Experts slugfest: Will Annette Bening and Jodie Foster swim to Oscar nominations with ‘Nyad’?
Just keep swimming… to Oscar? Gold Derby editors and Experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to discuss “Nyad,” last-minute contender “Memory” and more.
After opening in limited release two weeks ago (which you may not have noticed since that was the same weekend that “Killers of the Flower Moon” opened), “Nyad” will arrive on Netflix on Friday. The film, which marks the narrative directorial debut of Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, follows Diana Nyad‘s (Annette Bening) lifelong quest to swim from Cuba to Florida with the support of her friend-turned-coach Bonnie Stoll (Jodie Foster). Will Bening get her fifth Oscar nomination for this physically demanding role? And can Foster return to the Oscars 29 years after her last nomination for “Nell”?
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Meanwhile, there’s a last-minute entrant in the Oscar race. On Friday, Ketchup Entertainment announced it has picked up “Memory,” the Michel Franco film starring Jessica Chastain and Peters Sarsgaard, and will release it in December. The drama debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September to acclaim and a Best Actor Volpi Cup win for Sarsgaard, but it had been awaiting acquisition since then, and for a while it seemed like it would be a 2024 contender. Sarsgaard will campaign in Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars. Can he get into the ostensibly open fifth slot?
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Timestamps:
Intro and “Memory” enters the race (0:00)
“Nyad” reactions (6:52)
Annette Bening’s and Jodie Foster’s Oscar chances (14:00)
Can Cailee Spaeny get in for “Priscilla”? (24:41)
Listener questions (35:33)
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