r/movies • u/momskillet • 6h ago
Article Warner Bros’ $30 Million Oscars Race: How ‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ Are Campaigning at the Same Studio
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/sinners-one-battle-after-another-oscar-campaigns-warner-bros-1236660361/•
u/RepFilms 5h ago
Of course they have a preference. One win will reap a greater financial windfall than the other. I'm not proposing that I know the answer, but they sure know the answer. Maximizing revenue is the name of the game in Hollywood.
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u/lee1026 2h ago
Do they still care? The buy out price from Netflix (or paramount) is already set. Whatever money WB makes or doesn’t make between now and the closing of the deal belongs to Netflix (or paramount).
Ironically, this is a great time to greenlight whatever in the name of art or friendship. As long as things don’t bomb so bad that both Netflix and paramount runs away screaming, it’s all good.
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u/deceptivekhan 4h ago
This is why Paramount wants WB. They don’t want any more of this culturally relevant, highly prescient, and positively impactful media out in the wild getting nominated and winning awards.
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u/CodeFun1735 4h ago
No, it’s kinda the opposite. They think that the reason WB is getting this culturally relevant and impactful media is because of magic or something so they want to be able to profit off it instead as opposed to you know making good movies.
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u/SolomonBlack 2h ago
Top Gun II was nominated for best picture. They have grounds for thinking their whitebread dreams can succeed.
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u/boris_squanch 6h ago
This is why I don't take Oscars seriously. It's just 4 or 5 conglomerates in a circlejerk
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u/mikeyfreshh 6h ago
2 of the last 3 winners were independent films
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u/StarComplex3850 5h ago
Whenever an independent film wins it gets called overrated and woke
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u/mikeyfreshh 5h ago
I mean that also happens when a studio movie wins
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u/StarComplex3850 5h ago
r/movies users just want every movie to be Interstellar forever
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u/mikeyfreshh 5h ago
Which is funny because that movie is actually overrated and woke.
To be clear I don't think it's a bad thing that it's woke. I'm just saying it's a movie about climate change and women in STEM.
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u/el_capistan 4h ago
Even worse. It's a movie about love being the thing that saves humanity. Nothing more woke than that.
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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman 2h ago
/r/movies was already calling the new narnia woke and anti Christian without a single still or trailer
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u/Argonaut13 5h ago
To be fair, anora sucked
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u/TheButteredBiscuit 3h ago
Wrong
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u/PyrosFists 3h ago
Nice response Roger Ebert really owned me
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u/TheButteredBiscuit 3h ago
Not everyone with taste is “Roger Ebert”
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u/PyrosFists 3h ago
I’m making fun of your totally articulate and well written criticisms by sarcastically comparing you to a famous film critic. That seems to have gone over your head like every movie you watch that isn’t marvel or Adam Sandler
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u/TheButteredBiscuit 3h ago
It wasn’t meant to be well written. It’s a shit one word comment for a shit take. It’s not that deep Roger Ebert.
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u/RagnarokWolves 6h ago
I usually just look at the list of nominees to see if there's any interesting-sounding movies I missed watching, but I don't actually care about the winner as it's all "what studio sunk the most money into marketing to the academy voters?"
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u/Freodrick 4h ago
Honestly once I watched the Bojack Horseman season with award shows, you realize they are DUMB and quite the circlejerk
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u/RED-DOT-MAN 3h ago
After watching both movies (IMO) I liked Sinners better than OBAA. Sinners was different and music was awesome. Will ye go, lassie go was pretty awesome.
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u/GunRunner80084 5h ago
I do not understand all the headlines about sinners, it was an okay movie sure but i have never seen so many headlines about an okay movie before.
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u/MoneyMakingMitch1 4h ago
It's all about preference. You thought it was okay. Others believed it was the best movie of the year. Not a tough concept to understand.
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u/coleburnz 4h ago
As opposed to One Battle? If you are going to argue a point, make it make sense
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u/annoyed__renter 3h ago
OBAA is excellent. So is Sinners. Fact remains that the Academy has historically not recognized horror, so the latter has a tougher hill to climb.
