These days, the big studios prefer to invest in superheroes, and it was up to Netflix and a Spanish director to make a new version of the story. Sign of time. It's wonderful streaming that takes over what Hollywood has abandoned.
Below is my list of nominees in the main Best Picture category, ranked from worst to best:
10. “MAESTRO”
When Bradley Cooper's film about maestro Leonard Bernstein premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the actor's prosthetic nose was the big topic which wasn't a good sign. “Maestro” is a biopic released in 2023, but with all the feel of a 1990s Oscar film that reeks of something old and outdated.
Among the many clichés, the film tells the maestro's youth in black and white, gaining color with him after 50. One cannot say that Cooper and Carey Mulligan, who plays the maestro's rejected wife, did not deserve their nominations, but they should have The fact that he is on the list in “Killers of the Flower Moon” and not Leonardo DiCaprio already shows that the Oscar is not to be taken seriously.