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Don’t forget to check out our other podcast: And The Winner Still Is… a retrospective Oscar podcast hosted by Marisa Carpico (Film Editor at ThePopBreak.com) and Matt Taylor.
Season 5 of The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast is under way! Pop Break film editor (and Rotten Tomatoes Certified Critic) Marisa Carpico and Pop Break senior writer Matt Taylor return to discuss all the potential 2023 Oscar hopefuls.
Matt and Marisa go around the world to focus on Best International Film for today’s second episode. They complain once again about All Quiet on the Western Front, discuss the shocking twist of Close and Marisa goes to bat for The Quiet Girl.
The nominees for Best Documentary Feature are:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
Don’t Forget Previous Episodes!
Best Documentary Feature: Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Best Documentary Feature. In the episode, they talk about being devastated by A House Made of Splinters, marvel at the footage in Navalny, and offer up another movie that could have earned a nomination.
Best Cinematography: Matt and Marisa discuss one of the bigger technicals: cinematography. They discuss their surprise over Bardo and ponder what Empire of Light is doing here.
Best Hair & Make-Up, Costuming: Matt and Marisa talk two more technical Oscars! In Costuming they delight over Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and marvel at Ruth Carter’s fashion forward work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In Makeup and Hairstyling they lament the battle of the fat suits.
The Shorts: This episode Matt and Marisa continue their category predictions with a perennial favorite — the shorts. Once again, they were able to view all of this year’s nominees thanks to the lovely people over at ShortsTV. You can catch their presentation of the shorts categories in select theaters starting this weekend.
Predicting Production Design & Best Animated Feature: In this episode Matt and Marisa continue their annual tradition of breaking down every category with a double header. First, it’s Best Production Design — they discuss Babylon’s hedonism, Elvis’s maximalism, and Marisa fixates on the proverbial clay pots of Avatar: The Way of Water. Then they discuss Best Animated Feature — they lament having to watch yet another Pinocchio adaptation, they praise the sweetness of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and wonder if The Sea Beast was created by AI.
Predicting Best Sound & Visual Effects for 2023: Matt and Marisa kick off their annual tradition of breaking down every category with a technical category double header. They ponder over All Quiet on the Western Front’s multiple nominations, gush over Top Gun: Maverick, and once again express their love for The Batman.
The 2023 Oscar Nominations Reaction: The noms are in and Matt & Marisa are discussing the surprises, the snubs and the lightning fast campaign of Andrea Riseborough.
The Returns of the Golden Globes, SAG Nominations & More: Marisa and Matt discuss the utterly baffling return of the Golden Globe Awards, what the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards mean for the Oscars nominations, plus they catch up on a number of films including Avatar: The Way of Water.
The 2022 Oscar Season Opener (Season 5 Premiere): In the episode Matt and Marisa discuss: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Jordan Peele’s Nope, the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front, Cate Blanchett’s turn in Tàr, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, the Palm D’Ore winning film Triangle of Sadness, The Woman King starring Viola Davis, and the mega popular Everything Everywhere All At Once starring Michelle Yeoh.
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