In what has been an ever-changing scenario since the race for the 91st annual Academy Awards began in earnest at the beginning of September with the fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the hunt for Oscar has been as confounding and difficult to call as ever. The so-called precursor awards have been all over the map. Critics groups, BAFTA, and DGA drifted towards Roma; the Golden Globes loved Green Book (which also took the top PGA honor) and Bohemian Rhapsody; BAFTA showered seven wins from 12 nominations on hometown favorite The Favourite; everyone seemed to root for Spike Lee’s best-in-decades BlacKkKlansman; SAG gave their top prize to box office behemoth Black Panther; an early frontrunner was A Star Is Born; a latecomer was Vice. Related Oscar Week 2019 Parties & Events: The List The Academy nominated all eight of these films for its top prize, but the outcome remains murky and will probably stay that way right up until the opening of that final envelope on the Dolby Theatre stage Sunday. At this point it looks like the two front-runners going into the final inning are Roma and Green Book, but due to the Academy’s preferential ranked ballot (strictly for Best Picture… Read full this story
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