Oscar 2024 Predictions with Fandango's Erik Davis (Academy Awards 2024)

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, Fandango editor Eric Davis returns. We

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talk all about our Oscar predictions for
the twenty twenty four Academy Awards. Let's

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Nit, hello and welcome the pop
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course am Kyle McMahon, and I
am so happy that you're here to hang

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out with me for this episode of
pop Culture Weekly. It is awards season

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and that's always capped off with the
Academy Awards, which you know the Oscars.

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So the twenty twenty four Oscars are
this Sunday, depending on why you're

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when you're listening, and we have
some predictions. There's some great films up.

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I actually think this is one of
the best Oscar Award nominee lineup in

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quite some time. So there's just
some interesting facts for you about the Academy

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Awards. Meryl Streep is the most
nominated performer in Academy history, with twenty

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one nominations. Jack Nicholson is the
most nominated male performer in Academy Award history

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with twelve nominations. Catherine Hepburn has
the most Oscar wins for a performer with

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four, and Daniel day Lewis is
the only person to have three Best Oscar

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winners. Of course, last year
was the slap herd around the World when

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Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the
face, which is you know, I

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won't even get into that ridiculous,
insane thing. But also in positive news,

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Michelle Yohe was named Best Actress for
her role in Everything, Everywhere,

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All at Once, which I loved, and she became the first woman of

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Asian descent to win Best Actress.
So let's hope for some more First this

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year, my buddy Eric Davis from
fan Dango is back and him and I

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are gonna just dive right into our
Oscar nominations for the twenty twenty four Academy

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Awards. Let's go. Here's Eric
Davis all right. First of all,

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welcome back to Pop Culture Weekly on
iHeartRadio. Thank you so much for joining

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me, Eric Davis, once again, Thanks for having me. Of course,

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I always love talking shop with you. So what's going on in your

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world these days? I know we're
in the heat of award season, particularly

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the Oscars. Yeah, you know, I would say there's two big things

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happening. You have the biggest award
show of the year for the entertainment industry,

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which is the Academy Awards. And
then you have I think the first

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really big movie of the year,
first blockbuster of the year. June Part

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two is opening in theaters, you
know, a few days before the Oscars,

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so really kind of really big moments, like the biggest films from last

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year are being you know, acknowledged
and awarded, and then you know,

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here comes the first really big year, big movie of the year with Dune

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Part two, which I'll be honest
with you having seen it, it's gonna

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be another film we're talking about come
this time next year, next year's Oscars,

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because there's a number of categories this
one could could be nominated for.

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Yeah, I'm so excited to see
it. I missed the screening. I

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was like double booked, and I
was like really trying to finagle it and

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I couldn't, And so now I
just have to wait. And that's fine.

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But all my friends are talking,
you know that have seen the screen

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screenings talking about it, and I'm
like, please stop, but please also

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keep going. You know. Yeah, it's awesome. You know, it's

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great to get Like I do feel
like this is an all timer of a

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sequel for a sci fi franchise.
You know, I'm a big fan of

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the part two. I think the
part two you can really have fun with

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because part one sets everything up.
Part three maybe ends everything, but that

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part two is where you can really
take some swings and really have some fun.

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And this part too is just epic
and so like, if you're listening

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to this and you haven't seen it
yet or haven't got your ticket yet,

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I mean you got this is one
that put it on the schedule. I

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can't wait. And it's one of
those I feel like you have to see

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it on the big screen, you
know what I mean, Yeah, the

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biggest screen. Like I honestly treat
this the way you treated Oppenheimer, if

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you were like, I have to
go see this in IMAX or IMAX seventy

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milimeter, because Christopher Nolan's telling me
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Like this is the same situation.
I think Denis Villanu shot it in Imax

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same Imax seventy milimeter as an option
in some theaters, so see it big,

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see it loud. I personally didn't
get to see it in Imax.

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My screening was not in Imax.
It was in Dolby so the sound was

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amazing. But I am going to
go back and go see this in Imax

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because it's just the craftsmanship is just
on another level awesome. I can't wait.

