Did a wide-open Oscar race simply get a frontrunner?
Sean Baker’s Brooklyn comedy “Anora” took prime honors at each the Producers Guild Awards and the Administrators Guild Awards on Saturday night time, catapulting it to Oscar favourite standing with wins from a pair of carefully watched Academy Awards precursors.
Hollywood’s award season has been uncharacteristically up for grabs with half a dozen movies seen as official best-picture contenders. Some had pegged “Anora” because the frontrunner going into the season after the movie, starring Mikey Madison as a Brooklyn unique dancer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
However after numerous movies took turns within the highlight, together with Golden Globe winners “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez,” “Anora” reemerged in an enormous means over the weekend. Baker’s movie additionally received greatest image on the Critics Alternative Awards on Friday.
Each guild ceremonies had been held in Beverly Hills, California. The PGA’s prime prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, has matched the Oscar winner for greatest image in 16 of the final 21 years. Since 2009, when the guild and the Academy of Movement Photos Arts and Sciences each adopted a preferential poll to choose a winner from 10 nominees, they’ve corresponded all however 3 times.
The DGA is equally predictive. Prior to now 74 years, 66 winners have gone on to triumph on the Oscars. That makes Baker the favourite for greatest director in a subject solely composed of first-time nominees.
The guild additionally named RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” greatest first movie. Ross’ film, nominated for greatest image by the Oscars, is his narrative movie debut.
Oscar voting begins Tuesday. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is the lead nominee with 13 nominations, however the Netflix movie has seen its possibilities crater following multiple waves of backlash and controversy.
One other Oscar class additionally discovered readability over the weekend. On Saturday on the Annie Awards, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” cleaned up with 9 awards together with greatest movie. “The Wild Robotic” would be the heavy favourite to win greatest animated movie on the March 2 Academy Awards.
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