If I Had an Oscar Ballot 2024: ‘American Fiction’ and ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ for Best Picture; Colman Domingo and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Should Win for Acting
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Awards Circuit Column: It’s decision time. After months of campaigning, festivalgoing, splashy premieres, magazine profiles and morning-show appearances, Academy voters will finally get their ballots this week (Thursday, Jan.
11). Hopefully, the organization’s nearly 10,000 members did their homework and watched as many of 2023’s offerings as possible.
It’s hard to distill an entire year of cinema — particularly one overflowing with so much great work — into a mere five (or, in the case of best picture, 10) achievements.
I love many of the films that the Academy will almost certainly nominate for top prizes, such as Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” And who could resist the phenomenon of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” forever linked in pop culture history as “Barbenheimer.” Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
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