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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Timmy Huynh/The Wall Street Journal; Visuals: Big League
Chew, Focus Features


AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…THE GUY WHO INSPIRED BIG LEAGUE CHEW?


TODD FIELD IS THE OSCAR-NOMINATED DIRECTOR OF ‘TÁR.’ MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
PLAYERS ARE MORE FAMILIAR WITH HIS SHREDDED BUBBLE GUM.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Timmy Huynh/The Wall Street Journal; Visuals: Big League
Chew, Focus Features
By
Lindsey Adler and
Ben Cohen
March 8, 2023 8:00 am ET

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Before Steven Spielberg made “The Fabelmans,” he made “Jaws.” Before Todd Field
made “Tár,” he made Big League Chew.

And that makes Field the only person at the Academy Awards on Sunday who can say
that a movie that might win him an Oscar owes its existence to baseball’s most
beloved bubble gum. 


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