Can anyone beat Cuaron?!

***This is a Non-Spoiler Episode***

Big Things Coming This Oscars Week - Top of Show

What is a Category Review? - 3:30

Best Director Snubs - 4:30

Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Why It Will Win - 14:15

Why It Won’t Win - 16:30

Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite

Why It Will Win - 18:17

Why It Won’t Win - 19:56

Spike Lee, BlackKklansman

Why It Will Win - 21:01

Why It Won’t Win - 22:32

Adam McKay, Vice

Why It Will Win - 24:19, 27:01

Why It Won’t Win - 25:39, 27:45

Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War

Why It Will Win - 28:17

Why It Won’t Win - 30:00

Perfecting Perfection - 30:50

Outro/Social Media/Words of Wisdom - 38:03

It’s time for our Best Director Category Overview. Though the winner seems like a certainty, we do love a bunch of these movies, and it’s a fun ranking episode to be sure. There’s also some fascinating narratives to indulge and perhaps some of the most intriguing personalities we’ve had to analyze in awhile. If you told us a few years ago that we’d get Yorgos friggin’ Lanthimos, Adam funnyman McKay, AND Spike “Critic No 1 of the Academy” Lee in the same set of nominations with two foreign filmmakers who directed black & white foreign language passion projects about their parents!?, we’d have never believed you. So it’s another fun & loaded episode for you all.

We still have one more category overview episode to close out this series, and you’ll get two categories for the price of one as we’ll dissect both the Adapted & Original Screenplays this week. If you enjoy these episodes, do go back to our catalog for the Best Picture, Animated Feature, Actor, Actress, the two Supportings, and Original Song.

MMO has also reviewed the vast majority of the nominated films with over fifty Oscar Sprint Profile or Movie Event reviews. There’s award show preview, prediction, and recap episodes, many of which are featured in our Oscar Race Update segments on our weekly variety show, MMOW. Then do enjoy all our retrospectives, special movie franchise review series, and of course, our 2018 year in review episodes. We’ve already covered the Best Scenes of the Film Year, and we’ll have our MMO’s (The Mike, Mike, & Oscars still to come), as well as our final predictions, and of course, we’ll be recording after next Sunday’s Academy Awards for a full recap.

We’re also very proud to bring you a new series called MMO Interviews. Brennan Lee Mulligan of College Humor chatted us up about the MCU, his own screenplays, & how he views the Oscars. Reilly Anspaugh & Geoffrey James of Headgum came spoke to us about Timothee Chalamet films, Bond Villains, & their recent trip to Sundance. Then we have another major get in MMO Interviews episode 3. The Mikes sat down with Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood Reporter, foremost Oscarologist, Awards Chatter Podcast Host, and oracle behind the beloved Feinberg Forecast. All of our guests thus far have been kind enough to tell us their origin stories & how they’ve navigated their careers to date. Scott certainly did as much,, and he also broke down many of the Oscar categories, the year’s biggest stories like that Best Popular Film category, filled us in on some late breaking buzz, and much much more. This new series has been our favorite endeavor yet. Do not miss these MMO Interviews!

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