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And what's going on in the Fandango
world. Yeah, I mean we're

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getting ready for Doom Part two,
which is exciting, and really getting ready

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for a long stretch of you know, here come the big movies we have

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on the you know, after Doom
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there's a Godzilla Verse Kong movie,
The Fall Guy opens up May,

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and then we're into a summer season
that's got, you know, stacked with

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I think, a bunch of franchises
that people love, Despicable Me, Inside

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Out, Too, Bad Boys,
Boy Boys four, a lot of really

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good stuff. So we're getting ready
for all of those movies. Ghostbusters tickets

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actually just went on sale on fandango, So if you're looking to take the

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family out to that one, I
heard it's scary. It's like a scary

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I cannot wait for that. That's
on sale now. And then over at

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at Voodoo, a bunch of those
movies that have come out earlier this year

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have just been released, so you
can, you know, check out some

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of those movies like Beekeeper and several
several others that are brand new to the

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platform. So today we are talking
about I'm just looking at my notes here,

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Oscar nominations predictions for twenty twenty four. What do you think the big

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thing will be? You know,
are we going to see a big take

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home this year, somebody's gonna sweep
or you know, what are your thoughts

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on that? Yeah? I would
say the top story is Oppenheimer. It's

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the top story. It's been winning
all of those Best Picture esque awards at

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every award show, so that really
is I mean, in terms of a

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front runner, you can't get any
more of a front runner than Oppenheimer is

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right now. And so yes,
I mean, without a doubt, predicted

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to win Best Director and Best Picture, Christopher Nolan would take home his first

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ever Oscar. Yeah, which is
crazy, Yeah, crazy to me?

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When if he wins for Oppenheimer and
so, but I think the larger story

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for Oppenheimer, you know, it
could either tie or break the record for

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the most amount of Oscars ever won
during the ceremony. For those counting at

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home, that number is eleven.
It is held by Ben her Titanic is

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up there, and the Lord of
the Last, Lord of the Rings movie

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Return of the King all won eleven
awards, So Oppenheimer nominee for thirteen.

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So we'll see that we could have
another another big record holder in its wins

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this year. I think, you
know, I love the Oppenheimer so much,

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and like you said, it's insane
that he has never won it,

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like literally insane. And this has
got in my opinion, this has got

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to be the movie that he takes
it home. It's gotta be. Yeah,

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yeah, this will be the movie. And it's a great movie,

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and I think it's most accomplished film. And you know, I think Christopher

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Nolan was already in this sort of
stratosphere of directors very much so for pushing

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the boundaries of what the cinematic experience
could be. He was really that first

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pioneer of working with imax cameras and
you know, really educating audiences on why

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I have to go to see this
in imax and what that that? What

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does that mean to the experience?
And so to see him finally now recognize

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with this big win at the Oscars, I think is now going to kind

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of take him to that to that
next level, that that legendary level,

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that that level that maybe like Martin
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director category, you know, I
think that that level is like where Scorsese,

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where Spielberg is. I think it's
time to start elevating Christopher Nolan and

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honestly right behind him is going to
be Deni Villanu. Mmm. Okay,

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So just looking at categories here,
you know, I'm just kind of randomly

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selecting some of the some of the
best animated future film. We have The

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Boy in the Hair and Elemental Pneumona, Robot Dreams, and Spider Man Across

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the Spider Verse. For me personally, I love the Spider Man Across films

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and I believe that one for the
first one, right, yeah, it

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won the Oscar. The first into
the Spider Verse won the Oscar for that.

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This is an interesting category because and
this is a few different categories where

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you know a lot of OSCAR experts
will look at who's winning the other award

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shows. You know, the Academy
Awards is not the only award show.

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There's like a million award shows,
and so you know, this is one

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of those categories where Across the Spider
Verse has won a bunch of awards,

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and then The Boy and the Heron
has won a bunch of awards, and

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so which of those two films is
going to win it? You know,

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there's some people that say, you
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let you know, for its first
film, and this is a second installment,

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and so maybe we'll award the next
installment, which will cap off the

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trilogy. But then there are others
that you know, you can't deny just

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how incredible, you know, the
largest team of animators ever assembled made this

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movie, and watching it is just
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this whole experience. How do you
not give it the Oscars? So

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at this moment in time, I
think I'm going to go with Across the

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Spider Verse winning. Yeah, I
agree with you. I do worry,

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as you know, people like us
do other people really why would you be

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worried about that? But I do
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and knowing that there's a third film, are they going to skip over this?

