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Keeping pace with Hollywoods perpetual awards horserace.
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This Gold Rush column originally on November 9.
We are recirculating it now thatEmilia Perezis streaming on Netflix.
For months, I have had a certain date circled in my calendar: November 13.
The dayEmilia Perezhits Netflix.
Most of them will be entirely unprepared for what theyre about to watch how will they react?
Doubtfire.The secondcalled it a cross betweenMrs.
DoubtfireandSicarioreimagined as a musical.The thirddid not mentionMrs.
Doubtfirebut did call it a genre-melding noir musical.
And, again, its a musical!
Emilia Perezwas rapturously received at Cannes, where four of its female cast members shared the Best Actress prize.
It then came second in TIFF Peoples Choice voting beatingAnora!
thus proving the musicals appeal was not limited to French people and jet-lagged journalists.
Its Netflixs biggest awards priority this season, and pundits expect it to be a major player.
This is a recipe for chaos.
The first stirrings of a backlash are already here.
Those arguments have been repeated by a small but growingnumberofonlinedetractors.
Theyre calling it the worst thing a Frenchman has done in Mexico sinceNapoleon III!
There will be much to discuss about the films handling of trans issues.
This is a movie that exists in its own strange world.
I cant wait to see what happens when others come visit.
Oscar Futures: The Election Is Over.
Best Picture
Up Wicked, Gladiator II, et al.
Apologies in advance: You signed up to read an Oscars column, not more election stuff.
Exactly how so, Im not sure.
Up The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, etc.
.Current Predix
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Down Sebastian Stan,The Apprentice
You know when Ill see that movie?
an Academy member said of the Trump biopic a few weeks back.
When hes in jail.
Sorry to bum you out, but thats not gonna happen anymore.
Its too late for that now.
You may have forgotten that Watson is a two-time nominee.
Does the struggling Lionsgate have enough in the tank to power her Oscar comeback?
