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AWARDS SEASON KEY DATES

International, but With an Asterisk • The category that bestows foreign countries with an Academy Award for their cinematic achievements isn’t as international as some might expect

Contenders Collect More Prizes • Just days before Oscar voting opens, career achievement honors and guild awards may boost nominees’ prospects

‘The Point of View of God’ • Anatomy of a Fall editor Laurent Sénéchal explains the complicated process of weaving in the climactic fight scene between Sandra and her husband as a flashback in the midst of the trial

WHEN THE DESPOT IS AN ACTUAL VAMPIRE • Oscar-nominated DP Edward Lachman sheds light on his approach to director Pablo Larraín’s latest anti-biopic El Conde, which depicts former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a bloodsucking monster

CREATING THE CREATOR • Filmmaker Gareth Edwards made $80 million look like $200 million, thanks to inventive visual effects work that married real-life locations with VFX magic that at times ‘probably made everything twice as difficult’

A FRIENDSHIP THAT TRANSCENDS HUMANITY • Robot Dreams director Pablo Berger loved the simplicity of the characters in Sara Varon’s graphic novel of the same name — and what the characters Robot and Dog stood for in their adventures

MONSTROUS FACES WITH HUMAN HEARTS • Poor Things hair, makeup and prosthetics designer Nadia Stacey on Willem Dafoe’s facial prosthetics, using no wigs on Emma Stone and placing 100-plus tattoos on Kathryn Hunter, who plays a brothel madam

‘DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH QUANTUM PHYSICS' • Sound editor Richard King is Oscar-nominated for his work on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which ranged from the large scale of the atomic bomb explosion to the tiniest quantum particles

STORYTELLING WITH HIGHLIGHTER HUES & ‘THE OSAGE MINK’ • This year’s Oscar-nominated designers break down their most complex and challenging creations, from building 4,000 military uniforms to bolstering diaphanous dressing to withstand Emma Stone’s ecstatic dancing

THE OWNER SAID YES TO KILLERS’ CREW BLOWING UP HIS HOUSE • Three-time Oscar-nominated production designer Jack Fisk marked his first collaboration with Martin Scorsese for Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which required exhaustive research — and an explosion

ALL THAT JAZZ IN AMERICAN FICTION • First-time Oscar nominee Laura Karpman details how she crafted a score that could work for both the satirical moments and the family drama in Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut

THE MOVIES THAT MADE THE MUSIC • THR picks lyrics from each of the nominated original songs that best represent the films for which they were written

Cimarron Bet on Oklahoma and Struck Oscar Gold