Anyone looking for even the slimmest connection to horses among the eight films contending for Best Picture honors Sunday night at the Oscars will be sorely disappointed.
“The Favourite” is not, in fact, about the 3-year-old Coliseum’s ability to burn money, but the period piece does feature a few steeds pulling carriages, doing their best to distance themselves from the despicable humans taking up the rest of the wildly overrated ordeal.