The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast: Best Shorts

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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.

Marisa and Matt continue their annual breakdowns of every category at the Oscars one nominee at a time. This supersized episode focuses on the shorts categories: Best Short Film (Live Action), Best Documentary (Short Subject), Short Film (Animated).

Best Short Film (Live Action) Nominees Are: Feeling Through, The Letter Room, The Present, Two Distant Strangers, White Eye

Best Documentary (Short Subject) Nominees Are: Colette, A Concerto is a Conversation, Do Not Split, Hunger Ward, A Love Song for Latasha

Best Short Film (Animated) Nominees Are: Burrow, Genius Loci, If Anything Happens I Love You, Opera, Yes-People

Thanks once again to ShortsTV for access to the screeners for all the short films.

Don’t forget to check out these previous episodes:

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.