Here are more Oscar nominated films seen in recent days in the eternal quest to view all of them before the big ceremony on March 10. So far I've got most of the major categories covered. The only acting nominee I am missing is Danielle Brooks in the musical version of The Color Purple. But I did see her do the role on Broadway. There are only two films apparently unavailable--Animated Featured Robot Dreams and Documentary Feature To Kill a Tiger. The former might be coming to Hulu soon and you can only see the latter if you sign up for some Canadian streaming platform, but it might pop up somewhere. Here's a rundown of the latest Oscar contenders viewed:
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| Nimona |
Nimona (Nominated for Animated Feature/Seen on Netflix): At first I was resistant to this sci-fi/fantasy based on a graphic novel. The title character is a shape-shifting teen who comes to the aide of a knight wrongfully accused of killing the queen in a weird futuristic/medieval kingdom. The knight happens to be gay but that doesn't seem to be a bad thing in this fantasy world. The bad thing is the knight is lowly born and not an aristocrat, that's his reason for being an outcast. That and suspicion of regicide or regina-cide. Nimona's outsider status is her weird power. The two unlikely allies bond in a quest to find the real culprit. It struck me as too woke and full of "teachable moments" (Not that I am against woke, but it felt forced here with everyone being totally accepting of the gay aspects of the characters, but not of their class.) It did kinda grow on me. Nimona's character was annoyingly overenthusiastic from the start but as we learn her backstory, she emerges as multidimensional. The animation is fun, particularly as Nimona changes her form and during the chase and battle scenes.
