Remember last year, when the Oscar nominations were all about “Barbenheimer?” Wasn’t that fun?
Well, are you ready to settle for “Dunked,” the significantly less mellifluous mashup of this year’s two biggest hits among the Best Picture nominees, “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked?”
Or are you ready for a year in which a French-made, Spanish-language musical about a transgender Mexican drug lord is by far the dominant film? Let’s face it, “Emilia Pérez” might be Donald Trump’s nightmare, but it’s Oscar’s favorite — and its 13 nominations could make Oscar night uncomfortable in the White House even without Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong also receiving nominations for playing Trump and his sleazy mentor Roy Cohn, respectively, in “The Apprentice.”