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And you know, kind of a
Lord of the Rings thing, although

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Fellowship didn't, you know, really
light up awards, but but you know

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I did. That is in the
back of my mind, like are they

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going to go with The Boy and
the hair On instead knowing that there was

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a third film coming or whatever?
But just an interesting thing for me.

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Yeah, And that's always the conversation. And honestly, we're going to be

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back here next year talking about Dune
Part two because I do see it being

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nominated for Best Picture and we're going
to be saying it's the part too.

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Does that mean that it should be
recognized? Should we wait for Doune Messiah,

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which is likely to be the third
film, and that will they'll recognize

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the entire franchise at that point,
So we'll see. But then again,

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you know Mayazaki, before The Boy
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a lot of news that this was
going to be his last film, that

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he was going to retire after this
film, and then he came out and

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said, no, I'm not retiring, So I almost I almost want to

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say if he stayed with that line. Yeah, yeah, then the Boy

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in the Heron is that front runner. Because this would be his last film,

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they would honor him for retiring on
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that news is out there that it
might not be his last film, I

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think it's a little bit more of
a toss up in terms of which film

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wins that category. Okay, Best
Original Song, which the Fire Inside from

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Flaming Hot. I'm just can from
Barbie it Never went Away? American symp

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Symphony, a song from My People, Killers of the Flower Moon? And

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what was I Made For? From
Barbie. Also, some interesting news that

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just popped up is I believe Its
Variety is reporting that Ryan Gosling will be

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performing I'm just ken at the ceremony, which interesting. What do you think

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for this is? Are the two
Barbie is going to kind of eliminate themselves?

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What do you think it? I
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thinking that is that I'm kind of
bummed that Jack Black wasn't also nominated for

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Peaches for Mario Brothers, because to
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to back performances of those two songs, I think would have been the reason

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to tune into the Oscars. But
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he's performing the song. I think
it makes sense that he does. And

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again, I think it's a toss. I think less so Barbie, you

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know, and Barbie kind of eliminating
each other. I think it's Barbie versus

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Barbie. I think it's OK.
I'm just ken or what was I Made

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For? Both songs again, have
won at various different award shows, So

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I do think it's those two films
against each other. If I were to

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say, if I were to pick
one right now, I would go with

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the Billie Eilish jam. Okay,
what was I making for? You know?

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I also too when like when you
think about original song, you know,

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are one of these songs really popping
off on the radio, Like are

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you just listening to it on repeat
when you're driving in your car? You

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know, that always matters, that
makes you know, because people it's like,

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that's the most recognizable to me.
I love that song. I listened

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to it all the time anyway,
So that's the song I'm going to vote

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for. So you know, what
was I Made For? I'm still hearing

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it in my car when I'm driving, so you know, I think that

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one's gonna gonna win. Okay,
I thought, oh, this one I

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thought was interesting. Best costume design
Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon,

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Napoleon Oppenheimer, and Poor Things,
which I feel like Poor Things did not

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get its flowers. I think it
is such a creative film that is just

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you know, I feel like it
just should have been bigger than what it

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is. What do you think about
you know, all of those are very

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interesting and you know, on the
spot in my opinion in regards to costume,

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you know, what are you thinking
based on past history and looking at

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these films now, Yeah, and
it's interesting. I think if Oppenheimer is

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not in this show, I think
Poor Things is a front runner in a

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lot of categories. Poor Things in
the holdovers, I think are dominating the

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Oscars if Oppenheim does not exist.
But I think Poor Things takes costume design.

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I think it's Poor Things versus Barbie
again, another category where you know,

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both films have won at different award
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costumes of Barbie really pop for me. But I do think, yeah,

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I agree that there's a lot of
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lot of people that were turned off
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wild places. But there are a
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think it's brilliant, including myself.
I think that I had such a great

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time watching that film. So I
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production design also, it could it
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know, the big one will be
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you know, beat Lily Gladstone at
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mean I'm more it's more kind of
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film so much, and I just, like I said, you know,

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like what, And I'm like,
poor Things, It's so good and bubble.

