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Oscar Best Picture Nominees: The Deadline Reviews

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Beginning with our review coverage all the way back to the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, through Cannes in July, Venice and Telluride in the late summer, and finally to late-breaking holiday-season releases that qualified just under the gun for Oscar eligibility, Deadline has been on the front lines of opinion for this year’s eventual 10 nominees for Oscar Best Picture.When CODA premiered at the first fully virtual Sundance more than a year ago, I watched it alone on my couch at home and still wanted to stand up and cheer for it.

It was apparent the festival had a real winner, and proved so when it swept an unprecedented four top awards at Sundance and sold for $25 million to Apple.

It has been an awards player ever since, so its Best Picture nomination today is richly deserved all this time after first discovering it, letting Deadline readers know a real winner was in our midst for 2021 even as that year’s Oscar race still had months to go.With Cannes determined to stage its festival in-person, even moving to July, I found myself reviewing films for it instead at my home base in Los Angeles.

The very first one was another movie I watched alone on my couch: an international publicist sent along one I had not heard of that had been selected for the Official Competition, Japan’s Drive My Car.

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