Like anyone who’s been covering what’s become, as the party line goes, “the closest Best Picture race in recent memory,” I’ve gone through many mental rewrites of this top-prize breakdown.
If there’s anything with even the slightest ability to nudge Cate Blanchett’s path to Oscar victory off course, it’s the seemingly endless Farrowgate scandal.
This year’s crop of Original Score nominees hits all the markers that we’ve come to expect.
Tomorrow, the WGA will announce its 2014 award winners, and whichever scribe(s) waltz off with the Original Screenplay prize may do the same on Oscar night.
We come to it at last.
It’s practically blasphemous to discount Meryl Streep as a nominee.
Without question, Bale remains one of Hollywood’s most versatile and risk-taking leading men.