The big categories might seem a lock for the 98th Academy Awards, but there are still plenty of coveted honors that will be up for grabs at the March 15 ceremony.
— but regardless of whether any of the wins are locks, there’s still plenty to catch up on before Hollywood’s biggest night.‘Sirāt’ is not the movie you think it is — it’s betterBritain’s BAFTA awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ leads list of winners Here’s a rundown of the buzz surrounding the Conan O’Brien-hosted 98th Academy Awards on March 15.
The cinematic ceremony will simultaneously air on ABC at 7 p.m. ET as itThere’s long been an apparent consensus between Oscar pundits and movie lovers alike — as well as many of the precursor awards shows — that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” are the films to beat, for both Best Picture and Best Director, as well as several acting awards , and the newly minted Best Casting category.For reference, every one of the 13 categories in which “One Battle” is competing, “Sinners” is too — and then some — save for Screenplay, where the former is tapped for Best Adapted and the latter for Best Original. While “One Battle” star Teyana Taylor won Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes — where the film also won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy — “Sinners” star Wunmi Mosaku won Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs. “Marty Supreme” star Timothée Chalamet was previously considered the Best Actor frontrunner. That speculation has fizzled, not least because of some controversy surrounding the film, as well as the warm reception to Wagner Moura in “The Secret Agent” and Michael B. Jordan in “Sinners,” with the former winning a Golden Globe and the latter an Actor Award. Ryan Coogler attends the 32nd Annual Actor Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Best Picture nominee “Sinners” entered the race already a winner, as its 16 nominations — including Ryan Coogler for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Michael B. Jordan for Best Actor, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Best Cinematography — make it the most-nominated film of all time. “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land” previously shared the title for the most nominations with 14. But “Sinners” isn’t the only film poised to both win big and break records on Oscars night — when there will also be a first-ever Best Casting award. Most categories feature nominees who, if they win a little gold man, will feature firsts and other historic moments.Several of those potential milestones hail from the Best Director contenders. Coogler would be the first Black filmmaker ever to win the honor. Chloé Zhao, who previously won for directing “Nomadland” and is now nominated for helming “Hamnet,” would be the first woman to ever hold multiple Best Director wins. Danish-Norwegian Joachim Trier, nominated for “Sentimental Value,” would be the first Nordic director to win. Other potential landmark wins include those of “Sinners” star and Best Supporting Actress nominee Wunmi Mosaku, who would be the first Nigerian to win an Oscar. Should he win Best Supporting Actor, “Sentimental Value” star Stellan Skarsgård would be the first Swedish or Nordic male to win an acting Oscar.A win for Best Supporting Actor by Delroy Lindo in “Sinners” would mark a first for a male actor who had not been nominated for the Actor Awards, BAFTAs, Critics’ Choice or Golden Globes precursors.If Amy Madigan wins Best Supporting Actress for “Weapons,” the 40 years and one month between her first nomination — for 1985’s “Twice in a Lifetime” — and her first win would break the record currently held by Geraldine Page, at 32 years and one month.The most widely reported of this year’s controversies has been that surrounding the BAFTAs late last month, when Tourette’s advocate John Davidson could be heard spouting multiple slurs, including the N-word, when Jordan and “Sinners” co-star Delroy Lindo were on stage, as well as when Wunmi Mosaku won for Best Supporting Actress. The BBC has since come under fire for not editing all of the epithets out of the broadcast. Allegations resurfaced in late January that Josh Safdie — up for an Oscar for directing “Marty Supreme” — was well aware that he and brother Benny, his former directing collaborator,exposed himself and “terrified” the girl Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve in "Sentimental Value." “Hamnet” star Jessie Buckley, whose predicted Best Actress win would be a first for Irish actresses, in response to herby dubbing herself “a lover of cats,” which not everyone buys — and might not help if Academy Award voters at all factor in her polarizing new film, “The Bride!”Dear Abby: I don't know how this little gesture alienated me from my son and his wifeAsking Eric: My son dated her a few times, and that's when the trouble startedMiss Manners: A fellow diner wouldn't let me take the chair her purse was onLong after leaving Oakland, the A’s are still fighting a West Oakland metal shredder — alongside environmentalists
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