HE-posted at 8:20 pm eastern: “Anyway, it’s over. One Battle After Another taking the inaugural Best Casting Oscar plus Sean Penn beating Lindo and Sarsgard in supporting means Sinners isn’t winning Best Picture. Yes! Yes! It’ll be OBAA.”
Bill McCuddy says the Oscar producers will never again make the mistake of announcing the winner of the Best Casting Oscar at a little past the one-hour mark. Because it’s a bellwether award…a likely forecast of things to come. Henceforth no one will know which film has won the casting Oscar until at least the two-hour mark, or perhaps even at two-and-a-half.
THR‘s Scott Feinberg nails it cold:
Feinberg, in short, agrees with HE’s long-running condemnation or degradation of Sinners as a schlocky Samuel Z Arkoff vampire film. That’s what he’s saying by using the term “zombies-centric.” No one with any kind of faith or passing belief in transcendent cinema would or should have voted for a blood-soaked, cunnilingus-friendly drive-in film…’nuff said.