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Featuring All the Rumors, Buzz, Stats, & Speculation You'd Want.

Including
...Complete Coverage of all the Precursor Award Shows.
...Snubbabble vs Unsnubbable
...Top 5 Golden Questions
...Make the Case & Other Movie Review Segments
...Film Festival Previews & Reviews
...Oscar Trailer Reactions
...Look Backs To Oscar History

& we're adding new segments all the time.

Oscar Race Checkpoint: Our Weekly Show On All Things Awards Season

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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BIFA NOM ARE OUT:
Overall Nom Tallies - 2:26
(and Big Orkney Talk)
Best BIFA/International BIFA May Shape the Oscars - 6:17
Director and First Time Director - 10:23
Performing BIFAs - 12:35
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EUROPEAN FILM AWARD NOMS TOO:
History and Nom Tallies - 17:32
Director and Screenwriter - 20:40
Performances - 22:30
What is Bye, Bye Tiberius? Mike1 Tells Us - 25:16
The Rest - 28:00
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HOLLYWOOD MUSIC AND MEDIA AWARD NOMS:
History and Tallies - 32:11
Predictions and Categories - 34:06
Original Score Convo - 41:55
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TRAILER REVIEWS:
September 5 - 46:22
The Brutalist Teaser - 48:32
Queer - 52:42
Maria + Unstoppable - 55:25
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
M1 on The Substance - 1:00:08
The Mikes Cope-Watches - 1:03:00
M1 on Daughters - 1:04:28
AlsoMike on Heretic - 1:06:19
and Other Docs, Daddio, We Grown Now, and more - 1:07:40
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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:12:50

BIFA, EFA, Leave a Sleeve for Whiz Khalifa - ORC 11/9/24

INTRO - Why we are exactly 75% accurate.

Cinematography before that Golden Frog - 1:57 
Costume Design & why the goths will not accept us - 4:13 
Film Editing and a Mike 1 finally tells us how he really feels about Dune - 6:30 
Makeup and Hairstyling and evil Donald Duck - 11:03 
Production Design and the catacombs of what could have been - 13:39
Original Score and which makes the chores go the fastest - 16:15 
Original Song and how Diane Warren gets in again - 19:15 
Sound Design and how Dylan Goes Electric could be melodious - 21:18 
Visual Effects and we shall divide the baby in twain - 22:36 
International Feature and wishcasting for Ireland - 24:48 
Documentary Feature and oops, we almost did it again - 29:30 
Animated Feature and why it sucks that so many of these films are too good - 32:46 
Supporting Actress and how our pandering to the Irish isn’t working at all - 35:21 
Supporting Actor and how this is the key to several other categories - 38:32 
Original Screenplay and how this category is all over the place - 42:46 
Adapted Screenplay and what the popcorn bucket loving world thinks - 45:08 
Lead Actor and Mike 2’s burger plan to watch The Brutalist- 47:40 
Lead Actress and how we both believing a lot of hype right now - 53:58 
Director and how drastically things have changed in this category - 59:53 
Picture and the post election effect of it all - 1:04:58 
Tallies to make us at least look like we can fake it as real pundits - 1:09:19

OUTRO - Let us know your thoughts & predictions, and if you like our show, please leave us some positive ratings and reviews. What’s Coming Next from us is a bunch of Film Study Reviews, and some words of wisdom that’ll makes your everyday life much better. 

Updated Oscar Predictions - Fall Picks with a 75% Accuracy Guarantee - ORC 11/13/2024

INTRO - lots of Oscar Race Precursor Checkpointing for us today.

AWARDS NEWS: 
The 15th Governors Awards - 1:20 
A Documentary Feature Race Checkpoint - 6:53 
The Camerimage Noms for Cinematography & Controversy - 13:34 
THR’s Festival Standing Ovation Crossover Study - 16:12 

FUTURE MOVIE NEWS: 
Spielberg’s upcoming UFO film is casting - 20:59 
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming (werewolf) film is also casting - 23:34 

BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Catching Up on 2 Weeks Ago - 25:09
Red One confuses us - 25:39 
The Final Gladiator II & Wicked Primer - 31:25 

TRAILERS:
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - 37:17 
The Last Showgirl - 41:40 
I’m Still Here - 43:50 
Babygirl (Trailer 2) - 46:54 
The Room Next Door (Trailer 2) - 48:21 
How To Train Your Dragon - 49:33 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING - 51:41 
A massive list of films that we’ve been watching, and there’s a whole lotta fun detours in the conversation. Your Monster, True Grit, Fear Street Part One, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Terms of Endearment, Sweet Smell of Success, Rumours, Challengers, Boy Kills World, Close To You, WNUF Halloween Special, My Old Ass, Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid. Dickweed. Manhunter, Charlie Wilson’s War, Shock and Awe, Vice, Shrinking Season 2, Letterkenny Seasons 1-8, Blue Ruin, and Mystic River. 

OUTRO - 1:13:55. How to contact us, your homework, words of wisdom as we prepare for Thanksgiving, and what’s coming next from us includes Gladiator II and Wicked film studies.


