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One Battle After Another - JioHotstar
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another took home six Oscar awards, the most for this year, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, and Best Editing. Inspired from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, it centres on a group of former revolutionaries who reunite to confront an enemy that has resurfaced after 16 years.
Sinners - JioHotstar
Sinners won four awards at the Academy Awards this year—Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Score. Directed by Ryan Coogler, the Michael B Jordan-starrer follows identical twins Smoke and Stack, who return to their Mississippi hometown to open a juke joint but face a sinister supernatural threat through the night.
Weapons - JioHotstar
Amy Madigan won the Best Supporting Actress award for her sinister performance as Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's Weapons. Starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner in key roles, the film sees the disappearance of all but one child from the same classroom. They vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, following which a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Frankenstein - Netflix
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein scored 3 Oscar wins for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design. Starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein's monster, the film is based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and follows the story of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings The Creature to life in a monstrous experiment.
KPop Demon Hunters - Netflix
Co-written and co-directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, KPop Demon Hunters scripted history by becoming the first K-pop song to win an Oscar. It also won the Best Animated Feature. The story follows a K-pop girl group, Huntrix, who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a new rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons.
F1 - Apple TV+
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, F1 received the Best Sound Oscar award for this year. It follows a former Formula One driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) who returns from retirement to mentor and team up with a rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). He goes head-to-head with him, and struggles to succeed. Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon also star in the film.