A ranking of Best Picture contenders, in order of which is most likely to arouse social-media conniptions if they win
From left: Don’t Look Up, Licorice Pizza, Being the Ricardos. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Netflix, MGM and Amazon Prime It is a time of transition — for the movies, for the Oscars, and, most important, for Oscar villains.
Oscar Heroes A villain is nothing without its hero. These are the films that will get showered with praise in the event they win. 12. CODA Photo: Apple TV+ At Sundance, Apple paid $25 million for this little movie about a teenage girl and her horny Deaf family—a record acquisition. There was a time, maybe ten or 15 years ago, when such a gigantic sum of money would have induced a swell of Schadenfreude in the commentariat. As the marketplace for indie film has collapsed, the culture’s moved on from those ill-feelings.
9. Dune Photo: Warner Bros. Two years of industry disruption have thrown serious adult movies, the Oscars’s bread and butter, into existential peril. So this season has seen a lot of anxiety over the question of whether the Academy should reach for the metaphorical life preserver and focus more attention on IP-driven blockbusters, which seem to be the only movies anyone’s willing to see in theaters anymore.
Now We’re Getting Somewhere This is the JV squad of Oscar villainy. But if one of them starts taking home trophies, look out.
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