Key Highlights
- We’re slowly getting back to business now.
- Last weekend sawthe Directors Guild Awards (Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Feature, as expected), and Thursday night brought the Costume Designers Guild Awards (where One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, and Wicked: For Good took home awards in Contemporary, Period, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy design, respectively).
- I noticed that, this year, people were feeling the lull more than usual.
- Perhaps that’s a result of the Oscar ceremony taking place two weeks later than it did last year; perhaps it’s a reflection of the fact that the Best Picture race still largely looks the same as it did in mid-September with OBAA seemingly out in front.
- But nature abhors a vacuum, and it’s tempting to wonder whether voters having so much time to ruminate will affect the race in unexpected ways.
