March 14, 2026

Best Picture Countdown to the Oscars: “F1: The Movie”

Best Picture Countdown to the Oscars: “F1: The Movie”

Amy and T.J. give you the cliff notes of each of the 10 Oscar nominated films this year as we wait to see who the Academy gives the most prized award to of the evening. We will share a synopsis of each movie, what they’re nominated for and what the critics and audiences thought of the films. We will also give our impressions of them and tell you whether you should watch it… or skip it.

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00:00:09
Speaker 1: All right, folks, Yes, it's Oscar's weekend. Let's keep the party going here. You haven't watched all the movies like you should have, so we're here to get you caught up. Number three on our list stuff cliff notes for the movies. F one the movie.

00:00:25
Speaker 2: Yes, we were actually really excited about watching this movie.

00:00:29
Speaker 3: We sat down.

00:00:30
Speaker 2: This was another one we watched with Sabine and it is nominated for four categories Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Achievement and Visual Effects, Best Achievement in Film, Editing.

00:00:43
Speaker 1: Shortlist, and Notable. No acting nominations on that list.

00:00:48
Speaker 3: We actually had to go back and double check.

00:00:50
Speaker 2: I think there's only one other Best Picture movie I have to go back and look that doesn't have any actor nominations. But I think seems fairly unusual, because if it's a movie that you enjoyed watching. Interesting that none of the actors were selected in any of the either acting or supporting acting categories, so that is of note. But yeah, you've got one of the biggest and best actors in the world fronting this movie, of course, Brad Pitt we're talking about, and it was fun to watch him in this role.

00:01:23
Speaker 3: For sure. I loved and Javier Bardam.

00:01:26
Speaker 1: I don't know why. And you know what, Damson Interests. You might not know his name. Damson Interests is the lead on the movie what's it called Snowfall that was on FX and he I love this brother, and he has been in the conversation as possibly being the next change Bond again. You got a British accent, you can wear a suit. Well, everybody's in the conversation. But I would love he is one I would endorse. But I really liked him in this movie.

00:01:53
Speaker 3: Was this one of the biggest, if not the biggest.

00:01:55
Speaker 2: Box office one of the biggest, huge among the top ten Best Picture.

00:02:01
Speaker 1: Nominees, so it might have been the biggest. You say that I could find out for you and just to say, but the other point you just made it was Train Dreams is the other one that doesn't have any acting.

00:02:10
Speaker 2: Okay, domination, So there were only two of the ten best pictures that have no acting nods. That one actually really surprised me that Train Dreams did not have an acting.

00:02:18
Speaker 3: Nod, very surprising.

00:02:20
Speaker 2: But f one, look, this is a fast paced, fun, albeit long, very long movie, way longer than I thought it was going to be. But it was fun. It was a fun ride. To use a bad pun, but it was. And to that point, it was a little shocking to us once we were through with it that because it was so kind of fun and entertaining that it landed in the best picture category.

00:02:47
Speaker 1: You know that. I think that has something to do with how we enjoyed it going into it. This is not you're not taking away at all, obviously, this is a well done movie. That what were they calling in at the time, the top gun for race car driving.

00:03:01
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, that's how they described it.

00:03:03
Speaker 1: That was about right, that's about right. But I don't know, I'm missing And we're not movie critics. We're not trained in this and spent all years and decades and all this doing this. But it was a movie that we were When we watched the other nine, it seemed odd that this one was in that category.

00:03:21
Speaker 3: It's not like the others.

00:03:22
Speaker 1: It's just it naturally feels that way to a lay person, right, it just doesn't fit.

00:03:29
Speaker 3: Bro The story didn't seem that original.

00:03:32
Speaker 2: It was kind of like a action sports formulaic film that was fun.

00:03:38
Speaker 1: But even if it was, it could be pulled off in a certain way that elevates it to an Oscar. It just it felt different. It's hard to do robes. We're saying this that this is the one that maybe didn't belong, but it's the movie we enjoyed probably the most.

00:03:54
Speaker 2: Sinners I enjoyed the most, but there would probably be the next the movie I I next enjoyed the most.

00:04:01
Speaker 3: It didn't feel like work.

00:04:02
Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to say it like that, but some of them felt like getting through. You know, when you're in high school and you have to read a novel and you know it's important, like the Heart of Darkness or Tests of the Durbevills.

00:04:14
Speaker 1: And you school, did you go through? What the hell? Wait? What was the first one?

00:04:19
Speaker 3: The Heart of Darkness by that's about like Apocalypse? Now do you know that movie?

00:04:24
Speaker 2: It's based on the on the book Darkness.

00:04:28
Speaker 3: It's a classic test of the Durbevills. I just read. Those two books stand out to me because of the Durbavills.

00:04:36
Speaker 2: What those were like two iconic, epic books I had to read in English.

00:04:42
Speaker 3: Class in high school.

