Here’s What’s on My Oscar Season Christmas Wish List: Eddie Murphy, ‘A Hidden Life’ and Lots More

This is the time of the year to make a list and check it twice. And it’s also the time to take a (very brief) break and get ready for the homestretch of film awards, culminating all too soon with the 92nd Academy Awards. So to combine the two, I’ve got my own list of Christmas wishes for this awards season. Here are eight of them — one, I suppose, for each reindeer. Wish No. 1: That Oscar voters watch the movies in time. The Academy says that 344 movies qualified for the Oscars this year. How many have you seen, voters? The problem is that with this season’s accelerated schedule, with the earliest-ever Oscars taking place on Feb. 9, voters don’t have a lot of time to see everything before voting. Nomination voting begins on Jan. 2 and lasts for only six days, ending on Jan. 7. Voters who haven’t already seen at least a few dozen contenders are way behind. This is not the earliest voting has ever started, by the way: You only have to go back four years to find that it used to start in late December. But back then, the voting period was at...

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