2024 Academy Awards Nominations Special

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Unlock the secrets of this year's most talked-about films as I, Travis Dudding, bring you a heartfelt and meticulous breakdown of the 2024 Academy Award nominations. Prepare to embark on an impassioned journey through the Best Picture category, where I'll champion the artistry of 'Killers of the Flower Moon' and weigh in on its chances against the powerhouse that is 'Oppenheimer'. With a critical eye, I'll also spotlight the humor and depth of 'Poor Things', the nostalgic warmth of 'The Holdovers', and make a case for 'Barbie'—a film that's more than just child's play.

Step into the shoes of Hollywood's finest with me as we discuss the performances that made us laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of our seats. From Cillian Murphy's spellbinding performance in 'Oppenheimer' to Paul Giamatti's soul-stirring act in 'The Holdovers', these roles are sure to be etched in your memory. I'll also address the elephant in the room: Lily Gladstone's powerful performance in 'Killers of the Flower Moon', and the industry biases that cannot dim her shine. As we explore various categories, the discussions will lead us to the unsung heroes of cinema who've stolen the spotlight this awards season.

Finally, witness the craftsmanship behind every frame and note as we explore the vibrancy of film through its cinematography and scores. Stand in awe of scenes from 'Oppenheimer' that are so expertly captured, they deserve their own exhibit, and tune into the musical masterpieces that have defined the year's top films. From the steampunk charm of 'Poor Things' to the rhythms that gave 'Barbie' its heartbeat, this episode is a symphony of cinematic praise that's not to be missed. So, fellow film aficionados, settle in for an audio experience that celebrates the magic of movies with the same fervor as opening night.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello and welcome to another episode of Movies, colin
.
They're pretty good.
I'm your host, travis Dutting,and today we have a special
episode.
We are just going to talk aboutthe 2024 Academy Award
nominations announcement, orwhat movies are nominated, and
so on and so forth.

(00:23):
I did this last year as a bonusepisode.
I figured I'll just do it as aregular episode because I don't
have the time for a regular anda bonus.
But alright, let's get into it.
So number one category, mainthing, let's start there Best
picture.
So nominees for best picture wehave are American Fiction,

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anatomy of a Fall, barbie,killers of the Flower Moon,
maestro Oppenheimer, past Lives,poor Things, the Holdovers and
the Zone of Interest.
So I've seen six out of the tenso far and I'll just go down my
list of what my favorites areand talk a little bit about each

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one and why I like it.
So I'm going to say, eventhough I think Oppenheimer is
going to win, but my pickpersonally and they are very
neck and neck but personally Ipreferred Killers of the Flower

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Moon.
I thought that movie wasincredible.
It did not feel like three anda half hours in the movie
theater, it just when it wasover.
I'm like I could keep watching.
It was just very moving, verypowerful film and I just feel

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like it was the more importantfilm of the two.
But I mean not that Oppenheimerwasn't, and not that it is, but
it just.
If I had to pick one, that'sthe one I'd go with.
That being said, second ChoiceOppenheimer would not be

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disappointed.
If that one it's incredible,it's Nolan's best work as a
director for sure.
Is it the one I'm going to bewatching over and over again?
The prestige or inception, darkKnight, those I'll probably go

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back to just because they'remore fun.
But this was just, I'd say, hismost well done movie so far.
Performances are great.
We'll get to those in theirrespective categories, but man,
just Oppenheimer.
Another one where it just didn'tfeel like three hours.

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I mean you felt the length alittle bit, just because you're
not sure where it's like what'sthe end point?
You would assume, going into it, maybe that the atomic bomb
test or all that stuff, that'swhere we're heading to and that
happens in the second act.

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So you're like okay, like what,now what?
But that's just me in my head,thinking like okay, I thought
this would be the end.
It's not the end.
So then I'm like all right, howmuch time is left?
Just not that, I was bored, itwas just curious.
I'm like this feels like toosoon for what I thought was

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going to be the ending.
But yeah, oppenheimer isincredible and yeah, just love
that one so much.
Next in my ranking, another onethat I don't think will win but
would love to see it win is PoorThings.
Very, as you know, I'm a bigfan of your Ghost Lathamos.

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I did an episode on Dogtooth,will plan on doing more episodes
in the future on some of hisother films, but Poor Things was
incredibly well done.
The set design, the concept,the writing, the performances
were amazing, like, and you know, as with the other ones, I'll

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get to those later but it wasjust so funny and so well done.
And also, like with a, you knowit had something to say other
than just being like funny andweird, but it was great.
There's just such a good movieand, yeah, like I said, like I
would be shocked if it won, butI wouldn't be upset that

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basically, of all the ones I'veseen, this is the case.
I'm like, yeah, I've, you knowI'd be okay with that.
Next one on the list is theHoldovers.
That one was incredible.
I just recently watched it.
It's streaming on Peacock.
It is just so like heartwarmingand heartbreaking at the same

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time.
It's so beautiful, it's sofunny, it's so it's just, it's
just perfect and it's like it'sgreat to have a new like
Christmas film to to talk about,to see, to watch every year,
and because there just aren't alot like the Holdovers, like

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there.
I mean, obviously there's noshortage of Christmas films.
There's no shortage ofChristmas films that are tear
jokers and stuff like that, butI just don't think a lot of them
are this well done.
I just loved every second of it.
I was, you know, either had abig smile on her face or tears
going down your cheeks.
So it was just.
It was good all around.

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I just really liked that one.
That's yeah.
Only check that one out if youhaven't.
Okay.
So this one, what is one of mylike favorite films of the year.
It's like if I had a top 10 forthis year, this is in there and
I definitely think it deservesto have a best picture nominee

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and I don't think it will winand I think there will obviously
be people that are very upsetabout it, because they're very
upset about a lot of the wrongthings.
Barbie.
Barbie was very good it.
I was excited about it from theget go, just because everything
well, all two movies that GretaGerwig has done before it were

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both incredible Little Women andLady Bird, amazing, great
movies, deserved all therecognition that they got.
And then some Barbie is wasvery well done.
It.
I love the fact that most ofthe effects were like practical
and stuff like they.

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They didn't CG in the whenthey're like getting from Barbie
land to the real world, likeall of that was like actual old
school sets, like with a movingbackground and stuff like that
and moving foreground, crazyLike there's did not have to do
it like that and it it adds toeverything that's going on in

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that movie.
I loved what it had to say Likeyes, like I think a lot of the
the feminism stuff was a littlelike feminism light when it's
just like, hey, yeah, like it'syour basic one-on-one level
class, basically on feminism,like it's and that's fine, you

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know it doesn't not everythinghas to be that deep, you know,
and not everything has to besurface level.
You know you can.
You can have it both ways.
And Barbie was fine the way,the way it handled those
subjects.
That's fine.
Obviously, if you look at me orhear me, I'm not the like the

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end all be all of expert onfeminism.
But you know, just in myopinion, that's just the way it
is.
But we'll get more into thecontroversy part when we get to
those categories, causeobviously people think that
Marco Robbie was snubbed andGreta Gerwig was snubbed.
But you know, we'll get getthere when we get there.

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But yeah, I just thought that Ijust really enjoyed that movie.
It was really funny and and itmade me cry.
You know just like theholdovers it was.
You know one or the otheryou're crying or laughing and I
thought it was great, you know.
And I really also just lovedthe fact that it you know

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neither movie that andOppenheimer back down and change
their release date.
Both came out and for the mostpart I know me personally, but I
know a lot of people saw bothin the same day and that's great
, like that was the first, likereal big, like we're back to the
movies, like those the firstbig blockbuster event.

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Obviously we had blockbustermovies but nothing felt so pre
pandemic movie theater goinguntil Barbenheimer, you know.
So at the bottom of the list ofthe ones that I've seen is
Maestro.
That being said, it was greatmovie.
Now do I think this will be theone of the ones I've seen?

