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It seems a bit premature, but we wanted to have a place where we could begin tracking upcoming Netflix Originals expected to be hitting our screens in 2026. This is an extension to our 2025 movie and TV schedule, which we’ll continue to keep updated throughout 2025.

Important note: Given how far out we are from 2026, everything on this list is highly subject to change. We’ll keep it updated throughout 2025 and into 2026 with the latest confirmations of releases. As of right now, for most titles listed below, we’ve made assumptions based on filming schedules and/or if they’ve been excluded from the 2025 schedule. Of course, Netflix’s development slate is certainly much bigger than what this list implies, with likely well over 1,000 projects that have been announced or titles being worked on behind the scenes, although many will not see the light of day.

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South Korean writer Han Kang, whose international breakthrough novel The Vegetarian was made into a film, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024.

The Swedish Academy unveiled the honoree Thursday, lauding “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Han’s 2007 novel The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the International Booker Prize in 2015. The story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and homemaker, whose decision to stop eating meat leads to mental health struggles and problems in her familial life, was adapted as a feature film by Woo-Seong Lim and screened at Sundance in 2010.

The honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize.

Han Kang is the first South Korean to win the literature Nobel.

In Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Black Book, there’s a story about a mannequin maker and his underground workshop. The craftsman believes that after the introduction of cinema, people began to lose their natural gestures and now simply imitate the movements and behaviors of actors they see on the big screen. To preserve natural and native mannerisms, he undertakes an immense archival project: He makes mannequins of people performing small gestures in great detail. I’m curious what the craftsman would do faced with generative AI. AI film festivals and competitions are growing in popularity. Last May, the second annual Runway AI […]

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In Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Black Book, there’s a story about a mannequin maker and his underground workshop. The craftsman believes that after the introduction of cinema, people began to lose their natural gestures and now simply imitate the movements and behaviors of actors they see on the big screen. To preserve natural and native mannerisms, he undertakes an immense archival project: He makes mannequins of people performing small gestures in great detail. I’m curious what the craftsman would do faced with generative AI. AI film festivals and competitions are growing in popularity. Last May, the second annual Runway AI […]

The post Subtle Inconsistencies: Filmmakers and Generative AI in 2024 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

The life of Turkey’s most famous photographer, Ara Guler, known globally for his portraits of scores of 20th century icons ranging from Pablo Picasso to Winston Churchill, is set to become a biopic directed by writer-director duo Aren Perdeci and Ela Almayanac (“Lost Birds”).

Guler worked for many years for the photo agency Magnum, after its co-founder, celebrated photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, personally signed him up.

Besides documenting top 20th century personalities, Guler, who died in 2018, gained fame for his images of a bygone Istanbul, which earned him the moniker “Istanbul’s Eye.” He established a long collaboration with Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Guler’s photographs were included in the 2003 Pamuk book “Istanbul: Memories and the City.” He also directed the 1975 doc “End of the Hero,” about a World War I battle cruiser.

Panavision is set to repurpose Guler’s originally owned lenses for production of the biopic,...

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French author Annie Ernaux, whose autobiography Happening was adapted for the screen by director Audrey Diwan as the abortion drama under the same name that earned the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2021, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Swedish Academy unveiled the honoree Thursday, lauding her for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots and collective restraints of personal memory.” Her other books include The Years and Getting Lost.

Ernaux “was born in 1940 and grew up in the small town of Yvetot in Normandy, where her parents had a combined grocery store and café,” the Swedish Academy noted. “Her path to authorship was long and arduous.”

The honor is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in 1895. The others are prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine,...

ReviewThere is a comfort in the predictability of ‘Sundari Gardens’, directed by Charlie Davis. It is the sort of solace that only a simple and gently enjoyable romcom can offer.Lakshmi PriyaAparna Balamurali in Sundari GardensThere are many facets to Sundari Mathews, Suma for short. She is a divorced single woman in her 30s who finds comfort in an occasional swig of vodka neat (or an entire bottle of wine overnight), and frets about her grey hairs and waistline. She is remarkably good at her job as a school librarian, casually directing a student who asks for Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red to the ‘second shelf from left, fourth row from top, seventh book from left’. She is also a cellist, a hidden talent that she springs at an unsuspecting Victor Paul (Neeraj Madhav), the new English teacher at the school. And as she walks out of her...

