Travis Scott - 4X4
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Cinematography / Long Form / 2025
The film opens with the Columbia logo replaced by CACTUS, featuring a Black woman holding the torch. It cuts to Travis cruising surrounded by security, then a marching band in perfect sync, locked into their mission. The perspective soars over Houston, capturing the city in dreamlike chaos. One by one, surreal moments unfold—Anok suspended from a helicopter, an intense car chase, a Black rodeo, Travis performing at the Gerald D. Hines Waterfall, flames and car brawls, a WWE ring. It closes with a small monkey, earphones on, which nods in quiet approval.
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