Movies about fighting unions and inequality -- like 'Dumb Money,' 'Fair Play,' 'Origin' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon' -- could get Oscar love.
,” which focuses on ragtag investors who put the squeeze on hedge funds that bet that GameStop’s shares would keep plunging. The script from writers and executive producers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo shines a light on the uneven playing field between billionaires and working-class Americans just trying to stay afloat. That kind of David-versus-Goliath story may be Oscar catnip.
There’s “Air,” the Ben Affleck-directed movie about how sneaker company Nike took a huge gamble to sign rookie Michael Jordan, a deal that helped the basketball prodigy soar into the highest echelon of wealth and fame. Another is Maggie Betts’ “The Burial,” with Jamie Foxx playing a personal injury lawyer who helps a funeral home owner sue a large corporation.,” which dramatizes the brutal murders of members of the Osage by a group of men desperate to obtain their oil-rich land.
Past Oscar seasons have seen many zeitgeisty contenders that speak to the political moment. The emotional toll of economic downturns, presidential elections and global crises often resonates strongly in and outside of Hollywood. In 2009, Jason Reitman followed up his satirical take on Big Tobacco and teen pregnancy with “Up in the Air,” a view on job loss through the eyes of a corporate downsizer for hire .
More recently, there’s 2020’s best picture winner “Nomadland,” which focused on people choosing to live as nomads. That look at life on the road through the eyes of those who feel abandoned by a changing world gave voters a feeling of being seen. Something similar may happen this year. When the strikes are finally over, awards voters may be hungry for a movie that pays tribute to others who were willing to take a stand against a system that they saw as exploitative or corrupt. For some screenwriters and actors, that may mean an invite to the Oscars to go with their new contracts.
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