{"id":2203308,"date":"2025-12-17T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2203308"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:07:51","slug":"how-corporate-drama-is-making-sinners-an-oscar-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-corporate-drama-is-making-sinners-an-oscar-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"How Corporate Drama Is Making \u2018Sinners\u2019 an Oscar Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Awards voters can choose a top winner for many reasons beyond the work itself \u2014 social justice (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4975722\/\">Moonlight<\/a>), religious mea culpa (Spotlight), military guilt (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0887912\/\">The Hurt Locker<\/a>), feeling bad for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000255\/\">Ben Affleck<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8138594\/\">Argo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But what has taken shape in the past two weeks, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> fight to take control of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0002663\/\">Warner Bros<\/a>, could check a much rarer box on list: rewarding the company about to get devoured.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the latest round in that bout unfolded, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0863266\/\">Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a> formally rejected the Paramount offer of $30 a share, likely leading to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1911103\/\">David Ellison<\/a> company unleashing another, higher-priced haymaker north of that $108 billion figure as he tries to pry it from Netflix. But all of that drama just benefits the contenders who have movies at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0328721\/\">WB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One Battle after Another was a pretty prohibitive frontrunner even before this sale was announced, topping most Oscar prognosticator lists thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards voters can choose a top winner for many reasons beyond the work itself \u2014 social justice (Moonlight), religious mea culpa (Spotlight), military guilt (The Hurt Locker), feeling bad for Ben Affleck (Argo). But what has taken shape in the past two weeks, as Netflix and Paramount fight to take control of Warner Bros, could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2203309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2203308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/How-Corporate-Drama-Is-Making-\u2018Sinners-an-Oscar-Favorite.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203310,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203308\/revisions\/2203310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}