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but clayton davis, films awards editor at variety in los angeles, thinks the oscars show really needshave this new generation, the tiktok generation, instagram, they consume content differently. they're watching a lot of these movies from home, on their couch, on their phones. how can you put on an awards show that will excite people and get them interested to tune in for the event? you can still have belfast and power of the dog nominated, but if you put on a good, fun show, with a big, great host, people are going to tune in. it won't matter if they haven't heard of the movies before. the show will do its job, and that is what the focus needs to be on. make no mistake — the academy, despite its problems, will end up nominating some great cinema this year. the sci—fi epic dune is expected to garner multiple nominations, as are belfast, the power of the dog, and west side story. so excellent cinema will be rewarded on hollywood's biggest night of the year, even if the audience for the oscars tv show is significantly smaller than it was a generation ago. this year, academy members have

but clayton davis, films awards editor at variety in los angeles, thinks the oscars show really needsthe tiktok generation, instagram, they consume content differently. they're watching a lot of these movies from home, on their couch, on their phones. how can you put on an awards show that will excite people and get them interested to tune in for the event? you can still have belfast and power of the dog nominated, but if you put on a good, fun show, with a big, great host, people are going to tune in. it won't matter if they haven't heard of the movies before. the show will do its job, and that is what the focus needs to be on. make no mistake — the academy, despite its problems, will end up nominating some great cinema this year. the sci—fi epic dune is expected to garner multiple nominations, as are belfast, the power of the dog, and west side story. so excellent cinema will be rewarded on hollywood's biggest night of the year, even if the audience for the oscars tv show is significantly smaller than it was a generation ago. this year, academy members have several musical films the

clayton davis, the awards editor at variety, has this assessment of the favourites.son that would ever have been nominated in seven different oscar categories, surpassing walt disney and george clooney, who have been nominated in six. but some of the big favourites — dune is likely to lead the nomination tally, with 10 or 11 nominations — that is really great for the science fiction genre and seeing it lead that tally. on top of that, power of the dog from netflix, that is another favourite. that could do about nine or ten nominations. jane campion would be the first woman ever to be nominated in best director a second time. as we know, there have only been eight women nominated for that category — two have won, kathryn bigelow and chloe zhao, she could join the fold there. on top of that, we have west side story from steven spielberg, who jane campion faced the first time in 1993 for the piano and schindler's list. he has directed west side story and is expected to do very well, especially for the actress ariana debose, a favourite for best supporting actress. and b

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