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You know I plan on seeing allof them, at least all the best
picture nominees, but forMaestro it's.
It's the one that I'll be like,okay, like I'll be underwhelmed
like I was with Coda if thatone wins, but it was still great
, like it.
I think it deserves.

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It deserves its spot.
You know, I guess I like I'mnot upset that it's nominated
but and not that it is at thelevel of Green Book, but it's
going to feel like when GreenBook won if this wins.

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Not that it's like that, that'sa very different conversation
about why Green Book sucked andshouldn't have won.
You know that's a very touchysubject about.
You know, the these moviesabout race that win awards are
very like, like I said about thefeminism and Barbie, it's just

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like very, it's very surfacelevel.
It's very like, palatable forpeople that need to hear it, but
it's not going deep enough forthem to change everything.
It's one of those things likewhere if you're not like, if
you're not on the right side ofhistory, it's not going to be

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changing your mind.
It's just going to make yougive you a little warm fuzzy.
It's like oh see, I do likeblack people because I saw Green
Book and I liked it.
You know that you didn't changeanything about yourself and I
think that.
But yeah, like I said, I don'tknow why I got on that tangent
about Maestro, because I don'tthink it's that type of movie.

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Maybe it is for some people,but it's just very.
It was just kind of it's justvery run of the mill Oscar movie
.
You know it's well done, it'sgood.
I don't think it was as good asA Star is Born you know Bradley
Cooper's other directorial filmbut it was still good and I

(11:58):
enjoyed it and you know, theemotional parts got me and yeah,
it was good.
Yeah, that I'll, you know, addto that when we get to the other
categories for it.
But as for the other ones, Iknow Past Lives is going to be
streaming on Paramount Plus verysoon, like in a few days.

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So I'm very excited to checkthat out.
As for the other ones, I'mgoing to kind of see if
anything's announced on whetherthey'll be coming to streaming.
But and if not, then I'll justhave to find them in the theater
or rent them whatever.
But yeah, I will see them.
But I'm excited for all of thembecause they all do look very

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good, especially Past Lives.
I feel like that's the one thatI've heard the most good things
about.
Okay, moving on, we got BestActor.
We got Bradley Cooper fromIstro, killian Murphy for
Oppenheimer, coleman Domingo forRustin, jeffrey Wright for

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American Fiction and PaulGiamatti for the Holdovers.
So, as you know, from the bestpicture part, I haven't seen
American Fiction yet, so I won'tbe commenting on his
performance.
I do love Jeffrey Wright andeverything I've seen of him.
He even had like a little partin Rustin that he was good in.

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But as for the other ones, Iwould say my number one pick is
Killian Murphy.
I thought he did amazing inOppenheimer.
I think it's his best role thathe's done so far.
He just really killed it inthat great act.

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I think he did a very good jobof driving home the point of the
film, which is that internalconflict of, yes, we need to
build this bomb, because it'sbetter that we have this bomb
than Hitler having this bomb,but also what we're going to do

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with it isn't what we should bedoing with it and he's very good
.
Yeah, of course he does bringup the stuff, but he's very good
at showing on his face thatinternal struggle that he's
going through and you see it inall the different visions that
he gets and everything like thatand he's just incredible at

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that.
Incredible at all those scenesand him trying to hold together
and everything.
He was just amazing in that.
My second choice would be PaulGiamatti for the holdovers.
I thought he did amazing inthat he really brought home the

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emotion.
You made this characterrelatable.
Even if you're not just like acromudgingly old man, you still
felt for him and how he was,just this guy that got screwed
over a bunch in his life andthen you can see how he got to
where he is and everything andwhy he is the way he is and it

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has a great character arc andeverything and he was just
really good.
I think that's the best.
That's personally the best I'veever seen him.
But yeah, really enjoyed hisperformance.
Next I would go Coleman Domingoas Rustin or in Rustin.
I mean, I mean he does play theguy last name, rustin, but yeah

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, he was great.
He's a guy that I first noticedin the Walking Dead spinoff,
fear of the Walking Dead.
I thought he was so good inthat, just like this enigmatic
presence, that you just can'thelp.
But, like you know, like Idon't know whether to love him

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or hate him, but I can't helpbut love watching him, you know.
So he's just, he's very good atthat and I'm super stoked to
hear that he's going to beplaying Nat King Cole, who I
whose music I love like numberone best Christmas album of all
time is his Christmas album, but, yeah, just a really well done

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performance.
You could tell that he canreally just become whoever and
he does like a killer job at it.
And at the bottom of the onesI've seen, but still very good
and very deserving of beingthere, is Bradley Cooper and

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Maestro.
I thought he was great.
He might have been it's hard tosay, without being like super
familiar with Leonard Bernsteinif he's overdoing it or if
that's just how LeonardBernstein was, and that's very
possible, I think it, whichwould not surprise me whatsoever

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.
If anything in this movie is tobe believed like, that's
probably just how he was Like.
If that's, if that was hispersonality type, then yeah, he
probably was just like a veryoveractive type of guy because
he's, you know, he's a composer,he's a theater person, like all
this stuff, like that's.
That's a very over the toppersonality.

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So I'm not going to like docpoints from Bradley Cooper for
possibly just being veryaccurate to who he was playing.
But you know, it's just.
I just think that the it wasmore so with the other

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performances that I felt like ohyeah, they're, this is really
good acting versus just likethis is.
You know, it's really hard toput into words.
He was good, I liked theperformance, it's just.
I didn't like it as much as theother ones.
Let's just leave it at that.

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So, next category, we have bestactress, leading actress.
We have Annette Benning in NIAD, carrie Mulligan in Maestro,
emma Stone in Poor Things, LilyGladstone in Killers of the
Flower Moon and Sandra HohlerHohler in Anatomy of a Fall.

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I haven't seen that one yet, soI'll talk about the other four.
My number one, without a doubtLily Gladstone in Killers of the
Flower Moon.
Oh my God, she was the heartand soul of that movie.
I don't know what people aretalking about, thinking that she
should have been in the bestsupporting actress, and I think

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that's just a little hidden.
That's your racism is showing,because they want Bargarabi to
be there for Barbie, and so letme just talk about that real
quick before I get into LilyGladstone's performance.
Margarabi was good as Barbie.

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That being said, I don't thinkshe was my favorite performance
in there.
I think America Ferreradeserves her nomination and I
think Ryan Gosling deserves hisnomination, but I just I don't

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know.
It was just something aboutBarbie that I just didn't.
I wasn't, I don't know, I justdidn't feel like I was on her
team, and not that I was onKen's team because I wasn't.
They were being ridiculous.
It just like.

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I don't know, but maybe that'sthe point of it.
It's like she's supposed to becomplicated because she's
supposed to be like I'm everywoman, it's all in me and like
and bearing the burden of that.
You know what I mean.
So I don't know, it's justsomething about it.

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And I love Margarabi, like.
I think she is incredible ineverything she is and she was
really good in this.
I just think, compared to theother ones that I've seen, yeah,
maybe I'd put her, I don't know, no, not necessarily like,
because I have, like I said, Ihaven't seen Anatomy of a Fall
yet, so I can't compare her, butof the ones I have listed, I

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have a net betting at the bottomand I thought her performance
as Diane Nied was better thanMargarabi's as Barbie.
Now, I haven't seen Past Livesyet that's another name that
gets put as a snub.
Is the lead actress in that?
I think Gretta Lee, but thatcould be the director.

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I just haven't seen it so Idon't know.
So I don't wanna be like, hey,you just like like I haven't
seen it yet, so once I have,then I'll have that squared away
, those names.
But I just keep hearing PastLives and Gretta Lee, and I
don't remember if that's theactress or the director, because
both are being said that theygot snubbed, yeah.

