Oscar Predictions: The End of Oak Street

Dinosaurs inhabit 1980s suburbia in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, out this Friday. The sci-fi adventure from the maker of critically acclaimed horror flick It Follows is the rare tale of prehistoric creatures terrorizing humans that doesn’t have the word Jurassic in front of it. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star with Maisy Stella and Christian Convery in support.

Several critics are saying this is solid summer escapism and better than the six Jurassic sequels that followed the 1993 original. The Rotten Tomatoes score is 83% with 66 on Metacritic. At the 98th Academy Awards, Jurassic World Rebirth was the first feature in that franchise since 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park to land a Visual Effects nomination. If Rebirth could get there with its CG dinos, so could Oak Street. I don’t think that’s anywhere near automatic as competition will be considerable with Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey, and Dune: Part Three perhaps already with reserved slots. I suspect this will at least make the shortlist of possibilities. My Oscar Prediction posts will continue…