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| Minari is easily the highlight of this year's Oscar contenders. |
What is there to say about this year's awards race? For my part, I have very little to say as I haven't been following it as closely as I have been for the last 15 years. I've seen less than 50 movies that are eligible for this year's Oscar nominations, and this is likely to be the first year in a long time that I haven't watched all of the nominees from the above-the-line categories. I'm obviously going to watch the nomination announcement tomorrow as I do every year, and I'm going to catch up with the nominees eventually. But let's just say I'm a hair less obsessive about it this year. Blame it on the pandemic or personal life or my immersion in pre-2020 cinema. Either way, I'm not nearly as informed as I normally would be.
That being said, I can't let my tradition of predicting the nominees die just because of my own shortcomings. So, as someone who has watched far fewer of the contenders than most compiling their predictions, here's how I could see the nominees going:
