Skandies: #14 (Patreon)
Content
Picture: Nope (45/5)
Director: Robert Eggers, The Northman (62/7)
Actress: Léa Seydoux, One Fine Morning (46/5)
Actor: Avshalom Pollak, Ahed's Knee (60/6)
S. Actor: Tim Roth, Resurrection (47/6)
S. Actress: Kate Hudson, Glass Onion (49/6)
Screenplay: Zach Cregger, Barbarian (49/5)
Scene: Evacuation / gas station, White Noise (37/4)
[This was a judgment call on my part, as I received one vote specifically for the gas station and others, including my own, that referred more generally to the family getting the hell out of Dodge. After rewatching the sequence, I decided that's it's really all one scene, with the gas station an interlude in its midst.]
HISTORY:
Eggers placed 9th for The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2016).
Seydoux has twice placed at #4 in the past: in Supporting for Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), and as a lead just last year for France. Congratulations to Hudson for finally scoring her second nod, 22 years after she was our #5 Supporting Actress choice for Almost Famous. Both men are new—hard to believe Roth had never placed before, but most of his signature roles slightly predate the Skandies, and I can't say that I see a performance for which he was unfairly overlooked (though I did give him 5 points for Chronic).
Not only did Cregger's screenplay for Miss March (co-written with Trevor Moore) fail to make the cut, but that film has the fourth-lowest average rating (0.58 out of 4) in Skandie history. Cregger and Moore's other collaboration, The Civil War on Drugs, doesn't appear to have received a NYC release.