Jon Bernthal in Ford v FerrariImage via 20th Century Fox
There are two stars who are having an unforgettable year so far in 2026: Matt Damon and Jon Bernthal. While both stars can be seen starring in Christopher Nolan’s latest $1 billion-grossing blockbuster hit, they’ve also found success on other projects both on streaming and in theaters. Damon teamed up with Ben Affleck earlier this year for The Rip, the straight-to-streaming crime thriller that earned over 100 million views during its initial viewing window to become one of the top 10 most-watched Netflix movies of the year. As for Bernthal, he reunited with The Odyssey’s Tom Holland for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has already crawled past $2 billion at the global box office and is eyeing a run big enough to make it one of the three or four highest-grossing movies of all time.
Years before Christopher Nolan ever had the idea to direct The Odyssey, when he was still working on Tenet, Matt Damon and Jon Bernthal starred in another epic that’s finally getting its due on streaming. The duo teamed up with Christian Bale and Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe for Ford v Ferrari, the racing epic hailing from director James Mangold and writers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth and Jason Keller. Seven years after Ford v Ferrari more than doubled its $97 million budget with a $226 million box office performance, the film is still without a streaming home in America, but that isn’t stopping fans from watching the movie in droves. Ford v Ferrari has become one of the top 10 most popular rentals and purchases on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV in America and in several countries around the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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What Is ‘Ford v Ferrari’ About?
The official synopsis for Ford v Ferrari, which earned nearly flawless scores of 92% from critics and 98% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “American automotive designer Carroll Shelby and fearless British race car driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary vehicle for the Ford Motor Co. Together, they plan to compete against the race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.” Additional cast members include Tracy Letts as Henry Ford II, Josh Lucas as Leo Beebe, Noah Jupe as Peter Miles, and Remo Girone as Enzo Ferrari.
Check out Ford v Ferrari on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Fandango at Home and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Matt Damon and Jon Bernthal’s future projects.
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Release Date
November 13, 2019
Runtime
153 minutes
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Writers
Jason Keller, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
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