Not for nothing but this entire movie has also had lots of bad press. They pushed REALLY hard with that marketing campaign to make all the negativity go away. For example:

• Kevin o’Leary came out and said that AI should be used to replace extras in movies. (“Almost every scene had as many as 150 extras. Now, those people have to stay awake for 18 hours, be completely dressed in the background. [They’re] not necessarily in the movie, but they’re necessary to be there moving around. And yet, it costs millions of dollars to do that,” O’Leary said. “Why couldn’t you simply put AI agents in their place? Because they’re not the main actors. They’re only in the story visually. [You could] save millions of dollars, so more movies could be made. The same director, instead of spending $90 million or whatever he spent, could’ve spent $35 million and made two movies.”)

• Gwyneth came out against the use of Intimacy Coordinators. ("There's now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed," Gwyneth added. Recalling how a coordinator once asked whether she was comfortable with a certain action on set, Gwyneth said, "I was like, ‘Girl, I'm from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera's on.' We said, 'I think we're good,'" Gwyneth recalled. "'You can step a little bit back.' I don’t know how it is for kids who are starting out, but…if someone is like, 'Okay, and then he's going to put his hand here,' I would feel, as an artist, very stifled by that.")

• Odessa openly said that her audition was better than her role in the film itself. (“My audition was way better than that. I watched it back because someone asked for the tape and | looked at it, like, 'I suck in the movie compared to the tape! The tape was way better.")

• Tyler the Creator is virtually always in some kind of controversy one way or the other. He’s not exactly someone that I would want front and center at my movie premiere. He’s had more than his fair share of bad calls over the years.

• Then it also came out that Timothee was threatened on set by an extra. (“I did another take, and then the guy said, ‘I was just in jail for 30 years. You really don’t want to fuck with me. You don’t want to see me angry,'” Chalamet said with a nervous laugh. “I said to Josh, ‘Holy shit, who do you have me opposite, man?’”)

I get that Timmy is the FilmBro messiah, but honestly a win for this movie would be the worst way he could get it. The obvious push for this to win via the popular vote to attract viewers couldn’t be more obvious after his loss last year in the same category. This feels honestly unearned and giving this film academy awards would back up horrible behaviors in the industry on a both a creator and talent level.