#957: 2024 Oscar Picks
Best Picture
Adam
Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: THE BOY AND THE HERON
Replace: MAESTRO
Best Director
Adam
Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.
Josh
Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Justine Triet, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Wes Anderson, ASTEROID CITY
Replace: Yorgos Lanthimos, POOR THINGS
Best Actress
Adam
Will win: Emma Stone, POOR THINGS
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Natalie Portman, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: Anette Bening, NYAD
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, YOU HURTY MY FEELINGS
Replace: Annette Bening, NYAD
Best Actor
Adam
Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: Teo Yoo, PAST LIVES
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO
Best Supporting Actress
Adam
Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should’ve been nominated: Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
Replace: America Ferrera, BARBIE
Josh
Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should have been nominated: Julianne Moore, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Jodie Foster, NYAD
Best Supporting Actor
Josh
Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Robert De Niro, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Adam
Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.
#951: Best Scenes of 2023
Adam, Josh, and some very special guests with the funniest, most moving, and best music moments of the movie year.
Read More#949: Top 10 Films of 2023
Adam
All of Us Strangers
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Asteroid City
The Holdovers
The Taste of Things
Anatomy of a Fall
May December
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
11-19 (Alphabetical order)
The Iron Claw
The Killer
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troigros
Past Lives
Poor Things
Showing Up
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)
Josh
The Boy and the Heron
Anatomy of a Fall
Asteroid City (plus Dahl shorts)
You Hurt My Feelings
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
Skinamarink
Priscilla
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Barbie
11-20
11. Past Lives
12. The Zone of Interest
13. May December
14. Killers of the Flower Moon
15. Godzilla Minus One
16. The Holdovers
17. Suzume
18. Four Daughters
19. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
20. Rodeo
Michael Phillips
Past Lives
The Boy
Killers of the Flower Moon
Barbie
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
The Zone of Interest
Return to Seoul
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)
Oppenheimer
May December
11-20 (Alphabetical order)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Fair Play
Four Daughters
I’m a Virgo
In the Rearview
Poor Things
The Royal Hotel
Showing Up
A Thousand and One
The Unknown Country
marya E. gates
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Plan 75
Past Lives
Amanda/Fremont
The Blue Caftan
Godland
La Chimera
Kokomo City
Lakota Nation vs. United States
BlackBerry
12-20
12. May December
13. Blue Jean
14. Passages
15. Priscilla
16. Origin
17. Hannah Ha Ha
18. Brother
19. King Coal
20. Bottoms
Special Guests
Aisha Harris, MAY DECEMBER
Melissa Tamminga, MAY DECEMBER
Scott Tobias, THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Mitchell Beaupre, ANATOMY OF A FALL
David Chen, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Ryan McQuade, OPPENHEIMER
Chris Klimek, OPPENHEIMER
Matt Singer, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Keith Phipps, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Veronica Phillips, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Sam Van Hallgren, POOR THINGS
Amy Nicholson, FAIR PLAY
Betty Lavandero, THE HOLDOVERS
Roxana Hadadi, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Isaac Feldberg, THE TASTE OF THINGS
#921: Top 5 Films of 2023 (So Far) with Michael Phillips
Reichardt, Holofcener, Schrader, and Judy Blume.
Read More#902: Top 10 Films of 2022 with Michael Phillips and Marya Gates
The best of the best.
