You will be forgiven for flinging the newspaper (or phone or laptop) through the nearest window in fury. Who wants to read Oscar speculation five months before the event?
The distance from the ceremony is part of the point. It is rare that a potentially unbeatable favourite emerges quite so early in a lead-acting race. When that does happen, he or she is usually a genuine veteran. Only a meteor strike could have stopped Helen Mirren (then 61) from winning for The Queen, in 2007. Julianne Moore (then 54), up for Still Alice, started at a canter for the 2015 ceremony and ended up unbackable favourite with bookies.
So is it mad that the Oscar nerds are already engraving Jessie Buckley’s name on the trophy?
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