WINNER: WONDERSTRUCK

Todd Haynes’ eagerly anticipated

Carol follow-up may put the director back in Oscar contention this year, after earning mostly raves from critics for his tender, whimsical crowd pleaser, which tells the parallel stories of two deaf children (Oakes Fegley and Millicent Simmonds) in different eras. Nominations for score, production design and costumes are most likely, but don’t rule out Haynes’ frequent collaborator Julianne Moore, who learned American Sign Language (ASL) for her role.

MARY CYBULSKI Julianne Moore learned ASL to play Rose, a woman deaf since birth, in Wonderstruck.