AWARDS season likes to present itself as a kind of cultural weather: Something that gathers, builds, and breaks of its own accord. But films do not win awards by accident. For Irish audiences, in particular, the moment carried an added charge: Jessie Buckley’s win felt, in the language of awards season, ‘inevitable’. To the viewer at home, awards season appears to unfold naturally, as critics’ lists give way to guild nominations, which give way to the Oscars. “It didn’t work,” Anderson notes.

Source: Irish Examiner March 21, 2026 12:40 UTC