What the Hell Is Happening With the Oscar Race?

On Saturday night at about 10 p.m. Pt, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was clearly going to coast all the way to the Oscars, where it would be this year’s easy Best Picture winner. Less than 24 hours later, that coasting came to a screeching halt and “One Battle” was suddenly in a real dogfight with Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.” And now a romp has turned into a coin toss.

Or has it?

Let’s just say that last weekend made the Oscar race more fun and more confusing than we expected – but that it’s too easy to get carried away and put too much credence…