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much bigger than it was. And
I hope that it gets its flowers.

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a specific kind of tone to them. Yeah, right, and so and

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it's the kind of tone that takes
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a lot of people that are all
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those people. I love his dry
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on everything he does. But then
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turned off by it because it's not
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consumer entertainment. It's a little bit
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you know, I think it takes
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in on that, then then you're
you're all in on everything that he does.

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He for me, he's like a
a more artsy not that Tim Burton is

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an artsy, but like the art
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Tim Burton, you know what I
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uh, and it's I just I
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yeah, he's like an he's like

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an artsier Timber. Yeah, without
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a sup Role Emily Blunt for Oppenheimer, Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple,

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America Ferrera for Barbie, Jodie Foster
Divine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers. This

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is an interesting category for me because
I think that, you know, it's

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so many ways that they could go. Color purple for me was very Also,

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I feel like the Awards Love Overall
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I thought it would be. I
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I thought it did an amazing job
of marrying the book and the movie and

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the musical all in a kind of
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we'll see what happens. But what
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you on the Color Purple. I
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there's maybe a couple of films that
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show. I think The Color Purple
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is one of them. I think
Ben Affleck's Air, which I love,

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I think that's one of them too. But you know, I think Danielle

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Brooks is fantastic in it. But
like you know, multiple people from that

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cast could have been nominated. I
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Best Picture. That's my personal opinion
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really great job of marrying all three
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a new generation. That being said, this is one of those categories where

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I think you do have to look
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Divine Joy Randolph from The Holdovers has
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So if she does not win in
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night, without a doubt, It's
the upset of the night. But I

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think that, you know, The
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the year. I think it's I
don't know how many categories it's going to

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be awarded in. I think this
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kind of its recognition, and I
think the vine Joy Randolph takes it okay.

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Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sterling
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I love Robert de Niro, Killers
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DeNiro, Robert Downey Junior, In
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and Mark Ruffalo import things. So
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really hard one because they're all such
strong performances. Yeah, this is a

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fun category. I mean they're all
like, all of these guys are just

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awesome. Yeah, and all of
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they can do drama, like,
they're all so versatile. All of these

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performances are really great. I love
I love Ryan Gosling because you know,

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like a dramatic actor or like an
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like, look, if you saw
the nice guys, you realize that Gosling

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is such a great comedic actor.
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on this stage for performance I love
because I don't think anybody really ever saw

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this and Jostling, I think he's
brilliant. That being said, I don't

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think he's going to win. You
know, Downey Junior has been winning this

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category and several award shows. It's
you know, I think he's due.

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He hasn't won the Oscar yet.
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times, he hasn't won yet.
So I do think that this is Downey

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Junior's time. As much as I
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it was Sterling K. Brown.
I think Sterling in American fiction is out

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of bounds. I think he's fantastic. I think that film like The Holdovers

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deserves some greater recognition at the Academy
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the poor things, like, I
don't know how much it's going how much

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love it's going to get. I
do think it will win Adapted Screenplay for

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Core Jefferson. This is his first
film, but I personally would love to

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see Sterling win this category. I
do think it's going to go to Downy

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Junior for Oppenheimer, which I'm happy
about too. Yeah, yeah, because

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you know, after a million Marvel
movies, it's great to get like a

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rich, like juicy Robert Downey Junior
performance. You know. Yeah, he's

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gotten one of those in a while. So I think he's great in Oppenheimer.

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He deserves it, And you know, for me, this is another

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category where no matter who wins,
I feel like we win, you know

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what I mean, Because it's just
such a rich category this year, with

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so many amazing performances that it's like
I'd be happy with any of them,

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you know, exactly. Yeah,
de Niro too. I thought DeNiro is

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great in Killers of the Flower Moon. And you know, he's a guy

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who's got out cut, you know, late in his career. I think

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he does. He does do a
lot of movies where people are like,

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you know, he's just kind of
writing that performance in But whenever he shows

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up in a score says he filmed, you can tell like he shows up

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I think he's great and Killers in the

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Flowers. I think Leo is great, mate too. I think I think

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Leo could have been nominated as well. I think it's one of his more

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versatile performances, so that I think
that was kind of a surprise to not

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see him definitely in acting category.
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Let's get back into my conversation with
Fandango editor Eric Davis on the OSCAR

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nominations and our predictions for the twenty
twenty four Academy Awards Best Actress in a

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Leading Role Andette Benning uh for how
do you pronounce that? Yet? No?

