Golden Globes Film Preview: The Current Awards Season Would Make Great Programming for an A-List Film Festival

variety.com:

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content There are many different ways to measure a terrific film awards season. Last year, “Barbenheimer” put two billion-dollar blockbusters at the center of the awards chatter. “Barbie” settled for an Oscar and a “box office achievement” Golden Globe, while “Oppenheimer” fulfilled its promise as the first (much-needed) awards season megahit and awards juggernaut in many years.

Besides sweeping up multiple Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s opus also garnered both Oscar and Golden Globe best picture wins. Twenty-five years ago, the Oscar race was a Weinstein-era slugfest for best picture, with the Harvey-handled “Shakespeare in Love” keeping Steven Spielberg’s WWII epic “Saving Private Ryan” out of the top Oscar perch, while both films took home Golden Globe best picture trophies.

This year has been knocked by some critics and some awards season pundits as perhaps not one for the history books, with a less than stellar lineup of key contenders.

But while it might lack the intense buzz of populist relevance like last year, this awards season has an appeal for anyone who values the film industry’s most distinctive and creatively ambitious film directors.