Why Robert Pattinson’s Primetime Is Stirring Oscar Talk — and Who Else Might Benefit

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We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. IndieWire is a part of PMX Global, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation. His delivery of the "To Catch a Predator" host's signature line "You see how this looks, right?" became a meme off of the trailer alone.

How it works

• "The more attached people are to the movie, the more re-watchability it has and the more endurance," he said of the films instant virality.
• As an overall awards contender "Primetime" does, in a weird way, live and die by how long it can capture the attention of a worldwide audience.
• To me, it felt like we had done our work to try and capture the spirit of the show.
• Powered by WordPress.com VIP Venice Robert Pattinson Won't Be the Only 'Primetime' Star to Generate Oscar Buzz Outside of Pattinson's big swing as "To Catch a Predator" host Chris Hansen, Lance Oppenheim's...
• I liked getting to find how to play a person who almost willfully wants to deny her own humanity and the humanity of people around her." If she at times is playing the devil on Hansen's shoulder, Gisondo is...

What to take from it

Courtesy of A24 During the press conference, Wever said she was attracted to her role because "I was coming off a string of parts where I was playing people who really cared a lot about the right things, used a certain part of their heart over and over and that part of my heart had kind of run dry. Director Lance Oppenheim, who makes his narrative feature debut with the A24 release, really spoke to the surreality of it all while speaking at the film's festival press conference. "And I think about Chris Hansen as a journalist, as an entertainer, but I also really think of him as an artist, and I see him and I thank him for basically making these things.

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• This character has humanity but has a very different relationship to it and the color is very different.
• "The whole film wouldn't hold if we didn't have his character and his performance as kind of the center of it, the trunk of the tree," said the actress of her young co-star.
• There have been far too many times where younger audiences have gotten their hopes up about the Academy embracing one of the A24 films that really feels fresh.
• Editor Daniel Garber would also be an inspired choice for Best Film Editing (fun fact, he was also an editorial consultant on the documentary "Predators," which is also about the legacy of "To Catch a...

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This is why all eyes are now on his latest film " Primetime," which just had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and features the out-of-the-box choice of casting the famous Brit as former Deadline NBC anchor Chris Hansen. "I love Abbas Kiarostami's 'Close Up.' It completely changed my life when I saw it, but I can probably go back and look at 'To Catch a Predator' as the first thing I ever saw on mainstream television that makes those two forms, truth and fiction, artifice and reality," said the 30-year-old director. Hence the memes, something Pattinson actually has a positive take on.

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• Fanbolt: Robert Pattinson has never been Oscar nominated. 'Primetime' opens Sept. 25 at 94% on RT. His 2027 nod, now argued both ways.
• Cinemablend: Robert Pattinson's busy year continues with Primetime.
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