And the Critics Choice is a tie?

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

Intro / Best Picture Instant Reaction - Top of the Show

What We’re Watching AKA What We Just Watched:

How did Host Taye Diggs Do? - 4:55

Reviews of the overall Broadcast - 5:33

Some Real Awkward Moments - 7:08

News of the Week AKA News of the Night!

No Toni? Phoney Bal-(just starts to cry) - 12:31

Tie in the Best Actress Category: Close & Gaga - 14:23

Best Actor Takes Shape & That Shape is? Thin, again. For now. - 19:11

Do You Care?

(About Shallow’s Dominance - 23:15)

(About MI:Fallout’s Action Win - 24:14)

(About Elsie’s Big Win - 27:07)

(About Mahershala’s Win - 30:08)

(About A Quiet Place Making Noise - 32:35)

(About Hashtag SeeHer Going to Claire Foy - 33:34)

(About Spider-Verse Rolling - 35:45)

(About Black Panther’s Night - 36:57)

(About What First Man Left With - 39:59)

(About Vice’s Makeup 41:37)

Oscar Race Update

If Oscar History Could Talk, Regina King should become a frontrunner now - 43:15

The Favourite Might Still Have It’s Moment - 45:29

The Screenplay Categories - 46:42

Roma’s Big Night:

Best Director may not be locked in yet? - 50:25

Oscar Puzzle Theories - 54:32

Outro / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 1:01:30

Another weekend, another major Oscar Precursor Awards Show takes the stage, and of course, the Mikes are here to cover it for you on a Monday Morning. We dish out hot takes like Joey’s Burgers. We research plenty of telling Oscar stats and may share too much information as we breakdown some of our theories. It’s MMO Weekly, and boy, do we have some reactions to the Critics Choice Awards!

Our format is simple. As we always do on our MMOW weekly variety show, we include some of your favorite drops, signaling our usual talking point segments, and as we did with the Globe reactions last Monday, we taper those segments to this Sunday night’s award show.

The intro reacts to the biggest story of the night as Roma won Best Picture, Director, Foreign Film & Cinematography to cement it’s status as a Best Picture contender at the Oscars. But stay tuned until the end of the show & our featured Oscar Race section to see if we now think it’s moved beyond “contender” status and has become even more formidable as the “frontrunner.”

In between the Roma talk though, What We’re Watching becomes a section on what we just watched. So this is where we comment on how we felt about the broadcast, Taye Diggs’ hosting prowess, the special presentations, and highlights / lowlights from the night’s entertainment values.

News of the Week becomes a segment on some of the biggest wins of the night. The Best Actress race just got much more interesting with a tie, and we breakdown how the winners, Glenn Close and Lady Gaga campaigned to the Academy in their acceptance speeches. Then we discuss how the Best Actor race has finally taken shape before diving back into that Oscar Race Update where we have a ton of crossover stats and link you to what the Critics Choice Awards have meant to the Academy in years past.

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