Bottom–line HFPA statement: “Eff you, Jon Chu…not good enough.”
While at the same time they’ve handed a Best Film Comedy / Musical nomination to One Battle After Another, that all-singing, all-dancing laugh riot from Paul Thomas Anderson, the Stanley Donen of the 2020s.
Seriously — fraudulent or self-satirizing inclusions in the GG comedy / musical category have been a running joke for a long time, but apart from Sean Penn’s played-straight erection scene, there isn’t so much as a single sincere snicker in the whole film..,not a one.
What this means, of course, is that Hamnet will most likely win the Best Drama prize. But it’s not a shoo-in because of the unrelenting grief-and-grime factor during the first 85%. Which means that HE fave Sentimental Value has a reasonable shot.
