies that were nominated in those two years of 10: “Up” (a classic that managed to escape the kids table that is the animated feature Oscar), “District 9” (smart sci-fi decrying xenophobia), “Winter’s Bone” (the kind of austere indie movie that rarely found favor before the expansion) and, yes, a Christopher Nolan movie, “Inception.” The new rules worked!Īnd they will work again … provided that tedious Bond movie doesn’t make it in.Ģ. (It always ended up being eight or nine.) But now we’re back to 10, and that’s cause for celebration. In retrospect, that outrage seems a bit silly, given that the movies nominated in 2008, the last year with a fixed five, were “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” No … you wouldn’t want to dilute that kind of prestige, would you?įor the next decade, rules were in place that would (supposedly) lead to five to 10 best picture nominees. That held for two years until leadership bowed to traditionalists’ complaints that the prestige of a nomination had been cheapened. There will be a fixed 10 best picture nominees this year.Īfter “The Dark Knight” best picture “snub,” the academy expanded the best picture pool to 10. So what do we know? Here are five thoughts as we count the final days before the last two contenders – Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” adaptation and Guillermo del Toro’s psychological thriller “Nightmare Alley” – finally begin screening for voters and critics.ġ. In other words, it’s business as usual, even if the academy still isn’t hosting its regular weekend screenings for members, the disgraced Golden Globes might be announced next year on Facebook Live for all we know, and nobody in Hollywood has a clue where the film industry is heading.
(Along with the Arclight Hollywood, can someone please resuscitate Souplantation?) Delta variant be damned, there are plenty of parties and receptions happening every night around town these days and even the post-screening buffets are once again booming.
After inviting an additional 395 people to join this year, the academy now has about 10,700 members, half of which seemed to be at the screening of George Clooney’s pleasant-enough coming-of-age tale “The Tender Bar” early last month, packing the lobby of the Directors Guild just to get a glimpse of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez holding hands.
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