The Hand of God In April 1987, Paolo Sorrentino’s parents left Naples for a weekend gateway in Roccaraso, Abruzzo. The future Oscar winner was meant to come along, but turned down the invite on account of a far juicier plan: a die-hard Napoli fan, his football team was to play an away match against Empoli, which meant a chance for the lad to see his hero, Greatest Player ff All Time Diego Armando Maradona, dispense his genius on the pitch. As it turned out, Sorrentino’s parents never made it back—they died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty heater, and the boy was left an orphan. He was only sixteen. “It was Maradona,” a relative exclaims in the director’s latest and most personal project to date, The Hand of God: “He saved you!” A portrait of the filmmaker as an adolescent, the film traces a sentimental...

New features by Gabriel de Achim, Sebastian Mihailescu, Alina Grigore and Octav Chelaru.

The new feature by Gabriel de Achim and Sebastian Mihailescu’ debut documentary feature are among the new projects being presented to sales agents and festival programmers in the Closed Screenings industry strand of the Transilvania International Film Festival this week.

De Achim’s Snowing Darkness, which is produced by Anca Puiu and Smaranda Zarnoiau of Bucharest-based Mandragora, centres on a film director living through the traumatic experience of the death of his young daughter.

The director said the film “arose from a personal depression I thought I’d never overcome,...

The Video Essay is a joint project of Mubi and Filmadrid International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both Mubi and Filmadrid will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be premiering online from June 7 - 13, 2021 on Mubi's Notebook. The selection was made by the programmers of Mubi and Filmadrid.Una visita al mundo by Jorge Javier NegreteTurkish writer Orhan Pamuk said that real museums are places where time is transformed into space. The meaning of such phrase is expanded when we admire the...

A version of this story about “A Sun” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

A genre-spanning family story that can be both contemplative and brutal, Chung Mong-hong’s film “A Sun” follows two brothers in a Taiwanese family. One is considered the good, promising child, while the other gets involved in a criminal lifestyle he finds hard to escape.

The film marks the second time that a movie from Chung Mong-hong has represented Taiwan in the Oscar race, the first being “Soul” in 2013. The director answered questions from TheWrap via email.

Why did you want to tell this story?

Many years ago, I met one of my high school classmates. He told me when he was 18 or 19 years old, he did something bad with a friend. They slashed someone’s hand off. I thought it was an interesting story, but I didn’t really...

Could there be a more perfect moment than this? Sitting in the garden behind the Hotel Nacional, looking at the Cuban flag so proudly waving over the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The same site where the defense was built during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this moment of time marks a particularly precarious balance between peaceful coexistence and military aggression as we contemplate the recent death of Castro and election of Trump, wondering how it will play out in 2017.Hotel Nacional, Headquarters of Festival de Cine Nuevo Iberoamericano, Havana, Cuba

Cuba, ten days after the death of Fidel Castro, head of state for 52 years,may be a bit more subdued, but life here goes on, even with the influx of American tourists (other tourists have always been here); there is a sense of harmony. And in spite of the scarcity of luxuries for its people, the people...

The Turkish director talks about her Oscar-nominated film Mustang – and why reaction to it at home made her take her talents elsewhere

Not too long after the film Mustang was released in Turkey last October, its director and co-writer, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, was interviewed by the Nobel prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk. “He was curious about how I’d lived through its reception,” she says, with a characteristically wide-eyed smile. “Well, I was gloomy. I explained how I’d been attacked. I’d had some very aggressive, negative critiques there [in Turkey], the kind of thing I hadn’t received anywhere else. So I loved his response. First of all, he said that lots of people around him had seen it, and liked it. Then he said: ‘But you will be attacked.’ And he explained why. After all, he knows: he’s had plenty of violent criticism himself. ‘Don’t get depressed,’ he told me.

To mark the release of Innocence of Memories on 25th April, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on DVD. Writing, memory and architecture flow together in this sensual nocturnal wandering through the streets of Istanbul, which becomes a vibrant archive of life lived. Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens

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The Nobel Prize-winning author and screenwriter is refashioning his script for BFI-backed Venice title, originally adapted from his novel The Museum Of Innocence.

Nobel Prize-winning author and screenwriter Orhan Pamuk plans to novelise his screenplay for Grant Gee’s Innocence Of Memories.

