By now, you’ve probably seen the Reddit threads blowing up over which movie should win the best picture Oscar today.

How can Ryan Coogler’s Sinners – a vampire horror musical set in the Jim Crow era – not win, say angry cinephiles, noting that it’s the most nominated film in Oscar history.

And yet, One Battle After Another, the Leonardo DiCaprio starring film about a government that has devolved into an authoritarian regime, is touted as the favourite.

Today senior culture writer Karl Quinn and culture and lifestyle writer Nell Geraets, on which films tend to win at the Oscars, and which often get shut out. And whether Timothée Chalamet will be punished for his comments knocking ballet and the opera. 

By now, you&rsquo;ve probably seen the Reddit threads blowing up over which movie should win the best picture Oscar today.
How can Ryan Coogler&rsquo;s Sinners &ndash; a vampire horror musical set in the Jim Crow era &ndash; not win, say angry cinephiles, noting that it&rsquo;s the most nominated film in Oscar history.
And yet, One Battle After Another, the Leonardo DiCaprio starring film about a government that has devolved into an authoritarian regime, is touted as the favourite.
Today senior culture writer Karl Quinn and culture and lifestyle writer Nell Geraets, on which films tend to win at the Oscars, and which often get shut out. And whether Timoth&eacute;e Chalamet will be punished for his comments knocking ballet and the opera.&nbsp;

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Do the Oscars ever get it right?

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