Sony Pictures Home Entertainment To Release Director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name On DVD And Blu-ray On Mar. 13

With a quartet of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, it came as no surprise this week that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment would be moving director Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of the 2007 André Aciman novel, Call Me by Your Name, to the home entertainment marketplace before the spotlight of the Oscar moment fades on Mar. 13.

With just $11.3 million in box office receipts, it is a smart move on Sony Pictures part to get as much exposure as possible for the DVD and Blu-ray launch while the getting is good.    Despite Best Picture, Best Actor (Timothée Chalamet), Best Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory) and Best Song (“The Mystery of Love”) nominations, Call Me by Your Name will be an also-ran following the Oscar telecast of Mar. 4 … the deck is simply stacked against the film.

For the record, the ARR works out to 109 days.

Bonus features include commentary with actors Timothée Chalamet (Lady Bird, Hostiles, etc.) and Michael Stuhlbarg (The Post, The Shape of Water, etc. … and as Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire), the Sufjan Stevens’ music video, “The Mystery of Love,” and a pair of production featurettes — “Snapshots of Italy: The Making of Call Me by Your Name” and “In Conversation With Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg & Luca Guadagnino.”