Awards Season Screeners Are Here, Finally – And So Are Clint Eastwood and World War I

Finally, the screeners have started to arrive. After a couple of months of sporadic mailings, “for your consideration” DVDs have shown up in significant numbers in the past week, part of the annual pre-Thanksgiving push to give voters something to watch over the long weekend. (No, streaming links have not replaced physical screeners, at least not yet.) Just this week, the haul has included “The Two Popes,” “Rocketman,” “Dolemite Is My Name,” “Joker,” “Judy,” “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Farewell,” “Pain and Glory” and “Midsommar,” along with a host of documentaries, a couple of screenplays, a few score and song CDs and a vinyl 45 of Thom Yorke’s song “Daily Battles” from “Motherless Brooklyn.” Also Read: Are Women Directors on the Verge of an Oscar Breakthrough? Mind you, Oscar voters don’t get the same kind of swag that other voters do. (I’m a Critics’ Choice Awards voter, so some of what I get is aimed directly at that group.) Where a guild/critics screener might have photos from the film along with quotes from reviews, Oscar campaign rules say that an Academy screener must be bare-bones: packaged in “simple sleeves or boxes” with nothing more than “a film’s basic title treatment, list of...

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