Robert Eggers exhumes the rotting corpse of a legendary vampire, Hollywood’s beauty standards are grotesquely warped in a thrillingly repulsive body horror, and Steven Zaillian’s calculated take on literature’s most famous con artist elevates television to cinema.
RaMell Ross’ avant-garde instincts come fully formed in the first-person camerawork and impressionistic montages of Nickel Boys, explicitly adopting the perspectives of two friends living in a 1960s reform school, and internalising a shared resilience that leads communities into the fight for civil rights.
The three-way race between Anora, The Brutalist, and Emilia Pérez has begun to widen in the final weeks of the awards race, while the competition stays hot in below-the-line categories.
