In the end, the latter's welcome victory mostly corroborated film critic and
unlikely awards pundit J. Hoberman's tacit acknowledgement, in an article for the Los Angeles Times about Hollywood's relationship to the Holocaust, that the only way for a film about the Holocaust told from the perspective of its victims to lose an Oscar is for it to compete against a film, like The Virgin Spring, whose breaking into the mainstream so clearly meant that it was destined for greatness.
After his match winning display against Southampton on Sunday, where most
pundits also gave Wellbz their Man of the Match
award to boot, this does not sound as
unlikely as it would have a week or two ago, but is it really realistic?