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 59 films nominated for Best Picture and six 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 six 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).

## Language and country of origin

Only seven 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); and ***RRR*** (Telugu, 2022). 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 two have been nominated - ***The Shape of Water*** (2017) and ***Paddington 2*** ( 2018). ***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 59 films nominated for the Sinkie for Best Picture, 33 were also nominated for the Oscar. Of the fsix 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.

## 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 twice. 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.