Welcome to EW’s The Awardist: a new weekly column offering (very!)
early and in-depth analysis of the 2020 awards season.
The Artistso thoroughly steeped audiences in movie-magic nostalgia that it cruised to victory, despite its less-than-commercial elements.
The conventional wisdom at last had the data to back it up.
This story’s got a messy past, in other words.
But that doesn’t change the fact thatthe upcoming awards seasonfeatures a big chunk of prestige movie-centric movies.
(He appears likely to run in supporting.)
Zellweger seeing that narrative through feels like justice in the most Hollywood sense of the word.
