Sinkie Award For Best Picture

The Sinkie Award for Best Picture is the top honor at the Sinkie Awards presented annually by the Everything But the Kitchen Sink podcast since the awards debuted in 2018. Ten films are nominated every year for this award, barring the first year, where there were only nine nominees. There have been 69 films nominated for Best Picture and seven winners.
==Best Picture and Best Director==
The Sinkie Awards for Best Picture and Best Director have been closely linked throughout the ceremony's six year history. Of the seven films that have won Best Picture, five of them have also been awarded Best Director. Only one film has been awarded Best Picture without having a Best DIrector nomination: Drive My Car (2021). In 2024, Killers of the Flower Moon became the first Best Picture winner to win without an accompanying Best Director win despite its director (Martin Scorsese) being nominated.
==Language and country of origin==
Nine non-English language films have been nominated in the category: Roma (Spanish/ Mixtec, 2018); The Farewell (Mandarin w/ English, 2019); Parasite (Korean, 2019); Minari (Korean w/ English, 2020); Drive My Car (Japanese, 2021); Titane (French, 2021); RRR (Telugu, 2022); Anatomy of a Fall (French, 2023); and The Zone of Interest (German, 2023). Three of these went on to win Best Picture: Roma, Parasite, and Drive My Car.
==Genres==
Some genres of film (or mediums in the case of animation) have received few or no nominations or awards. No animated film has ever been nominated. No comic book or superhero film has won, and only one has been nominated - Black Panther (2018). No fantasy film has won, although three have been nominated - The Shape of Water (2017) Paddington 2 ( 2018), and Barbie (2023). Get Out (2017) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only four others have been nominated: Hereditary (2018), A Quiet Place (2018), Midsommar (2019), and Nope (2022). One science fiction film has won the award, Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), and three others have been nominated - Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune (2021), and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). Several musicals have been nominated for Best Picture, including 2022's Annette, tick, tick... BOOM!, and West Side Story, but none have won.
No documentary feature has yet been nominated for Best Picture, but David Byrne's American Utopia is the only concert / live performance film to be nominated.
==Sequel nominations and winners==
Five sequels have been nominated for Best Picture: Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Paddington 2 (2018), Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Due to a combination of happenstance and the short history of the awards, no sequel has been nominated along with / after their predecessor. Also, no sequel has won the award.
==Remake nominations and winners==
Along similar lines to sequels, there have been few nominees and winners that are either remakes or adaptations of the same source materials or subjects. 2018's A Star is Born follows the 1937, 1954, and 1976 films of the same name. Other nominees were based on source material previously made into films: 2019's Little Women, and 2021's Dune and West Side Story.
==Correlation to the Academy Awards==
The Sinkie Awards have a mixed correlation with the Academy Awards. Of the 69 films nominated for the Sinkie for Best Picture, 41 were also nominated for the Oscar. Of the seven Sinkie Best Picture winners thus far, only three went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars as well: Parasite (2019), Nomadland (2020), and Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). No Sinkie winner for Best Picture has ever won without also being nominated at the Oscars, although in the brief history of the Sinkies, two Oscar winners for Best Picture did not receive Sinkie nods: Green Book and CODA.
==Winners and nominees==
In the list below, winners are listed first, bolded with asterisks around them, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the film premiered - the year of release. This is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited thetrically during 2021 was eligible for consideration for the 2021 Best Picture Sinkie, awarded in 2022. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony.
Films with an asterisk* were also nominated at the Oscars. Films with a + won the Oscar.
Year of Film Release	Film
2017
(1st) 	*Get Out**
2017
(1st) 	The Big Sick
2017
(1st) 	Blade Runner 2049
2017
(1st) 	Call Me By Your Name*
2017
(1st) 	The Disaster Artist
2017
(1st) 	Dunkirk*
2017
(1st) 	The Florida Project
2017
(1st) 	Lady Bird*
2017
(1st) 	The Shape of Water*+
2018
(2nd) 	*Roma**
2018
(2nd) 	Black Panther*
2018
(2nd) 	Bohemian Rhapsody*
2018
(2nd) 	Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018
(2nd) 	Eighth Grade
