A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.Oscar nominations are finally upon us, coming up starting at 5:19AM PT on Monday, so finally we can get the answer to the question I posed in this column last week about engagement of Academy voters in this strange Covid-extended season: “Is Anybody Watching These Movies?” The films nominated we can definitely predict will be movies voters mostly consumed either on laptops, phones, or Big Screen TV sets if they can figure out how to cast them on there.
Many probably just watched directly on Netflix or Amazon or on their DVD screeners, the final year AMPAS is allowing those. That makes the annual guessing game of who gets to have their publicists put out humble or shocked
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