Our 2025 Oscar Best Picture Movies Discussion and Predictions for the 97th Academy Awards

We talk through all of the 2025 Oscars Best Picture nominees so you can be equipped this Oscar season! Award season for movies is in full swing, with the Golden Globes just wrapping and the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards up next and you're seeing the 97th Oscars nominations roll in- and let's be honest, it is all about that beautiful golden statue of that tiny man. We are talking about the OSCARS of course, the 97th Academy Awards that takes place March of this year! Plus, we honor the great David Lynch at the beginning of the episode. 

Bobby and I discuss the slate of movies that we believe will compete in the 2025 Oscar race for best picture, best director, and animated film category. We also discuss movies we believe are being overlooked this award season, The Beast (La bête) anyone!?  We also discuss horror's place in the Oscars and if Coralie Fargeat's The Substance can make waves- if not in best picture, does Demi Moore have a shot at best actress at the 97th Oscars? 

From Sean Baker's 'Anora,' to 'The Brutalist,' from a couple of pictures on Netflix, 'Conclave' and 'Emilia Pérez' (over-performing or worth the hype?), the wrongly forgotten thus far this award season 'Dune 2: Part Two,' 'A Real Pain,' 'A Complete Unknown,' 'Wicked,' and many more- we talk through them all so if you're wanting to catch up this award season and be ready for all of the Oscar conversations, this is the episode for you! 

We also discuss the main main headlines heading into this year's Oscars and also talk through some potential dark horse films that could surprise at the 2025 Oscars aka the 97th Academy Awards. 

We don't spoil any of the films, so feel free to enjoy without concern! And I encourage  you to pop in a David Lynch film this evening, or whenever you may be listening to this. We lost one of the greatest artists and filmmakers to ever walk this planet this past week, a man that created cinema for the weirdo and created a home for so many of us in Twin Peaks and the surreal. Lynch viewed the layers beneath every day life, showing that the juxtaposition to post-war Americana is as haunting as the war itself, and things simply aren't what they seem. Lynch was unflinchingly himself and his art thrived for it, a true one of one. 

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