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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 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 tackle their penultimate category breakdown of the season with the two writing categories. In Adapted, they reveal which of the films’ source material they’ve read or seen and in Original, they try not to keep dunking on Sentimental Value.
And the nominees are:
Best Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams
Best Original Screenplay
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
