10 Lessons Ahead of Monday’s Oscar Nominations, From the Emerging Top 5 to a ‘1917’ Achilles Heel
The Golden Globes are over. I got through a weekend of one awards show and seven parties (skipping a few of the others), and then two days of two more awards shows and six nomination announcements. And now that the dust has cleared, at least for a minute or two, it’s time to take stock and figure out what it all means. Or, at least, what I’ve learned in the wake of the Golden Globes, the BAFTA, DGA, PGA and WGA nominations and everything else that has happened in the first week of 2020. So here are the lessons I can take from the past week. 1. People who should know better continue to overestimate the importance of the Golden Globes. It’s a TV show, people. The stars show up because people watch, and people watch because the stars show up. The voters are 87 foreign journalists, a voting body about as far from the Oscars as you can imagine. And yet some Oscar-watchers discuss the results as if they could influence the Academy. The New York Times, no less, called the Globes’ shutout of “The Irishman” “a moment when the Hollywood establishment pushed back against the streaming services that...
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