Glicked, Gov & Doc Awards, Ovation Studies, Final Reckonings + 20 Movie Reviews - ORC 11/21/24

What is This Episode? - Top of Show
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ASTRA AWARD NOMS GIVEN OUT:
List of Noms per Movie - 3:16
A Wicked Road - 5:05
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AWARDS NEWS:
The Girl with the Needle Wins the Golden Frog - 11:11
BIFA Gives Their Crafts - 13:32
AARP Awards Their Noms - 16:43
AAFCA Select Their Tributes - 20:05
Chalamet and Mangold Get Gothams Tributes Too - 22:16
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BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Wicked and Gladiator 2 Are Having Great Weekends - 24:44
But Not as Great as Moana 2 - 27:45
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TRAILERS:
Lily and Stitch Live Action Teaser - 30:21
Snow White Live Action Trailer - 31:52
Elio - 35:47
The Six Triple Eight Trailer #2 - 37:15
Queer Trailer #2 - 40:08
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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
MMO on The Piano Lesson - 43:14
AM on Lee, Parachute, The Good Half, Joy, Casa Bonita Mi Amor, Witches
M1 on Satan Wants You!, The Killing, Snack Shack, Places in the Heart, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon
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WHAT’S NEXT/LEAVE US 5 STARS/WORDS OF WISDOM - 1:05:10
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We're More Stuffing Than Humans In This One - ORC 11/30/24

INTRO - Is that guest host Nick Nolte or does Mike have a cold? Plus, we qualify the “everything and nothing” maxim. 

GOTHAM AWARDS + NYFCC OVERREACTIONS:
Sing Sing wins Lead & Supporting - 2:00 
Nickel Boys wins 2 Best Director Awards + Breakthrough Performer - 7:17 
A Different Man wins Best Film at Gotham & The Brutalist wins NYFCC - 9:26 
International Feature goes twice to All We Imagine As Light - 14:13 
Documentary goes twice to No Other Land - 17:22 
Breakthrough Director goes to Vera Drew of the People’s Joker - 19:39 
Gotham Screenplay to Azazel Jacobs, NYFCC to Anora - 21:34 
Thoughts on the Gothams Livestream / Broadcast - 24:03 
Gotham Tribute commentary featuring Sing Sing’s big moment - 30:02 
A Few More NYFCC Awards to Cover - 37:50 

BOX OFFICE REPORT:
Further breakdowns of the Record Setting Weekend for Moana 2 & Wicked - 41:32 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Juror No 2 - 47:16 
Nutcrackers - 49:44 
Beatles ‘64, Yacht Rock, The Last of the Sea Women - 50:43 
Five Easy Pieces - 52:53 
Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Unforgiven - 53:57 
Network - 58:21
Through A Glass Darkly, Superman, Madden Docuseries - 1:00:17

OUTRO - How to contact and follow us, more Oscar Race Checkpoints to come, and some words of wisdom to live by this (and every) awards season. 
https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Gotham Awards & NYFCC Overreactions - 2024 edition - ORC 12/3/2024

We discuss NBR, AFI, IDA, Indie Spirits, Saturns + the Seattle Critics, going category by category starting with Best Picture to discuss the rest of this week's many Oscar Race Checkpoints.

The Big Best Picture Conversation - 1:44 
- We discuss the Best Picture category in light of how this week’s NBR & AFI confirmed strong starts for Wicked, Sing Sing & several other films. On the flipside, we doubt the Gladiator and Dune sequels. Then we breakdown what the Indie Spirit Feature, First Feature, and Cassavettes categories tell us about the year in film at large.

Best International Feature - 18:43
- The Girl with the Needle and The Seed of the Sacred Fig are on the rise. Plus, we further discuss whether or not All We Imagine As Light can sustain momentum towards a Picture nom.

Best Director & Jon M. Chu’s good week - 22:10
The Best Screenplays & the Hard Truths bit lives anew - 25:11

Lead Acting Category Questions including Mikey & Coleman hopes - 28:51
Supporting Categories leads to talk on Kieran’s strength and Elle’s surprise win - 35:59 
Some early tech talk on Cinematography & Editing + More on the Docs with IDA - 43:19 
Animated Feature: Flow’s surge + reviews of That Christmas & Spellbound - 47:09 

A Quick Thing on the Saturn Awards + a review of Fly Me To The Moon - 50:05
A Quick Thing on the Seattle Critics Society - 55:41 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
The Order - 57:03
The Hustler & The Color of Money - 58:09 
The Great Lillian Hall - 1:00:04
A Woman Under The Influence - 1:01:51 

OUTRO - Send us your thoughts via social media. A reminder that we’re now on Blue Sky. Please rate and review us. Also, please make sure to stay ready for upcoming Oscar Race Checkpoints on the upcoming Golden Globes and Critics Choice Noms + the Oscar Shortlists and then get ready for some fun guests for Oscar Bets and Nosferatu. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Spirits, Wise Men, Sub/Doms & the NBR AFI IDA ORC - 12/6/2024

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Spirits, Wise Men, Sub/Doms & the NBR AFI IDA ORC - 12/6/2024

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