Los Angeles Times awards columnist Glenn Whipp ranks the best picture winners with unnominated screenplays in his latest newsletter.
Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis talk about their ‘King Richard’ showdownThat was the one room in the Chatsworth home doubling as the Williams family Florida residence inthat was off-limits to the filmmakers because the appliances and cabinet hardware hadn’t been switched out to reflect the movie’s mid-'90s period.
So naturally, Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis, the actors playing Richard Williams and Oracene Price, parents of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams, went straight to the kitchen when it came time to rehearse a crucial scene in the film. Where else would they go? Think about your own home and where people gravitate during parties, where family and friends hold late-night conversations and where loaded confrontations like the one in “King Richard” transpire.
Depending on your political leanings, the answer to that question could go in a lot of different directions. My colleague Mikael Wood explains that the point of commonality is , the songwriter behind that “Encanto” ditty I was whistling along with at the outset of this newsletter., as they say — it’s got swagger, attitude, oomph.” But it won’t win the original song Oscar as Disney submitted the lovely “Dos Oruguitas” as the song from “Encanto” it believes could win the trophy. First, of course, it has to earn a nomination. That should be a foregone conclusion, but we’ll find out Feb. 8 if Miranda has a shot for his EGOT.