Skandies: #19 (Patreon)

Picture: The Northman (40/4)
Director: Maria Speth, Mr. Bachmann and His Class (37/5)
Actress: Vicky Krieps, Hold Me Tight (30/4)
Actor: Bill Nighy, Living (42/4)
S. Actor: Georg Friedrich, Great Freedom (41/3)
S. Actress: Noémie Merlant, Paris, 13th District (41/3)
Screenplay: James Vaughan, Friends and Strangers (33/3)
Scene: Rock talk, Everything Everywhere All at Once (31/3)

The first of several AVB-endorsed scenes this year that I actively dislike, though in this case it's mostly just that being able to jump into a lifeless universe's inanimate objects, while admittedly sorta funny, makes zero sense within the film's established-if-bonkers "rules." (Thankfully, only two people voted for Logan the asshole bully reacting with intense anger at having been portrayed as a golden god and then collapsing into tears as he grapples with the fact that he'll never be able to live up to Sammy's fawning cinematic portrait, which I consider a strong contender for Single Worst Scene Of The Century To Date. I'll take everything that happens in The Last Face over that garbage. "And Claudia, she just kissed me. In front of the whole school. I treat her shittier than I treat you." Uh-huh. Sure, Tony. Maybe not in a naturalistic context?)

HISTORY: 

I believe Mr. Bachmann is Speth's first Skandie-eligible film (though her fifth feature). 

Krieps is a previous Skandie winner in the same category (for Phantom Thread, 2017); she also placed 11th last year for Bergman Island. Nighy, despite starring in a late release that relatively few saw, gets his first nod in almost 20 years, having placed 16th in Supporting for Love Actually (2003). Merlant landed at #14 in Actress three years ago for Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Friedrich, who's been around since Seidl's Dog Days and Haneke's The Piano Teacher, is new. 

Again, first feature for Vaughan.