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Welcome to a special pre-holiday edition to jump-start your viewing lists. This newsletter will be taking next week off, so we’ll meet again in the new year.
This is a very unusual awards season, given its oddly elongated calendar, but accolades are being handed out nonetheless. This past weekend the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (of which I’m a member) voted on its 2020 awards, sticking to the actual calendar year rather than the extended eligibility calendar of the Oscars.
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Glenn Whipp and Justin Chang wrote about the results, which recognized Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology as best picture and Chloé Zhao as best director for “Nomadland.” Chadwick Boseman was named best actor for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Carey Mulligan best actress for “Promising Young Woman.”
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The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2021 program this week, a slimmed-down lineup of 72 feature films to be unveiled during an ambitious hybrid event that will be mostly online.
Festival director Tabitha Jackson acknowledged how things may still change between now and the beginning of the festival, and how hard it is to predict their impact on the event. “I think that one of the amazing things about film is that the audience makes the meaning to a large extent. And so even from a month or so out, things might feel different in January. It’s going to be a new year, it’s going to be a new political administration in this country, the vaccines will be further along, it will perhaps be a more hopeful time. And the meaning of these films will change again as we watch them.”