Skandies: #19 (Patreon)

Picture: The Killing of Two Lovers (37/3)
Director: Paul Schrader, The Card Counter (43/4)
Actress: Lady Gaga, House of Gucci (38/6)
Actor: Dev Patel, The Green Knight (38/6)
S. Actor: André Holland, Passing (36/4)
S. Actress: Florence Pugh, Black Widow (40/4)
Screenplay: Guillaume Brac & Catherine Paillé, All Hands on Deck (39/4)
Scene: Play-acting a reunion, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (35/3)

(That's the end of the third story, in case the description doesn't ring a bell. Note that I ruled the bulk of story #2 ineligible, because that office scene runs about 25 minutes, which is well over my cutoff. 14 seconds I can live with. Five minutes, no.)

HISTORY: 

Schrader previously placed 18th for Affliction (1998) and 5th for First Reformed (2018). 

Pugh is now solidly a new AVB favorite, having placed four times in five years (including her outright Supporting Actress win for 2019's Little Women); she also came in 20th for Lady Macbeth (2017) and 3rd for Midsommar (2019). Similarly, this is Holland's third nod in the past six years, following a 12th place finish in Supporting for Moonlight (2016) and a 10th place finish for High Flying Bird (2019). Gaga (I guess that's what we call her?) landed a couple notches higher at #16 for A Star Is Born three years ago. Patel is new—I checked to see how he fared for Slumdog Millionaire, and the answer is: zero votes. Also zero votes for Chappie. [whispers] That's not Chappie. 

As far as I can tell, neither Brac nor Paillé (who've collaborated before) has previously written a feature that was Skandie-eligible. This one likely wouldn't have been as recently as 2019, but I finally accepted the new reality last year and now allow streaming-only releases on platforms like MUBI, plus entirely unreleased titles from two years ago (which had previously been sequestered into a separate poll, the Undies). Will any of the latter crack the survey proper? The suspense may or may not be killing you.