You can listen to The Award Girlies Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Google Podcasts.
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 8 of The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast …. or should we say THE AWADS GIRLIES PODCAST has begun under way! Pop Break film editor (and Rotten Tomatoes Certified Critic) Marisa Carpico and Pop Break senior podcaster Matt Taylor return to discuss all the potential 2026 Oscar hopefuls… and begin a bold new pivot into a fully EGOT podcast.
Matt and Marisa race toward Sunday’s Academy Awards with another triple-stacked episode. While they deem this year’s batch of Animated films a bit weak overall, Documentary proves to be one of the most stacked in recent memory and they hope for surprise wins despite a clear frontrunner in International
And the nominees are…
Best Animated Feature
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best International Feature
The Secret Agent — Brazil
It Was Just an Accident — France
Sentimental Value — Norway
Sirat — Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab — Tunisia
Best Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
