The February 19 day and date release in theaters and on VOD is just over a week before the Academy Awards 2021 eligibility cutoff, which is February 28. The film is in the running for major Academy Awards, include the Best Picture, Actress, and Director categories. The film, which won the Golden Lion for Best Film at this year’s Venice International Film Festival and the People’s Choice Audience Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, completed a one-week virtual run through Lincoln Center, rendering the film eligible for year-end critic’s groups’ awards and top 10 lists. The film won the top prize earlier this week at the 2021 Gotham Awards, and collected many accolades throughout December, including Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle, as well as the 2020 Critics Poll at IndieWire.
IndieWire’s Eric Kohn recently touched on how the film captured the zeitgeist of 2020 in a year-end essay. He wrote: Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
