The Oscars are just one month away and nobody knows anything for sure, apart from the fact that Kieran Culkin is definitely going to win the best supporting actor category. This is all but written in stone at this point. Culkin has won most of the other awards, and he’s a hit on the internet, and so the Oscars themselves are merely a formality.
Which is fine, except that four other people have been nominated for best supporting actor, and they’re faced with spending the next few weeks grinding through a thankless promotional campaign that they know will be fruitless. How does one even begin to do that? In the case of Guy Pearce, who is nominated for The Brutalist, you spend your time telling everyone how rubbish you are.
