Alternative Oscar Nominations: Who Should Have Been on the Awards Train to Union Station?

The Couch Tamale
13 min readApr 27, 2021
Gina Rodriguez should have been a contender for Kajillionaire, Annapurna/Focus Features press photo

Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar production immediately looked like it knew how to take the awards ceremony into the contemporary era, freshening up the ceremony with a dynamic opening tracking shot following Regina King as she carried an Oscar through Union Station. It felt like one of his caper movies was starting. The art deco but…

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