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This Oscars season was something of a black box.
Lets run down all the headlines that had pundits mouths agape.
(Yes, theSuicide SquadMemorial Oscar.)
But nope once again, Gaga was seeminglytoo outrefor Oscar.Patrizia sends her regards.
The first wasSpencers Kristen Stewart, the onetime pundits favorite whod stumbled after snubs by SAG and BAFTA.
Was her film simply too alienating?
Perhaps for guild voters, but AMPAS members were able to get onboard withSpencers unabashed artiness.
Never doubt the power of a Sony Pictures Classics campaign.
Drive My Carpulled into the Oscars fast lane.Drive My Carpresented a test of the Academys cinephile bona fides.
I think John Lennon and Paul McCartney said it best: Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah!
But somehow, the man who made it all possible was shockingly left out of Best Director.
Nowhere was that more clear than in the case of ourNo.
I guess we know what they thought of that J. Edgar Hoover scene.
Is this the year the Academy ends its unofficial Netflix blockade in Best Picture?