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So it's just kind of funny thatpeople are this outraged over a.
You know I don't wanna make itabout this, but people are very
outraged about a white womanwho's previously been nominated

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yeah, someone who's beennominated three times already oh
wait, no two for acting,because she's executive producer
on Barbie, so that counts as anomination for her, but she's
been nominated twice for acting.
So like I don't understandgetting that upset over losing a
nomination in a year that weare clear there is a clear

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winner in my eyes Lily Gladstone, who is the first Native
American woman to be nominatedfor a lead acting role, maybe
even just acting role, and shedeserves it.
You know it's not like.
You know doubters will be like,oh they have to nominate the?

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You know.
Whatever, this isn't the wokemob.
This is a woman that put on themost amazing performance of the
year in all categories.
I would say I put her above anyof the supporting actors or
actresses or the lead actors.
You know, this was the bestacting performance I've seen

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this year and she deserves it.
So why are we getting so upsetover this?
You know, white lady, who'sbeen nominated before and will
get nominated again.
I think her not gettingnominated for Babylon was a
bigger snub than her not gettingnominated for Barbie.
And I even saw, like I don'tremember if it was on TikTok or

(23:44):
Instagram, but someone said likeI wish I could like shout out
who it was.
I don't even remember, butsomeone said that her
performance in like threeminutes of Asteroid City was
better than her wholeperformance at Barbie.
And I would honestly say that Iwas more moved by her like

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short little thing in AsteroidCity than in Barbie.
I was more moved by Barbieoverall the movie, but it wasn't
her part.
Like, even like I'd say RheaPerlman gave me a more, made me
more emotional than MargotRobbie did in there.
And that's not her.

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That's not like I'm not sayingthat Margot Robbie's a bad
actress or that the character ispoorly written at all.
That's just like I don't know,like I feel like I'm like being
too harsh, but at the same timeI don't think I am.
It's just, it is what it is.
And, yeah, it would have beencool to see her nominated, but

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it's just like to me it doesn'tmatter when we have this other
like historic for multiplereasons nomination and possible
win, and it's like we're justgetting upset about her.
You know, it's like it's likegetting upset that like, oh no,
like Meryl Streep didn't get her50th nomination this year for

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whatever shit movie she happenedto be in, because that was the
trend for a while.
Didn't matter what the fuckMeryl Streep was in, she would
get nominated.
And it's like, oh my God, likecome on, like she's great, but
we're nominating her for this,you know?
So, anyways, lily Gladstonejust she was just so good and,

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like I said, the heart of themovie and not that everyone else
wasn't good too, because shewas Just, she was the best of
them and the best part of it andyeah, just an incredible
performance, so powerful andyeah.

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So, moving on from there now Ithis is where it gets hard with
the Oscars because my nextfavorite one is Emma Stone, who
I think put on her bestperformance in Poor Things Like

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this is the only other thingthat like she might have been
better in is the favorite theother Yorgos Lanthimos film, and
but she was just so good inthis one.
Like so good, yeah, just likeshe.
But that's also just theproblem with these award shows

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is like, take Leonardo DiCaprioWell, I think him, even though
he's already won, I think hisperformance in Killers of the
Flower Moon was better thanMargot Robbie's and Barbie, so
his was a bigger snuff In myopinion, even though I'm fine
with him not getting anomination because he's already
got the award, and but the pointof bringing him up is that he

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won for the Revenant, which hewas amazing in, but we all know
that he's done betterperformances than that.
He was better in Once Upon aTime in Hollywood he was
supporting but was I think hisbest one was in Jango Unchained,

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you know, he was just like anincredible villain.
But at the same time ChristophWaltz was there.
He's the one that got nominatedto Ann the Win and I'm fine
with that because he was amazing.
So it's just, this is you canhave like ah, I don't know, it's
just, it's just frustrating.

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But Emma Stone and Poor Thingsmy favorite performance of her
so far.
She was really good in that, Ithink better than she was in.
I think she won for La La Landand she was great in that.
But I think this is more.
It just sucks when you have ayear like this, that like

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they're all good, so but yeah,next I would have Carrie
Mulligan in my Stroke.
I think she was the the betterperformance in that one.
Like, if I had to pick betweenher and Bradley Cooper, carrie
Mulligan was the one I was likethe most, not like attracted to,

(28:27):
like physically attracted, butlike that's who I wanted to
watch, like I was moreinterested in her journey and
her inner fight and everythingthat she had to like deal with.
And you know, I mean not thatshe had to deal with it, but
that's just like that internalstruggle that we go through is

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like do I want?
Am I happy with this life?
And you know, she was justincredible in that.
And then, last but not least, ofthe ones I've seen, annette
Benning and Niyad.
I thought she was amazing inthis and, yeah, I think she
deserves to be there.

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She did an incredible job andshe played like a character,
like a performance, not acharacter cause.
It was a real life person butshe had a performance.
That it's like you root for herbut you get frustrated with her
and you see that the othercharacters are frustrated and
like all this stuff, but youalso see why they would keep

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like coming back to her andhelping her and everything and
it, yeah, I think she did likean amazing job.
And then it was, it was cool tosee you know the real footage
of her and and you know and youcan compare like how accurate

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she was and I think it was like,oh yeah, she did, she did a
good job, you know.
So, yeah, moving on, next, wehave Best Actor in a Supporting
Role.
Now, this one like the other,the previous ones, I've seen all
but one, but we have MarkRuffalo in Poor Things, robert

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De Niro in Killers of the FlowerMoon, robert Downey Jr in
Oppenheimer, ryan Gosling inBarbie and Sterling K Brown in
American Fiction, which is theone I haven't seen yet.
So, as for what I have seen, mynumber one is Mark Ruffalo in
Poor Things.
I thought he, like he surprisedme with his performance and

(30:42):
like I, it's just one of thoseperformances I was like I didn't
know Mark Ruffalo had that inhim and he was just so, so good
and so funny and so over the top, but like in a good way, like
and you know, which soundscontradictory to my thoughts on
Bradley Cooper I was like, oh,he seemed like a little over the

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top.
This was like I don't know thevibe of this movie compared to
Maestro, calls for over the top.
You want over the top and he'sjust like hamming it up and like
super, he's so quirky, yeah,just really funny.
So I, yeah, I loved hisperformance, but also, like I'm

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gonna be honest with you, of allthe four that I've seen, I'm
happy, no matter who wins, likeI'm happy with it's honestly a
four way tie and Mark Ruffalo isjust the one I give like a
little edge to cause he was themost surprising to me, but
Robert De Niro in Killers of theFlower Moon amazing, like one

(31:51):
of his better performances.
I think I didn't know going inlike the true story and like who
was gonna be like good guys andbad guys, cause I tried to like
only watch the trailer likeonce or twice and not really
like.
I just knew like, okay, I'mgonna go to this movie and I'm
gonna love it and I would writeand.

(32:12):
But yeah, his performance wasso good and just so menacing.
But also you get why peoplelike him and like get why people
would trust him and everythinglike that.
And oh man, he was good.
And then Ryan Gosling and Barbiehe was just so funny in that.

(32:37):
Like honestly, like he's beenlike an underrated comedic actor
for a while and I've knownsince Crazy Stupid Love I think
I talked about this in aprevious episode but yeah, he
was great in Crazy Stupid Loveand nice guys.
He was hilarious in that.

