FilmFan720 wrote:The last film to get PGA, SAG Ensemble, and Globe Picture nominations and not get a Best Picture nomination is Dreamgirls (pre-expansion). Do you think that maybe we are underestimating Crazy Rich Asians popping up in Best Picture?
Bridesmaids?
The PGA folk clearly got John Bailey's memo; this is as Show Me the Money a list as they've generated in a while -- Asians, Quiet Place and Bohemian Rhapsody are clearly there solely for their grosses. (It reminds me a bit of 2001, when they only had five slots, but gave two of them to Shrek and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). Sometimes, this group will promote something smaller along with the big boppers (The Big Sick, Ex Machina), but this year those slots were necessary to get Roma and The Favourite locked in. Vice is the only inclusion that seems fully in spite of commercial considerations. And Beale Street took the clearest blow, but maybe it'll recover at AMPAS the way Room did.
ON EDIT: Forgot: any chance First Man or Widows had of recovering from their commercial demises probably ended here.