“Emotionally, it was different — you spend so much time directing with one person — but it felt natural in some ways,” Josh told me in October. “I was like, What do I want to do?” Benny told me last summer of the thinking behind making Smashing Machine on his own. That’s it!’”Marty Supreme was nominated for nine Oscars last week, including best picture, actor (Chalamet), director (Josh Safdie), and original screenplay (Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, who also co-wrote Good Time and Uncut Gems). “It had this kind of funky-looking guy on the cover,” Safdie told me in the fall. As for the impact on Marty Supreme?