#957: 2024 Oscar Picks
Best Picture
Adam
Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: THE BOY AND THE HERON
Replace: MAESTRO
Best Director
Adam
Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.
Josh
Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Justine Triet, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Wes Anderson, ASTEROID CITY
Replace: Yorgos Lanthimos, POOR THINGS
Best Actress
Adam
Will win: Emma Stone, POOR THINGS
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Natalie Portman, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: Anette Bening, NYAD
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, YOU HURTY MY FEELINGS
Replace: Annette Bening, NYAD
Best Actor
Adam
Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO
Josh
Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: Teo Yoo, PAST LIVES
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO
Best Supporting Actress
Adam
Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should’ve been nominated: Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
Replace: America Ferrera, BARBIE
Josh
Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should have been nominated: Julianne Moore, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Jodie Foster, NYAD
Best Supporting Actor
Josh
Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Robert De Niro, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Adam
Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.
#717: Top 5 Movies About Suburbia
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1. Ordinary People
2. The Ice Storm
3. Far From Heaven
4. Bye Bye Birdie
5. Revolutionary Road
#696: Top 5 Ethan Hawke Moments
ADAM
1. “It’s Q&A time,” BEFORE SUNRISE
2. “So please forgive this helpless haze I’m in,” BORN TO BE BLUE
3. “We even fell in love,” BEFORE MIDNIGHT
4. “If you wanna be like everybody else, just do what everybody’s telling you to do,” FAST FOOD NATION
5. “Alright, Lelaina… I am really in love with you,” REALITY BITES
JOSH
1. Counseling session, FIRST REFORMED
2. Tentatively reaching for Celine’s hair, BEFORE SUNRISE
3. “Try to look normal,” BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
4. “Sweaty-toothed madman,” DEAD POETS SOCIETY
5. “What is it that you want from me?” REALITY BITES
KEITH PHIPPS
1. "My life is 24/7 bad" (Cab ride), BEFORE SUNSET
2. The Black Album, BOYHOOD
3. “Tell me a story,” TRAINING DAY
4. “Is Cody a better town now or when we were kids,” FAST FOOD NATION
5. “This night saved our country,” THE PURGE
#694: Top 5 Things We've Learned Podcasting (About Movies)
ADAM
1. “Be a mensch!” (THE APARTMENT)
2. “Now look, we’re going to do this thing. We’re going to have a conversation.” (THE GRADUATE)
3. “I know you think those guys are your friends. You wanna be a true friend to them? Be honest, and (sic) merciful.” (ALMOST FAMOUS)
4. “With so much at stake, all you can think of is your own feelings.” (CASABLANCA)
5. “Take me to Pleasure Town.” // “Oh, we’re going there.” (ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY)
DAVE CHEN OF /FILMCAST
1. “Neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens.” (ADAPTATION.)
2. "Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make.” (BOJACK HORSEMAN)
3. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN)
4. “I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or, who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people.” (TITANIC)
5. “Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person." (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY)
JOSH
1. “Preparation, preparation, preparation.” (SEXY BEAST)
2. "Do you think anyone will join our club?" (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE)
3. “She’s my Rushmore, Max.” (RUSHMORE)
4. "We'll be listening." (THE CONVERSATION)
5. “The numbers all go to 11.” (THIS IS SPINAL TAP)
#687: Top 5 Women in Westerns
JOSH
1. Jessie (Diane Cilento), HOMBRE
2. Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams), MEEK'S CUTOFF
3. Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn), BLAZING SADDLES
4. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), TRUE GRIT
5. Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), MCCABE & MRS. MILLER
KATIE RIFE
1. Vienna (Joan Crawford), JOHNNY GUITAR
2. Feathers (Angie Dickinson), RIO BRAVO
3. Barbara Stanwyck (Vance Jeffords), THE FURIES
4. Jill McBain (Claudia Cardinale), ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
5. Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), THE HATEFUL EIGHT
#286: Lead Performances of 2009
adam
1. Mark Duplass — HUMPDAY
Carey Mulligan — AN EDUCATION
2. Jeff Bridges — CRAZY HEART
Mélanie Laurent — INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
3. Colin Firth — A SINGLE MAN
Charlotte Gainsbourg — ANTICHRIST
4. Michael Stuhlbarg — A SERIOUS MAN
Marion Cotillard — NINE
5. Sam Rockwell — MOON
Arta Dobroshi — LORNA’S SILENCE
Matty
1. Tom Hardy — BRONSON
Carey Mulligan — AN EDUCATION
2. Christian McKay — ME AND ORSON WELLES
Meryl Streep — JULIE AND JULIA
3. Michael Stuhlbarg — A SERIOUS MAN
Charlotte Gainsbourg — ANTICHRIST
4. Baard Owe — O’HORTEN
Marion Cotillard — NINE
5. Michael Jai White — BLACK DYNAMITE
Hatice Aslan — THREE MONKEYS
Steve Prokopy
1. Sam Rockwell — MOON
Maria Heiskanen — EVERLASTING MOMENTS
2. Jeremy Renner — THE HURT LOCKER
Carey Mulligan —THE HURT LOCKER
3. Matt Damn — THE INFORMANT!
Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibie — PRECIOUS
4. Sharlto Copley — DISTRICT 9
Hiam Abass — LEMON TREE
5. Michael Stuhlbarg — A SERIOUS MAN
Sasha Grey — THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE
#285: Top 10 Films of 2009
Adam
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Humpday
3. An Education
4. The Hurt Locker
5. A Serious Man
6. Up in the Air
7. Summer Hours
8. Brothers
9. The White Ribbon
10. Where the Wild Things Are
Matty
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. An Education
3. The Hurt Locker
4. A Serious Man
5. Brothers
6. Sugar
7. Treeless Mountain
8. Up in the Air
9. O'Horten
10. Summer Hours
Michael Phillips
1. Up
2. Where the Wild Things Are
3. Waltz with Bashir
4. Of Time and the City
5. The Hurt Locker
6. A Serious Man
7. In the Loop
8. Sugar
9. Me and Orson Welles
10.A Single Man
Scott Tobias
1. 35 Shots of Rum
2. Duplicity
3. Humpday
4. Collapse
5. Julia
6. Afterschool
7. Revanche
8. The House of the Devil
9. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. The Hurt Locker
#283: DVDs of 2009
Adam
1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Do the Right Thing: 20th Anniversary Edition
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. Woodstock 40: 3 Days of Peace & Music
5. Fight Club [10th Anniversary Edition]
Sam
1. Gone With the Wind Ultimate Collector’s Edition
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [Remastered 2-Disc Set]
3. Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection
4. Sugar
5. Downhill Racer [Criterion Collection]
Mike Spring
1. Star Trek
2. Night of the Creeps Director’s Cut
3. North by Northwest
4. Role Models/I Love You, Man
5. Rocky: The Undisputed Collection [Blu-Ray Only]