'Sinners' scrambles Oscar race

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MOMENTUM is with Michael B. Jordan, right, with Miles Caton and Delroy Lindo, after lead actor win.

(KAYLA BARTKOWSKI Los Angeles Times)

be for the acting winners this year? Let’s take a look.

Cast in a motion picture

Winner: “Sinners”

The past: The winner of this award has gone on to take the best picture Oscar in 15 of the last 30 years, making it basically a coin flip and easily the Actor Awards’ least trustworthy Oscar precursor. (The ensemble prize wasn't awarded in 1994, the ceremony’s first year.) Oscar also-ran “Conclave” won last year, ending a three-year streak — “CODA,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “Oppenheimer” —where the winner of the cast prize went on to take best picture.