As the year progresses, higher profile titles will rise to the top of voter screener piles, and by the holidays, which is peak Academy viewing time, small titles can get buried and overlooked. SPC has a strong track record at pushing relative unknowns such as Amy Adams (June Bug) to nominations. Take Shelter is one of several Sundance debuts wearing Oscar hopes on its sleeve.
Here's TOH's video interview with Michael Shannon, and interview with A Better Life screenwriters Roger Simon and Eric Eason.
Screeners are irrelevant in the foreign Oscar race; submissions have already started to be shown to Academy members, who have to sign in to a certain number of screenings in order to vote in that category. So far Joseph Cedar's Footnote (Israel, SPC) and Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre (Finland, Janus) have played relatively well.
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