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Today is the second of five episode previewing the 98th Academy Awards where I will be breaking down each and every category throughout the week. Today I am joined by Dan Pal from the PalCinema, Television, and Music 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 other films mentioned throughout the episode.

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The nominees for each category are listed below.

Best Animated Feature:

• Arco
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best International Feature:

• The Secret Agent (Brazil)
• It Was Just an Accident (France)
• Sentimental Value (Norway)
• Sirât (Spain)
• The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Best Documentary Feature:

• The Alabama Solution
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Cutting through Rocks
• Mr. Nobody against Putin
• The Perfect Neighbor

Best Original Score:

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle after Another
• Sinners

Best Original Song:

• “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless
• “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
• “I Lied To You” from Sinners
• “Sweet Dreams Of Joy” from Viva Verdi!
• “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams

Other films mentioned in this episode include:

• Flow directed by Gints Zilbalodis
• Zootopia directed by Rich Moore and Byron Howard
• Toy Story 3 directed by Lee Unkrich
• Rango directed by Gore Verbinski
• Brave directed by Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews
• Frozen directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck
• Big Hero 6 directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams
• Inside Out directed by Pete Docter
• Coco directed by Adrian Molina and Lee Unkrich
• Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse directed by Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson
• The Boy and the Heron directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle directed by Haruo Sotozaki
• Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara
• Little Miss Sunshine directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
• I'm Still Here directed by Walter Salles
• Parasite directed by Bong Joon Ho
• Navalny directed by Daniel Roher
• 20 Days in Mariupol directed by Mstyslav Chernov
• American Symphony directed by Matthew Heineman
• Star Wars directed by George Lucas
• Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg
• Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan
• The King's Speech directed by Tom Hooper

Other media mentioned in this episode include:

• "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Diane Warren, performed by Aerosmith
• "How Do I Live Without You" by Diane Warren, performed by Leann Rimes or Tricia Yearwoo

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