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AWARDS SEASON

FEINBERG FORECAST

A Post-Nomination Boost for

Some Films and Blues for Others

While the snubbed lick their wounds after the nominations, THR’s
awards analyst surveys the latest moves affecting contenders’ fates

BY SCOTT FEINBERG

B E S T P I C T U R E I N T E R N A T I O N A L F E A T U R E

Con la fi nanciación del Gobierno de España

NOMINATIONS

BEST ACTOR ANTONIO BANDERAS
pain and glory
ACADEMY AWARD
2BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
®
Marriage Story Atlantics
Noah Baumbach landed pic and This haunting Netflix-distributed
original screenplay Oscar nominations film from Mati Diop — who became
to go with three acting noms and one the first black female director
for original score, and his film was ever to premiere a film in the main
toasted at a Jan. 15 BAFTA/PGA event, lineup at Cannes (where it won
while stars Adam Driver and Scarlett the Grand Prix) — missed out on
Johansson were feted at the Santa its chance to become Senegal’s first-
Barbara Film Festival on Jan. 17. ever Oscar nominee.

Uncut Gems Pain and Glory
The Safdie brothers’ diamond district A Pedro Almodóvar film is an Oscar
drama was shut out of the Oscar noms nominee for the third time in this cat-
— with not even a film editing nod — egory after 1988’s Women on the Verge
FESTIVAL
prompting star Adam Sandler to tweet: of a Nervous Breakdown and 1999’s
CANNES FILM
“Bad news: Sandman gets no love from All About My Mother, the latter of which
OF FILM CRITICS
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the Academy. Good news: Sandman can won. Star Antonio Banderas also is
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTOR
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WINNER
stop wearing suits.” nominated for best actor.
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FILM AWARDS
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTOR
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
WINNER
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The Cave Honeyland
Despite visa problems caused by the North Macedonia celebrated when
CRITICS CIRCLE
Trump administration that prevented Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir
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him from campaigning like other short- Stefanov’s film about one of the last
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BEST ACTOR
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listed filmmakers, Feras Fayyad is a beekeepers in the region, which
OF THE YEAR
nominee in this category for the second won three prizes at Sundance, became
time in three years, for a film about the first ever nominated for both
a female doctor in a Syrian hospital. doc feature and international feature.
OF THE YEAR
DORIAN AWARDS
FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
THE BEST PICTURE
THE BEST PERFORMANCE
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTOR
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