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One Battle wins the Cinematographers Guild award.

Sinners won the Sound Effects Award

F1 won the award from the Cinema Audio Society (Best Sound in a Motion Picture Live Action Feature)

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On The Big Picture podcast I listened to today, they mentioned that less than 5% of the SAG voting body votes for Oscars. That was kind of amazing to me, considering that the Actors branch is the largest membership of the Academy.

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Goddamn... how many movie awards are there?

For a movie with awards success like OBAA, and has a director who's also the producer and screenwriter - does that director need a whole trophy case just for the one film (assuming most awards provide a trophy)?
I wouldn't have enough doors in my house to use all the awards as door stops. I guess you could use them as a tip for door dash drivers.

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PTA is very likely to be the 11th director to win all "Big Three" awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original/Adapted Screenplay) for the same film. What's interesting is that through the 20th century, only 4 filmmakers won all three
1944 - Leo McCarey - Going My Way
1960 - Billy Wilder - The Apartment
1979 - Robert Benton - Kramer vs Kramer
1984 - James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment

But the 21st Century has been more the age of auteurs.
2003 - Peter Jackson - The Return of the King
2007 - Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men
2014 - Iñárritu - Birdman
2019 - Bong Joon-Ho - Parasite
2022 - The Daniels - Everything Everywhere All At Once
2024 - Sean Baker (also won Editing Oscar)

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Variety is all-in on Sinners, predicting it to win Actor, Supporting Actor, Director and Picture. The Best Director pick is the most out-there. All metrics indicate PTA is a lock and OBAA is a heavy favorite as well. We'll see soon enough, but they're on an island here.

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^ Now the Variety writer Clayton Davis does a follow up article, explaining why he's predicting Coogler as Best Director, when literally nobody else is.

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https://variety.com/2026/film/awards...rs-1236684341/

His point is simply : This film got the most nominations ever. And no black director has ever won the Oscar, so it's time. Both points are valid, but that certainly doesn't mean it's going to happen. All precursors suggest the opposite.
As an opinion of who SHOULD win, I have no issues at all with his view. But that's kind of irrelevant to the reality of predicting here. And I don't think there's even been much of a sentiment to give a Best Director to a Black Director because 'it's time'; at least I haven't heard much before right now.

I'd be surprised but not shocked if Sinners won BP. Director? Zero chance.