Skandies: #8 (Patreon)
Content
Picture: Martin Eden (83/6)
Director: Angela Schanelec, I Was at Home, but… (85/7)
Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit (96/11)
Actor: Willem Dafoe, Tommaso (104/8)
S. Actor: Colman Domingo, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (85/8)
S. Actress: Amanda Seyfried, Mank (107/11)
Screenplay: Patrick deWitt, French Exit (63/6)
Scene: Rolling rock, A White, White Day (60/6)
HISTORY:
I Was at Home, but... is Schanelec's first Skandie-eligible feature. The Dreamed Path was voted the best undistributed film of 2016, though. She has a strong contingent of fans in the AVB. (So far I am decidedly not among them.)
Pfeiffer is on a roll, having placed three times in the past four years. She came in 16th for What Lies Beneath (2000), 20th in Supporting for Hairspray (2007), 3rd in Supporting for mother! (2017), and 18th for Where Is Kyra? (2018). Dafoe gets his first spot in the lead category following five Supporting nods, including one outright win (The Florida Project, 2017); he's also placed 7th (Shadow of the Vampire, 2000), 13th (Spider-Man, 2002), 11th (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, 2014), and 5th (The Lighthouse, 2019). Domingo landed at #12 in Supporting two years ago for If Beale Street Could Talk. Seyfried landed at #10 in Supporting two years ago for First Reformed.
I'd forgotten that deWitt wrote Terri. It did not place in Screenplay that year.