Read More#854-855: Top 10 Films of 2021
Adam
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World
The Power of the Dog
Pig
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul
The Killing of Two Lovers
Drive My Car
The Card Counter
Annette
Josh
The Power of the Dog
Identifying Features
The French Dispatch
Summer of Soul
Zola
Petite Maman
Memoria
Passing
About Endlessness
The Green Knight
Michael Phillips
A Night of Knowing Nothing
The Underground Railroad
Drive My Car
Passing
West Side Story
The Lost Daughter
Licorice Pizza
Summer of Soul
It's a Sin
The Green Knight
Dana Stevens (alphabetical order)
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
The Disciple
The Green Knight
A Hero
Licorice Pizza
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Summer of Soul
The Velvet Underground
West Side Story
Special Guest #1s
Pt. 1:
Katie Rife - The Power of the Dog
Sam Van Hallgren - Annette
Isaac Feldberg - This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Cat Sullivan - C'mon, C'mon
Sarah Welch-Larson - Pig
Carlos Aguilar - Identifying Features
Pt. 2:
Matt Singer - Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Alison Willmore - The Lost Daughter
Mekado Murphy - Drive My Car
Mitchell Beaupre - Titane
Scott Tobias - Drive My Car
Marya Gates - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Keith Phipps - The Power of the Dog
Sean Baker - Titane / Benedetta
Roxana Hadadi - The Green Knight
Chris Klimek - Licorice Pizza
Melissa Tamminga - The Power of the Dog
Aisha Harris - Summer of Soul
#822: Oscars Special with Michael Phillips
Best Picture
Adam
Will win: Nomadland
Should win: Sound of Metal
Should have been nominated: First Cow
Take out: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Josh
Will win: Mank
Should win: Sound of Metal
Should have been nominated: First Cow
Take out: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Michael
Will win: Nomadland
Should win: Judas and the Black Messiah
Egregious omission: First Cow
Take out: Promising Young Woman
Best Director
Adam
Will win: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Should win: David Fincher, Mank
Egregious omission: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Take out: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Michael
Will win: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Should win: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Egregious omission: Kitty Green, The Assistant
Take out: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Josh
Will win: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Should win: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Egregious omission: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Take out: David Fincher, Mank
Best Actress
Adam
Will win: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Should win: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Carrie Coon, The Nest
Take out: n/a
Josh
Will win: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Should win: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Carrie Coon, The Nest
Take out: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Michael
Will win: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Should win: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Julia Garner, The Assistant
Take out: Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Best Actor
Adam
Will win: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Should win: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami
Take out: Gary Oldman, Mank
Josh
Will win: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Should win: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Shaun Parkes, Mangrove
Take out: Gary Oldman, Mank
Michael
Will win: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Should win: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Egregious omission: Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Take out: Gary Oldman, Mank
Best Supporting Actress
Adam
Will win: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Should win: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Egregious omission: Margo Martindale, Blow the Man Down
Take out: n/a
Josh
Will win: Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Should win: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Egregious omission: Yeri Han, Minari
Take out: Olivia Colman, The Father
Michael
Will Win: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Should Win: Young Yuh-jung, Minari
Egregious omission: Talia Rider, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Take out:
Best Supporting Actor
Josh
Will win: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Should win: Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Egregious omission: Orion Lee, First Cow
Take out: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Adam
Will win: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Should win: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Egregious omission: Malachi Kirby, Mangrove
Take out: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Michael:
Will win: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Should Win: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Egregious omission: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Take out: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
#807-808: Top 10 Films of 2020
Josh
1. Lover’s Rock
2. Soul
3. First Cow
4. Vitalina Varela
5. Relic
6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
7. The Assistant
8. The Forty-Year-Old Version
9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
10. Mangrove
Adam
1. Lover's Rock
2. First Cow
3. One Night in Miami
4. Sound of Metal
5. The Painter and the Thief
6. The Truffle Hunters
7. Mank
8. The Trip to Greece
9. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
10. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
MICHAEL PHILLIPS
1. Lover’s Rock
2. First Cow
3. David Byrne’s American Utopia
4. Nomadland
5. City So Real
6. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
7. The Assistant
8. Mangrove
9. The Vast of Night
10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
TASHA ROBINSON
1. Small Axe
2. Boys State
3. Nomadland
4. The Trial of the Chicago 7
5. The Platform
6. Wolfwalkers
7. David Byrne’s American Utopia
8. First Cow
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
10. Kajillionaire
Special Guest Picks
Chris Klimek: Tenet
Cat Sullivan: The Invisible Man
Melissa Tamminga: The Assistant
Scott Tobias: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Alison Willmore: Bacarau
Dave Chen: Sound of Metal
Mekado Murphy: Soul
Josh Youngerman (Listener): Nomadland
Aisha Harris: Lover's Rock
Summary
1 List: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets; Boys State; City So Real; The Forty-Year-Old Version; I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Kajillionaire; Mank; Never Rarely Sometimes Always; One Night in Miami; The Painter and the Thief; The Platform; Relic; Soul; Sound of Metal; The Trial of the Chicago 7; The Trip to Greece; The Truffle Hunters; The Vast of Night; Vitalina Varela; Wolfwalkers
2 Lists: The Assistant; David Byrne's American Utopia; Dick Johnson Is Dead; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Mangrove; Nomadland
3 Lists: n/a
4 Lists: First Cow, Lover's Rock/Small Axe