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Yet? Okay, so I was
saying it right. Lily Gladstone Killer

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is the Flower Moon, Sandra Huller
for Anatomy of a Fall, Carry Mulligan

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for Maestro, and Emma Stone for
Poor Things. I you know, I

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am again partial to poor Things.
But Lily Gladstone was incredible, and and

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I think you had mentioned she's been
kind of sweeping right, well, not

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not necessarily like Emma Stone has has
won uh some of this award as well.

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Emma Emma won the Baftah, and
I think a lot of people then

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shifted to Emma Stone taking home the
Oscar, and then Lily Gladstone won at

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SAG the SAG Awards, and so
now everybody's shifted to Lily glad But you

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know what, that's fun Like this, I think is the category of the

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night. I think this, I
think Lily Gladstone versus Emma Stone is one

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of the top stories. Both women
deserve this. I think they both have

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very different performances. Emma Stone very
physical, very out there, takes a

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lot of risks in that in that
role. Lily Gladstone much quieter, you

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know, so much of her performance
is in her face, isn't her gestures,

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is in the way she looks at
the situation. And so like just

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two completely different performances, both excellent
both. I think neck and neck for

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who wins this one, I am
in. I am in the Lily Gladstone

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camp right now, having shifted back
over from the Emstone camp. I think

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I think Lily Gladstone wins. And
she does win. She'll be the first

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Native American woman ever to win this
Oscar for Best Actress. So history is

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on the line, and I think
I think Lily Lily takes it. And

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you know what, I hope Lily
takes it because Emma Stone great actress,

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she's good, she's gonna have a
career, she's gonna be at a bunch

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of big films coming out. She's
she's good. Yeah, she'll be back

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here at some point. Willy Gladstone
is an actress that I think is on

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the up and up a lot of
people. She's not a household name like

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Emma Stone. And you know,
winning an award like this is so meaningful.

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It's so impactful for an actress like
Willie Gladstone, And so I hope

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it goes to Lily because I think
it'll really kind of then catapult her to

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the next level of her career and
put her in a bunch more movies that

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make her a household. Yeah.
And you know it's interesting because, like

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you said, should she win,
she would be the first Native American woman

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to win this. Now, I'm
like, wow, history really is on

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the line. So now you have
me switching over. I'm like, but

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that'll be a great one to watch, Yeah, without a doubt. Best

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Actor in a leading role Bradley Cooper
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Paul Giamati for The Holdover, Cillia
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American Fiction. This is another one, in my opinion, that is hard

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to pick for me. I mean, they all did such great performances,

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They're all such great films. What
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think they're all great films. Killian
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He is I would say he's due. Great actor, never really recognized in

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this fashion. This is his first
ever Oscar nomination, So I think like

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this is an actor who I think
is due. Then again, Giamatti is.

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I'm such a fan of The Holdovers, and so every time I talk

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about that film, I just smile. I feel like it's going to be

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a film that I watch every Holiday
season because it just gives you those those

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those comfortable vibes. Yeah, Giamatti's
won. He's won this award at some

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of these award shows, So you
know, I don't necessarily think it's as

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close of a toss up as it
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But I do think there is a
lot of people that are looking at

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this as like Achillean versus Giamatti,
and so I think Murphy's gonna win it

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ultimately, but I do think it's
it's a bit of a race. But

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everybody in that in that category is
awesome. It's great to see Coleman Domingo,

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who's an actor who in the last
few years has really sort of stepped

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out, and you know, everything
he's he's doing is memorable. Every performance

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he turns in is memorable. He
reminds me of Sterling K. Brown in

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the way of he's an actor that
just you can tell when he's performing he

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gives one hundred and twenty percent.
He gives everything he has to that character

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that he's playing. Both of those
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in that way. And so you
know, if I was going to say,

