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Awards Special

Best Picture

8 Female Artists and the 12 Echoing a Madman’s 36 Living on The Edge
‘Club of Geniuses’ State of Mind Brazilian director Petra Costa, 17 1917: COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES. FORD: MERRICK MORTON/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. IRISHMAN, MARRIAGE: COURTESYOF NETFLIX. JOJO: LARRY HORRICKS/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. JOKER: NIKO TAVERNISE/WARNER BROS. LITTLE: WILSON WEBB/COLUMBIA PICTURES. HOLLYWOOD: ANDREW COOPER/ SONY PICTURES. PARASITE: COURTESY OF NEON.
With Little Women, one of two For Todd Phillips’ Joker, supervising earning her first career Oscar
films capturing artistic gender bias sound editor Alan Robert Murray nomination, explains why Americans Simply the best!
onscreen, Greta Gerwig, like author based his choices on the unraveling should view her Netflix documen- Top row, from left:
Louisa May Alcott before her, “seeks of Arthur Fleck. tary The Edge of Democracy as a 1917, Ford v Ferrari
and The Irishman;
to expand our notions of which sto- warning shot. middle row, from left:
ries deserve to be told.” 17 Best Picture Jojo Rabbit, Joker
What does it take to become a best 38 Personal Conflict on a and Little Women;
10 A Post-Nomination Boost picture nominee? The producers Global Scale bottom row, from
left: Marriage
for Some, Blues for Others behind the nine films vying for the Class warfare and culture clashes Story, Once Upon a
While the snubbed lick their wounds top prize reveal untold stories fuel the emotional fires at the center Time in Hollywood
and Parasite.
after the noms, THR’s awards analyst from their sets, their biggest hurdles of the international film race, with
surveys the latest moves affecting and thoughts on the season’s most five films telling universal and explo-
contenders’ fates. controversial events. sive stories.

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