‘Everything’ Almost Everywhere: 10 Moments That Defined an Awards Season
thewrap.comMay 17-28, 2022: “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Elvis” hit the Croisette in CannesThe Cannes Film Festival is always a rich source for entries in the Oscars Best International Feature Film category, and the 2022 festival was no exception.
A dozen of its films were submitted by their home countries to the Academy, and two, “EO” and “Close,” were nominated. Plus an English-language film by a Swedish director, Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” nominated for Best Picture and Best Director.But Cannes was also the launching pad for a pair of mainstream movies that would be in the thick of the awards race: “Top Gun: Maverick,” which had a splashy premiere with fighter jets buzzing the Croisette, and “Elvis,” which returned Baz Luhrmann to the festival where he’d premiered “Moulin Rouge!” Both films were immediately flagged as awards contenders, with particular attention to “Elvis” star Austin Butler, and the focus on early-year contenders also caused awards-watchers to start considering the SXSW indie “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which had been in theaters since March. Sept.
4: “The Whale” gets a six-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, and Brendan Fraser criesSeveral presumed awards movies didn’t recover from the lackluster receptions they received at the Venice International Film Festival, among them Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise,” Alejandro G.
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