Awards season ratcheted up several notches on Tuesday with the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations. There were snubs, shocks (particularly in the acting categories, where Andrea Riseborough’s bold A-lister-courting gambit paid off), and some pleasant surprises (congrats, best actor nominee Paul Mescal!).
The centrepiece of course is best picture. It’s a lineup that I think is one of the better ones in recent years, with a good balance of blockbuster heavyweights and indie darlings, traditional crowd-pleasers and genre-defying boundary-pushers. But, hey, you don’t really care about that: you just want to know who’s going to win the thing!
