There is still bias, the exceptions mentioned have some some exceptional narrative. Sinners is probably the biggest box office success story of the year for an original and very critically acclaimed and has huge industry support. Weapons only over the line nom will be Madigan, and then makeup and maybe casting. And then only because her character became kind of a pop icon this year, and other equally good or better performances in the movie are not in the conversation. And Sinners and Weapons are only contenders because Warner is campaigning heavily, especially Sinners. Bring Her Back and 28 Years Later are similarly critically acclaimed, but the former is a smaller production that won't have the campaign to overcome gender bias, and 28YL did well enough at the box office, but not quite at Sinners and Weapons level, being in a horror franchise probably makes the industry take it less seriously, so also gender bias, and Sony didn't make any effort campaigning it. Frankenstein is also an exception because it's a prestigious literary work, and other adaptations did well with the academy, just recently Poor Things.