00:04:45
Speaker 2: They just popped in my head because it was compulsory, and when I got through it and went and studied them, I understood the value in them. But going through the process of reading it was a little laborious, and I would describe that as our viewing of many of these movies.

00:05:02
Speaker 3: F one was not.

00:05:03
Speaker 2: F one was so much easier to consume, and it felt lighter and easier to watch. Yeah, I just I don't know where the value. Usually when you get a best picture, not there's a value. There's there's some inherent lesson to be learned, or history to be remembered, or.

00:05:21
Speaker 1: Even an outstanding performance that you have to see.

00:05:23
Speaker 3: And I don't feel like F one hit any of those.

00:05:26
Speaker 1: No, but it's in the category, and out of all ten, the only two that I wanted to see F one in Sinners Now, we didn't go to the theater and see F one because well, we're horror movie peble. We almost exclusively go to theaters for that.

00:05:40
Speaker 2: Funny enough, I thought about suggesting this though, because this would be one of those movies that you would actually, I think, get some enhanced enjoyment from.

00:05:47
Speaker 3: Seeing it on a big screen. Also, this is PG thirteen. Are there any other PG thirteen movies in the top ten, Because but there are, they are few and far.

00:05:56
Speaker 2: Between, and this is something that we were safely able to joy with your thirteen year old daughter.

00:06:02
Speaker 1: But you said about no confirmed. Now you said this was. Yes, this was the biggest box office success of the ten movies nominated, not even close. This may six hundred and thirty plus million. The next highest was in the two hundred millions. That's what. It's not even close.

00:06:17
Speaker 2: Six hundred and thirty three million dollars. Look, you've got Brad Pitt, You've got race cars done. Like a lot of those, it's done. Yeah, it's not like just a chick flick. I mean, the chicks might want to go to see Brad Pitt and the guys want to see the fast cars. So it really was kind of a perfect formula to watch Formula one. And the runtime was probably the biggest detractor. Two hours and thirty five minutes. That's a long movie. That's an hour longer the most movies we watched.

00:06:44
Speaker 1: This didn't We get this one done in one sitting.

00:06:46
Speaker 3: We did get it done because one of the rare ones it is.

00:06:50
Speaker 1: It's fun, it's fun, it's action packed, it's fast paced. You got you got a couple of Oscar winners in there. Actually, how are you or bad m and Brad Pitt like it's worth watching them not nominated. Who was even the woman who is his his romantic interest in this movie. We even said, wow, we like her, she's age appropriate, the whole thing. You know what's sweet. We liked the movie it's.

00:07:15
Speaker 3: So funny because that was something and I totally forgot about it.

00:07:20
Speaker 2: Yes, but we were like, honestly, ladies, you know, we we sit there and we watch so many movies where it's the young woman and the older guy. It was so refreshing. Was Carrie Condon playing Kate McKenna. She was the technical director.

00:07:36
Speaker 1: Even her role that she was an engineer. I loved that.

00:07:40
Speaker 2: So she was a boss, she had power, she had position, and she was an equal as a love interest, not some typical love story where she's looking up to him and falls in love with him. No, they and she was a badass in this movie. And I really did you know what I forgot about that. I really did appreciate that part.

00:07:59
Speaker 3: Of the movie.

00:08:00
Speaker 1: I like the It was Damson Induris. Yes, there was a woman that played his mother who I thought had a great role in a great contribution to make to this movie. Wow, we haven't necessarily talked about it this much. I like this movie, you know what that I.

00:08:19
Speaker 2: Really appreciate that you just pointed that out, because we are seeing this more and more. We always we've always had the final girl in horror movies, sometimes in a hilarious way where the girl always ends up beating the bad guy and is the sole survivor of a movie. That's pretty much almost the only time you get that, that role of a powerful woman overcoming the odds. But I like how they did this in the And when it comes to romantic comedy or love interest, it's nice to see them on equal footing. That was actually a really cool point that I hadn't even thought about.

00:08:47
Speaker 1: And if you don't know, here's a synopsis. There are two different ones here. I included I'm just gonna read the short one. The other one was really really long, kind of like the movie. But the short one here a Formula one driver out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver, period point blank to the point. And it was cool. It was cool to watch. So you might have already figured out, folks, whether or not we would say watch it or skip it, but maybe not stay here. We've kind of shown our hand here right, ro nobody it clearly we would recommend this movie. Doesn't it sound like that if we the watcher to skip it.

00:09:34
Speaker 2: I would absolutely recommend watching it because you'll have fun watching it.

00:09:38
Speaker 3: And I do think.

00:09:39
Speaker 2: Look, I understand the value and the importance of seeing films that might be hard to watch but convey an important message.

00:09:46
Speaker 3: This one is just fun.

00:09:47
Speaker 2: And there aren't really any other ones on the list of Best Picture that I would describe as just.

00:09:52
Speaker 3: Fun and entertaining.

