Even more impressive is the fact that La La Land is considered a favorite in a lot of these categories — including the all-important “Big 5.”
Only three other movies have accomplished that feat, including Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night in 1934; Milos Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975; and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
This will be a narrative that a lot of people are paying attention to as we get closer to the show.