For those who choose to view every beat in Hollywood’s calendar in terms of awards, today should feel rather significant. This is the weekend that studios and individuals need to lock their Emmy submissions, amid ongoing speculation about major contenders. At the same time, much of the town is headed to the Cannes Film Festival, where a lucky handful of films will begin the long march toward Oscar. Last year, Cannes fielded three eventual best-picture nominees, including screenplay winner Anatomy of a Fall and international-feature champ The Zone of Interest. Will it make as much of a mark on the Academy this time around?
I’m David Canfield, and while the jury is very much still out on that question, chatter is already brewing around some major premieres. Reactions have started pouring out for Furiosa,George Miller’s prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (which itself had a splashy Cannes premiere that built all the way to an Oscar-winning run), and they’re very good, to put it mildly. We’ve debuted first looks at two of the most anticipated titles of the year, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, the self-financed epic that marks the master’s first feature in more than a decade, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, his dark follow-up to last year’s Oscar-winning Poor Things.
Very little remains known about the likes of Sebastian Stanplaying Donald Trump, or Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldanastarring in a Jacques Audiard musical—which means that no matter what else happens, the intrigue level should remain high. I’ll be on the ground next week with my colleague Richard Lawson, and we’ll have a live blog featuring reviews, exclusive interviews, dispatches from the ground, and much more.
In the meantime, there’s the final push for the Emmys. Studios have officially, finally made their decisions about who to back—us civilians won’t know for sure until ballots are released next month and FYC season is in full swing. I moderated a conversation before a packed house for Peacock’s The Traitors this week, and if the excitement in that room is any indication, we should be in for a fiercely competitive campaign season. By the time we’re back from France, who knows where these races will stand? Every moment counts, and as ever, there’s too much going on at once to keep track of it all. In this space, though, we’ll do our best.
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