“I think it’s ‘Nomadland’s’ year,” says film critic Claudia Puig (Kpcc) while discussing the Oscar race for Best Picture with me and Keith Simanton, who is Senior Film Editor of IMDb and Managing Editor of IMDbPro. (Watch above or listen to the audio podcast below). “I think it speaks to where we are, within the pandemic still and what people have been going through. It’s a beautiful film.”
Keith acknowledges “Nomadland’s” multiple award wins and widespread critical praise so far in this derby, but adds, “I wonder how it’s going to sit with academy members,” considering it’s an art-house film that’s largely a mood piece that moves with deliberate slow, poignant pace, delivering powerful vignette after vignette, instead of a dense, fast-paced plot with a strong rooting factor, which voters often prefer.
“My number-one film of the year — and I’m surprised it...
Keith acknowledges “Nomadland’s” multiple award wins and widespread critical praise so far in this derby, but adds, “I wonder how it’s going to sit with academy members,” considering it’s an art-house film that’s largely a mood piece that moves with deliberate slow, poignant pace, delivering powerful vignette after vignette, instead of a dense, fast-paced plot with a strong rooting factor, which voters often prefer.
“My number-one film of the year — and I’m surprised it...
- 1/24/2021
- by Tom O'Neil
- Gold Derby
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