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Yeah, he was just, he wasreally funny and I think like
his performance in that was likewhat made me wanna like
honestly, it was what made mewanna watch the movie.
I was like okay, like that,like his lines and the trailers,
his jokes and everything likelike all right, yeah, he's

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killing it.
This looks so funny and he wasa big part of that.
I'm not saying no one else wasfunny in there or no one else
did a good performance.
I'm just saying that's whatpersonally drew me to wanting to
watch it and like and I don'tthink I'm alone there and I
don't think that makes meanti-woman because I preferred

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Ryan Gosling's performance asKen.
I just thought he was like moreof the heart of the movie or
the draw at least.
But anyways, it was great, hewas funny.
And then Robert Downey Jr inOppenheimer was also amazing.
He like much like Robert DeNiro's performance where you

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don't really know from thetrailer that this is, oh, this
is like, you know, the bad guyor whatever.
And I don't think that's muchof a spoiler.
I mean, just read history, Iguess.
But you know he just pulled offa great performance and it was

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cool that all his stuff was inblack and white and like.
I just thought he was likereally good in it and yeah, I'd
say he deserves to be up thereand if he wins, like any of
these other four, then I'm finewith that.
Yeah, and then I'll once I seeAmerican fiction, you know, I'm

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sure it's gonna be just a fiveway tie for me.
You know cause?
Sterling K Brown is really goodtoo.
I think the first thing I sawhim in was the American Crime
Story, the OJ1, the miniseriesthat was on FX.
Yeah, he was great in that.
All right, moving on, bestsupporting actress.

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Okay, so much like the otherone.
I wouldn't say it's quite afour way tie for the ones I've
seen.
But all right, well, let mejust list them off.
First we got America Ferreraand Barbie, divine Joy Randolph
for the Holdovers, daniel Brooksfor the Color Purple, which is

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the one I haven't seen yet,emily Blunt and Oppenheimer and
Jody Foster in Niaid.
So I alright.
So honestly, I have like my toptwo I would say are tied, which
would be Emily Blunt and DivineJoy Randolph, because both of

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those performances were reallygood, like incredible.
I think part of me is like Ireally want Emily Blunt to win.
You know, I don't think she'suh.
So I personally give EmilyBlunt a little more edge because
I just remember.
So I went in, you know, becauseOppenheimer came out in the

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summer, holdovers came out alittle later and it the
nominations were out by the timeI watched it, so I had that in
my head of like, oh, I need tolook at her performance and see,
like you know, how good she is.
But with Emily Blunt I was justwatching a movie that I knew was

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going to be good, or I figuredwould be good, and her
performance did stand out, I'dsay a little more than Killian
Murphy's did, and he was great,and so I just remember thinking
when I left Oppenheimer that shewas the standout performance of
that film.
And Florence Pugh was reallygood too, but she was just in it

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a lot less Like.
But yeah, emily Blunt was justso good in that and I thought
she was like just had a reallystrong performance and would
just love to see her win this.
But, like I said, I'm fine ifshe doesn't and if it goes to,

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you know, if it goes to any ofthem, it's there, they deserve
it.
But I think the other verystrong one was Divine Joy
Randolph and I think she was thestandout performance even over
Paul Giamatti for that film.
Like she was just so good andyou know it makes sense, like
with her character's backgroundon, why she would have such a

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powerful performance.
But you can also have thatbackstory and not pull it off
and she pulled it off Becauseshe's just just brought
everything to it and then you,you know you could see the
struggle that she's goingthrough and she makes it very
believable and so, yeah, it's apretty.

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It's pretty much tied for thosetwo.
But my next choice would beAmerica, ferrera and Barbie.
And I think like and I've heardpeople like upset about that
like that she was even nominatedand I don't get that, because I
think she had the more like shehad the more poignant point to

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make.
You know, it wasn't like, Ithink she just had like the
bigger, like the more importantrole.
Like she's the one that makesthe big speech, saying like what
it's like to be a woman, andit's the one it's like the
turning point in the film andshe's amazing at it.

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She's amazing at being justlike a mom to a teenage girl.
That's you know that they'rebutting heads and stuff like
that Like she's just pulling allof it off and like, yeah, she
was great, like there's noreason for her to not be there,
you know.
You know maybe there are otherpeople that might have deserved
him more, but you know who cares?

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Usually the the examples thatpeople give are other people
that have already been nominated.
So why not let her be there forthe nomination?
And because I don't thinkshe'll win, but I do think it
will be one of the my twofavorites.
But who knows, you know, maybeit will go to Jodi Foster, you
know, I think she did well inthat role.

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I think she yeah, I guess shehas like the more like her
characters dealing with moreinternal conflict than a net
Bennians character, because anet Bennians character is just
very driven, like it's just likeit's going to happen and I'm
going to do it, and Jodi Fosteris trying to be more realistic

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but also being supportive.
So it's not that there's moreto her character, but I don't
know, I think it's just, yeah,it's just.
I think I just enjoyed a netBennians character more like I
don't know.
But and then you know she'salready won before, so she

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doesn't need it All right.
So, best director, we haveChristopher Nolan for
Oppenheimer, jonathan Glaser forthe Zone of Interest, justine
Triette for Anatomy of the Fall,mars Corsese for Killers of the
Fall or Moon and JorgoSlamthimos for Poor Things.

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So I've only seen three ofthese.
I already talked about howOppenheimer was my favorite
Christopher Nolan film and Ithink yeah, I think it was.
It's just, it's very hard topick between that and Killers of

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the Flower Moon.
I would say Killers of the like.
I said that's my, that's mypick for best picture.
But I would say that if Iwanted to give both of them the
prize because I know that'ssometimes how the voting works
is like, oh, we don't reallywant to give best picture to

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this one, so we'll give thembest director.
So I think Christopher Nolanfor Oppenheimer a little better
directed in my opinion.
But I think I'm just moreimpressed with like the
directing stood out.
You know, the overall pictureof Killers of the Flower Moon

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was more impressive, I think,but maybe it was just the
stronger performances made melike that movie more.
But the directing really shinesthrough in Oppenheimer.
But, that being said, my secondchoice would be Killers of the
Flower Moon, martin Scorsese.
And you know and I'm not upsetat all if that happens, and same

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with Jorgo Slamthimos for PoorThings, not upset at all Like
it's a very well directed film.
It's, you know, he bringssomething very special that a
lot of people can't pull off.
Like I said, like it's.
You know, mark Ruffalo did theperformance, but it takes a

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director like Jorgo Slamthimosto bring that out of someone
like Mark Ruffalo.
You know, we already knew thatEmma Stone could do that from
the favorite, but when you sawher in the favorite you're like
that's very different than whatwe know Emma Stone to be like.
So he's, he's a very impressivedirector.

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I would say so, wouldn't beupset if he won, and so.
But I'll have more to say onceI see the other two films.
So for best original screenplay,we have Anatomy of the Fall,
maestro, may, december, pastLives and the Holdovers Scene.

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Three of these I would say myfavorite script like if I'm
referring to just going off thewriting, then the Holdovers was
is just so well written and I'mhappy to see it there.
It, you know, this is bestoriginal screenplay.
It's, you know, just it.

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It did feel very original, youknow, you know.
I mean, every movie has sometropes, but I can't think of any
like right off the bat thatwere in this and it was just
very well done, you know, andvery well written.
It had the humor, had the allthe emotions.
So yeah, that that'd be mynumber one pick, but it's a very

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close second and maybe I wouldjust want to give it to this one
, just so, because it's the onlynomination that it has and it
deserved a lot more, I think.
And that's May, december, oh, mygosh like, and that I just
finished watching it beforerecording, well, like an hour

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before, and, man, that thatmovie was incredible.
It was so well done.
It's by Todd Haynes same guythat Carol, which was also
really good.
And, oh man, this is so goodLike, it's so like like very
dark humor that you might noteven like register as humor and

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it, yeah, it was just reallygood.
Like.
Then, the performances.
I'm surprised that some of thatJulianne Moore, natalie Portman
or Chris Melton didn't getnominated for any acting awards
for this one.
But hey, the originalscreenplay, it deserves to be
there.
It was very well written movie,so good, and then just by

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default, being the other onethat I've seen Maestro in the
trailer behind, but still good,it's well written for sure.
I'm always interested in whatmakes a biopic adapted versus
original.
Is it just because there's nolike written biography of

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Leonard Bernstein that theybased it off of?
You know, because part of me islike, oh, if it's based on a
true story, then it's adapted.
But you know, I don't know, Ithink it may be there has to be
an actual written document thatthey are basing it off of, or
another movie or franchise,whatever that has to be based
off of.
But but yeah, it's well written.
So it's not like they don'tdeserve to be there.

