It might be the darkest movie of the year, but is “Biutiful” an Oscar contender as well?
That’s the hope at Roadside Attractions, which essentially launched an awards campaign for the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu drama at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater on Saturday, when the director was joined for a post-screening Q&A by director of photography Rodrigo Prieto, editor Stephen Mirrione and composer Gustavo Santaolalla, a panel with seven Oscar nominations and three wins between them.
The session was moderated by a friend of Inarritu’s and an associate producer on “Biutiful,” Oscar-winning director Guillermo Del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”).
And Del Toro is hardly the only high-profile backer the film has acquired.