The Academy Awards will finally unveil their nominations on Tuesday 22 January, with The Favourite, A Star is Born and Vice expected to lead the pack.
In offering a tortured love affair, A Star is Born is much closer to the Academy’s ideal.
Although British awards voters appear to have taken more of a shine to First Man, with the film picking up seven Bafta nominations, these are largely in technical categories.
And yet A Star is Born, released in cinemas a week before First Man, has not suffered the same decline in interest.