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It's just, you know, wasn't myfavorite of the three.
Moving on to adapted screenplay,we got American fiction Barbie,
oppenheimer, poor things andthe other one where it's
basically a three way tie.

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All of them are very wellwritten and very clever.
So, but you know, if I had topick one, you know, then I'd say
Oppenheimer, poor things andBarbie would be my ranking of
the adapted screenplay.
But yeah, all of them are verywell written.
I don't have anything that Icould point to that put that

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puts one like way above theother or anything like that.
But yeah, like screenplay wise,I think they're all deserving
to be there For bestcinematography.
So our nominees for that are ElConde, which is the count, uh,
killers of the flower, moon,maestro, oppenheimer and poor

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things.
I'd say my favoritecinematography wise would be El
Conde, because that that wasshot very beautifully, that was
like the most like visuallypleasing of all five, because

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this.
Oh hey, this is my firstcomplete category.
Yeah, I'd say like, visually,that was the best one of them,
but it's, you know, it's notthat far ahead of my second,
which would be Oppenheimer.
But it's just something aboutthe black and white and, you
know, like one person said onLetterbox, so it's like it's all

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style with less substance.
You know, I'm not as harsh onit.
I thought it was really good,but you know it's.
You know, visually it's just sostunning, it's so well done,
it's so fun to look at.
Um, yeah, I, I.
It was a great one, it was, itwas funny, it was dark and just

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like the.
The ending wasn't my favorite,but you know it could have been
a lot worse too.
So, um, moving on, after that,we got Oppenheimer.
Uh, yeah, amazing cinematography, which is not surprising
because all of ChristopherNolan's films are like that and

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the same with Killers of theFlower Moon, which would be my
third.
Amazingly shot, beautiful,great to look at.
You know it's what?
Uh, all of these are ones that,like at least 80% of the frames
, would like make a great likewall art.
You know, so good.

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Um, then I would say poorthings.
Uh, also very well shot.
Um, a lot of great photographyon that.
Um, and then Maestro, that wasalso like really good.
I think that's.
One of its stronger elements isthe cinematography.
It's a half black and white,half color, much like

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Oppenheimer, um, and yeah, it'sjust very, very uh stunning, you
know, very well shot.
So, honestly, with thatcategory, any of them can take
it and they deserve it.
So, and that's and that'scoming from someone who's very

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uh like cinematography is likeone of my favorite things about
a movie.
You know, I'm not saying that Iwould be a good cinematographer
at all, I'm just saying that,like, that's one of the things I
pick out and one of the thingsI enjoy the most about film is
the cinematography.
So, um, yeah, they, they killedit this year.

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They killed it this year, youknow.
Next we have best achievement infilm editing, uh, anatomy of a
fall, killers of a flower moon,oppenheimer, poor things and the
holdovers.
Um, my number one would beOppenheimer.
I think it was edited togethervery well.

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Um, like the intercutting shotsof, you know, science happening
I don't know what you wouldcall it where it's just like
like elements reacting or likesparks and stuff like that.
Like it.
It's cut together very well,and the blending of the black

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and white going back in colorand everything, and one's the
past, one's like closer to thepresent.
Very well edited, Uh, no doubtabout that.
Um.
Next, I would say poor thingswas my favorite editing.
Wise, couldn't really tell youwhy, but just I just felt like
that the editing on that one wasa little better, um.

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And then killer to the flowermoon, you know, also very well
edited.
You know you can't have a threeand a half hour movie that is
poorly edited, then you're justgonna, it's not going to hold
your attention, um, and then Ijust put the holdovers at the
bottom, not that it was poorlyedited or by any means, but you

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know, it's just, if I had torank them, that's how I'd rank
them.
So next we have productiondesign.
Uh, barbie, killers of theflower moon, napoleon,
oppenheimer, and poor things.
Haven't seen Napoleon yet, butit's a period piece, uh, by
Ridley Scott.
So at least the productiondesign deserves to be there, you

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know.
And everything else isdebatable, but I haven't seen it
yet, so I can't judge it.
Um, but I would say Barbie forproduction design, like building
all those pink sets andeverything making them look like
the toys and the play sets andeverything.
Uh, like I mentioned before,with the, the practical, you

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know fake background going whilethey're in the car and
everything like that'simpressive.
To do all that, to do all thosethings in a world of relying on
CG and a giant dome, you know.
So I think.
Production design wise, then,yeah, barbie, barbie deserves

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the win in my opinion.
Um, next, I would say poorthings, because it's also very
impressive.
Set design.
Um, just, uh, you know, if Ihad to pick one or the other,
I'd pick Barbie, but you know,poor things was really well done
.
Production wise, it has, youknow, crazy architecture, very

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visually appealing.
It's like steampunk, withoutbeing annoying, if that makes
sense.
Um, yeah, uh, I, I just loved,I loved the look of everything
in that, so wouldn't be upsetabout that.

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Winning Um and same with any ofthese, to be honest, uh, except
for Napoleon, because I don'tknow yet.
Um, killers of the Flower Moon,I would put next, uh, I think,
having a period piece.
I think the further back you gothen, the more impressive it is

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to have those sets.
There's a lot of places thatstill look the same from
Oppenheimer days.
You know what I mean.
It's not like you had to searchthat far for buildings from the
30s and 40s, because there'sstill plenty of them.
It's a little I mean not thatthey don't exist, but it's a

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little more impressive for thatturn of the century style out in
the middle of nowhere andeverything like that.
So that's why I would putKillers of the Flower Moon first
, and then you also have to havethe legitimate, accurate native
dwellings of the Osage tribe.
So it, you know, just feel likea little more work went into

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the production design side.
If I was comparing that betweenOppenheimer and which puts
Oppenheimer at the bottom, butnot really, because it's very
well made production design.
So the sets are great,everything looks accurate, well,
okay.
So maybe they do get dinged onproduction design because they
had the wrong American flags inthat one scene.

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I don't think that's that bigof a deal, but for whichever,
like Boomer had an aneurysmabout it or history nerd, sorry,
that puts it at the bottom.
Whatever, I hope you're happy.
So kind of going hand in handwith production design would be
costume design, it's all thesame.

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Nominees Barbie, killers of theFlower Moon, napoleon
Oppenheimer, poor Things.
But for this one I would sayPoor Things would be my favorite
.
I think it had the moreinteresting costume design,
because it's like periodspecific costumes, but with

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their own spin on them, and Ijust thought it was more fun to
look at.
But I mean also Barbie's veryimpressive too, because they're
basing those costumes, seeingthem posted online, like all of
those costumes were based off ofactual Barbie figures that were

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for sale.
So it's like you gotta go backthrough the archives and stuff,
but you also have something tobase it off of, whereas Poor
Things is kinda just doing itsown thing.
But, like I said, with theperiod specific costumes, when

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you have just dudes in suits inthe 20s or not 20s in the 30s
and 40s, versus the further backyou go and you add the element
of having accurate native tribaldress and everything like that,
then that's more impressive andas long as I haven't heard

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contrary to this, like I feellike I've heard that it's very
accurate and it had, like the,there was a lot of Osage tribe
members that were consultant onthere, so and plus you have the
photographs and everything too,but those don't have the color,

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so it's that's why I would putthat one a little ahead and then
I put Oppenheimer in the bottom.
But that's still work that yougotta do.
But same rules apply as before.
It's just easier to makesomething more recent than older

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, but that's why I put PoorThings on the top, because
they're kinda inventing it to anextent.
So next we have Best Sound.
For that we have Maestro,mission Impossible, dead
Reckoning, part one, oppenheimer, the Creator and the Zone of
Interest, now scene three.

