And you do not have to take our word for it.
Just look at the first slate of awards winners in the first week of December.
Its also bleakly funny and off-the-beaten-path for many awards voters.
Indeed, the film was not nominated even at the Gothams for Director or Best Actor.
Meanwhile Amazon/MGMsNickel Boysmade an impression when it won Best Director for RaMell Ross and Breakthrough Performance for Brandon Wilson.
Elsewhere Kieran Culkin took Best Supporting Actor forA Real Painwhile Sean Baker picked up Best Screenplay forAnora.
In their place isAnoraand genre-fare likeThe SubstanceandI Saw the TV Glow.
Cumulatively, these films reveal a race that is in a complete state of flux with no obvious frontrunner.
So… should we considerA Different Mana contender for Best Picture?
IsThe Brutalista frontrunner now?
It should be notedAnorawon the Palme dOr at Cannes, but then again so didTitane.
In which case, perhaps were all looking in the wrong places.
