The 2022-2023 movie awards season arrives in full force on Wednesday with the first screenings at the Venice Film Festival, and this year the season is going to arrive in force after two lackluster years.
Right? It is going to arrive in force, isn’t it?
Please?
That’s the feeling in the community I like to think of as Hollywood’s Kudo-Industrial Complex. That community limped through one year, 2020, in which theaters were closed, film festivals were canceled or moved online and almost all the shows were virtual; and a second year, 2021, that started out to be a cautiously muted season but was then blindsided by a COVID resurgence that forced a return to streaming and virtual events.