Oscars: Chalamet, Brody, Domingo in Last Minute Campaigns on Magazine Covers, Talk Shows — Will They Work?

Voting for the Academy Awards begins next Tuesday, so the last minute campaigning is in full effect.

Best Actor is where the action is this year. Timothee Chalamet, Adrien Brody, Colman Domingo — they’re all the thick of it.

All three are on top magazine covers as we speak, in addition to a barrage of TV appearances.

Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan — not so much. The former — star of “Conclave” — is British, and they don’t do much campaigning. Stan is in a movie, “The Apprentice,” without a budget.

But the top trio are hard at work.

Chalamet was just the host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” scoring 5 million viewers. The star of “A Complete Unknown” may have one more rabbit to pull out of his hat. As I reported earlier, Chalamet also hits “60 Minutes” on Sunday, February 16th, 

Brody is on the talk show circuit. He just promoted “The Brutalist” on Jimmy Fallon, and was recently on Late Night with Stephen Colbert.

But print is where it’s at.

Domingo, star of “Sing Sing,” just hit the cover of TIME Magazine. He was just profiled in the New Yorker, and is also featured in the LA Times this week.

Brody is featured on Variety this week after appearing stripped to the waist on the cover of New York magazine. He’s also featured in the current Jewish Daily Forward.

But Chalamet may play the winning card yet. He is about to surface — next Wednesday — on the cover of W, photographed by his Oscar winning “Dune” cinematographer, Gregg Fraser in a production conceived by “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve.

Curiously, Vanity Fair — still throwing a mega Oscar party without a charitable component for the LA wildfires — has done little for the Academy awards. They have a Q&A with Brody, but their Hollywood issue was published two months ago. Weird.

Will any of this sway Academy voters? Stay tuned…

Meanwhile, all eyes are on “Emilia Perez,” Netflix’s now castigated film thanks to racist tweets from Best Actress nominee Karla Sofia Gascon. The studio is trying to distance itself from Gascon to preserve Zoe Saldana’s Best Supporting Actress nomination, and the film’s chances for Best International Feature. Walter Salles’s “I’m Still Here” is picking up speed because of it.