A NOTE FROM SCOTT For those of us who cover awards season, the month of September felt like a bombardment — of films, festivals and flacks fighting for attention for their clients. But now that we have emerged into October, I must say that I feel a slight sense of relief, having screened the vast majority of awards hopefuls and gathered a pretty good sense of the landscape.
Since our last update, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) was released in theaters and began dominating the awards conversation. With rave reviews (it is at 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and promising grosses (it has already crossed the $100 million mark worldwide), if also a high bar to actually become profitable (its budget, pre-marketing, was apparently $130 million), it is now neck-and-neck with — and probably even slightly ahead of — Hamnet (Focus), Sinners (Warners) and Sentimental Value (Neon) at the top of the best picture race. - Hollywood Reporter article
