This and Spielbergs "Lincoln" will rule the next Award Season.
I still don't really get why so many people are assuming
Django Unchained will be a big success with Oscar nods, because although
Inglourious Basterds did really well in the '09 award season,
Django Unchained does not scream "Academy favorite" to me. Certainly Tarantino is not a regular at the Oscars;
Pulp Fiction and
Inglourious Basterds did well (although
Basterds didn't win the Original Screenplay award that it should have, and
Pulp didn't win the Best Picture award that it should have), but none of his others have. Robert Forster was nominated for
Jackie Brown, but you could make a case for that movie is a bunch of other categories. The same could be said of
Reservoir Dogs and
Kill Bill, which were ignored entirely. I guess I won't be shocked if
Django gets some Oscar attention, but it doesn't seem like an early lock like, well,
Lincoln does.