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Of these I would sayOppenheimer had the best sound.
I think just the anytime theyhave like a, they make a choice
to cut out all the sound and youget to experience that in the
theater and no one ruins it.

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So when that, like when thatbomb went off, and there's that
silence for a while.
You know it's funny that I'musing the absence of sound to
explain why it has the bestsound, but it still has like the
best sound other than that.
But it's still very impressiveto pull that off and blend it

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the right way and edit it towhere it's not too long but it's
not too short either.
So that would be my pick forBest Sound.
And then just all the othersound effects, like I said, when
, like the sparks and stuff arelike cut between it.
Yeah, just love the sounddesign on that one.
Next, I would go Maestro anotherstrong category for that film.

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Yeah, just very well done.
Mixing between the you know theconcerts and stuff like that
putting in I mean I don't knowif it counts, but you know,
putting in his own music inthere that's more score, but
it's not an original scorebecause it's already been done.

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But yeah, I just thought it waswell done, you know.
And then I'd put MissionImpossible at the bottom, just
because I just think that thesound stood out more in the
other two.
And I haven't seen the creatoryet.
And then you already know Ihaven't seen Zone of Interest,

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but with Mission Impossible Iwas really impressed with that
one.
I had never seen any of theMission Impossible films and
last year Top Gun Maverickimpressed me so much that I'm
like, all right, you know, I'llgive these Mission Impossible
movies a try.
They were all on Paramount Plus, so I just went from the
beginning all the way to DeadReckoning and this was the

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strong one in my opinion.
I thought it was incredible.
And not that the other onesweren't good, I just think that
the first two weren't so strongand they definitely picked up in
quality after, from three andon.
But yeah, it was a great movieand the sound design is done
very well, so it deserves to bethere.

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Next is Best Achievement inMakeup and Hairstyling, so I
would say I'd put oh yeah, letme list off all of them.
First, golda, maestroOppenheimer, poor Things and
Society of the Snow, which isthe one I haven't seen, but it's

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on Netflix so I'll get to itsoon.
I've seen everything.
I've seen all but two that arestreaming available.
So it's just that and thecreator that I haven't seen.
So, but I'll probably watchthose later tonight.
But yeah, I would say numberone for me would be Poor Things,

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because they're just.
He's just doing his own thing,you know, and he's just coming
up with these looks that areunique and interesting and fun
to look at and, you know, likeWillem Defoe's facial

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prosthetics and everything lookreally cool.
Yeah, I just liked everythingabout it and that was one of the
stronger areas on that, notthat it had any weak areas, but
yeah, I'd give it to Poor Things.
Next I would go Maestro, becauseI think they did a really good

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job of making Bradley Cooperlook like Leonard Bernstein,
which I know was a bit of acontroversy for some people.
I don't know how many actualJewish people were upset with it
or if it's just.
You know people that like toget outraged about anything To

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me, what really matters I'm notsaying that there weren't any
Jewish people upset about it,but I think what mattered most
is that his family approved it.
You know the people thatactually knew him and they're
like, yeah, like he had a biggernose and they made him look
like him.
He looks like him a lot.

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And when you see theside-by-side it's like, yeah,
they did a good job.
That looks like LeonardBernstein.
So but yeah, and then, likeeveryone else's, like hair and
makeup and everything lookedgood too.
So, yeah, I think they did agood job on that one.
I'd go Oppenheimer next, and theonly reason I'd put Golda on

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the bottom is just, I justdidn't like that movie that much
.
I just found it kinda boring.
You know, not like trying totake some like major stance and
like not liking it because thatseemed to be the trend on the
letterbox.
I just, you know, like worldpolitics and everything aside,

(01:03:27):
just looking at the movie itself, it just wasn't very good in my
opinion.
But hey, and then, you know,like I said I haven't seen the
Society of Snow yet, okay.
So next we have Best OriginalScore.
There's American Fiction,indiana Jones and the Dial of

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Destiny, killers of the Flowerof Moon, oppenheimer and Poor
Things.
To me, the music, honestly, allfour of these had great scores,
the ones that I've seen.
Like you know, I haven't seenAmerican Fiction yet, but of the
four that I saw amazing scores,like actually that stood out,
you know, and I think that'simportant, and I think the one

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that I can like hear the musicin my head, the two that I can
like kind of hear the music,would be Poor Things and Indiana
Jones.
Now I gotta say that IndianaJones is because what am I
hearing?
Am I hearing the new stuff orhis references to older Indiana

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Jones music pieces?
You know what I mean which I'mtotally fine with those work.
Like I'm not sure I'm gonna beable to do that, but I'm gonna
be able to do that, which I'mtotally fine with those work.
Like you know, if you'rewatching Indiana Jones and you
know he's having a memory orhe's thinking about Marion and
Marion's theme plays, and it'slike, okay, that works, like

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that gets an emotional responsefrom the audience and that's
what you want from a score.
But you know, like I said, like, is anything new for this one
sticking out?
And yes, there is, but not asmuch as Poor Things.
I think I was really struck bythe music in that one by Durskin

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, fendrix or Fendrix, notFendrix Staring at the ring
lights like making my eyes allweird.
But it would also be great tohave John Williams win, you know
, at least one more time.
You know he says he's notretired anymore, but he's also

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in his 90s.
So I think he just broke tworecords with this nomination.
I think he's now the mostnominated person that's still
alive and the oldest nominatedperson ever.
So yeah, and I think he did areally good job with this, it

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was one of the better scores.
Like, I don't think anythingreally stuck out in Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull the way thatthe first three movies did, but
this one, I think, was a littlecloser of a return to form for
all aspects of it.
You know, which is ironic,because two of the major people

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weren't involved at all no,george Lucas or Steven Spielberg
.
No, I think Steven Spielbergstill produced, but he wasn't
directing.
So but yeah, the score wasgreat and I you know, not that
this is nominated for anythingelse, but I think it was, and
I'd say that, oppenheimer, thatone sticks out the score on that

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, and so does Killers of theFlower Moon.
So, honestly, you know, give itto any of them and they all
deserve it.
So next we have a best originalsong, and these I've all seen
Got American Symphony, the songbeing it Never Went Away, by

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John Batiste and Dan Wilson.
Then you have Barbie, the songwhat Was I Made For, by Billy
Eilish and Phineas O'Connell.
You got another one from Barbie, got I'm Just Ken by Mark
Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.
From Flamin' Hot, you have theFire Inside by Diane Warren, and

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from Killers of the Flower Moonyou have W'shotsie.
I don't know, I should havelooked up the pronunciation of
that, but the parentheses is asong for my people by Scott
George, I would say my numberone.
Honestly, what I think shouldhave at least been nominated I
think this was a bigger snubthan anything from Barbie is I

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think that Peaches from theMario movie or Super Mario Bros
movie should have been nominated.
It was so fun, I think, morefun than I'm just Ken.
I think I'm Just Ken is a funsong and was really funny and I
liked that sequence.
But I think the context and thevisuals add to that one.

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Not that they don't for Peaches, but it's just Jack Black doing
his thing, you know, and Ithought it was really funny when
I saw it in the theater and Iwas just like oh, yeah, duh.
Of course Jack Black is gonnagive us a little tenacious D in
this movie, because why wouldn'the?

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And but yeah, I think it shouldhave been nominated for Best
Song.
I liked it better than most ofthese on here, but I'd say my
actual favorite, you know, likewhat's the best song and what
gave me an emotional reactionwhile watching the movie?