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hey, Eric, you get to
pick who gets it, I'd give

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it to Coleman, honestly. But
I do think Killian's gonna win. Okay,

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Best Director, Anatomy of a Fall
Justin Justine Triatt, Martin Scorsese,

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Killers The Flower Moon, Christopher Nolan
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Things? Am I saying that?
Right? Yes? Okay? Jonathan Glazer

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The Zone of Interest, which was
Wow. That was a film that yeah

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that it was a great film,
but oh my god, I needed therapy

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after that, more therapy than I
normally get great film. Who do you

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think is we kind of talked about
this before, you think this is Nolan's

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year. I think Christopher Nolan wins
this. I think he wins his first

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Oscar in this category without a doubt. You know, again, similar to

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Divine Joy Randolph. If Christopher Nolan
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you're looking at like a pretty big
upset. Yeah, And honestly, if

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he doesn't win, I think it
goes to that guy, Jonathan Glazer,

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just because I think there's so many
people, so many directors, so many

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industry folks who are so taken by
the way that that film was shot and

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the sound of it, and so
I do think there's all of interest is

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going to pick up you know,
a couple of Oscars, probably in the

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below the line categories. But you
know, Oppenheimer, Nolan, this is

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his year. He deserves to win
it. Yeah. I mean, he

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took a film about, you know, a nuclear physicist and made it one

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of the highest grossing movies of the
year, one of the most entertaining films

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of the year. I mean,
how do you not give this guy the

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Oscar for just achieving that? Yeah, yeah, I agree. I love

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I love him, I love the
film, and I really am hoping that

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it wins Best Picture. American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie,

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The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower
Moon, Maestro Oppenheimer, Past Lives,

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Poor Things, and The Zone of
Interest. Are you expecting any upsets this

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year? What do you you know? What are your thoughts on this list?

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Not expecting any upsets as we head
into it. I do think,

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like I said at the top of
the you know, we haven't had a

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front runner like Oppenheimer. Like Oppenheimer
is the front runner of all front runners

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right now. It has been winning
this award at every award show. If

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it does not win Best Picture,
it's a huge surprise. But I also

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think, like when you look at
this, this list of Best Picture nominies,

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it's one of the best I think
that we've had in years. Every

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one of these films is really great. You have giant box office hits on

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this, you have smaller films that
really resonated and meant a lot to people.

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You know, there isn't a person
that I talk who you know,

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a lot of these have been big, big airplane movies, so a lot

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of people are discovering, like Past
Lives is being discovered on a lot of

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airplanes right now, And everybody I
talk to is like, I just watched

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Past Lives on an airplane. I
was crying my eyes out, you know.

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But films like Past Lives, I
think, you know, really kind

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of resonate with a lot of people. But I do think Oppenheimer ultimately takes

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it. But it's an interesting category. I think this is the first year

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that we've had two films in the
in not not in the English language nominated,

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with Anatomy of the Fall and The
Zone of Interest. If one of

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those does win, it will be
the first time since Parasite, it will

437
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be only the second film in non
English language that is one Best Picture.

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So there is some history there with
the Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a

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Fall, both great films. American
Fiction. We've talked about. Another thing

440
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I love about this category first timers. Sleen Song who directed Past Lives,

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Core Jefferson, who directed American Fiction. This is their first film. Imagine

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00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.640
imagine your first film being nominated for
Best Picture, Like like I feel like,

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that's it a good done about I've
done it. Uh so the cool

444
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:51.759
story that they that they're I think
cord is gonna win Best Adapted Screenplay.

445
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:53.759
I hope he does. I think
it's a great screenplay for American fiction.

446
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:57.079
But Uh, the end of the
day, I think this is Oppenheimer's one

447
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to lose. Any any surprises in
general that you think we may see,

448
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:10.079
uh for the Academy Awards this year, you know, I I I think

449
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we could see some surprises. I
think if we do, the bigger surprises

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would be holdovers and poor things.
Do they show up and win categories that

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maybe they weren't expected to win?
Ken Paul Giamatti win Best Best Actor?

