92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 7 – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell

The pace of screeners this week was a bit lighter. The first batch is from a company I’m not familiar with (and who didn’t exactly denote they were in the packaging), but they sent two documentaries. Amazon followed that with Annapurna right behind. Amazon came through again with another four films and then Fox Searchlight finished out the week.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

Oscar Chances: Unknown: I’m not that familiar with the Documentary Feature contenders this year, so I don’t have a comment.
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Documentary Feature

Who Will Write Our History

Oscar Chances: Unknown: I’m not that familiar with the Documentary Feature contenders this year, so I don’t have a comment.
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Documentary Feature

Amazon

The Aeronauts

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: The film has had almost no buzz surrounding it and there just doesn’t seem to be much room in the races for it this year. It’s best chances are in creative categories including Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Visual Effects.
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Picture (Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Tom Harper)
Directing (Tom Harper)
Actress (Felicity Jones)
Supporting Actor (Eddie Redmayne)
Original Screenplay (Jack Thorne, Tom Harper, Jack Thorne)
Film Editing (Mark Eckersley)
Production Design (Christian Huband, David Hindle, Alice Sutton, Sophie Hervieu)
Costume Design (Alexandra Byrne)
Visual Effects (Louis Morin)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Jenny Shircore, Sarah Kelly, Jacqueline Bhavnani, Joe Hopker)
Sound Editing (Lee Walpole, Andy Kenned)
Sound Mixing (Tom Williams, Stuart Hilliker, Lee Walpole)
Original Score (Steven Price)

Annapurna

Booksmart

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: The film was well regarded on its release, but Oscar chatter never really developed. It could be a darkhorse Original Screenplay nominee, but I somehow doubt it.
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Picture (Megan Ellison, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman)
Director (Olivia Wilde)
Actress (Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever)
Supporting Actress (Jessica Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Billie Lourd)
Supporting Actor (Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis)
Original Screenplay (Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman)
Cinematography (Jason McCormick)
Film Editing (Brent White, Jamie Gross)
Production Design (Katie Byron, Erika Toth Ham, Rachael Ferrera)
Costume Design (April Napier)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Liz Lash, Aubrey Marie)
Sound Editing (Onnalee Blank)
Sound Mixing (Skip Lievsay, Paul Urmson, Onnalee Blank, Mathew Waters)
Visual Effects (Raoul Yorke Bolognini)
Original Score (Dan the Automator)

Amazon (Redux)

Brittany Runs a Marathon

Oscar Chances: Unlikely: The film just didn’t generate any buzz.
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Picture (Matthew Plouffe, Tobey Maguire, Margot Hand)
Director (Paul Downs Colaizzo)
Original Screenplay (Paul Downs Colaizzo)
Actress (Jillian Bell)
Supporting Actor (Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery, Micah Stock, Mikey Day)
Supporting Actress (Michaela Watkins, Alice Lee)
Cinematography (Seamus Tierney)
Film Editing (Casey Brooks)
Original Score (Duncan Thum)
Sound Editing (Ric Schnupp)
Sound Mixing (Richard Hart, Ric Schnupp)
Production Design (Erin Magill, Naomi Munro, Kim Fischer)
Costume Design (Stacey Berman)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Scott Hersh, Valerie Carney, Mia Varrone, Dennis Polanco, Michael Thomas Zambrano)

Invisible Life

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: A potential Best International Film nominee. We’ll see if it makes the shortlist.
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Picture (Rodrigo Teixeira, Michael Weber, Viola Fugen)
International Feature (Karim Ainouz)
Actress (Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler)
Cinematography (Helene Louvart)
Film Editing (Heike Parplies)
Original Score (Benedikt Schiefer)
Production Design (Rodrigo Martirena)
Costume Design (Marina Franco)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Rosemary Paiva)
Adapted Screenplay (Murilo Hauser, Ines Bortagaray, Karim Ainqouz)
Supporting Actor (Gregorio Duvivier, Antonio Fonseca, Gillray Coutinho)
Supporting Actress (Barbara Santos, Flavia Gusmao, Maria Manoella, Cristina Pereira, Fernanda Montenegro)
Sound Editing (Waldir Xavier, Laura Zimmerman)
Sound Mixing (Bjorn Wiese)

Les Misérables

Oscar Chances: Good: It’s France’s best opportunity for an Oscar nomination in years, but I’m beginning to question the decision to nominate this over Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which has far better acclaim building around it.
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Picture (Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral)
International Feature (Ladj Ly)
Actor (Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga)
Supporting Actor (Issa Perica, Al Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Nizar Ben Fatma, Almamy Kahoute)
Cinematography (Julien Poupard)
Film Editing (Flora Volpeliere)
Production Design (Karim Lagati)
Costume Design (Marine Galliano)
Original Screenplay (Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti)
Supporting Actress (Jeanne Balibar)
Sound Editing (Jerome Gonthier)
Sound Mixing (Arnaud Lavaleix, Matthieu Autin, Marco Casanova)
Makeup & Hairstyling (Sarah Pariset)
Original Score (Pink Noise)

One Child Nation

Oscar Chances: Decent: It’s one of the few documentaries I’ve heard a decent amount about, so I suspect it will be on the shortlist and might even make the final nomination list.
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Documentary Feature (Nanfu Wang, Zialing Zhang, Christoph Jorg, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn, Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang))
Cinematography (Nanfu Wang, Yuanchen Liu))
Sound Mixing (Ron Bochar)
Original Score (Nathan Halpern, Chris Ruggiero)
Sound Editing (Ron Bochar, Sara Stern, Philip Stockton, Allan Zaleski, Michael Shade)
Film Editing (Nanfu Wang)

Fox Searchlight

A Hidden Life

Oscar Chances: Uncertain: Terrence Malick has made so many recent duds that it’s questionable whether this film will recapture his Oscar capabilities in spite of the acclaim it’s receiving. Cinematography is about the only place his films always compete and even that seems iffy.
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