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We had one films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

The Star Wars franchise has always been in the race for Oscars. Even when the second set of trilogies came out, they got Oscar attention. The question is how long before the Academy starts suffering from Star Wars fatigue. Solo: A Star Wars Story might be the testing ground of such limits.

Apart from its unimpressive performance at the box office and semi-mediocre reviews from critics, Star Wars: A Star Wars Story has only one film to act as a litmus test of its potential Oscar glory. It is only the second film to stand outside the main trilogies, so let’s look back at Rogue One and see how it performed two years ago. Admittedly better reviewed and with a higher box office tally, the film pulled off two Oscar nominations. One for Sound Mixing and one for Visual Effects. The latter category is the only category that has consistently recognized this franchise, so Best Visual Effects should be its best shot.

What about Sound Mixing and its companion Sound Editing. Typically, the two categories go together; however, as Rogue One proved, that’s not always the case. I suspect the same situation may occur here with Solo picking up one of the two with the mixing category the most likely. The only other categories that might have a chance are Original Score and Production Design. The latter is tougher for this universe as it often seems that we’ve seen the locales before, but a lot of the design in this film is decidedly unique, which might help it in that respects.

For Original Score, the problem is that its not composed by John Williams. Williams is the only director who has picked up nominations for five of the eight trilogy films so far, with the prequel trilogy being the only set he didn’t get a nomination for. That said, if Michael Giacchino couldn’t pull off a nod for Rogue One, John Powell isn’t likely to pick up a mention for this film either.

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