Following the launch of period piece love story Ammonite at the Toronto International Film Festival, THR's awards analyst Scott Feinberg explores how Academy members might respond to the film
just floored me; I can't think of a single aspect that could be improved upon" — with some calling Winslet's performance the best of her distinguished decades-long career. I myself found it a bit cliche-riddled, troubling and difficult to believe .
But the Academy is its own beast, and it will be interesting to see how its members respond to the film. I imagine it will face an uphill climb not because of its queer subject matter —probably came very close to being one five years ago — but because voters rarely embrace tone poems like this one to the same extent as critics, preferring to have their films more spelled out for them.
One can be sure, though, that Academy members will at least fire up the screener of a film that stars two famous actresses with 11 Oscar nominations and one statuette between them and counts among its producers the Oscar winners behind
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