Keeping pace with Hollywoods perpetual awards horserace.
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An autumn chill has descended.
The early disappointment ofJoker: Folie a Deuxhas nearly 3,000 teams feeling adrift, their spirit rattled.
Where can the citizens of the Movies Fantasy League turn to for hope?
The Gotham Awards have just turned on theAnorasignal.
gloopy, overbearing symbiote one last time.
Read on to see how the weekend-box-office returns and Gotham nominations threw our leaderboard for a loop.
I Hardly Know Em!
AfterJokers belly flop, the standard for box-office disappointment has certainly been raised (lowered?).
That resulted in less of a hue and cry over howVenom: The Last Danceperformed this past weekend.
1 for the week (+20) for a grand total of 96 MFL points.
That … isnt going to happen this time around.
This is what you get for letting Michelle Williams leave the franchise!!
That makes it Focus Features second-best weekend of the year, afterThe Bikeriderss opening weekend.
We All Need It, Cant Live Without It … Gotham Nominations!
(We cannot allow the heinousness of R. Kelly to keep us from Gotham City puns.)
In other words, this is one of the best chances for your low-cost purchases to score some points.
So how did the indie flicks fare with the gurus of Gotham?
That haul was good for 60 MFL points and a hearty start to the season.
Somewhat surprising wasThe Brutalistand Brady Corbet not showing up in Best Feature or Best Director.
It is also good to seeBabygirlmake as many Best Feature lineups as possible.
Thirty MFL points from Best Feature and Best Lead Performer (Nicole Kidman) nominations is a good start.
(Justice for lead actor Sebastian Stan, though.)
Hard Truths(+25), nominated for International Feature and for Marianne Jean-Baptistes lauded lead performance.
In fact, if youre interested in the Best Actress race this year and why wouldnt you be?
Theyd make for one hell of an Oscars lineup!
Nominations for Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin are good bellwethers that this not-exactly-cheap MFL selection might still pay off.
Theres a lone roster at the top of the heap right now,LukeBart07, with 389 points.
Congrats so far, LukeBart!
Brennan Kleinsits in fourth place with 374 points and a combo ofBabygirlandThe Substance.
All that plus we get to see how much biggerAnoraandConclavewill get.
The seasons in full swing!
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Drop us a line atmoviesleague@vulture.com.
