V.F. contributor MarkHarrisNYC tackles one of the season’s more interesting Oscar questions
2. The film has enough support from a divided Academy to earn a best-picture nomination.
This possibility raises all kinds of questions about whether a younger , more racially diverse , more female Academy is more likely to break’s way than the votership of, say, 2009 would have been. Here’s what we know: The film’s reviews were, for a best-picture hopeful, awfully weak.scores an average rating of 59 out of 100 on the review-aggregation site Metacritic; in the last 10 years, only four best-picture nominees have done worse.
’s film rode a wave of deserved critical adoration, a historic $700 million U.S. gross, and a sentiment dear to the Academy’s liberal heart that a barrier had finally been broken.nobody is posting pictures of themselves taking their kids to the movie and saying, “If you can see it, you can be it.
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