Skandies: #18 (Patreon)

Picture: The Worst Person in the World (42/5)
Director: Cristi Puiu, Malmkrog (44/4)
Actress: Tessa Thompson, Passing (38/7)
Actor: Jim Cummings, The Beta Test (39/5)
S. Actor: Colman Domingo, @Zola (39/4)
S. Actress: Fusako Urabe, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (50/5)
Screenplay: Tony Kushner, West Side Story (40/4)
Scene: The rest of the story, Drive My Car (35/3)

[Good example of something getting points from me thanks to a second viewing. I'm much less enthused than most folks about Drive My Car, but that scene is magnificent. Referring to the dead wife's lamprey story as completed by Kōji, in case that's unclear. Also I belatedly see that yesterday's Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy scene was actually tied with this one for #18.]

HISTORY:

Puiu placed 7th for The Death of Mr. Lazarescu in 2006.

Domingo gets his third Supporting nod in the past four years, having previously landed at #12 for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and at #8 last year for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Thompson placed 11th in Supporting for Creed (2015). Cummings and Urabe are new (the former, in all likelihood, only because Thunder Road wasn't eligible for the survey proper due to never getting a NYC theatrical release). For those who can't remember which Wheel actor is which, Urabe played the woman in story #3 who's in town for the reunion. (I voted for Aoba Kawai as the woman who lives there—another case in which that wouldn't have occurred to me absent a second viewing.) 

This is Kushner's third screenplay nod for a Spielberg joint (which is to say, he's three for three). Munich (credit shared with Eric Roth) placed 13th in 2005; Lincoln placed 8th in 2012.