Pamuk, whose books have sold more than 13 million copies and have been printed in 63 languages, scripted around 30 minutes of original narration for the documentary film, though only ten minutes of that made the final edit.

He will now add to the text before releasing the book in conjunction with the film’s Turkish release on March 25.

Speaking to ScreenDaily at the closing night of the !f Istanbul Indepedent Film Festival (Feb 18-28), the author said that he had spent the day writing an introduction to the book, which will also contain multiple images from Gee’s film, as well as extracts from interviews Pamuk has given for the film.

“I consider...

★★★★☆ Fans of Terence Davies' heartfelt ode to his hometown Liverpool in Of Time and the City will be drawn to Innocence of Memories, from fellow British filmmaker Grant Gee. A slow-paced yet mesmerising documentary, it interweaves an epic romance and nostalgic love letter to Istanbul to shed light on the past, present and future of its setting. Part alternative travelogue, part meditation on love and loss, it explores the nature of a great city as a living, breathing entity and how memory is inextricably linked to time and place. Gee collaborated in the writing of his latest endeavour with Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who also features throughout.

In today's roundup of current goings on: Early Soviet cinema, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining backwards and forwards, Kenneth Anger's Santa Monica workshop, David Bowie in Los Angeles, Fritz Lang in San Francisco, László Nemes in Chicago, Harun Farocki in São Paulo, Seijun Suzuki in Toronto, Guy Debord in Vienna, James Benning in Berlin, John Akomfrah, Grant Gee and Orhan Pamuk in London, Agnès Varda in Paris, and in Helsinki, "A Simple Event: Tales from Iranian New Wave Cinema." » - David Hudson...

In today's roundup of current goings on: Early Soviet cinema, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining backwards and forwards, Kenneth Anger's Santa Monica workshop, David Bowie in Los Angeles, Fritz Lang in San Francisco, László Nemes in Chicago, Harun Farocki in São Paulo, Seijun Suzuki in Toronto, Guy Debord in Vienna, James Benning in Berlin, John Akomfrah, Grant Gee and Orhan Pamuk in London, Agnès Varda in Paris, and in Helsinki, "A Simple Event: Tales from Iranian New Wave Cinema." » - David Hudson...

Peter Bradshaw recommends Grant Gee’s absorbing meditation about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk’s multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence – and the novel of forbidden love that inspired it. Written in 2008, the book is about the affair between an engaged man and a shop girl; he obsessively collect objects associated with her – the real-life building was opened by the author in 2012.

Innocence of Memories is released in the UK on 29 January

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Director Grant Gee presents a meditation on the Turkish writer’s Museum of Innocence and the novel of forbidden love that inspired it

But of course they are not innocent. Grant Gee’s absorbing essay-film is a meditation or reverie about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk and his multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence.

His 2008 novel of that title is about a forbidden love affair in 70s Istanbul between a man named Kemal and Füsun, the shopgirl he meets while buying a present for his fiancee. Kemal obsessively begins to collect objects associated with Füsun, with a view to creating a “museum of innocence” – and Pamuk did in fact open his associated Museum of Innocence in Istanbul in 2012.

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Chis Marker's Chat écoutant la musiqueThere are dog people and there are cat people, this we know, and there are even people who claim to be of both—though latent sympathies remain unspoken, like with a parent and which child is their favorite. With the Vienna Film Festival welcoming me with a tumbling collection of dog and cat short films spanning cinema's history—the Austrian Film Museum, an essential destination each year collaborating with the Viennale, is hosting a “a brief zoology of cinema” throughout the festivities—it is clear that filmmakers, too, have their preference. Silent cinema decidedly prefers the more easily trained and exhibited canine, with 1907’s surreal favorite Les chiens savants as a certain kind of cruel pinnacle. For the cats, Chris Marker, already the presiding figure over so much in 20th century art, I think we can easily claim is the cine-laureate. One need not know...

British film-maker Grant Gee has got together with Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, and the result is a mesmerising, original meditation on love and the city

Having cut his teeth on music videos (and then graduated to the cerebral Joy Division documentary, on which he collaborated with Jon Savage), Grant Gee has reinvented himself as a formidable force in the microgenre of literary travelogues, a space hitherto largely occupied by Patrick Keiller, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. Gee headed for Suffolk for Patience (After Sebald), a reconstruction and reinvestigation of Wg Sebald’s Rings of Saturn; now he has cast his net much further afield, to Istanbul, and a creative meeting of mind’s with Turkey’s Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.

