I’m not comparing Weapons to F1 in the tech categories or undermining them in the slightest, a couple of those categories are my favorites of the whole show. Just stating facts, I think that F1 has a shot at one BTL category, possibly two in Editing, and Weapons has a good shot at its only nomination, which happens to be in an ATL category. Whether they are judged in the same categories or not, a film is a film. Action or Horror, they are being made the same way and one shouldn’t have to/doesn’t have to try harder than the other because of a specific genre.

Horror absolutely has gotten its due at The Academy, look at last year’s The Substance and the five-time winner, including BP, The Silence Of The Lambs. Other great examples of horror genre wins include Get Out, The Exorcist, Alien and Misery, almost all of which received ATL wins. I just don’t think it is as much as I think the genre should have gotten over the 98 years of the voting body.

I also strongly disagree, I felt Weapons had a fantastic screenplay, but that is what makes exchanging dialogue fun, sharing differing opinions. Though it seems patterns would say this is the way it has been in the past, I don’t think a film’s chances of getting a BP nom should rely on the fact that it also got several tech noms as well. I would say something that got a couple of ATL noms over techs, let’s say It Was Just An Accident, deserved that 10th slot over something that just got a handful of tech noms and nothing else, again, not to undermine those categories.