Pete Hammond’s Final Oscar Predictions: ‘Oppenheimer’ On Line For A Big Bang On The Big Night; ‘The Holdovers’, ‘Poor Things’ & Others Also Will Get Some Love
deadline.comYou can probably sum it all up in just one word: Barbenheimer. It’s not a word found in Webster’s, but one that’s instantly recognizable to movie fans and everyone in all areas of the entertainment industry.
Now it’s probably your key entry into the closing act of the very long Oscar season, one that started in earnest over Labor Day with the fall festivals at Venice and Telluride, and just a week later at Toronto.
But really, this year got a significant start at Cannes with the debuts in May of Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall, Grand Prize winner The Zone of Interest, and the World Premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
All three of them have combined to claim 20 Oscar nominations and all are in the running for Best Picture. And then, shortly after Cannes, we had the one-two punch of Barbie and Oppenheimer both opening on July 21, in the heat of summer (not normally considered prime Oscar-bait timing) and between them managing 21 nominations including Best Picture. RELATED: How To Watch This Year’s Online And On TV: Don’t Forget About That Early Start A sixth Best Picture nominee, Past Lives, goes back even further, with its debut coming at the beginning of 2023 at Sundance.
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