00:09:54
Speaker 2: And I truly believe that is what drives most people to watch movies, and that also is depicted when you look at the rotten tomatoes. We forgot to mention that because this is actually interesting. I always think this is a good bell weather of whether or not I.

00:10:06
Speaker 3: Want to see a movie. Critics be damned.

00:10:09
Speaker 2: I mean, they gave it eighty two percent, But when the the audience score for me is always the biggest draw or the biggest attention grabber for me as to whether or not I want to.

00:10:17
Speaker 3: Go see it. Audience score ninety seven percent.

00:10:21
Speaker 1: People liked it. It's a likable movie, and quite frankly, Robes, I love Brad Pitt, I love watching him. I love knowing that he is sixty two and he is in a damn race car suit out there doing his thing. He looks good, he sounds good. He has a lot of that same charm, that down home thing. I like Brad Pitt.

00:10:48
Speaker 3: I like Brad Pitt too. You mentioned he's sixty two.

00:10:51
Speaker 2: Can can we discuss something that we were discussing when we were watching the movie about his age? Well, just that he is now starting to look like Tom Cruise. They're starting to look like the same person.

00:11:02
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know.

00:11:03
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, they had similar to Tom Cruise, obviously the king of the action movie hot shot. Obviously he started that what with Top Gun and has just continued that with Mission Impossible.

00:11:16
Speaker 1: But they started as young hot guys who have evolved into these statesmen of the industry who can still pull off these action films and not necessarily have to be shirt off.

00:11:30
Speaker 2: But they certainly are making sure their faces stay as young as possible.

00:11:34
Speaker 1: Their studs they look.

00:11:35
Speaker 2: We don't know how, we don't know why, but you know that they might have the same.

00:11:41
Speaker 3: Esthetician or or dermatologists. Let's just say that because they there is a look and look I give them both credit.

00:11:49
Speaker 1: I think they look great to.

00:11:50
Speaker 3: Be leading men at that age.

00:11:51
Speaker 2: I know they might sixty three certain amount of pressure to look a certain way as women do all the time.

00:11:57
Speaker 1: We were floored. We were watching Formula one or F one, and so how old is Brad Pitt?

00:12:03
Speaker 3: I was shocked.

00:12:04
Speaker 1: Sixty two. I was shocked. He looks so yes, he is a highlight. You should check out the movie just to see what a sixty two year old Brad Pitt looks like. Yeah, black, don't crack, but neither of thes whatever they're doing with their doctors.

00:12:16
Speaker 2: Yes, well, yes, I mean it was something that looked a little odd. There was like, something doesn't look quite the same as when I remember Brad Pitt in when he what was he in? This is the one that I loved, the epic movie Tristan. It was I always forget he had the long hair and he was on the horses Montana. No, Brad Pitt was Tristan in a Ladies one.

00:12:41
Speaker 1: Interview with the vampire.

00:12:43
Speaker 2: No, it.

00:12:45
Speaker 1: Was Legends of the Falls. Did I get that before you?

00:12:48
Speaker 3: I was just about to get not to me. Legends of the Fall. And we can start with film on Louise where he was like the hot young thing.

00:12:55
Speaker 1: Troy is the hottest bit ever looked in the movie.

00:12:58
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with Legends of the Fall. I like no long hair. Oh, I was so in the.

00:13:02
Speaker 1: Hair, long hair in Trore he was Achilles.

00:13:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you. He was hot there too. But I'm always going to just fall back to Legends at the Fall.

00:13:09
Speaker 1: That was arguing with you about how hot a man looked at a movie.

00:13:12
Speaker 3: Can we talk about you were compared to Brad Pitt the last place were.

00:13:17
Speaker 2: Really A woman came up to DJ and said, we had gone into a store and then we came back again, and she said, I finally figured out who you remind me of. Because look a lot of times people are always trying to place how how they know you or us, and they can't put it together. Maybe they weren't huge Good Morning America fans, but they somehow know your face. And so I was expecting her to say, you're a news anchor, or, you were on CNN, you were at ABC.

00:13:41
Speaker 3: She said, I finally figured it out who you remind me of, Brad Pitt. And you know what it is. It's your smile and your dimple.

00:13:49
Speaker 1: That's what it is if she'd have said that to me, I don't know, thirty years ago, Brad Pitt. Wow, she just said that me a forty eight year old black man, reminds over sixty two, your old white man. Not a compliment anymore. You're right, you're right. What do you do that? But it was a funny moment of all places how you lead in Mexico that. Yeah, it's even funnier when you ad where we were. But definitely definitely check those one out. It's fun. If you can't tell, we didn't have to say it clearly, this is a movie that was interesting and fun and had a lot of highlights worth seeing. Next movie up for you, and the next thing is going to be on our Feet is going to be Frankenstein. We got all kinds of things to say about this one, you know, and I will save it for that. We'll see you in a second.