F1, HAMNET, MARTY SUPREME - 2026 Oscars Best Picture Series

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris begin their exploration of the 2025 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of three Best Picture nominees: F1, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME. They discuss the performances, filmmaking, storylines, scripts and constructions of these films. They also give you their thoughts on the chances of them winning in all the categories they are nominated in including Best Picture. Don't forget to vote in our Second Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 14th at 3pm PT!

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to our annual conversation on the best picture films here on the Cine Files.
0:14.8	I am John Roker.
0:15.6	joined, as always, by director, writer, producer extraordinaire, Steve Morris.
0:19.0	How are you, Steve?
0:19.8	Wow, I like my introduction.
0:21.1	That's, that's, I feel really good about that.
0:23.0	I feel like I have earned my spot as a voting member of the Cine Files Academy. Yeah, to vote in the Cine Files Award Show. Yeah, did it. And that's, you know, and we're not the other ones voting in the Cine Files Award show. Or are we?
0:34.7	I don't think we are voting
0:35.6	on the Senate of Oz Awards
0:36.2	show.
0:36.7	Are we,
0:37.1	do our ballots count?
0:38.2	Do our ballots?
0:38.8	Are they part of it
0:39.6	since we host the show?
0:41.4	I don't think we are voting on the Cine Files Award show. Do our ballots count? Do our ballots? Are they part of it since we host the show? Don't, don't all members of the Academy get a vote? I mean, it doesn't matter if you're president of the Academy. Nominations, nominees get to vote on their nominations. Yeah. That's a good point. We should. And, of course, you need to get your vote in for the Centophiles Award.
0:56.4	And to do that, all you have to do, it doesn't cost you a dime, but you do have to go to patreon.com slash the Cinefiles, where you can join our free tier. And once you join, you'll find that link to vote for the Oscars, which I think voting will start one week before the show. So that's coming up pretty soon. That's patreon.com slash the cinefiles.
1:14.6	And guess what? the Oscars, which I think voting will start one week before the show. So that's coming up pretty soon.
1:31.4	That's patreon.com slash the Cinephiles. And guess what? If you're on that free tier, some other free stuff might hedge your way every once in a while. It's a pretty fun place to be. Absolutely. Yeah, the Cineophiles Awards show. It's coming up on March 13th, the Saturday before the Oscars. the Oscars on the 14th, we'll do it Saturday on the 13th, so look for announcements on that and a link coming really soon from us.
1:33.5	And now that this year, the winner of the Cinephiles Awards is going to get a full
1:38.9	Cinephiles Deep Dive, I am super excited about this.
1:42.7	Yeah, I mean, depending on the timing, Steve, we may be doing two
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