90th Oscars: Screener Watch – A24 – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell

A24 has submitted for our consideration two films, Good Time and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Good Time

Oscar Chances: Unlikely: While the film got good reviews, it has never appeared to be much of an Oscar contender. Some might have suggested Robert Pattinson for consideration, but I doubt even that’s a possibility at this juncture.
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Picture (Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis, Terry Dougas, Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard)
Director (Josh & Benny Safdie)
Original Screenplay (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)
Actor (Robert Pattinson)
Supporting Actor (Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress)
Supporting Actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Taliah Webster)
Cinematography (Sean Price Williams)
Production Design (Sam Lisenco, Audrey Turner)
Film Editing (Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein)
Costume Design (Miyako Bellizzi, Mordechai Rubinstein)
Original Score (Oneohtrix Point Never)
Original Song (“The Pure and the Damned” – Oneohtrix Point Never)
Sound Mixing (Evan Mangiamele)
Sound Editing (Patrick Southern, Benny Safdie, Evan Mangiamele)
Makeup and Hairstlying (Anouck Sullivan, Vickie Vidov)
Visual Effects (Adam Teninbaum)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Oscar Chances: Possible: Yorgos Lanthimos has twice been recognized by the Academy. Once for Best Foreign Language Film (he was the director and would have accepted the award, though it would have been given to his home country of Greece) in 2009 for Dogtooth and then again last year for his first actual nomination for The Lobster for Best Original Screenplay. Now that he’s broken through with a rather bizarre screenplay, his chances of further nominations increase. However, this film has a lot of competition in Original Screenplay and won’t compete many other places, so I suspect the film will be ignored this year.
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