Film Flavor's 2025 Oscars Poll | Food-in-Film Edition
+ An alternative to the punny watch party menu items...
The 97th Academy Awards are set to air March 2nd, 2025 — this Sunday! — beaming in from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
What are some stand-out food moments from this year’s best picture nominees, the Film Flavorians ask?
Well, we’ve got Johnny Cash offering Bob Dylan some bugles in A Complete Unknown1:
We’ve got Coney Island’s famed Willaims Candy shop featured in Anora
And — even admist all the drama, gossip, and politics — you best believe I was eyeing those wine glasses and buffets in Conclave…
Still, I think we can all admit, the 2025 Oscars Best Picture nominees have less food and drink than we’d all prefer. Articles and forum threads suggesting watch party menus have resorted almost exclusively to menu item puns such as “Pope-corn” and “A Complete Calzone”. In comparison to the 2024 nominees, this year’s picks all lean abit more serious. And what is more playful that food in film?
That’s why it’s important to peruse through the other award categories: Dune: Part Two’s water of life, Nosferatu’s supernatural dinner scenes, the Alien: Romulus-inspired popcorn buckets that are now listed on eBay for $99.99. Lest we forget Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, which features multiple scenes with Polish fare.
And what of the nomination-less?
Dìdi features a plated talking fish, Heretic includes a blueberry pie ruse, and the smash-hit Challengers included a whole host of suggestive food items. You might think it’s a stretch to say I Saw the TV Glow, Megalopolis, and Kneecap were all snubbed until you consider even Gladiator II is nominated. Then, of course, there are countless films with smaller budgets or foreign origins that are so rarely included, such as Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine as Light.
It can be depressing to see your favorite films of the year excluded from Hollywood’s biggest award shows.
Luckily, so long as your favorite features food or drink (as most do) you can cast your vote in Film Flavor’s 2025 Oscars Poll.
The Film Flavor 2025 Oscars Poll
This year, our poll allows you to share which Oscar-nominated films you think will win, as most Oscars poll do. What sets the Film Flavor poll apart? As far as we know, we are the only folks collecting data about the food and drink in this past year’s cinema.
That’s right, the Film Flavor 2025 Oscars Poll allows you to share which films you thought had the best food and drink, what snacks did the Best Picture nominees make you crave, and other food-in-film data points the world needs!
If you’re interested, take the poll here. Just as we did in last year’s Oscars recap, All (anonymized) results and findings will be tallied up shared in next week’s edition of Film Flavor, the day after the Oscars.
If you’re curious to hear about what your friends are watching and snacking on, feel free to share this poll with whomever you’d like.
Will those with the biggest food-in-film appetites (Film Flavor subscribers + friends?) have the most accurate Oscar predictions? We’re about to find out! (Let’s give it an ol’ college try, shall we?)
In the meantime, as the creator and founder of Film Flavor, I’ll be, erm… live-noting (live posting on Substack Notes!) Sunday evening during the Academy Awards over on my Substack Notes profile. If you, too, will be sat at home and eager to discuss what’s happening at the awards, give me a follow there!
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Until next week, and with gratitude,
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The Historical Accuracy (or Lack Thereof) re: Bugles in A Complete Unknown: A few news outlets that will not be named are claiming Bugles did not exist in 1965, the year in which the aforementioned A Complete Unknown scene purports to take place. However, this article in Vanity Fair got it right: Bugles did exist, they were just very new. At this point in time, if Johnny Cash said “want a bugle? to Bob Dylan, a lackluster conversation would have likely ensued, with Dylan asking Cash what a bugle was, and Cash replying “Oh, its this great new snack I’m obsessed with.”
Of course, by the late 1960s many folks were fans of the horn-shaped corn chips… this is one of those slightly-historically-inaccurate-but-not-enough-to-really-matter-THAT-much twists that the biopic genre is known for. (Those who have read my Some Like It Hot cheese-jar investigation know my feelings on this all too well.) Maybe we should just write a whole post investigating these bugles!