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 dive deep into analysis of new Oscar Contender Trailers like Wicked: For Good, Frankenstein, Wake Up Dead Man, Kiss of the Spider Woman, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey & more. Plus, we review The Life of Chuck, Dangerous Animals, Mountainhead, Karate Kid: Legends & lots more as well. 

TRAILER REVIEWS:
Wicked: For Good - 2:00 
Frankenstein - 8:22 
Wake Up, Dead Man - 15:39 
Happy Gilmore 2 - 19:27 
The Black Phone 2 (SPOILERS FOR BLACK PHONE 1) - 25:06 
Kiss of the Spider Woman - 28:13 
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - 30:59 
Fantastic Four: First Steps - 37:01 
Alien: Earth - 47:23 
Dexter: Resurrection (SPOILERS FOR DEXTER: NEW BLOOD) - 52:47 

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING // BOX OFFICE REPORT
The Life of Chuck - 55:51 
Dangerous Animals - 1:01:00 
Mountainhead - 1:03:39 
A Box Office Update + Review of Karate Kid: Legends - 1:06:29 
Tornado - 1:13:39 
Pee Wee As Himself & The Rehearsal (1st 2 episodes) - 1:16:45 
Fear Street: Prom Queen - 1:20:37 
Presence - 1:21:11 

OUTRO: We’re not telling you what’s coming next. Here’s what is coming up next. Then we give you words of wisdom to start your next podcast. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar 

Wicked 2 Hype, Life of Chuck Love & TUDUM! - ORC 6/6/25

For Episode 445, Josh Parham and I are here to discuss the films we've seen so far at the 2025 Tribeca Festival and give our reactions to some pretty exciting trailers, including "Wicked: For Good," "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman," "The Lost Bus," "Lurker and "Black Phone 2." For this week's poll, for the release of Celine Song's "Materialists," we're asking, "Which Is Your Favorite Romantic Film Of The 2020s So Far?" We also reveal the winner of last week's poll for the release of Wes Anderson's "The Phoenician Scheme," where we asked, "Which Is Your Favorite Wes Anderson Film?" We also check on some other news of the week, answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! Thank you all for listening, supporting, and subscribing. We hope you enjoy this episode, and we'll see you next week.

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Episode 445 - The 2025 Tribeca Festival So Far, "Wicked For: Good," "A Big Bold Beautiful Journey," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman" & "The Lost Bus" Trailers

What if YouTube bought the broadcast rights to the Academy Awards? We discuss the latest rumors via Bloomberg. Otherwise, we also break down trailers for Marty Supreme, It Was Just An Accident, Ballad of a Small Player, Keeper, etc. We discuss the Lineup for Fantastic Fest & other movie news before reviewing / revisiting some new releases from Highest 2 Lowest & Freakier Friday to Superman & Weapons. 

OSCAR NEWS:
Bloomberg report on YouTube vying for the rights to broadcast the Oscars - 1:46 
Best International Feature Selection Announcements begin - 10:36 

TRAILER REVIEWS: 
Marty Supreme enters the race with our allegiance - 13:33 
It Was Just An Accident seems like an tense thriller - 19:08 
Ballad of a Small Player from Mr. Burger & starring Colin Farrell - 23:23 
Peter Hujar’s Day featuring the beautiful words of Owen Gleiberman - 27:38 
The History of Sound from Oliver Hermanus + Paul Mescal & Josh O’Connor - 30:22 
Steve stars Cillian Murphy ala Half Nelson & Stand and Deliver - 32:55 
Keeper proves we love Osgood Perkins & Neon’s trailers for Oz Perkins films - 35:11 
Good Boy deserves all the Oscars because he is such a good boy!!! - 37:36 

FILM FESTIVAL NEWS: 
Wicked 2 buzz as Cynthia Erivo set for the Santa Barbara Kirk Douglas Award - 40:11 
Fantastic Fest Lineup Highlights - 44:25 

FUTURE MOVIE NEWS:
Frankenstein, Fairyland & Urchin Release Date Updates - 49:00 
Sandra Huller to star in Pawel Pawlikowski’s 1949 - 52:32 
Guy Pearce may play Rupert Murdoch for Danny Boyle - 53:50 

BOX OFFICE UPDATE & WHAT WE’RE WATCHING:
Weapons Rewatch & 2nd Week atop the Box Office - 55:02 
A positive Freakier Friday Review - 57:33 
Nobody 2 disappoints - 58:35 
The Rest of the Top 10 include a Fantastic Four disappointment - 1:00:30 
M1’s catches up with Superman - 1:02:23 
Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans controversy & Americana bomb - 1:05:18 
AM reviews East of Wall - 1:07:31 
The brothers’ road trip to see Highest 2 Lowest - 1:09:22 
Alien: Earth early review - 1:14:22 

OUTRO: Hopefully you heed these words of wisdom as we head into film festival season. Plus, we refuse to jinx ourselves. Please sprinkle some salt. Also, if you enjoy our work, do please feel free to join us in our movie conversations this fall via our social media, and you can also help us by spreading the good word about our podcasts with positive ratings, reviews, likes, and subscribes. Here’s a linktree: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar 

Marty Supreme Enters The Race + YouTube's Oscar Play - ORC 8/20/25

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