Oscars 2016 preview: Waiting for the day when inclusion is no longer news
Next year’s Academy Awards boast plenty of intriguing story lines — a possible third Oscar for Denzel Washington, a battle royal in the lead actress category, the mystery surrounding Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating passion project, “Silence.” Let’s be honest though: When the nominations are announced Jan. 24, the focus will be on whether the academy has averted a third straight year of #OscarsSoWhite trending on social media. We haven’t had a December movie take the best picture Oscar since Clint Eastwood’s 2004 surprise late-entry “Million Dollar Baby.” Last year came close, with both “The Revenant” and “The Big Short” winning major guild prizes, only to see “Spotlight,” which opened the first weekend of November, prevail. All that advance groundwork gives “La La Land” a leg up on this year’s other December movies — “Fences,” “Silence” and “Hidden Figures.” That the film celebrates L.A. and the artistic impulses of actors — the academy’s dominant voting branch — make it all the more likely that this will be a December movie that voters remember. Even Pixar’s “Finding Dory,” the year’s biggest box office hit, might fall victim to the idea that its existence owes more to commercial consideration than a compelling need to revisit the characters.
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