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I would say what Was I Made For?
By Billy Eilish for Barbie?
I think it was used perfectlyin the film.
I think it's just a good songon its own that I would listen
to, and I already did listen tobefore the movie came out,
because she put it outbeforehand and I was like, oh,
that's a good song and yeah, Ijust think that's the better one

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.
I liked the sequence that it wasin it was it just added to the
emotion, I think, and itdeserves to be there and I think
it deserves the win.
The second one I would put isthe Washasi from Killers of the
Flower Moon, because when thatsong came on at the end it was

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like it was also used very likefor like peak emotional reaction
, I think, and it was just sobeautiful like that sequence and
I don't know it.
Just I think those are the twostrongest like emotional

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reactions.
Well, and then also I'm justKen, but it's just a different
emotional reaction of like humor.
I'd say those three stick outthe most of all the five, but
just in that order, because thereason I give the edge to what
was I made for is that that'sthe one I would just listen to,

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whether it was in a movie or not.
And then I'm just Ken.
Like I said, I think it isaided more by seeing it in the
film and it's more fun whenyou're watching it in the film.
Not to say it's not a fun songbecause it is, but yeah, I just
remember like cracking up, likeoh my god, he's gonna start

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singing this like emotionalballad and it was just really
funny, really well done.
But yeah it, you know I'm finewith it being there and you know
everyone can be whatever aboutit and I would say it never went
away by John Batiste in theAmerican Symphony.

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I thought the documentary wasgood.
I think that I'm surprised itwasn't up for best documentary,
to be honest, or bestdocumentary feature, because I
thought it was really good, itwas really powerful, just like
this.
The song didn't stick out asmuch to me but like I was like,

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oh wait, which one was that?
And then because, honestly,when I was watching and I'm like
, okay, this is not like in myhead, I was thinking this is
nominated for best documentary.
So I wasn't really thinkingabout the individual songs.
So I had to go back and be like, oh, which song was that?
Okay, that one was good and butyeah, like I said, it just

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didn't stick out the way thatthese other ones did.
And then on the bottom, notthat it's a bad song, but from
Flamin' Hot, diane Warren's theFire Inside, this is a good song
.
You know it's just a goodcredit song.
You know that's.
I don't have much more to add onthat.
That movie was better than Iwas expecting.

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But so next we have BestAchievement and Visual Effects.
I have only seen two of these,but the full list is Godzilla
minus one.
Guardians of the Galaxy, volume3, mission Impossible.
Dead Reckoning, part 1,napoleon and the Creator.
So I would say, of the two thatI've seen, which are Guardians

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and Mission Impossible, that Iwould give the edge to Guardians
, and the reason I'd say that isbecause, like, while I prefer
the method that MissionImpossible takes, which is
minimal visual effects, likethey are minimal computer visual

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effects, like you have like TomCruise doing these real stunts
and shit, and that's reallyimpressive, but I would say that
Guardians of the Galaxy is oneof the better examples of good
CGI.
I think it's done a littlebetter than most of the other

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Marvel movies.
You know it's not entirely on ascreensaver, like Ant-Man and
Quantumania was, but yeah, Ijust think Guardians does a
better job with their visualeffects compared to the other
Marvel films.
So I think it deserves like hey, like you've done this thing,

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that is, you know this, you usethis method that can make
everything look terrible, butyou do a good job at it, so it's
very impressive.
So I think that's a little moreimpressive.
It's not best.
Stunts, which I do think shouldbe a category, is stunts, and
if you're doing that, then yeah,give it to Mission Impossible,

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because you know, we all sawthat in that trailer where Tom
Cruise like actually drove themotorcycle and jumped off and
did the squirrel suit and allthat and that was.
That was crazy, but it wasn'treally a visual effect other
than they see.
They see G doubt the ramp andmade it just look like like only

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rocks so, and that they did agood job at that.
But that's less work than wasput into Guardians of the Galaxy
.
Now, what do I think will be myfavorite once I see it is
Godzilla minus one.
I hear nothing but good things.
I just need to find a theaternear me that's showing it.
So, all right, moving on, allright.

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So next we have bestdocumentary feature 20 days in
Mariupol.
I don't know if that's theright pronunciation, so sorry if
it's not.
Bobby Wine, the people'spresident for daughters, the
eternal memory and to kill atiger.
So I've seen two of these, andwhich both?

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I would say.
I think I gave both of themfour stars on Letterbox.
They were, you know, about thesame level of quality and
everything, just on verydifferent subjects and different
like tones and everything, butboth like very sad and
informative, but they're dealingwith different aspects.

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You got Bobby Wine, thepeople's president.
He's, you know, trying torevolutionize the government in
Uganda and it's like reallyshowcasing the corruption and
all that stuff and it's very sadin that way, you know, because
you actually see some, you know,depictions of the violence

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that's going on against thepeople and everything.
So, yeah, and it's very welldone and, you know, very
interesting, especially like fortwo hours, you know so, and it
didn't feel like it was twohours long.
Next is the.
The other one that I saw is theeternal memory, which was also

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very sad and very moving, butvery different subject matter.
It's about a.
This couple, it's been togetherfor 25 years.
He has Alzheimer's and it's soit's just about, you know, you
kind of see it get worse as themovie goes on and it's just, you

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know that decline is very sad.
It's also intercut with homemovies of them together and
their journey as a couple.
She's a, they're, they're bothin Chile and he used to be a
journalist, like on the news andeverything, and she's an
actress and you know she stilldoes plays and stuff and you see

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your in a couple of them.
But yeah, it's just, it's verymoving, it's beautiful to see
their relationship and it feelslike it's very strong and you
just see how, like you reallysee how much she loves him and

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also how hard it is to see himthe way he is, and especially as
he gets worse as it goes on.
I'd honestly like give it toeither of those, like they were
both amazing and I think therewas just more to the Bobby Wine
one, just because it's it's moreactive, whereas eternal

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memories little more passive, ifthat makes sense.
But they're you know, they'reboth really good and yeah,
either way, I'm good and justgot to try to find these other
other three.
Moving on, we have best animatedfeature for this.
We have elemental Nimona,robert Robert.

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Robert dreams, not Robertdreams, robot dreams, spider-man
across the spiderverse and theboy in the heron.
Okay, so I've only seen threeof these.
I've seen elemental Nimona andacross the spiderverse.
I can't wait to see boy in theheron.

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That's the Hayao Miyazaki.
Never let me down before.
I just need to find a placethat's playing it or hopefully
it comes to streaming or atleast renting or available for
rent before the Oscars happen.
But yeah, can't wait to seethat one.
But so, for the ones I haveseen, I would say the strongest

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one.
Honestly, my favorite animatedmovie this year was the Super
Mario Brothers movie.
I thought it was so good.
It was yeah, it was fan service, but who the fuck cares?
Like I'm a fan, so I want tosee the things I like.
So show me the things I like.

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And they did that.
And it was so good and I lovedit so much.
I thought it was hilarious, Ithought it was funny, I thought
it was like, you know, it dideverything I wanted out of a
Mario movie.
Much like, very different fromthe 90s.
Bob Hoskins, john Leguizama, wonNot everything you want out of

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a Mario movie, especially whenyou're four when it comes out.
But yeah, I think that shouldbe on here and that would be my
number one.
But you know, I think it justcame out too early in the year.
Maybe people didn't like it,but I think that is part of it,
because I feel like it was not.

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The rotten tomatoes is the end,all be all and I do hate its
existence, but it had a reallylow critic score, but a high
audience score, if I rememberright.
So but of these choices I wouldsay my favorite was Spider-Man
Across the Spiderverse.
Was I happy that it ended onlike a major cliffhanger and

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that I was pissed off about thatat the time.
And then all the writers andactor strikes happened which
pushed everything which theyshould have happened, like they
were right to do that, andeverything.
I'm mad at the studios, not thewriters and the actors, but yes

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, and now it's just going totake even longer for all that to
happen or all that to getresolved for the third in the
third one.
But it was, if you're going onanimation, that was the best
looking one of the three thatI've seen, so, so beautiful, so
amazing and just like good story, good action, good performances

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, everything.
Like they killed it, like allthe way through and, yeah, even
better than the first one, whichdid win best animated feature.
So next I would go withElemental.
That one I was hesitant aboutlike I hadn't been.

