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Oscar Nomination Predictions: Will There Be Weird Choices for a Weird Year?
In a long season that’s been hard to endure and hard to predict, here are our best guesses in all 23 categoriesSteve Pond | March 11, 2021 @ 6:15 AM
AWARDS BEAT Minari (A24), Nomadland (Searchlight), Promising Young Woman (Focus), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
It’s time for Oscar voters to try and make sense of the movies from a year in which the movie business didn’t really exist. After 12 months of isolating and quarantining and watching movies that couldn’t go to theaters so they went to streaming services instead, the 9,300 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will take the measure of 2020 when nominations are announced on Monday.
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Oscars Break Another Record With 105 Eligible Songs, But Trent Reznor’s ‘Mank’ Tune Isn’t One of Them
Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me” was written for David Fincher’s film, but it didn’t make the Academy’s largest-ever eligibility listSteve Pond | February 4, 2021 @ 5:16 PM Last Updated: February 5, 2021 @ 5:27 PM
AWARDS BEAT Mank / Netflix
This year’s Oscars have set a new record for the largest number of entries ever in the Best Original Song category, but the 105 eligible songs do not include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me,” a 1930s-style big band song from “Mank” that was recently nominated for the second annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.