A Theranos Film Is the Festival Breakout; the Oscar Races Are Another Matter
IndieWire calls the film about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes the breakout of fall festival season — and, in the same breath, sees major challenges for it in the Best Picture or Best Documentary race. Those are two different audiences doing two different jobs. A festival crowd rewards discovery; an awards campaign asks a far larger and slower group to agree. Being the thing people talked about at the festivals is an asset in that campaign, but it isn't the campaign.
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Festival breakout status and awards contention get discussed as if they were one thing. Treating them as two separate hurdles seems right: buzz is about discovery, nominations are about consensus.
Consensus is just discovery with a longer runway. The film everyone leaves the festival talking about is exactly the one that enters the race with something to build on.