The Complicated Oscars Night Feelings Over ‘One Battle After Another’
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
The New York Times
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Wesley Morris and this is Cannonball today. |
| 0:08.0 | My baby's a runner. You are a stone. |
| 0:16.6 | It's Oscars Week, everybody. |
| 0:26.1 | And I got to say, I am actually excited about that. |
| 0:30.0 | It's one of those who knows what's going to happen years, |
| 0:33.1 | Timothy Shalame or Michael B. Jordan, or my man Wagner Moore, for Best Actor. |
| 0:40.1 | But, you know, for months, |
| 0:44.6 | it has been feeling like the biggest question is who's going to dominate the night. |
| 0:51.2 | Ryan Coogler's Sinners, which has 16 nominations. That's a record, by the way. Or Paul Thomas Anderson's one battle after another, which is right behind it with 13. |
| 0:56.5 | Sinners comes with this great story. |
| 0:59.0 | Ryan Coogler took the Jim Crow South and the Delta Blues and turned him into a popcorn |
| 1:03.8 | movie that's got two Michael B. Jordans and a bunch of ideas. |
| 1:08.0 | And all last spring, all anybody was talking about was sinners. Sometimes, all they |
| 1:14.4 | were talking about was one scene from sinners. Conjuring spirits from the past. |
| 1:23.1 | And the future. But, you know, one battle after another, |
| 1:29.9 | a whole movie you could boil down |
| 1:31.6 | to being about a leftist revolutionary outfit |
| 1:34.1 | led by black women. |
| 1:35.2 | This is an announcement of a motherfucking revolution. |
| 1:38.0 | Make it good. |
| 1:39.2 | Make it bright. |
| 1:40.6 | Impress me. |
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