As with his Sebald film, Gee has here carefully assembled a collage of textual fragments, painterly visuals and mysterious voiceovers. The major difference of course, is that Pamuk is...

Luis Tosar thriller to open strand; Laurent Cantet to chair jury; programme includes Agnès Varda, Alice Rohrwacher shorts.Scroll down for full line-up

Dani de la Torre’s debut thriller Retribution, starring Luis Tosar, will open the 2015 Venice Days strand, which announced its line-up today.

The Venice Film Festival’s (September 2 - 12) independently run section will host 21 titles including 18 world premieres in its official selection.

The ten-title competition includes Matias Bize’s The Memory of Water, a drama about a young couple trying to rekindle their relationship after the death of their 4-year-old son, Vincenzo Marra’s fourth feature La Prima Luce, which stars Riccardo Scamarcio as an Italian lawyer tracking down his young son in Chile after an acrimonious divorce; Ascanio Celestini’s drama Long Live The Bride, starring Alba Rohrwacher, and Australian director Michael Rowe’s love drama Early Winter, featuring Suzanne Clement.

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This year's Venice Days will open with Dani de la Torre’s car-chase thriller Retribution and close with theater director Simon Stone's feature film debut, The Daughter, based on his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and starring Geoffrey Rush. Highlights of the lineup include Carlos Saura's Argentina, a documentary on tango, and new shorts by Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher. Special events include Grant Gee's film about Orhan Pamuk and Istanbul and Alessandro Rossellini's Viva Ingrid! » - David Hudson...

This year's Venice Days will open with Dani de la Torre’s car-chase thriller Retribution and close with theater director Simon Stone's feature film debut, The Daughter, based on his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and starring Geoffrey Rush. Highlights of the lineup include Carlos Saura's Argentina, a documentary on tango, and new shorts by Agnès Varda and Alice Rohrwacher. Special events include Grant Gee's film about Orhan Pamuk and Istanbul and Alessandro Rossellini's Viva Ingrid! » - David Hudson...

Feature is based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum Of Innocence.

Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.

The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.

Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.

Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.

Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.

Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.

Brand New-u

Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.

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Kolkata, Nov 16: In the city for the screening of his films at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival (Kiff), Turkish film director Reha Erdem Saturday said a firm no to adapting stories by Orhan Pamuk, the award-winning novelist from Erdem's homeland, to screen.

Pamuk is the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and is one of Turkey's bestselling authors noted for works like "The Black Book", "Snow" and "The Museum of Innocence".

"Though I like him, but no...I will not adapt his stories to films. My films have a distinct classical identity," said Erdem, eight of whose films are part of the 'New Horizon' segment.

As much as people have quibbles with (much more democratically voted-on) awards like the Oscars, the decisions by juries at film festivals tend to be even more contentious. Usually drawn from practitioners and actors, with a few other curious participants in there as well, jurors often come in with their own likes, dislikes and agendas, and in the absence of a unanimous choice, often end up settling for compromises.

Indeed, this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president Nanni Moretti said, after the awards were unveiled this past weekend, that none of the them were unanimously voted for (word is Andrea Arnold in particular was a fervent opponent of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors"). That being said, their Palme D'Or winner was a popular one: while a few critics were rooting for "Holy Motors," almost everyone was delighted that Michael Haneke's "Amour" picked up the prize (his second in four years,...

Vidyarthy Chatterjee, who wrote on cinema for leading publications like The Statesman and The Economic Times for over three decades writes on Gandha by Sachin Kundalkar, the final in the series of Marathi Cinema-New Texts, New Contexts.

About Gandha (Smell, 2009), Sachin Kundalkar’s third film, the director says: “The film is a realization of a childhood dream for me. When I was a young cinemagoer, I always wanted to smell the images that appeared on the big white screen in front of me. “

An ensemble of three stories interlinked by the sense of smell, Gandha is a challenge that only the brave of heart and the restless of spirit would come to grips with. Each story has a flavor of its own and is based on complex human relationships. The concluding story in particular has a haunting quality about it; a story of absences in the life of a young...

