Pencils down. Voting for nominations for the 95th Academy Awards closed on January 17, and we now expect the nominations to be announced on Tuesday morning, January 24. for key categories.
This includes predictions for best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, supporting categories, and of course, best song field. Cinema favorites remain ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘The Fabelmans’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, with other projects including ‘Elvis’, ‘Tár’, ‘Women Talking “, “The Whale”, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Triangle of Sadness” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” also on the hunt.
Variety’s Clayton Davis, Jenelle Riley, Jazz Tangcay and Michael Schneider go over these key categories and keep you up to date on the ongoing headlines coming out of the campaign trail. Also check out the Oscars 2023 Hub: Awards Predictions, Columns and News Archive for Davis’ up-to-date predictions on key races.
Also in this episode: Creating the ‘Black Panther’ sequel, the biggest challenge Ryan Coogler and the team behind ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ faced was how to get back to deceased franchise star Chadwick Boseman in 2020.
The podcast recaps the recent conversation from Variety’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Craftsman screening series, in which Jazz Craftsman editor Tangcay spoke with Coogler, producer Nate Moore, screenwriter Joe Robert Cole, composer Ludwig Goransson and cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw.
“Chadwick would have wanted us to go back to Wakanda and revisit the place he helped put on the map,” Moore said. “He helped bring that to life because to some extent, I think Chadwick more than all of us knew what Wakanda meant to the kids in particular.”
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