So far, from Deadline: Winners ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Sinners, Written by Ryan Coogler; Warner Bros. Pictures ADAPTED SCREENPLAY One Battle After Another, Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Screen Story by Paul Thomas Anderson, Inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon; Warner Bros. Pictures DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY 2,000 Meters to Andriivka, Written by Mstyslav Chernov; Frontline Features COMEDY/VARIETY SERIES – TALK OR SKETCH Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Senior Writers: Daniel O’Brien, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Seena Vali; Writers: Johnathan Appel,...

Jeffrey Wells wrote a piece about Sinners possibly winning Best Picture (we do not know if it will or not) and here is what he said about me: HE sideview: There is irony in Sasha Stone, who is as anti-woke as they come (takes one to know one), pimping Sinners as God’s gift to cinema while excoriating the woke degradation of Hollywood movies that began eight or nine years ago. The irony is that Sasha doesn’t seem to realize that Sinners —...

Variety reports a “backlash” over comments Timothée Chalamet made about ballet and opera, saying he didn’t want theatrical movies to become like that, where nobody cares about them, per this tweet from Variety. And of course, everyone threw a fit because everyone gets offended over every little thing. But Chalamet is 100% right. He means he doesn’t want to see movies become a niche cultural event. Hey, it’s great that there are people who appreciate ballet and opera but who are we...

No surprise that F1 won the Cinema Audio Society. It might have been surprising if either of the BP frontrunners had won, but such was not the case.

Predicting the Oscars for me, and everyone else, is always about heart vs. head. Your heart wants what it wants. Your head wants to be right. Do you follow the stats? Do you follow the vibes? Falling in love during Oscar season can sometimes be a recipe for disaster. I should know. My first lesson in heartbreak goes all the way back to my first year covering the Oscars for my website called Oscarwatch.com. It was the year 2000 and the movies...

The American Cinematographers Guild will be announcing over the weekend. Really, the question is how strong is Sinners and how strong is One Battle After Another. My gut tells me that One Battle wins this, but if it doesn't, if it's Sinners or maybe even Train Dreams, that shows a little less strength, or at least that is what our NextGen Oscarwatcher, Scott Kernen, has said, and I have to say, I agree. You can enter the contest here: And just for...

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the crazy SAG award wins of Sinners and Michael B. Jordan. What does it mean for the Best Picture race? Best Actor? We dig into that and talk about what drives the preferential ballot vote, the timing of the Oscars, did the BAFTA play a part? Is the surge real or imaginary?

I never went along with all of the complaints against Elon Musk. I don't think he's ruined Twitter. I have accepted that to have free speech, we must tolerate bad speech, and I've learned to do that. I have defended Elon Musk for years and praised him for buying Twitter, turning it into X, and giving us some freedom back. It is the only site that offers an open forum for thought and speech, even if it is ugly at times. Threads,...

I've been writing all season that Sinners is the film that should be winning Best Picture. But if it does, and One Battle After Another wins Best Director, which is about the best people are hoping for now for Sinners, then it will be the third film by a black director that didn't win in the director category. If Ryan Coogler somehow pulls it off, he'll be the first in 98 years of Oscar history, almost a century. The idea that Sinners,...

Once upon a time there was a little boy who dreamed of being a movie star, an opera singer, a teacher, a pastor, a real estate agent, and many other things. I remember always being so confused about what to do with my life. I was envious of my friends who decided they wanted to be something and just went and did it, satisfied to stay in that profession for the rest of their lives. I never felt confident choosing anything. I...