"CODA's" win at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Sunday shoved "The Power of the Dog" out of top spot in the best picture race and an already gloriously unpredictable Oscar season into fifth gear.
All those traditional whines and whimpers about how the guild and other pre-Oscar awards ruin everything with repetitious wins have been silenced. That breeze you just felt was caused by a hundred Oscar prognosticators throwing their hands in the air.
At this moment I don't care who wins. Well, I do, but not as much as I care about one indisputable fact: Heading into Oscar week, the two best picture front-runners — "CODA" and "The Power of the Dog" — were made by writer-directors who also just happen to be women: Sian Heder wrote and directed "CODA," Jane Campion, "Power of the Dog."