Exclusive: The deals are popping this week, and publishing is not immune. On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai. She's the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss. Robin Desser is the acquiring editor. This is the time for big book deals in the run up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, which gets underway in Germany next week. The publishing crowd was also buzzing over the fact that the deal was brokered by Andrew Wylie, who signed her 2 weeks ago from Inkwell Management. She left to join Wylie because he reps her partner, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk isn't just delighted because The Museum of Innocence is doing so well in India. He has another reason to be thrilled - that he has Booker winner Kiran Desai for company during his stay in Goa. Fielding questions in Mumbai on his latest tome on love, loss and longing, Pamuk proclaimed his love for Kiran Desai to put an end to the speculation once and for all. "It’s no secret Kiran is my girlfriend. She is a very intelligent and beautiful person and a great writer. India should be ...

Columbia University has had the bright idea of commissioning film-makers to realise the works of James Incandenza, hero of David Foster Wallace's magnum opus

How surreally wonderful to discover that an entire exhibition devoted to the "works" of David Foster Wallace's fictional creation James Incandenza is set to open later this month. A cult filmmaker, Incandenza is the star of Wallace's seminal novel Infinite Jest (the 1,000-page book centres on the missing master copy of his film of the same name, so entertaining it renders spectators incapable of doing anything other than watch it).

As was his wont, Wallace included a footnote in the novel about the filmography of Incandenza, and now using the author's "detailed list of over 70 industrial, documentary, conceptual, advertorial, technical, parodic, dramatic non-commercial, and non-dramatic commercial works", Columbia University's Neiman Centre has commissioned artists and filmmakers to make the movies. They don't appear to...

Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk manages a staggering feat of character craft in The Museum Of Innocence, so thoroughly realizing what it’s like inside his protagonist’s claustrophobic head that when the story abruptly steps out of this perspective near the end, it’s like emerging from a dank cellar into the fresh air. And while Pamuk’s command of voice is peerless, it becomes so overpowering here that it overwhelms all the book’s other charms. Imagine hanging out with a friend who simply cannot get over the girlfriend who left him. Now imagine that you can’t speak ...

Why This World, Benjamin Moser’s biography of Clarice Lispector, out this month from Oxford University Press, examines the life and work of a prolific and reputedly brilliant writer—whom you likely haven’t heard of. Lispector, who died in 1977, is memorably described as “that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.” She’s a writer’s writer, counting Orhan Pamuk, Colm Toibin, Jonathan Franzen, and Edmund White among her fans. But she has eluded a wider literary audience. Why This World fuses 20th-century micro-histories of the Ukranian pogroms, which Lispector fled as a child, and a preindustrial Brazil, where her family began anew, with Lispector’s personal story. Moser, who is the book reviewer for Harper’s Magazine, spoke to Vf.com from his home in the Netherlands last week. Vf Daily: How did you find Clarice? And decide she was worthy of a whole biography?...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- The news that British novelist Doris Lessing won the 2007 Noble Prize for literature spread like a brush fire Thursday among publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Even industry insiders were surprised by the decision from the Swedish Academy to award the world's most prestigious book prize -- and its $1.5 million cash endowment -- to the feminist icon.

Lessing hadn't turned up on anyone's shortlist for this year's Nobel, with a troika of male writers -- U.S. novelist Philip Roth, Australia's Les Murray and Italian essayist Claudio Magris -- considered the front-runners.

Lessing is hardly an unknown. Her debut novel, "The Grass Is Singing" (1950), and her international breakthrough "The Golden Notebook" (1962) established her as one of the premier voices in the then-fledgling feminist movement.

"It belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th century view of the male-female relationship," the Swedish Academy said in its citation.

Like last year's winner, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, Lessing also is a political figure.

• Today is a day for travel. I’m going back knowing that the weather won,t be as great, knowing that this is perhaps a weak time for film viewing and that I’ll have tons of other work to do. What sucks about leaving one day earlier is missing out on the extra screenings of the Main Comp films I might have missed during the festival and because my interest sways into the other sections then this would be useful. Over the course of the entire day of Sunday, Journalists who’ve felt they missed out on a title or two will have ample opportunity to view what they have missed. So instead, what I’ll attempt to do is predict who’ll win what in the top categories and perhaps get one or two right. While many critics seem to be at some impasse for who and

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