F1 The Movie is now an Oscar winner

Formula 1 can add another accolade to its already immense prestige, with F1 The Movie winning an Oscar at the 98^th Academy Awards.

Nominated in four categories, including the sought after Best Picture award – the Joseph Kosinski directed film claimed Best Sound, ahead of multi-award winners such as Sinners, One Battle After Another and Frankenstein.

Sound Engineer Juan Peralta, amongst the quintet involving Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Gary A Rizzo, captured the authentically visceral sounds for F1 The Movie, thanked seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in his acceptance speech.

“I want to thank Joe Kosinski, Jerry Bruckheimer, Plan B, Lewis Hamilton, Formula 1 and everyone at Apple for supporting such a fun cinematic experience,” Peralta said.

Hamilton was credited as a Producer on the film, playing an instrumental role in how the multi-faceted world of F1 was depicted on the silver screen in as authentic way as possible.  

The production of the film was embedded into real F1 race weekends across the 2023 and 2024 seasons, with the fictional APXGP team fielding rookie hotshot Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) and veteran returning to the sport after a 30-year hiatus in Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt).

Becoming too the highest grossing film of Pitt’s career, earning over US$600 million at the box office.

While it lost out in the Best Picture category to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, discussions around a sequel to F1 are already underway with trio Kosinski, Hamilton and Bruckheimer.

“We are already working on the first script,” Hamilton said during the Drivers Press Conference ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.

“We had our first meeting at the end of the year — me, Jerry and Joe — talking about different ideas, different directions that we could go with the script, and then with Ehren [Kruger], we’ve had plenty of meetings on it.

“It’s been amazing to see how big an impact it’s had, how many people have loved the movie,” the 41-year old added on the overwhelmingly positive response to the film.

“I’m still getting texts from people who are only just watching the movie and how it’s opened their eyes up to what this sport is about.”

Hamilton also celebrated his first grand prix podium for Ferrari in Shanghai, ending a drought that went back to the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2024 and when the seven-time world champion was in a Mercedes.

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Jawad Yaqub

An eCommerce Specialist by day and reporting on F1 by night. Jawad is passionate about motorsport, having provided accredited F1 coverage for more than a decade and is a member of the AIPS (International Sports Press Association). Live blogging (almost) every grand prix too since 2014, as well as articles on the Supercars Championship. Also keen on sustainability, photography, collecting vinyl, (trying to) expertly barbeque and learning to Dad.

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