452
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:35.160
You know? Will have the Stone
win? Uh? You know? Will

453
00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:38.160
the film win in some of these
below the line categories where it's where it's

454
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not necessarily expected to win. I
don't necessarily see this as a huge shocker

455
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of a year. Uh. And
I say that because I'm looking at the

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other awards shows what's winning, you
know, and and especially if you look

457
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at something like you know SAG.
A lot of these categories are voted by

458
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:04.079
the group you know. The cinematographers
all vote for the cinematographers, the actors

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all vote for the actors, and
then everybody votes for Best Picture. So

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when you look at something like the
Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Killian Murphy

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and Lily Gladstone win, you're saying, Okay, now, if all the

462
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actors are voting for them, then
when the actors vote for the Oscars,

463
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you know they're likely to win.
So in looking at the other award shows,

464
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we haven't seen any really big shocking
upsets. I think the biggest upsets

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have been where Emma Stone and Paul
Giamatti have actually come through and won those

466
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categories. So I would say,
if there is a big upset, look

467
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.400
for it to come from from poor
things, the holdovers, American fiction,

468
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all big audience friendly movies. But
I think I would I would hope that

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the predictions I've just given you will
likely will likely stay. I think I

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think you know, I think you're
right. I'm on I'm on your team,

471
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team team Eric there, and you're
definitely one that knows what the heck

472
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:07.079
he's talking about. So so I'm
looking forward to the ceremony. What what

473
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else are you you know, going
into As you said twenty twenty four will

474
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most likely be for twenty twenty In
twenty twenty five, talking about Dune to

475
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any other things that you see this
year that you know you're thinking will be

476
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:30.960
a Oscar Locke for a nomination.
You know, there's nothing that I've seen

477
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:35.800
yet other than June two that I
feel like that's a film that we're going

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to be talking about later this year
without a doubt. You know, I

479
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think once we get later in the
later in the year. Ridley Scott has

480
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:49.519
a sequel, Gladiator, coming out
in November. The first Gladiator one Best

481
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.039
Picture back in two thousands, so
you know, immediately, you know,

482
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when you have a sequel to a
Best Picture winner, you have to kind

483
00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:59.320
of say, okay. You know, Ridley did not show up as much

484
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an award season with Napoleon. I
thought the craftsmanship on that film was fantastic,

485
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so you do see it a little
bit here, but I think it

486
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could have had a better showing at
the Oscars. So, you know,

487
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Ridley Scott's one of those He's another
great director. He really makes these great

488
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:20.519
movies. So I'm looking at Gladiator
two as being as being one. Paul

489
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.039
Thomas Anderson is making a film right
now. I'm not sure if it's gonna

490
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.039
come out later this year, but
it's got like Leonardo DiCaprio on it and

491
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:30.280
Tianna Taylor and I'm a big Pta
fan. I love licorice pizza. So

492
00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.519
you know, let's see when that
film comes out, if that becomes something

493
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.800
in the conversation and you know,
and then from there we're gonna have to

494
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see. You know, is there
a Barbenheimer this year? Are are there?

495
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You know, Duing Part two?
Yes, that movie is gonna do

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00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.159
well at the box offic it's gonna
be nominated next year. But is are

497
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:55.079
there other big blockbuster type movies that
pop with audiences, that pop with voters.

498
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That's something I'm looking at, and
I'm curious to see if any of

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these big films really resonate with people. But you know, right now,

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I would say, you know,
if you're looking at your twenty twenty five

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00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.119
best picture list, Scratching Dune Part
two and then let's see how it fills

502
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:19.639
out. Fandango, as always,
is covering all of awards season and films

503
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:24.320
all year, but especially there's a
lot of content and coverage with the Academy

504
00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:29.119
Awards, with the Oscars, right
yep, we'll be covering the Oscars at

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Fandango. Also our sister's site,
Rotten Tomatoes. We have ballots that you

506
00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:37.119
can print out if you're gonna have
fun at home with your friends and drinking,

507
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.639
you know, and have some drinking
names with them. So we have

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00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:45.559
a printable ballot that you can get
on either Rotten Tomatoes or Fandango Rotten Tomatoes.

