With final Oscar balloting closing for Academy voters today at 5pm Pt, we’re continuing with our fifth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their honest takes on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued in the 2022 award season.
Today we speak with a costume designer; interview edited for brevity.Best Picture: I am always an outlier.
I always presume anything I’m enthusiastic about won’t get in.
Ten choices was an extreme stretch.
What I wanted included five international titles and two documentaries.
On top of this ballot: “Licorice Pizza,” “Drive My Car,” and “Don’t Look Up,” which I enjoyed as a fun, relevant, and poignant ride.
“King Richard” is a good biopic: It told a story you think you know, but it turns out you don’t.
It was not demonizing the father, but showing how fucked up he was, and how they
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