It’s Monday, and I spent my weekend crying with Ariana Grande.

Hello from Los Angeles, where we’re debating Wonder Woman’s Oscar prospects, campaigning our Emmy-loving hearts out, and getting advice from Carl Reiner.

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THE WONDER OF IT ALL

I know, I know, I know. It’s a movie about a character who saves the day using magic bracelets. And it’s only June. And no one pronounces Gal Gadot right (the “T” is not silent, people. It’s like “tote,” not “Godot”). But indulge me some crazy talk. With a record-breaking opening weekend and a 93 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Wonder Woman could slide into some Oscar categories. Consider Rupert Gregson Williams’s warrior princess melodies for score. Lindy Hemmings’s Themiscyra statement jewelry for costumes. Allan Heinberg’s screwball comedy banter for screenplay. And Patty Jenkins, waiting 14 years after her Oscar-winning 2003 film Monster, only to follow up with a movie that makes everybody feel a little bit better about living in a dark and dangerous world, for director. And see last year’s best-picture nominee Hidden Figures as a sign that box-office muscle and an upbeat, inclusive message matter to Academy balloters.

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, a Saturday night screening of the Warner Bros. film at the Academy was unusually packed and well received, with spontaneous applause for Gadot and Jenkins. Could this be the superhero movie that gets Oscar traction? Would an Academy that failed to give a best-picture nomination to The Dark Knight and ignored Ryan Reynolds’s irreverent campaigning for last year’s Deadpool rally for Wonder Woman? “If I were a betting woman, I wouldn't bet on it,” one female member of the producers branch told Feinberg, who notes in his piece that the Academy is only 27 percent women. Yes, but at least 98 percent of the Academy has beating hearts! (I’m told. I mean according to the data it does. I’m a little skeptical about the executive branch).

This week, the Academy is hosting an event to honor director Richard Donner, whose optimistic, 1978 Superman was an inspiration to Jenkins. Donner’s former assistants and current Hollywood comic-book titans Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and DC Entertainment chief creative officer Geoff Johns will both attend, in a reminder that the generation reared on Donner’s brand of popcorn movies is now running the town.

GET OUT THE VOTE

On Friday afternoon, the Academy sent members a note with the shortlist of candidates for open seats on the board of governors. The list of contenders for the final election, which closes June 23, includes some familiar faces, like actors Whoopi Goldberg and Geena Davis, producer Jason Blum, director Kimberly Peirce, and Pixar executive Ed Catmull. One person who threw his hat in the ring and didn’t make the cut was Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, in a sign the Academy may not be ready for an industry disrupter to lead it. Variety’s Kris Tapley posts the full list.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

Dear exhausted Emmy voters. Clear off that pile of screeners and go outside. TV Academy chairman Hayma Washington doesn’t expect you to watch everything. I know this because he told me, for my Vanity Fair piece bout how the era of peak TV has had an impact on the Emmys. In the single category Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series last year, there were 388 contenders, including eight from just one series, Showtime’s Ray Donovan. So many shows, so many people, so little time!