Could get doesn't mean will get, although from the comments at the press conference in which all those elements were praised by critics from all over the world, suggests that the film will be campaigned in all 13 categories, provided of course that the momentum holds.Mister Tee wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 4:01 pm1) "Audacious, and Insanely Gross Body Horror Masterpiece" -- that's the headline of the IndieWire reviewBig Magilla wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 2:20 pm
It's a refined horror movie. Did you not get the references to Dorian Gray, The Shining, and The Fly?
"Grisly Body Horror Caper" -- Guardian headline
How do you get "refined" out of that?
2) Even if I were to accept your analogy to those other films (which I don't):
Dorian Gray, with a literary pedigree, got 3 nominations, only one above the line, nearly 70 years ago.
The Shining was 100% Oscar-ignored.
The Fly got (and, to be fair, won with it) a single nomination, for make-up.
That leads you to 13 nominations?
The Shining should have been ignored, what Kubrick did to Stephen King's novel was a travesty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Fly still hold up. But in terms of awards, the reaction to this out of nowhere sleeper sounds to me to more likely to approach The Exorcist's 10 nominations and 2 wins or The Silence of the Lambs' 7 nominations and 5 wins.
Although the critics compare it to Dorian Gray, The Shining, The Fly, and Cronenberg's version of The Thing, the story reminds me more of 1966's then underappreciated Seconds which only got one nomination for James Wong Howe's cinematography, but that was then, this is now.
It also reminds more of Lanthimos' past films than his own Cannes submission this year.
So, like everything else, we will see what we will see.