Though it came out at Sundance, then skipped Telluride, Brooklyn’s screening at the New York Film Festival sent the quietly “off the radar” movie headlong into the Oscar race. The reaction to the film this time around trumped the reaction at Sundance probably because things have begun to crystalize, particularly for people who are following the Oscar race and looking for the one film to really knock their socks their socks off. AwardsDaily will be seeing the film – at long last – on Monday. The reaction to it from various sources over the months are solid indicators that it will do very well with Oscar voters – and will likely snag the top nods for Picture, Actress, Screenplay, Costume, Production Design for starters. The only slight snag is Best Director. The relatively unknown John Crowley isn’t as well known as some of the bigger names heading into the race, like David O. Russell, Quentin Tarantino, Alejandro Inarritu, Steven Spielberg, and other relative newcomers Tom McCarthy and Lenny Abramson.
What will it take to get Crowley in there? Exactly what the film has right now: hard core passion, affection and love. The metacritic rating will likely rise as critics from other outlets add their reviews but so far it’s not exactly a critics’ darling. That won’t matter, of course, because we know that the critics don’t align all that much with the industry anymore, if they ever did.
What if -hear me out here- what if #Brooklyn is, like, the Best Picture? #NYFF
— Tomris EvilLaugh-ly (@TomiLaffly) October 8, 2015
If the academy's reaction to Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn is anything like the response of the #nyff audience she'll cruise to an Oscar
— Steven Zeitchik (@ZeitchikLAT) October 8, 2015
Wouldn't it be amazing if Brooklyn ended up being the first Sundance film to win Best Picture? #oscars
— Gregory Ellwood (@TheGregoryE) October 8, 2015
