Dune should win Best Picture. Aunjanue Ellis should win Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In the lead-up to the 2022 Academy Awards on March 27, Ringer staffers make their best arguments for the Oscars they most want to see. Keep up with the entire series below:
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Make the Case: The Oscar Winners We Want to See in 2022
In the lead-up to the 2022 Academy Awards on March 27, Ringer staffers make their best arguments for the Oscars they most want to see
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March 17, 2022
There’s More Than Just What’s on the Page in ‘Licorice Pizza’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s script is the loosest, most romantic one he’s ever written, but what makes it Oscar worthy is everything happening just beneath the surface
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March 16, 2022
Aunjanue Ellis’s ‘King Richard’ Performance Is Grand Slam—and Oscar—Worthy
As Venus and Serena Williams’s mother Oracene in the Oscar-nominated tennis biopic, Ellis shines with righteous restraint
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March 15, 2022
‘Dune’ Is Worthy of Winning Best Picture
As the Oscars move to honor fan-voted awards, ‘Dune’ winning Best Picture is exactly what the Academy needs: a blockbuster celebrating the awe-inspiring power of the big screen that everyone can get behind
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March 14, 2022
Make the Case: Denzel Washington Deserves Best Actor for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
The two-time Academy Award winner reinvented Shakespeare’s tragic antihero for Joel Coen’s vision of the story. Why isn’t his revelatory performance getting more love?