This wild Oscars fact shows Ralph Fiennes could predict the best picture winner
What do you reckon to this theory?
With the Baftas confirming this past weekend that the 2025 awards season is wide open and thoroughly competitive, attention has already turned to who could triumph at the Oscars.
With most awards split between Conclave and The Brutalist at the Baftas, with gained four each, many have been looking at one of those two to clinch the all-important best picture Oscar next weekend.
However, there’s still potential for a surge in support for Anora – whose leading lady Mikey Madison clinched best actress over Demi Moore for The Substance at the Baftas – as well as US-friendly Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown finally getting a showing.
It’s now less likely that former front-runner Emilia Pérez, with its record-breaking 13 nominations for a non-English language film, will blaze much of any kind of trail given the controversial movie’s most recent backlash against lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón and her past tweets.
But a curious fact relating to best actor nominee Ralph Fiennes may provide a strong clue as to which movie will be crowned best picture from the 10 listed nominees that include those mentioned above, plus Wicked, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys and The Substance.
For while Conclave lacks a best director nomination for Edward Berger (who claimed the Bafta), which normally somewhat hampers a film’s chances of being awarded the night’s top prize, it does still have a secret weapon in its star actor Fiennes.
