The Unawarded: July 2000

We have now gone halfway through the year 2000, with 49 films logged and 73 films to go - the back end is always heavy, studios save their "prestige" projects for the winter awards season, banking on immediacy and short memories. But as we saw, lots of films in the first half of the year went on to nominations and wins! In fact, the only two months with no Oscar nominees in the year 2000 are January and July. Why July? I don't know, let's take a look at the options: