Camila Cabello’s ‘Cinderella’ Leading Oscars’ New Fan Favourite Category

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Arguably the biggest addition for this year’s Oscar race is the new Fan Favourite category, which allows fans to share their own votes for their Best Picture picks.

With this year’s Academy Awards just weeks away, one film appears to be emerging as a frontrunner, and it’s a surprising one: “Cinderella”, the Camila Cabello-starring musical that debuted on Prime Video last year. READ MORE: Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall & Amy Schumer To Host The 2022 Oscars, Schumer Jokes ‘I Better Go Watch Some Movies’ Deadline is reporting that Cabello’s “Cinderella” is currently leading the race in this new category, which allows fans to cast up to 20 votes per day via Twitter.

According to Deadline, “Cinderella” displaced the previous frontrunner, Zach Snyder’s director’s cut of “Justice League” — which isn’t even eligible, given that the original film was released in 2016.

The new category is clearly the Academy’s latest attempt to try to reward crowd-pleasing films that brought in big box-office but few award nominations, such as the 007 flick “No Time to Die” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.