A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.‘Tis the season to offer your Oscar contenders for free for the whole world to see.In a follow-up to last week’s column where I questioned how Searchlight’s so-called “world premiere,” as listed on the invite for the February 18 event for Nomadland, could possibly be touted as that since it has essentially been premiering in one form or another since its official “world premiere” on September 11, 2020 at Venice/Toronto/Telluride at the Rose Bowl, I now have the answer.
A Searchlight exec called to explain the studio felt this was genuinely the world premiere of the much-lauded Oscar contender since they were offering it up to the entire world in one evening, and at no cost,
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