Movies that come out in April, like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, rarely gain momentum for the next 11 months until the following year’s Academy Awards.
More often, the Oscar darlings are those that premiere in the back half of the year, like Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the politically prescient and star-studded epic that has seemed predestined for Best Picture despite the prolific director never having won the big one.
Even rarer is a genre film like Sinners, a vampire action musical, finding its way into the top of the awards conversation.
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