2018
(2nd) 	Hereditary
2018
(2nd) 	Paddington 2
2018
(2nd) 	A Quiet Place
2018
(2nd) 	A Star is Born*
2018
(2nd) 	Vice*
2019
(3rd) 	*Parasite**+
2019
(3rd) 	1917*
2019
(3rd) 	The Farewell
2019
(3rd) 	The Irishman*
2019
(3rd) 	Jojo Rabbit*
2019
(3rd) 	Little Women*
2019
(3rd) 	Marriage Story*
2019
(3rd) 	Midsommar
2019
(3rd) 	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*
2019
(3rd) 	Uncut Gems
2020
(4th) 	*Nomadland**+
2020
(4th) 	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
2020
(4th) 	Da 5 Bloods
2020
(4th) 	David Byrne's American Utopia
2020
(4th) 	First Cow
2020
(4th) 	I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
(4th) 	Judas and the Black Messiah*
2020
(4th) 	Minari*
2020
(4th) 	Promising Young Woman*
2020
(4th) 	Sound of Metal*
2021
(5th) 	*Drive My Car**
2021
(5th) 	Annette
2021
(5th) 	C'mon C'mon
2021
(5th) 	Dune*
2021
(5th) 	Licorice Pizza*
2021
(5th) 	Pig
2021
(5th) 	The Power of the Dog*
2021
(5th) 	tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
(5th) 	Titane
2021
(5th) 	West Side Story*
2022
(6th) 	*Everything Everywhere All At Once**+
2022
(6th) 	Aftersun
2022
(6th) 	Avatar: The Way of Water*
2022
(6th) 	Babylon
2022
(6th) 	The Banshees of Inisherin*
2022
(6th) 	The Fabelmans*
2022
(6th) 	Nope
2022
(6th) 	RRR
2022
(6th) 	Tár*
2022
(6th) 	Top Gun: Maverick*
2023
(7th) 	*Killers of the Flower Moon**
2023
(7th) 	Anatomy of a Fall*
2023
(7th) 	Barbie*
2023
(7th) 	The Holdovers*
2023
(7th) 	The Iron Claw
2023
(7th) 	May December
2023
(7th) 	Oppenheimer*+
2023
(7th) 	Past Lives*
2023
(7th) 	Poor Things*
2023
(7th) 	The Zone of Interest*
== Jimmy & Kyle's Votes ==
Each year, hosts Jimmy Nicholas and Kyle Wilson announce their vote before they announce the winner. In this category, Jimmy's number one movie of the year has won once and Kyle's has won three times. There is only one year where Jimmy and Kyle chose the same film, and it also was the winner: 2017 with Get Out. Best Picture is decided preferentially, though we only started ranking in the second year, and the order of finish was only on record from 2019 on. 
Year of Film Release	Jimmy 	Kyle 	Winner
2017 (1st) 	Get Out	Get Out	Get Out
2018 (2nd) 	
# A Star is Born
# A Quiet Place
# Black Panther
# Vice
# Eighth Grade
# Bohemian Rhapsody	
# Roma
# Paddington 2
# Hereditary
# Black Panther
# Eighth Grade
# Can You Ever Forgive Me?
# A Quiet Place
# Vice
# A Star is Born
# Bohemian Rhapsody	Roma
2019 (3rd) 	
# Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
# Parasite
# The Irishman
# 1917
# Midsommar
# Marriage Story	
# The Irishman
# Parasite
# Midsommar
# Uncut Gems
# Little Women
# Jojo Rabbit
# The Farewell
# Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
# 1917
# Marriage Story	
# Parasite
# Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
# Midsommar
# 1917
# Little Women
# The Irishman
# Uncut Gems
# Marriage Story
# Jojo Rabbit
# The Farewell
2020 (4th) 	
# Sound of Metal
# Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
# Da 5 Bloods
# Promising Young Woman
# Nomadland	
# David Byrne's American Utopia
# Nomadland
# I'm Thinking of Ending Things
# First Cow
# Da 5 Bloods
# Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
# Sound of Metal
# Judas and the Black Messiah
# Minari
# Promising Young Woman	
# Nomadland
# Sound of Metal
# Judas and the Black Messiah
# Promising Young Woman
# David Byrne's American Utopia
# First Cow
# I'm Thinking of Ending Things
# Minari
# Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
# Da 5 Bloods
2021 (5th) 	
# West Side Story
# Licorice Pizza
# tick, tick... BOOM!
# Dune
# The Power of the Dog	
# Annette
# Titane
# Licorice Pizza
# Drive My Car
# West Side Story
# Pig
# tick, tick... BOOM!
# C'mon C'mon
# The Power of the Dog
# Dune	
# Drive My Car
# West Side Story
# Licorice Pizza
# The Power of the Dog
# tick, tick... BOOM!
# Annette
# Pig
# C'mon C'mon
# Dune
# Titane
2022 (6th) 	
# Avatar: The Way of Water
# Everything Everywhere All At Once
# Top Gun: Maverick
# RRR
# Babylon
# The Fabelmans
# The Banshees of Inisherin
# Nope
# Tár
# Aftersun	
# Tár
# Aftersun
# Everything Everywhere All At Once
# The Fabelmans
# RRR
# Top Gun: Maverick
# The Banshees of Inisherin
# Babylon
# Nope
# Avatar: The Way of Water	
# Everything Everywhere All At Once
# Tár
# The Banshees of Inisherin
# Avatar: The Way of Water
# Aftersun
# Babylon
# RRR
# Top Gun: Maverick
# The Fabelmans
# Nope
2023 (7th) 	
# Oppenheimer
# The Iron Claw
# Killers of the Flower Moon
# Barbie
# The Holdovers
# May December
# Past Lives
# Anatomy of a Fall	
# Killers of the Flower Moon
# The Zone of Interest
# Oppenheimer
# The Holdovers
# May December
# The Iron Claw
# Anatomy of a Fall
# Past Lives
# Barbie
# Poor Things	
# Killers of the Flower Moon
# The Zone of Interest
# Oppenheimer
# May December
# Anatomy of a Fall
# The Holdovers
# The Iron Claw
# Barbie
# Past Lives
# Poor Things