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Who's at the oscars luncheon recently?
So there's a bunch of interviews that

510
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:52.480
they have on their channels for that, I would say, you know,

511
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.000
we have this big ticket interview series
that I'm very proud of, and we

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00:36:55.079 --> 00:37:00.800
did the first big cast interviews for
Barbie and for Oppenheimer of our most watched

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00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.480
interviews of the year. So I
would say, going into the Oscars,

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if you haven't checked out those conversations, they're lengthy, our Oppenheimer conversations like

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thirty minutes long. People have been
loving it, really great conversation. So

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I would say, go over to
our channels, maybe watch some of those

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conversations. All of these films,
many of the films that are nominated are

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00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:24.480
also available on Voodoo right now,
and I know we'll probably have most of

519
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:29.440
them on sale, and there's Oscar
sales, and so definitely if you need

520
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:32.920
to catch up at home, go
over to Voodoo and you'll find the awards

521
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:37.960
collection and you'll have everything that's at
least available at home. Right now,

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00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.719
we will have over there on Voodoo
awesome. And where can we find you

523
00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.960
and follow all your stuff? Yeah, I mean at Eric with a kay

524
00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:52.039
Davis on the Twitter or the X
and this is Eric Davis on some other

525
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:57.000
platforms, but you know, just
type in Eric Davis Fandango and you'll find

526
00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:02.519
me somewhere chirping, chirping about movie. Are you on Letterbox? You know?

527
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:07.679
I'm technically on Letterbox, but I'm
not as active on Letterbox, and

528
00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:13.639
I'm I'm currently debating when do I
want to get more active because I see

529
00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.239
so many movies. But then I
also see so many movies very far in

530
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:21.440
advance that when they finally come out, like and I can finally write my

531
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:25.440
Letterbox review, I'm not. I'm
not. I don't remember everything. Yeah,

532
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.199
so my game is not is not
where it should be, but maybe

533
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:34.480
this year is it becomes I step
it up a little bit. I've gotten

534
00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.599
so in the last few months,
I've really tried to step up, step

535
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:42.440
up my letterbox game, and I've
been running into that problem where, you

536
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:45.880
know, I just saw a film
yesterday in New York that doesn't come out

537
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:50.199
for a couple of weeks, and
I'm and you know that there's the embargo,

538
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.920
social embargo or whatever, and I'm
like crap. So I'm like,

539
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:54.519
do I write it in my notes
and then go back and like copy and

540
00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:59.760
paste it now or whatever. But
the community is so awesome there, you

541
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.119
know, and so I really do. I really am trying to actively get

542
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:06.960
more involved in it because it's film
lovers like us, you know what I

543
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.199
mean. Yeah, it's always fun. And I think, honestly, I

544
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:12.960
think if I did kind of go
all in on a letter box, I

545
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:16.440
might do it under a pseudonym.
Okay, so if you you know,

546
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:21.599
there may be you know something there, you know, it may not be

547
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:25.639
mister Eric Davis, Okay, So
Schmerrik Schmavis is definitely not you on letterbox.

548
00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:31.760
It's definitely Notrek. No, that's
I mean, We'll see Thank you

549
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:37.440
Eric as always, Fandango dot Com
and Voodoo as well, and Rotten Tomatoes.

550
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:43.119
I appreciate you hanging out with me
and talking about the Oscar nominations.

551
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.840
Please come back again as always.
Yeah, without a doubt man anytime.

552
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.719
Enjoy the Oscars. Thank you you
too, Eric Davis. It's always a

553
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:54.519
pleasure to have Eric on. He's
just an encyclopedia of knowledge. We have

554
00:39:54.559 --> 00:40:00.599
a lot of the same tastes and
I love that obviously. Let me know

555
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.400
what your says are. Who do
you think is going to win at the

556
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.840
twenty twenty four Academy Awards. Who
you're rooting for? What do you think

557
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:13.079
are the upsets? What are you
expecting? Hit me up on social let

558
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:16.280
me know or email me. All
the links are in the show notes on

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this episode or the websites Popcultureweekly dot
com, and I will see you next

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time with some Barry interesting guests.
Get it, Barry interesting guests, bear

561
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:35.280
Berry very interesting. All right,
all right, I love you, see

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you next week. Thank you for
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