Ralphie Aversa

Always a pleasure, Dana.

I think it does a little bit.

I mean, one of the interesting things, and we've seen this before, the Golden Globes aren't always a direct indicator for what's going to transpire at the Academy Awards.

The voting bodies are obviously different.

The Golden Globes, it was the, as I like to call them, the artist formerly known as the Hollywood foreman.

Press Association.

They're not called that anymore, but you get the idea.

There are a lot of foreign press, obviously, that are voting with the Golden Globes.

It's, of course, film and TV as well, another difference from the Oscars.

But I do think the fact that while one battle after another led the Golden Globe nominations from a movie standpoint, the fact that Sinners is now leading from an Oscar standpoint certainly helps Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan and, of course, the rest of the cast and crew.

Well, look, they didn't do so bad either, right?

And so while Senators certainly had a record night, you have to look at one battle after another, not just with the amount of nominations they received at the Academy Awards, but also with how they've done so far in awards season, Critics' Choice, Golden Globes.

nomination, obviously, for Best Cast for the Actor Awards, which were formerly known as the SAG Awards.

A lot of changes in Hollywood over the past couple of years, Dana.

Nonetheless, I would still put One Battle After Another as the odds-on favorite to win Best Picture.

Another, by the way, difference between the Golden Globes and the Oscars.

Let's not forget that with the Golden Globes, we have things divided up into comedy, musical, and drama, the two different categories, whereas everything's in the same category, all genres, for

the Oscars.

Well, I think one of the things that happened is the fact that, you know, you could make the argument that perhaps one battle after another should have campaign chase for supporting actress as opposed to lead actress because of the amount of screen time that she has, which our colleague Patrick Ryan reported about in his story that you could see over at USA Today dot com.

And then, of course, the other thing that happens is, again, with the consolidations of the genres, the two different categories basically moving into one for something like the Oscars, that can lead to some of these issues as well where you're expecting someone to be nominated in a category and they are not.