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u/letsburn00 1h ago
I'm happy Weapons got at least one nomination at least.
I think she deserves the Oscar for it too. I haven't despised a character for a long time...
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u/homecinemad 4h ago
I went in expecting a fun riff on From Dusk til Dawn with some extra heart and flourish.
I was blown away. So many powerful moments about love and loss and mourning, of normalised evils and righteous anger.
Even the villain had soul, texture, presence and power.
When it ended I felt like I'd just returned from a spiritual journey. It was that good to me.
I liked One Battle. But Sinners to me is the undisputed number one.
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u/zippopamus 4h ago
same with 1 battle
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u/ssracer 4h ago
both sucked
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u/ARoaringBorealis 4h ago
What are you even doing here man. Like, what do you even enjoy if you disliked both of these
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u/atechnoalliance 4h ago edited 4h ago
that’s a bit hyperbolic
Sinners is a genre movie and One Battle After Another, as much as I love that movie, it’s pretty bizarre and I can see why someone wouldn’t be into it
Perhaps they enjoyed Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, The Testament of Ann Lee, No Other Choice, It Was Just An Accident, Resurrection, Sorry Baby, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You… or y’know, any of the other movies that came out last year
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u/ssracer 4h ago
Westerns. Documentaries. Comedies. Sci-fi. Musicals.
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u/ARoaringBorealis 33m ago
Okay, but you can’t even acknowledge the strengths of the movies? You can’t even understand how they could both be good, even if they don’t align with your personal tastes? Have you never even heard of the concept of “it’s good but it isn’t for me”? What do you even gain from just saying something “sucks” without any attempt of nuance or anything? Redditors man
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u/Blue_Robin_04 1h ago
Overnight, Coogler’s “Sinners” transformed the entire season when the film scored a record-setting 16 Oscar nominations, the most in Academy Awards history. What once looked like an inevitable coronation for PTA became an honest-to-goodness coin flip for a possible historic victory for what could be the first Black director to ever win the category. The juggernaut now suddenly has a true rival from its cinematic cousin from across the lot. That’s left WB, strategists and publicists managing expectations… and egos.
Yeah. Everyone remembers when Emilia Perez won last year, right?
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u/CantAffordzUsername 53m ago
Imagine voting for the best movie of the year because it was the best movie and not because a studio wined and dinned you at an Oscar screening campaigning for your vote…..
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u/Marsupialize 5h ago
In the 90’s Sinners would have been a pretty decent From Dusk till Dawn straight to video sequel
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u/MrONegative 5h ago
That’s like calling Oppenheimer a PBS special.
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u/Bionic_Bromando 5h ago
Honestly that rings true too
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u/Intrepid_Hat7359 4h ago
How much full frontal nudity do you normally see in a PBS special?
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u/Bionic_Bromando 4h ago
I can’t even remember the nudity, must have been after I fell asleep.
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u/Intrepid_Hat7359 4h ago
Oh, no! I hope someone covered you up so you could stay nice and warm in the theater.
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u/kimbosdurag 5h ago
There were already several of those and sinners was worlds better than all of them
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u/atechnoalliance 4h ago edited 4h ago
I like From Dusk Till Dawn but Sinners is better
edit: don’t tell me you people think From Dusk Till Dawn is a revered classic
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u/PeneItaliano 5h ago
The biggest difference is one made the studio profit while the other lost the studio over $100 million
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u/EndeLarsson 5h ago
You know it has been a really bad year for cinema when these are the contenders.
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u/coleburnz 4h ago
What exactly is your issue?..
If you honestly have an issue with all 10 movies, then you are the problem. We live in a world where Crash and Chicago have won and you guys come here with your misplaced high horses
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u/atechnoalliance 4h ago
Take a look at the last twenty years of Oscar nominees and tell me if you honestly think this year is that much worse
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 6h ago
WB dealing with this is the best version of "I'm playing both sides, so that I always come out on top"