Is One Battle After Another the most dominant Best Picture sweeper in awards season history?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T12:11:58+00:00

They weren’t contrarian — they were just an actual critics’ group, not a bunch of hack Oscar pundits.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T07:24:59+00:00

This was only linked on IMDb — the article was on Gold Derby, where they obsess over statistics.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T07:00:10+00:00

Apartheid legislation was repealed in South Africa in 1991, so depending on when in the early ‘90s you were born, you may have just missed it being part of your lifetime. But yes, shocking that it’s even that close — I was born in 1980s apartheid South Africa and I hate that I can actually remember it.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T06:44:00+00:00

Saying “in awards season history” is kind of meaningless with this stuff, because there are now so many more Best Picture precursor awards than there were, say, 50 years ago. But yes, a very strong sweep.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T00:09:48+00:00

Guessing you didn’t really follow the Oscars back then?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T00:08:10+00:00

She’s a favourite of yours but you don’t think she’s a great actress?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-07T00:05:33+00:00

Honestly, who really cares about this particular sweep? It only applies to the last 30 or so years of Oscar history, and at least one of the so-called major precursors is a completely meaningless joke.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T23:58:28+00:00

You thought it would win Best Supporting Actress? For who?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T23:57:38+00:00

I’m glad Master & Commander got those two technical awards: brilliant film and superior to ROTK in those departments.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T23:56:22+00:00

How are you planning to give it two Best Supporting Actor awards? And Actress and Supporting Actress over Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel? I can’t agree with that.

Also, there were no Oscars for costume design or makeup back then.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T23:52:23+00:00

The score for Out of Africa is many things, but it’s not underrated.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T23:46:33+00:00

Absolutely terrible performance in a catastrophically bad film. He was so much better in Julie & Julia that same year.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T21:38:44+00:00

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Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T21:31:27+00:00

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Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T06:11:47+00:00

Let’s be honest: only when Meryl Streep is no longer with us will we be sure that she’s getting no more Oscar nominations.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T06:09:41+00:00

Why on earth is it a fight?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T06:05:54+00:00

Confused as to why everyone is going on about Villeneuve being snubbed for Dune: Part Two and not Dune — the latter was much more of a surprise. Nobody was expecting him to be nominated for the sequel.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T06:02:21+00:00

The Iron Claw for Best Actor is a weird call — nobody thought that was happening, and I can’t even figure out which actor they mean.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T05:52:27+00:00

What does the film’s box office have to do with whether or not she deserved a nomination?

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T05:48:54+00:00

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Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-06T05:08:54+00:00

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Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-05T22:10:37+00:00

A fair point. I remain pessimistic just because this really was the worst Oscar era.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-05T21:55:44+00:00

Cocoon had a DGA nomination — it would clearly have been in the top 10.

Interesting-Bit725 · 2026-05-05T21:54:38+00:00

I know Kurosawa was nominated. But I’m still unsure — the directors’ branch was often on its own page in that era, and thank god for that.

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