Scott Feinberg’s Oscar handicap lists are self-perpetuating, especially during November and December. There is no “I have no dog in this as I’m just forecasting what I think will happen without judgment or prejudice aforethought ”…bullshit!
And Scott’s persistent favoritism toward Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a skillfully directed leftist propaganda film that is basically a racially–flipped remake of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, has become a cultural albatross and is therefore untenable in terms of the film industry’s attempt to win back (if this is even possible) Joe and Jane Popcorn, who have long despised wokeism and are sick to death of being politically goaded or gamed or instructed by nutbag lefty fantasies.
And please, please…enough with the “because Ryan Coogler has blended the musical tradition of Robert ‘Crossroads’ Johnson with the coarse tropes of a schlocky AIP vampire film…and because he finished Sinners off by not only melting the wicked vampires but also by machine-gunning some overweight KKK crackers, and because Sinners made money…because of all this Coogler has to be Oscar-toasted for identity reasons alone”…please stop this self-ridiculing, identity-campaign bullshit. Stop it! The second half of this movie is low–rent junk. It’s a Wendy’s burger with arterial blood sauce.
The Best Picture competish is Hamnet vs. Marty Supreme vs. Sentimental Value…period.
Average schmoes will hate Hollywood all the more if One Battle After Another wins the Best Picture Oscar. Save yourselves, industry voters! Celebrate heart and verve and leave the progressive lefty shit behind. Plus OBAA lost $100 million!