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It feels in my head like Pixarhad this really long run of
flops, but really it was justlight year that I didn't like,
and so I don't know what like,why in my head I'm like oh, like

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Pixar needs a win, but I thinkit is because light year was the
first one to go to theaters andit's like this is the one you
like that you put it put in thetheater.
Not turning red, not soul, notLuca, not how was the no onward

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did come out in theater.
Maybe I'm just thinking ofthose three, but I feel like
there was another one that cameout that straight to Disney Plus
.
That was really good, but I'mblanking on it, but you know it
doesn't matter.
Elemental was really good.
I thought it was enjoyable.
It was one of those like kindof returned to what, if blank

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had cognitive cognizance andfeelings, you know, and so it
was like you know the elementsmixing and you could.
There's very strong Immigrantand race relation allegories in
there that I thought were verywell done and yeah, I thought it

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was really.
It was really beautiful, it wassad, it was happy and all the
right spots and yeah, I enjoyedit.
I thought it was One of thebetter.
Well, there you go again.
It was good.
It was better than light year.
Yeah, because I think it's likeI'm putting a lot on Pixar for
having a bunch of flops in a row, but it was more the main

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studio that was cranking out theless good ones, but then they
have like they space them outenough to where you had in canto
, in the middle or in canto, andthat one was incredible.
And but then you have strangeworld, which was written by the

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Manatees from South Park.
Just putting you know, like theyou know that's that's who
writes the family guy jokes, andthat's South Park episode.
It kind of felt like that, likeI'm not you know, I'm not one
of those people who was upsetthat there was a LGBTQ
representation.
That's fine, that doesn'tbother me.
Same with light year.

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That it's just so is such a nonissue of what was like wrong
with the movie.
That's like not even an issue.
What was wrong with the movieis that it just was not Paced
well, not written well, and Idon't even know what I'm talking
about.
That's a last year movie, butall I'm saying is that elemental

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was a breath of fresh air on anot so impressive Disney lineup
for the last couple years.
A lot more more misses thanhits, so it was nice to have a
hit finally.
And then I would say Nemona wasnot as good, but but still very

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good.
You know it's a, it's a.
I think my complaints with thatone would be a lot of like the
very overdone humor, like theawkward, you know stuff like
that and it's just like okay,like that's was outdated, like a
decade ago, and we're stilldoing it.

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So come on like let's, let's bea little more original.
But I think the story was verytouching.
Animation style was interestingnot my favorite, but it wasn't
bad either.
But yeah, it's just, it wasgood, you know.
But you know I'm probably won'tbe, you know, jumping at the

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bit to rewatch it the way Iwould.
Spider-man across the spiderverse, or maybe even elemental.
But even that one is, like Isaid, all right moving on.
And then so excited to see boyin the hair and, but robot
dreams never even heard of thatone until it got nominated so

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and don't know where to find it.
So we'll see that.
I feel like that's going to bea hard one to find.
Haven't seen any of these, butI'll list them off.
Best animated short film wehave letter to a pig 90, 95
senses our uniform, pachyderm orjust, I guess just Pachyderm

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this is the way it's spelledmakes me want to pronounce it
that way.
And then War is Over.
Exclamation point inspired bythe music of John and Yoko.
Yeah, haven't seen any of those, so can't really comment on
them.
Live action short filmInvincible Red, white and Blue.
I think this is good fortuneand it only has, like, the

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untranslated version.
Something happened on here.
It wasn't like that before, butthe After and the Wonderful
World of Henry Sugar.
My favorite of those was theWonderful World of Henry Sugar,
but I've only seen one other one, which was the After, which was

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very, very good, but it wasjust so heavy that, like it's
one of those like oh, I saw itand I don't really ever want to
watch it again.
You know, it was just veryheavy, but it was so well done
though, and like, honestly, likeDavid Oyoella's performance was

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so good and you know it's likeman, I wish he could get an
Oscar nom for the short, but youknow he was so good and that it
was so like heartbreaking andtouching at the end.
You know it's the journey thatthis character goes on and but
yeah, it was good, but I justloved the Wonderful World of

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Henry Sugar so much.
I've already like rewatched it.
I just love I mean, I love WesAnderson.
I would love to see him win anOscar for this.
Finally, you know, I know likehis movies have won them, but he
hasn't won an Oscar and it wasjust so like like it's just such

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a fun environment to be in.
Like you just want to like Idon't know, and it was just like
it was so interesting, like thestyle of it and something like
very different than anythingelse he's done before, but but
still like feels like him.
You know what I mean.
But yeah, that's the one I hopewins, but the after was really

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good and wouldn't be upset if itdoes win.
Next we have a documentary shortfilm.
We have Island in Between,nainai or Nene, and Waipo ABC's
of book banning, the barber ofLittle Rock and the last repair
shop.
So I've seen two of these Seenthe last repair shop and the

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ABC's of book banning, andthat's the one I would pick as
my favorite of the two.
Super interesting.
It's like it's crazy to me tolike see these like sections at
Barnes and Noble of like bannedbooks, because they're banned at
like school districts and stufflike that, and then they tell
you the difference between abook that's banned, restricted,

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or was the third option,contested maybe, I don't know,
but or yeah, just like ones thathave been like petitioned
against, you know, or likepeople have like brought up a
complaint about it but it didn'tgo further than that and then
restricted they're at thelibrary but you have to have

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parental consent to check it outand then banned.
Just you know that schooldistrict or that school kept it
out of their library, but it'sall.
It was always crazy to me to see, like, which books were on
these lists and stuff like thatand it's you know, and it was

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just very powerful to see thisdocumentary that had it starts
off and it starts, its bookended, book ended with this 100
year old woman who goes to thetown hall meeting to like give
her piece about, you knowwhether or not books should be

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banned, and she's like veryagainst them being banned.
She says my husband died inWorld War two for the, you know,
to fight for the freedom to,you know, uphold the
Constitution, freedom of speechand all that stuff, all these
things that you guys are tryingto censor.
And you're doing exactly whatAdolf Hitler did, like that's

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what he was doing.
He was burning books, banningbooks, like all this stuff.
And it's like you know she'sjust bringing up the hypocrisy
of this, it's like you're justdoing what he did.
And but it's not just.
You know, you're not justhearing from her, you're also
hearing from the children thatare the ones that are get, that

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actually get affected by this,and it was really powerful to
see these kids that are like theage appropriate for whatever
book they're being likerestricted from and they just
put it in such like simple termsof like, hey, like you know,

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this isn't that big of a deal.
So why, you know I don'tunderstand why you know they are
keeping this from us, but, yeah, it was really well done.
Last repair shop was good.
I think it like definitelybuilds, because you're hearing
multiple stories from multipleemployees and I think the more
powerful stories are towards theend, but that one was really

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good.
Haven't seen any of the bestinternational film feature films
, but we have Yo Capitano,perfect Days, society of the
Snow, the Teacher's Lounge andthe Zone of Interest.
But so, yeah, that's.
Those are the nominees.

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I may or may not do post anupdate closer to the awards show
.
I don't want to promiseanything one way or the other,
but I plan on trying to see asmany more of these as I can, if
not all of them, then at leastthe best picture nominees.
So even if I got to pay a 20bucks to watch it on Apple TV, I

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don't want to, but I will.
So there you go.
I hope you guys enjoyed theepisode.
I know I got a little rambly,but hey, that's what happens.
And thank you guys for watching, listening and see you next
week.
Thanks Bye.