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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Ahead of the Academy Awards on Monday, our film critic shares his thoughts on the big runners. __Best Picture/Best DirectorDog, CODA, Belfast?__ At least the Oscars are giving us a semblance of “excitement” when it gets a little harder this year to predict the Best Picture winner. Down the homestretch, it’s Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leading the pack, probably by the muzzle, with Sian Heder’s CODA breathing down its hairy neck and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, at one point the frontrunner and now toe-to-toe with CODA, gasping for one last push. When the awards season started brewing up i…