The Oscars should celebrate groundbreaking films – so why has Brad Pitt's unremarkable F1 movie been nominated? ...Middle East

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The term "Oscar-bait" is one that has been thrown around for decades when awards season rolls around.

In other words, they were in-the-moment crowd-pleasers that pulled on the heartstrings but did little to truly shake up the film world.

In keeping with these changes, this year's list of 10 films up for best picture includes plenty of nominees that deserve to be there – including Joachim Trier's incredibly moving family drama Sentimental Value and Paul Thomas Anderson's thrilling masterpiece One Battle After Another.

And then, there's F1.

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And while it might be unfair to disregard F1 outright – the racing scenes are filmed well, and the nominations in the editing and sound categories are perhaps fair enough – it seems bizarre to recognise a film which such a formulaic approach to storytelling as one of the year's best, especially when so many more audacious and interesting films have been left completely empty-handed (for example, Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee, Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, and Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice).

Of course, it's always worth mentioning that, as easy as it is to get swept up in – and as much fun as it can be to observe and debate – awards season has always fundamentally been a rather silly pursuit. In reality, it means little more than an excuse for Hollywood types to throw a bunch of glamorous parties and congratulate themselves, even if they do occasionally recognise some pretty deserving films in the process. So perhaps its a fool's errand to get too up in arms about any particular inclusions or omissions: a great film is a great film, and one's enjoyment of it or lack thereof needn't be dictated by how many accolades it is up for.

And so, perhaps in this new era of the Oscars we're going to have to get use to seeing some pretty unremarkable – but undeniably high-grossing – films in the best picture line-up, often at the expense of more groundbreaking movies.

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