92nd Oscars: Screener Watch - Week 6 - Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell

The week of Thanksgiving started out really slow, but the Friday after and Saturday say an uptick in receipts. Here’s what we have…things started off with Fox Searchlight as the only title received prior to Thursday. After that, we got two separate packages for Amazon, a soundtrack from United Artists, then two different packages from A24.

Fox Searchlight

Jojo Rabbit

Oscar Chances: Good: With the audience award at Toronto, Jojo Rabbit has become a serious Oscar contender. While the film doesn’t look like it will score many nods outside of Best Picture, it could pull in quite a few in the below-the-line creative categories.
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Picture (Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, Chelsea Winstanley)
Director (Taika Waititi)
Adapted Screenplay (Taika Waititi)
Actor (Roman Griffin Davis)
Supporting Actor (Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Merchant, Alfie Allen)
Supporting Actress (Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson)
Film Editing (Tom Eagles)
Cinematogrpahy (Mihai Malaimare Jr.)
Production Design (Ra Vincent, Nora Sopkova)
Original Score (Michael Giacchino)
Costume Deseign (Mayes C. Rubeo)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Dannelle Satherley)
Sound Mixing (Petr Forejt, Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee)
Sound Editing (Ai-Ling Lee, Tobias Poppe)
Visual Effects (Jason Chen)

Amazon

Honey Boy

Oscar Chances: Unlikely: In spite of solid reviews, the film is perhaps a bit too unconventional for Oscar voters. I don’t expect it to do well with the Academy at all.
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Picture (Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Anita Gou, Christopher Leggtett, Alma Har’el)
Directing (Alma Har’el)
Original Screenplay (Shia LaBeouf)
Actor (Noah Jupe)
Supporting Actor (Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges)
Cinematography (Natasha Braier)
Production Design (JC Molina, Tatiana Van Sauter)
Film Editing (Monica Salazar, Dominic LaPerriere)
Costume Design (Natalie O’Brien)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Ken Diaz, Lygia Orta, Laurene Alvarado, Anthony Wilson, Rita Troy)
Original Score (Alex Somers)
Sound Editing (Brent Kiser, Andrew Twite)
Sound Mixing (Oscar Grau-Martin, Will Files, Brent Kiser)
Visual Effects (Martin Karlsson)

The Report

Oscar Chances: Good: Annette Bening may well be the only part of this film that earns a nomination, though a screenwriting nomination is certainly possible as well.
Campaign-Proposed Categories

Picture (Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Fox, Scott Z. Burns, Kerry Orent, Michael Sugar, Eddy Moretti, Danny Gabai)
Directing (Scott Z. Burns)
Original Screenplay (Scott Z. Burns)
Actor (Adam Driver)
Supporting Actor (Jon Hamm)
Supporting Actress (Annette Bening)
Cinematogrpahy (Eigil Bryld)
Film Editing (Greg O’Bryant)
Production Design (Ethan Tobman, Max Wixom, Richard Devine)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Martha Melendez, Kirsten Sylvester, Suzy Mazzarese-Allison, Erin Kennedy Lunsford)
Sound Mixing (Dane Lonsdale, Martin Czembor, Ruy Garcia)
Sound Editing (Ruy Garcia)
Original Score (David Wingo)
Costume Design (Susan Lyall)
Visual Effects (Luke Ditommaso)

United Artists

Missing Link (Soundtrack)

Oscar Chances: Unlikely: Animated films rarely score nominations in the Original Score category and the era of Pixar’s dominance of the category appears to have ended as well.
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Original Score

A24

The Lighthouse

Oscar Chances: Unlikely: Apart from stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, the film’s only major chance at a nomination is for Jarin Blaschke’s cinematogrpahy. That said, Pattinson isn’t a solid bet, though Dafoe probably is.
Campaign-Proposed Categories

Picture
Director (Robert Eggers)
Original Screenplay (Robert Eggers, Max Eggers)
Actor (Robert Pattinson)
Supporting Actor (Willem Dafoe)
Film Editing (Louise Ford)
Cinematography (Jarin Blaschke)
Production Design (Craig Lathrop, Ian Greig)
Costume Design (Linda Muir)
Original Score (Mark Korven)
Sound Mixing (Roberto Fernandez, Damien Volpe, Zander Rosborough)
Sound Editing (Damian Volpe)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Traci Loader, Linda Flynn)
Visual Effects (Luc Julien, Eran Dinur, Richard Friedlander, Glenn Allen)

Uncut Gems

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: There’s a lot of buzz about an Adam Sandler nomination, but I suspect the stiff competition may hinder his chances overall.
Campaign-Proposed Categories

Picture
Actor (Adam Sandler)
Director (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Original Screenplay (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie)
Supporting Actor (LaKeith Stanfield, Kevin Garnett, Eric Bogosian, Judd Hirsch)
Supporting Actress (Julia Fox, Idina Menzel)
Film Editing (Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie)
Cinematography (Darius Khondji)
Production Design (Sam Lisenco, Kendall Anderson)
Costume Design (Miyako Bellizzi)
Original Score (Daniel Lopatin)
Sound Mixing (Skip Lievsay, Warren Shaw, Tom Fleischman, Anton Gold)
Sound Editing (Warren Shaw)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Kyra Panchenko, Mia Neal)
Visual Effects (Eran Dinur, Manuel Riedl)

Waves

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: The film might not have done well at the Spirit Awards, but it still remains a solid potential Oscar contender, especially with so few films about the black experience in the competition and the excellent reviews will help.
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