Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor While most of the critics and the guilds have had their say, it all comes down to this: on March 12, the 95th Academy Awards will hand out its top prizes to the best and brightest films of 2022.
While anything can happen — part of the joy of watching this annual tradition — Variety takes a look at where the race seems to stand. A Best Picture to Remember When “Everything Everywhere All at Once” hit theaters almost a year ago, it was an instant fave with audiences and critics.
But a best picture front-runner? Surely it was too early in the year to call that — and certainly the film was too weird and too niche to be a sure thing in the Oscar race.
What a difference a year makes. The fantasy-romance-adventure-comedy-drama-and-much-more from the Daniels led the day on the morning of Oscar noms with 11 nominations, proving that it had crossed over from a small, passionate group into the entire voting body.
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