Oscar Season 2024–2025; Final Predictions; Crowded Best Supporting Actress Race ENDS With Few Certainties And Several Dark Horses Lurking
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On this episode of ACADEMY ANONYMOUS:
- A “Perfect” LOCK - Saldana reaps reward for years of work in mainstream Hollywood fare with demanding, delicate dance in “Emilia Perez”
- A VULNERABLE kind of “Perfect” - Ariana Grande hits everywhere so far, but is her turn in “Wicked” on par with the dramatic performances her fellow musicians gave in order to find Oscar success?
- Three Is A Crowd: vote-splitting between too many musical performances.
- Two Of A Kind: the Gomez-Grande parallels that hurt both
- Selena Gomez bid undone by a Screen Actors Guild snub
- Isabella Rossellini cashes in her “WAY PAST DUE” ticket with Best Picture contender “Conclave”
- Felicity Jones fights for veteran’s spot, but is “The Brutalist” running time hurting her chances?
- Jamie Lee-Curtis “afterglow” nomination NOT IMPOSSIBLE - but far from sure-thing going it alone.
- “SAG Remembers” - Danielle Deadwyler campaign marches on after Actors Guild refuses to forget egregious snub for “Till”
- Monica Barbaro sings her way into the category with scene-stealing performance as Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown”
- Margaret Qualley - “nepo-baby” & coattail nominee OR rising starlet building bridges with the right indie/international/art-house cinema insiders (Lanthimos, Denis, Tarantino, Coen).
Chapters
1. Oscar Season 2024–2025; Final Predictions; Crowded Best Supporting Actress Race ENDS With Few Certainties And Several Dark Horses Lurking (00:00:00)
2. An Accurate SAG forecast & A Complicated Lineup (00:01:58)
3. Zoe Saldana “Category-Fraud” Unlikely To Derail Chances (00:04:10)
4. A Musical Dilemma (00:05:51)
5. A Brief History Of The Narrow Path Of The Musician-Turned-Actor (00:07:35)
6. The Fantasy Genre-Bias (00:17:46)
7. First-Time Nominees “In Context” (00:20:44)
8. The Same Playbook: Grande vs. Gomez (00:23:22)
9. An Accent-uated Backlash (00:26:31)
10. A SAG Mirage? (00:29:42)
11. A “Nepo-Baby” Who’s Waited In Line (00:32:59)
12. A Surprise “Afterglow” Veteran VS. A “Best Picture” Veteran (00:35:30)
13. The Lone Nominee, Will The Academy Remember (00:41:16)
14. Anticipating An Eventual Oscar Nominee (00:45:18)
15. A “Real” Solution (00:50:15)
16. The Left-Field Options (00:57:47)
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