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Awards season has begun, the time of year when I become a happy student of Kyle Buchanan, a.k.a. The Projectionist. Kyle\u2019s commentary and prognostications on the Oscars and other movie races keep me rapt and slightly on edge the way I imagine committed sports fans feel as the playoffs approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week is especially intense: On the heels of the Golden Globes last weekend, Oscar nominations will be announced this Thursday. The ceremony is on March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love reading about the races, who\u2019s up and who\u2019s down, whether Leo or Timoth\u00e9e or Michael B. is favored to win, how their speeches at one ceremony might set them up for a future nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I\u2019m also interested in Kyle\u2019s life reporting on this stuff. In my imagination, his awards season is a whirl of parties and events, luncheons and red carpets, glitzy cavorting followed by feverish typing. He found time to talk to me in the brief intermission between the Globes and the Oscar noms, and, happily, he didn\u2019t really dispel my fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle\u2019s been following most of the films with Oscar potential since late August, when he made his annual back-to-back trips to the Venice and Toronto film festivals. \u201cBy the end of those two weeks,\u201d he said, \u201cI will have seen all but a handful of the movies that are presumed to be Oscar contenders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At film festivals, he\u2019ll see three or four movies a day while trying to attend some of the adjacent events. \u201cWhile the parties are fun, you\u2019re also going to the parties because you\u2019re getting intel,\u201d he said. What films have buzz? What\u2019s the current state of Hollywood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These festivals are big marketing opportunities for the movie industry. Kyle recalled that Lionsgate used to throw \u201corgiastic victory lap parties\u201d for \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d each year at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey would rent a gigantic chateau and outfit it to look like the Capitol,\u201d he said, \u201cand have people in absurd Elizabeth Banks wigs and cotton candy and chocolate fountains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for things he\u2019s watching for this week when the Academy announces its nominations, Kyle has his eye on the supporting actress category, for which there are many worthy contenders. Amy Madigan (\u201cWeapons\u201d) and Teyana Taylor (\u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d) have each won big awards already for their performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas from \u201cSentimental Value\u201d get nominations? Perhaps multiple actresses from \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d? Then there\u2019s Wunmi Mosaku from \u201cSinners,\u201d and don\u2019t count out Chase Infiniti (\u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d): \u201cWarner Brothers is campaigning her as a lead actress, but I think she\u2019s going to get a lot of supporting votes,\u201d Kyle said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle will be covering all the nomination action early on Thursday, which is also the first day of the Sundance Film Festival, \u201ca true 10-car pileup on the freeway \u2014 to use a California metaphor \u2014 of things that require my attention,\u201d he said. But he\u2019s not complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up, he said, the Oscars telecast \u201cwould offer me a portal into these worlds that I didn\u2019t know anything about. It\u2019s incredible to feel that I have gone through that portal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n