Final Oscar voting has now ended for the upcoming 95th ceremony. Speaking with dozens of voters over the past few days, it’s nearly impossible to gauge the outcomes based on over 9,600 eligib…
A24’s multiverse comedy has cleaned up with the major guilds, winning DGA, PGA, SAG and WGA, the first film to do so since “Argo” . In addition, no film has lost the best picture after winning all four. However, with 11 nominations, there’s an active debate regarding how many categories it can win, ranging from as low as three to upwards of eight.
In this new era of preferential ballots, international and younger Academy members have shown to exercise a “spread the love” mentality, resisting the urge to go down the line for a movie in every category it’s nominated. This is demonstrated by only two best picture winners since 2009 taking home five or more statuettes. A helpful tool I’ve used is “traveling down the ballot” — reviewing the order in which an Academy member vote in the categories.
The order is: best picture, actor, supporting actor, actress, supporting actress, animated feature, cinematography, costume design, directing, documentary feature, documentary short, film editing, international feature, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, production design, animated short, live action short, sound, visual effects, adapted screenplay and original screenplay.
If you are an “Everything Everywhere” stan, as the first anonymous Oscar voter I spoke to this season was, they cast their ballots for best picture, director, and screenplay, along with Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. However, a supporting actress from a different fim, Angela Bassett , received their vote when they arrived in the category, not Jamie Lee Curtis or Stephanie Hsu.
And then there’s the editing race, which seems down to Paul Rogers’ BAFTA, CCA and ACE-winning work on “Everything” and Eddie Hamilton’s high-flying pace of “
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