Who Will Step Up and Be My Awards Season Villain?
The Oscars, villainy, chaos.
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Last year, Vulture’s Oscar Futures columnist Nate Jones went long on the phenomenon of the awards season villain, or “the film it becomes the duty of every enlightened movie fan to root against.” (Joker was obviously the year’s winner-loser.) I like to think I have a regular to not-concerning amount of hate in my heart, but I will admit that it gives me some kind of twisted joy to get on the internet and make fun of an utter monstrosity of twisted, self-congratulatory white liberalism (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Green Book) or a movie with politics I find specious (Jojo Rabbit; to a lesser degree, Roma). There are the Oscar villains like La La Land, which was only because it was up against Moonlight. There are the villains like Gary Oldman,…
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