…so goes the Academy. Because these guys are known far and wide as totally mainstream, comfort-seeking, heart-of-Hollywood voters. They always go for the boilerplate favorites. Through his Facebook posts Lurie is the better known voice among most of us, but since his now-legendary pronouncement about Kenneth Branagh‘s Belfast during last September’s Telluride Film Festival, Ganis has become a kind of towering Brentwood colossus, hundreds of feet tall like a kindly, white-bearded, benevolent Buddha who loves movies and his many industry friends, a statue and a symbol of emotional Academy preferences.
It is therefore fair and fitting to ask “what does Sid Ganis think about Drive My Car?” and you surely suspect what the answer is…you suspect it like I suspect it, and the most likely answer is “Sorry, Justin Chang, but I can’t quite go there.” On top of which the word on the street is that Lurie is also no fan of Drive My Car, and that he’s not all that passionate about The Power of the Dog either, and that he worships Guillermo del Toro‘s Nightmare Alley like no one’s business. That leaves us no choice but to come back to earth and celebrate King Richard, like we should have from the beginning.