Keeping pace with Hollywood’s perpetual awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here . Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on the set of Nosferatu. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/Focus Features Robert Eggers, the writer and director behind this year’s stunningly disgusting Nosferatu , was raised among books and academia. His stepfather, Walter Eggers, was an English professor and provost at the University of New Hampshire ( and a film buff ) and Robert subsequently became obsessed with performing and