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Today is the second of a five episode preview of the 97th Academy Awards where I will be breaking down each and every category throughout the week. Today I am joined by Enrico Banson from the Director's Notes newsletter to break down Best Animated Feature, Best International Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song. I've listed the nominees below along with a few other films mentioned throughout the episode.

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The nominees for each category are listed below.

Best Animated Feature:

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Best International Feature:

• Emilia Pérez (France)
• Flow (Latvia)
• The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
• I'm Still Here (Brazil)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)

Best Documentary Feature:

• Black Box Diaries 
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Sugarcane

Best Original Score:

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best Original Song:

• "El Mal" from Emilia Pérez
• "The Journey" from The Six Triple Eight
• "Like a Bird" from Sing Sing 
• "Mi Camino" from Emilia Pérez 
• "Never Too Late" from Elton John: Never Too Late 

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• "Incident" directed by Bill Morrison
• 20 Days in Mariupol directed by Mstyslav Chernov
• The Eternal Memory directed by Maite Alberdi
• Navalny directed by Daniel Roher
• Summer of Soul directed by Ahmir-Khalib Thompson
• My Octopus Teacher directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed
• Will & Harper directed by Josh Greenbaum
• Piece by Piece directed by Morgan Neville
• Flee directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin directed by Benjamin Ree
• "The Last Repair Shop" directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
• The Last Showgirl directed by Gia Coppola
• Armageddon directed by Michael Bay
• The Lion King directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
• Rocket Man directed by Dexter Fletcher
• Coco directed by Lee Unkrich
• Encanto directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush
• Aladdin directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

Other media mentioned in this episode include:

• "Never My Love" performed by The Association
• "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Diane Warren, performed by Aerosmith
• "How Do I Live" by Diane Warren, performed by LeAnn Rimes
• "Remember Me" by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
• "We Don't Talk About Bruno" by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• "Dos Oruguitas" by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• "A Whole New World" by Alan Menken and Tim Rice