I'm Sean Fennacy.

I'm Amanda Dobbin.

And this is the Big Picture

A Conversation Show about the home stretch.

Today on the show, we will revisit Sinners, the most nominated movie in the history of the Academy Awards.

Nearly one year after its release, we will construct our very last Best Picture Power rankings of the season and discuss the BafTA results from over the weekend, those crazy Brits.

They did some stuff with their award show.

Later in the show, I have a conversation with Autumn Dorald Arquapaw, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer of Sinners. It's her second collaboration with Ryan Coogler. Autumn has had a fascinating path to this moment. And we discussed a whole lot of stuff, including the technical aspects of her work on sinners, her arc as a cinematographer. We talked about cameras, lenses, aspect ratios, all your favorite stuff. No, I actually am very excited to listen to it, because sinners is a film that looks good in a time when most don't. So I would like to hear what she has to say. Autumn, very smart and confident guest. One of the better conversations we've had here recently. I hope you will stick around. She's already made history. She's the first woman of color nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards, which is shameful. But she also has a chance to win, and so we will talk about her chances there, too. But first, let's talk about the BFTAs right after this. This episode of The Big Picture is presented by State Farm. You know those friends who show up for whatever you're into? The ones will debate which superhero universe is better or binge true crime documentaries with you at three in the morning. Those friends are gold. State Farm is like that, helping you figure out the coverage that actually fits. Car, home, life, whatever you need, they've got your back. And if you want a hand, a local agent is just a tap away on their award-winning app. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Okay. Did I throw you off there? Nope. You were great. Okay. Thanks so much. You're letting me stretch out and close me in as well. I love hearing about lenses when Autumn Dorold Arquapaw or Ben Affleck talk about that.

Yeah. When a woman or man, you want to be near. When it's me, not so much. I saw he was at the golf. He was at the golf. Oh, at Rift over the weekend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I didn't see any of the golf this weekend, unfortunately. I did see the hockey. Did you see the hockey? I did see. I saw the hockey.

USA, huh?

What do you know?

I got this is just,

we still got the juice.

Broken clock, huh? What do you know?

I got the juice. We still got the juice.

Broken clock, right? Once a day while my children are watching.

First time in 46 years, the USA hockey was right, and we're happy to see it.

Okay, Bafters. So let's just start with the big award. One battle after another one best film. We're looking very closely at this final corridor of Guild and International Awards because this is the first of the next big three, which is, of course, the actor awards next Sunday, and the PGA's next Saturday. And then all the precursors for the most part are done. And voting begins. And voting will begin. And one battle one. And we're going to talk about sinners. And one of the reasons why we wanted to revisit sinners was you hadn't seen the film in full. One of the other reasons why was because it's just, it's now become this. Not on purpose.

And I'd like to talk about some changes that they made that I thought were very smart.

We can do that.

But one battle winning here, what does it tell you?

Anything?

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