Linda Holmes

Yes, absolutely. It picked up... 13 nominations. It is the most ever for a film that is not in English. Carla Sofia Gascon becomes the first out trans actor to be nominated. This is also obviously a big deal for Netflix, which has wanted for many years to get a Best Picture win. has never gotten one. I'm sure they're feeling quite good about that.

Yes, absolutely. It picked up... 13 nominations. It is the most ever for a film that is not in English. Carla Sofia Gascon becomes the first out trans actor to be nominated. This is also obviously a big deal for Netflix, which has wanted for many years to get a Best Picture win. has never gotten one. I'm sure they're feeling quite good about that.

Amelia Perez was nominated not just in those kind of top line categories, but also for things like score and cinematography. It was just broadly embraced by the people doing the nominating. It was kind of a It's part of an increasing embrace of non-English language movies at the Oscars. You can count films like Roma and Parasite. Last year, both Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest.

Amelia Perez was nominated not just in those kind of top line categories, but also for things like score and cinematography. It was just broadly embraced by the people doing the nominating. It was kind of a It's part of an increasing embrace of non-English language movies at the Oscars. You can count films like Roma and Parasite. Last year, both Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest.

Amelia Perez was nominated not just in those kind of top line categories, but also for things like score and cinematography. It was just broadly embraced by the people doing the nominating. It was kind of a It's part of an increasing embrace of non-English language movies at the Oscars. You can count films like Roma and Parasite. Last year, both Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest.

So this is in some ways an extension of that. And we should note, by the way, that The Brutalist and Wicked all got 10 nominations each, which in any other year would be newsmaking totals also. It's just a year where a small number of movies took up a lot of the oxygen. Anything you were surprised about?

So this is in some ways an extension of that. And we should note, by the way, that The Brutalist and Wicked all got 10 nominations each, which in any other year would be newsmaking totals also. It's just a year where a small number of movies took up a lot of the oxygen. Anything you were surprised about?

So this is in some ways an extension of that. And we should note, by the way, that The Brutalist and Wicked all got 10 nominations each, which in any other year would be newsmaking totals also. It's just a year where a small number of movies took up a lot of the oxygen. Anything you were surprised about?

The only real surprise in the Best Picture category is probably I'm Still Here, which is a Brazilian drama about a woman coping with the death of her husband who was a political dissident. Voters chose that film over things that were maybe a little bit more favored, like A Real Pain, which... is kind of a road movie about two cousins with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin.

The only real surprise in the Best Picture category is probably I'm Still Here, which is a Brazilian drama about a woman coping with the death of her husband who was a political dissident. Voters chose that film over things that were maybe a little bit more favored, like A Real Pain, which... is kind of a road movie about two cousins with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin.

The only real surprise in the Best Picture category is probably I'm Still Here, which is a Brazilian drama about a woman coping with the death of her husband who was a political dissident. Voters chose that film over things that were maybe a little bit more favored, like A Real Pain, which... is kind of a road movie about two cousins with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin.

I was really surprised that the excellent score of the tennis movie Challengers wasn't nominated. That was my favorite score of the year. Same goes for the cinematography of the drama Nickel Boys, which is wonderfully evocative and creative and wasn't nominated. And Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn't nominated for the Mike Lee film, Hard Truths. I think that was a heartbreaker for a lot of folks.

I was really surprised that the excellent score of the tennis movie Challengers wasn't nominated. That was my favorite score of the year. Same goes for the cinematography of the drama Nickel Boys, which is wonderfully evocative and creative and wasn't nominated. And Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn't nominated for the Mike Lee film, Hard Truths. I think that was a heartbreaker for a lot of folks.

I was really surprised that the excellent score of the tennis movie Challengers wasn't nominated. That was my favorite score of the year. Same goes for the cinematography of the drama Nickel Boys, which is wonderfully evocative and creative and wasn't nominated. And Marianne Jean-Baptiste wasn't nominated for the Mike Lee film, Hard Truths. I think that was a heartbreaker for a lot of folks.

Probably my happiest, maybe surprise, was the original screenplay nomination for Sing Sing, which is a wonderful film about the theater program at Sing Sing Prison. some of the real incarcerated people who were part of that theater program appear in the film and helped work on the screenplay. And it was wonderful to see some of those names in the nominations list. Right, right.

Probably my happiest, maybe surprise, was the original screenplay nomination for Sing Sing, which is a wonderful film about the theater program at Sing Sing Prison. some of the real incarcerated people who were part of that theater program appear in the film and helped work on the screenplay. And it was wonderful to see some of those names in the nominations list. Right, right.

Probably my happiest, maybe surprise, was the original screenplay nomination for Sing Sing, which is a wonderful film about the theater program at Sing Sing Prison. some of the real incarcerated people who were part of that theater program appear in the film and helped work on the screenplay. And it was wonderful to see some of those names in the nominations list. Right, right.

That movie is great. I hope everybody will seek it out. It's wonderful.

That movie is great. I hope everybody will seek it out. It's wonderful.

That movie is great. I hope everybody will seek it out. It's wonderful.