Awards Circuit Column: Anne Hathaway's Penelope in "The Odyssey" is the first great category question of the Oscar season, and history makes a case for both ways.
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Universal Pictures “Ithaca’s king is coming home.” But when Oscar season arrives, where will the Academy welcome back its queen?
Christopher Nolan‘s “The Odyssey” opened to a massive box office haul and an avalanche of critical praise, vaulting it to the front of the Oscar race months before the fall festivals begin. But the question already dominating awards conversations isn’t whether the film will contend (we already know it will). It’s where Universal will elect to campaign Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, who plays Penelope, wife of Odysseus (Matt Damon) and mother of Telemachus (Tom Holland), fending off suitors in her husband’s absence.
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