With Oscar ballots heading into Academy voters’ hands on April 15, we’re forging ahead with our fourth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued in this strange pandemic year.
[The Oscars] did a good thing moving back. I’m catching up.
Because my business has been extremely busy in this Covid year, ironically, I didn’t want to watch the movies. It was the weirdest thing. I was buried in production 24/7, cutting and notes-making. There was no relaxation time, because we had to do everything remotely, it took longer. I found myself watching light TV, like the series “Emily in Paris,” “The Crown,” “Queen’s Gambit,” “Call My Agent,” and I binged “The Wire” and “Nurse Jackie.”
I kept going through these things; my brain was so tired of judging things every day, the notion of watching a hundred movies?...
[The Oscars] did a good thing moving back. I’m catching up.
Because my business has been extremely busy in this Covid year, ironically, I didn’t want to watch the movies. It was the weirdest thing. I was buried in production 24/7, cutting and notes-making. There was no relaxation time, because we had to do everything remotely, it took longer. I found myself watching light TV, like the series “Emily in Paris,” “The Crown,” “Queen’s Gambit,” “Call My Agent,” and I binged “The Wire” and “Nurse Jackie.”
I kept going through these things; my brain was so tired of judging things every day, the notion of watching a hundred movies?...
- 4/14/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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