Nonetheless Need Extra Oscar Buzz? Head to Sundance

When the Oscar nominations 2023 have been introduced on Tuesday, variety of them—from Invoice Nighy’s greatest actor-nominated flip in Residing to the documentary nominees Hearth of Love and A Home Manufactured from Splinters—have been titles we’d been speaking about for almost a yr. That’s as a result of the Sundance Movie Competition stays a voluble launchpad for the type of titles that can actually linger within the awards dialog, hanging in there even after the bigger and flashier titles of the autumn festivals have come and gone. 

So, wish to hear from year-ahead awards predictions which might be not less than considerably primarily based on actuality? On this week’s Little Gold Males podcast, Richard Lawson—who has been on the bottom in Park Metropolis since Sundance started—catches up with David Canfield and Rebecca Ford, who’ve been experiencing the pageant just about. They share among the highlights of the pageant, like John Carney’s Flora and Son and Celine Track’s Previous Lives, and speculate on how they may land with audiences outdoors of the famously ebullient Sundance crowd. For some, we received’t have to attend lengthy to search out out; Previous Lives is headed to the Berlin Movie Competition subsequent month, and Midnight title Infinity Pool opens in theaters this weekend. 

The podcast additionally features a dialog between Katey Wealthy and returning visitor Joe Reid, who crunched the numbers of this yr’s Oscar nominees to search out some fascinating stats. Cate Blanchett isn’t simply on her technique to tying Bette Davis’s variety of Oscar nominations (10), however she’s surpassed Meryl Streep’s very particular file by being nominated 5 occasions for enjoying the title character in a film. And with 16 first-time nominees, this yr’s appearing group ties a file set again in 1967; much more remarkably, perhaps, is that each one 5 best-actor nominees are first-timers, which hasn’t occurred since 1935, the yr Clark Gable obtained his first nod.