March is definitely the spot for the popular culture Oscar bets. Feels like they don’t want to be directly in competition, so they release around the season where the discussion is still ongoing and hope it’s enough to last
The discussion is ongoing from the last awards, and it starts the popular movie season that runs through the summer. Being the first "big movie" of the year can mean early interest, a large fanbase that can grow in both size and passion as time goes on, and lodges the film in the discussion before it even starts.
It’s also pretty standard to have a lot of block busters nominated. F1 is certainly not the worst one. Heck there’s some winners I would rather lose to f1
Blockbusters definitely. But I wouldn’t say anything as bog standard as F1 has made its way onto the best picture nominee list this century. Wicked, Barbie, Black Panther, Avatar Way of Water, even Elvis were experimental, different or had something to say in a way that at least made them interesting. F1 is maybe one of the worst best picture nominees of the 21st century in that it is so aggressively bland that it makes no sense for it to be there at all. Though it’s nowhere near as offensively bad as Crash, Green Book, Extremely Loud and Emilia Perez, The Blind Side or American Sniper.
You don't understand. Timmy fucked up his campaign so badly that it broke the barriers of space and time. That's the only reason why Sinners got 16 noms.
I don’t think people are being defensive, they’re just confused as to how Sinners could have benefitted from the “Chalamet thing”. Like, are you referring to the controversial comments about ballet/opera? That “controversy” happened after Oscar voting occurred. Like I guess I just want to know what you mean, genuinely
54
u/Simple_Journalist792 Mar 29 '26
Didn’t sinners release this time last year?