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The Season 3 Finale of The Way Too Early Oscar podcast is here, and we’ve got a lot to talk about! Film Editor Marisa Carpico, and Senior Editor Matt Taylor are joined by Editor-in-Chief Bill Bodkin, and Staff Writer Sean Cordy (our Staff Oscar Pool Winner) to discuss the 93rd Academy Awards aka the 2021 Oscars.
They discuss the new presentation of the Oscars and how it was easily all their favorite Oscar presentation — until the final 10-15 minutes of the show when things went off the rails once Glenn Close and “Da Butt” happened. They discuss the controversy of Anthony Hopkins win over the late Chadwick Boseman, not announcing the Winner for Best Picture as the final award of the night as well as great speeches, memorable moments, intrigue within the Best Actress category and more.
The nominees for the 2021 Best Picture Oscar were:
- Nomadland
- Minari
- Mank
- The Father
- Promising Young Woman
- Sound of Metal
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Judas and the Black Messiah
Don’t forget to check out these previous episodes:
Best Director: In this episode Matt and Marisa talk about who will take home the gold for Best Director — Chloe Zhao for Nomadland, David Fincher for Mank, Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round, Lee Isaac Chung for Minari and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman.
Best Actress – Lead and Supporting: In the episode, Matt and Marisa talk about how exciting it is to have a wide open Best Lead Actress race, the late-breaking momentum for Youn Yuh-jung in Minari and the continuing nightmare of Glenn Close’s nomination for Hillbilly Elegy.
Best Actor – Lead and Supporting: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars. This episode, they dig into Best Lead and Supporting Actor categories, two groups they usually don’t care about, but do this year.
Best International Feature Film: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars. This episode, they dig into their final category before the Big 6 awards: Best International Feature Film. In the episode, they once again praise Collective, share some critiques for Better Days and praise Quo Vadis, Aida? as one of the year’s best.
Best Documentary Feature: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars. This episode, they dive into a strong lineup of nominees in the Best Documentary Feature category.
The nominees for Best Documentary Feature are: Collective, Crip Camp, My Octopus Teacher, The Mole Agent and Time. In the episode, Matt and Marisa praise the journalism in Collective, talk about the tears they shed during The Mole Agent and argue that the only correct winner is Time.
Best Production Design and Cinematography: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars. This episode, they wrap up the technical categories with Best Achievement in Production Design and Best Achievement in Cinematography.
The Best Shorts: Marisa and Matt look at Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short and Best Short (Live Action) — thanks to our friends at ShortsTV!
Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars one nominee at a time. This double episode focuses on the two writing categories — Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best Sound, Editing & Visual Effects: A supersized episode looking at the three big technical categories.
Best Make, Hairstyling and Costume Design: This episode focuses on one two of the technical categories, Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Achievement in Costume Design. The nominees for Makeup and Hairstyling are Emma., Hillbilly Elegy, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank and Pinocchio. For Best Costume Design, the nominees are Alexandra Byrne for Emma., Ann Roth for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Trish Summerville for Mank, Bina Daigeler for Mulan and Massimo Cantini Parrini for Pinocchio. In the episode, Matt and Marisa reveal that they both watched Pinocchio despite promising to skip it, praise the makeup in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and finally address the Hillbilly Elegy of it all.
Best Original Song & Score: Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars one nominee at a time. This episode focuses on one of Marisa’s perennial favorite categories (Original Score) and one of Matt’s least favorites (Original Song). For Best Original Score, the nominees are Terence Blanchard for Da 5 Bloods, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Soul, Emile Rosseri for Minari, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Mank and James Newton Howard for News of the World.
For Best Original Song, the nominees are “Husavik” from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah, “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami…, “Io Si (Seen)” from The Life Ahead and “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Best Animated Feature Breakdown: The Animated Feature nominees are Onward, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Soul and Wolfwalkers. During the episode, Marisa confesses her undying love for all things Shaun the Sheep, Matt admits he doesn’t know any children and they both wonder whether Pixar is trying too hard to make audiences cry.
Breaking Down the 2021 Nominations Announcement: Hosts Marisa Carpico (Film Editor at ThePopBreak.com) and Matt Taylor break down the snubs and surprises that were the 2021 Oscar Nominations. Click here for the break down of all the 2021 Oscar Nominations. They discuss Thomas Vinterberg’s surprise nomination in the directing category (and their love of his 2015 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd), Marisa gushes about Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon and reveal the movie that made Matt and Marisa decide they won’t be seeing all of this year’s nominees. They also dig into the Best Supporting Actress race, a strong, but wide-open field that could finally give Glenn Close an Oscar.
The Golden Globes Episodes: Hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor return to discuss the best and worst moments of the Golden Globes 2021 ceremony.They recap the show’s excruciating technical difficulties, the labored bits and the surreal experience of watching glammed up celebs sitting on a Zoom call in their homes. Despite the rough moments, the show wasn’t all bad and Matt and Marisa talk about the excellent tributes to Norman Mailer and Jane Fonda as well as some of the night’s funniest and most powerful speeches. Finally, they break down the winners in the major film categories and discuss how the Golden Globes influence the Oscar race.
The Return Episode: The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast returns after a 365 day hiatus to discuss the Golden Globe nominations for 2021 and their impact on the Oscars as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Films discussed include: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, David Fincher’s Mank and more.
