It’s Part One of our Way Too Early 2025-26 Oscars Predictions Special, or Guarantees Special as we should have called it. Screenplays, VFX, Sound, Score, Song, the Shorts, yes - The Shorts, Make-up & Hairstyling, plus Lead Actor and Actress are all discussed.

Original Screenplay reveals films where we’re heavy + where Vegas leans - 3:07 
Adapted Screenplay includes former winners, noms + a UFC champ - 11:37 
VFX w/ Avatar & F1 + sentimental favorites & trailers that look good to us - 18:00 
Sound Design w/ F1 as the favorite + other blockbusters - 23:00 
Original Score has a murderers row of legendary contenders - 25:22 
Original Song includes multiples by two films + the Diane Warren rule - 28:48 
Documentary Short included the most research ever - 31:48 
Animated Short included the least research ever - 35:09 
Live Action Short is as clear a vision into the future as we’ve ever had - 36:44 
Make-up & Hairstyling where we share 4 noms, but talk honorable mentions more - 39:26 
Lead Actor has huge stars and irrational confidence levels from us in our picks - 41:05 
Lead Actress - 47:07

OUTRO - 55:00 - Make sure to go back to the rest of our Oscars Year In Preview Series. We have specials to preview each section of the calendar, plus a Sundance review and a Cannes preview. Also stay locked on our feed for Part Two, where we’ll predict the Supportings, Director, Casting, Best Picture and the rest of the 24 Oscar categories. And as always, let us know your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, and your predictions via our socials. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar



100% Accurate Oscar Predictions Part 1 for 2025/26 - Guarantees Really - YIP 5, ORC 5/10/25

It’s the second half of our 100% Accurate Way Too Early Oscars Predictions for 2025/26. In this episode, we discuss the Supportings, Casting, Director, Picture and 12 categories in all!

Cinematography - 2:16 
Film Editing - 5:07 
Animated 9:38 
International - 13:09 
Documentary - 17:51 
Costume Design - 20:24 
Production Design - 23:24 
Supporting Actor - 29:00 
Supporting Actress - 37:24 
Casting - 41:17 
Director - 45:00 
Picture - 52:00 

OUTRO - Go back and enjoy our entire Oscars Year In Preview Series as we discussed the calendar, reviewed Sundance, and previewed Cannes. Do look forward to our continuation of our Oscar Profile Movie Reviews series as we’ll do film study episodes on upcoming contenders. But first, we cannot wait to review the reviewers and time the standing ovations from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival later this week. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar


Part 2 of our 100% Accurate Oscars Predictions for 2025/26 - ORC 5/13/25

We review The Fantastic Four: First Steps in this Oscars Profile Film Study. The Non-Spoiler Section builds to an Oscars Lens, where we predict if this movie will get any nominations, and then we discuss the plot in its entirety in our 2nd Half Spoiler Section.

NON-SPOILER REVIEW:
Which of the Fantastic Four are we? - Top of the Show 
Place in the MCU Phase 6 and that Kevin Feige interview - 2:56 
No Homework - 4:28 
The Reception Thus Far + Early Box Office - 5:23 
Our Expectations & Common Problems People Have - 8:54 
What if James Gunn stayed? + Handling the Origin Story - 12:21 
Pacing Problems & We Wanted More Time To Hangout  - 15:17 
But we do get meaningful stakes + rounded, charming characters - 17:17 
Review of the Performances & Was Pascal Miscast? - 19:29 
Super Strong Production Values - 23:54 
The Oscar Lens on VFX, Original Score, Costumes & Production Design  - 26:57 

SPOILER WARNING - 34:22 

SPOILER FILLED REVIEW:
Talking Galactus - 35:13 
The biggest win for this movie - 37:40 
How The Movie Met or Did Not Meet Mike1’s Predictions - 38:57 
The Most Asinine Complaint about the middle action sequence - 41:51 
The biggest problem with the pacing, but we like the dilemmas in play - 43:06 
Leaving us wanting more - 47:52 
The Retro-Futuristic of it all & The Post Credit Scenes - 49:10 
Final Grades - 52:48 

OUTRO: Heavy breathing into the microphone distracts Mike1 while he’s trying to remember the Outro and belly drums as Mike2 hints at his NYC movie watching weekend. We continue to avoid discussing what’s coming next on the show so as not to jinx Mike1’s health. But do please follow us on our socials and rate & review our show: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

And we do recommend our previous MCU Playlists on Soundcloud, which you can enjoy here. As always, thanks for listening. 

Marvel Cinematic Universe Series Review
https://soundcloud.com/mikemikeandoscar/sets/mcu-series-review-1

Avengers Endgame Coverage
https://soundcloud.com/mikemikeandoscar/sets/avengers-endgame-coverage


The Fantastic Four: First Steps Film Study - Yeah, You Eat Dat Planet - Ep 484

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New tracks tagged #Avatar: Fire &amp; Ash

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