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Apple Original Film 'F1' Wins Oscar for Best Sound

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Apple's original film "F1: The Movie" yesterday won an Oscar for Best Sound at the 98th Academy Awards.

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The film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joseph Kosinski, received four Oscar nominations in total, including Best Picture. "F1" has already picked up multiple honors across the industry, including Best Editing and Best Sound at the Critics Choice Awards and Best Sound at the BAFTA Film Awards.

The film stars Brad Pitt as a once-promising Formula 1 driver whose career was nearly ended by a crash in the 1990s. Decades later, he returns to the sport after being recruited by his former teammate to help save a struggling team, partnering with an ambitious rookie driver.

In 2022, Apple's "CODA" became the first streaming film to win Best Picture, with Troy Kotsur winning Best Supporting Actor and Siân Heder winning Best Adapted Screenplay. Apple later won Best Animated Short Film for "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse." More recently, "Killers of the Flower Moon" received several Oscar nominations, including Best Actress for Lily Gladstone.

"F1" is now available to stream globally on Apple TV. Apple previously said it is the highest-grossing sports feature film of all time.






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dmr727 said:
I said it on the other thread when the nominations were announced - it was a fun popcorn movie but how it ended up nominated for Best Picture is a complete mystery to me. But hey, Best Sound. That's something. 🙂
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Agree, it was a fun popcorn movie so I also was surprised. Having said that, Sinners was one of the most boring, storyless, poorly acted, awful movies I've ever watched so how on earth that got 16 nominations is beyond me...
 
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crazytrain said:
Agree, it was a fun popcorn movie so I also was surprised. Having said that, Sinners was one of the most boring, storyless, poorly acted, awful movies I've ever watched so how on earth that got 16 nominations is beyond me...
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Oscars and Hollywood have become such a joke, I used to watch them yearly, but haven't watched them in years. Just a bunch of artsy, not remotely mainstream movies and some of the most privileged people on earth preaching to us.

90's and early 2000's

Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings as some of the winners


Since then, of ones I'd say there were mainstream movies, maybe Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Argo and Oppenheimer and among those, I'd really say Oppenheimer was the only true blockbuster. Obviously, some big movies got nominated, but none few that one.

Now it's Kings Speech, The Artist, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Shape of Water, Nomadland, Coda, Anora...none of these movies will be classics 20 years from now.

I'm still waiting for an award for best practical effects or stunts.
 
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I am…or used to be before Liberty took over, a huge F1 fan. This movie was so stupid. Surely a movie line this should have its roots in reality…this clearly did not. Meanwhile you couldn’t pay me to watch the Oscars. Bunch of entitled people stroking each others egos. Used to be a great evening of wonderful and in the main deserving awards. Now it’s just a big circle jerk.
 
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dmr727 said:
I said it on the other thread when the nominations were announced - it was a fun popcorn movie but how it ended up nominated for Best Picture is a complete mystery to me. But hey, Best Sound. That's something. 🙂
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There were not many great options for Best Picture movies from 2025, even broadening the list beyond the types of movies the Academy cares about.
 
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fenderbass146 said:
Oscars and Hollywood have become such a joke, I used to watch them yearly, but haven't watched them in years. Just a bunch of artsy, not remotely mainstream movies and some of the most privileged people on earth preaching to us.

90's and early 2000's

Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings as some of the winners


Since then, of ones I'd say there were mainstream movies, maybe Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Argo and Oppenheimer and among those, I'd really say Oppenheimer was the only true blockbuster. Obviously, some big movies got nominated, but none few that one.

Now it's Kings Speech, The Artist, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Shape of Water, Nomadland, Coda, Anora...none of these movies will be classics 20 years from now.

I'm still waiting for an award for best practical effects or stunts.
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While I often don't watch many of the Best Picture winners, your comment was a little funny in the context of another random internet commenter who was complaining that the Best Picture winners have been irrelevant since about 1980.

If the choice were up to me to vote for Best Picture from the 1991 nominees, I would have chosen Beauty and the Beast over Silence of the Lambs. For 1995 I would choose Apollo 13, Babe, or Sense and Sensibility over Braveheart. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would have been my choice over Gladiator. I would have chosen all three Lord of the Rings movies over the ones that won (A Beautiful Mind [which is a great movie] and Chicago [which is not a very good movie]).

My point is that all this is subjective. If you don't like the movies that are nominated or win, ignore the awards and watch the movies you want to watch. Your subjective experience with movies matters more than what others might think about them.
 
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Apple's original film "F1: The Movie" yesterday won an Oscar for Best Sound at the 98th Academy Awards.

Apple-TV-F1.jpeg

The film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joseph Kosinski, received four Oscar nominations in total, including Best Picture. "F1" has already picked up multiple honors across the industry, including Best Editing and Best Sound at the Critics Choice Awards and Best Sound at the BAFTA Film Awards.

The film stars Brad Pitt as a once-promising Formula 1 driver whose career was nearly ended by a crash in the 1990s. Decades later, he returns to the sport after being recruited by his former teammate to help save a struggling team, partnering with an ambitious rookie driver.

In 2022, Apple's "CODA" became the first streaming film to win Best Picture, with Troy Kotsur winning Best Supporting Actor and Siân Heder winning Best Adapted Screenplay. Apple later won Best Animated Short Film for "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse." More recently, "Killers of the Flower Moon" received several Oscar nominations, including Best Actress for Lily Gladstone.

"F1" is now available to stream globally on Apple TV. Apple previously said it is the highest-grossing sports feature film of all time.






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It’s the sound of those engines! I knew it!
 
The best vrooom vrooom sounds of any movie… 😜

Honestly, I can only imagine the kind of lobbying and deals going on behind the scenes of such an event (giving them a benefit of doubts it's not all made-up and fake who wins what). And I am definitely not meaning to belittle any of accomplishments of the teams winning these more "technical" Oscars.

Just to me it always feels a bit random (since they also don't really give more reasoning behind the decision) why this movie was chosen vs. another. So part of me wants to believe Apple was lobbying really hard and at the end it was decided okay let's give them one of these technical Oscars to shut them up. 😄
 
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I think this was totally deserved.

Too many movies come out with honestly **** sound that even if watched in the theater - it is almost impossible to understand what people are saying if there is some sort of background sound or noise.

With so many racing scenes, this was not an issue in this movie (which I watched both at home and in the theater).
 
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neuropsychguy said:
While I often don't watch many of the Best Picture winners, your comment was a little funny in the context of another random internet commenter who was complaining that the Best Picture winners have been irrelevant since about 1980.
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It was always a joke. Most, but not all, of the time they award really boring, slow and artsy movies and ignore that which is actually entertaining. It has always been like this.
 
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They just want Americans to believe America is part of Formula 1 because they own the rights now. The film was fine but the plot was ridiculous to anyone outside of the US.
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As a Brit in the UK I have to disagree with this.

There are now 3 races in the US - and the rookie driver in the APX team was British. Yeah OK the team was American owned, which in reality 2 are.

Most of the teams are run from the UK anyway, even if they are "owned" by companies in other countries. And most are within a 50 mile radius of the Silverstone circuit. Ferrari is the obvious and notable exception to this.

F1 is global and that includes the USA.

The plot was fun and maybe not that realistic but why you think it would be ridiculous to anyone outside the US is baffling.
 
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The word "F1" is being shoehorned everywhere online right now, as if its been wildly popular in the US for eons. It hasn't and for good reason. Much like the Kentucky Derby, F1 is a place for those who have built success for themselves to escape the swelling stench of more pedestrian sports outings like "football" or "little league."
 
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