Sasha Stone is joined by TheContending.com's Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to discuss the wide open Best Picture race, along with the other major categories. Who are the frontrunners? What narratives do they need to win? Is this a weak year? We discuss it all.

Sasha Stone and Mark Johnson talk all the happenings at the Telluride Film Festival, mainly how it has changed up our predictions. What if anything did we add or take out? Filmd discussed include Sean Baker's Anora, Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, Jaques Audiard's Emilia Perez and more.

After becoming the subject of Hollywood gossip, you can hear what Sasha Stone thinks in her own words. This is all about how a story in the Hollywood Reporter caused a small bubble in the film industry to lose their minds. Also, Clarence Moye is starting a new site called The Contending and will be having his own podcast and everything else. Mark Johnson takes us through the potential Telluride lineup. We thought we needed to check in and fill you in on everything going on.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Marshall Flores close out the 96th Academy Awards. We talk about our favorite moments from the Oscars, what still haunts us even now, What did we get right, what did we get wrong. Join us as we "put a bow on it" and finish the year.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye dig into the categories one last time before Sunday night, March 10, 2024. We go through Oppenheimer's wins, and we look at which categories are locked and which ones could go either way. Emma Stone vs. Lily Gladstone, Visual Effects, Screenplay, Production Design and Costume Design are some of the big question marks.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye discuss the Oscar race as it stands today, the last day of Oscar voting. Now that the SAG and PGA have joined Oppenheimer, and with more awards coming this weekend, there are just a few loose ends that need to be tied. We're almost ready for the Oscars on March 10.

For this episode of Sidebar, Sasha Stone talks to Marshall Flores, the stats guru of AwardsDaily.com. We do a long deep dive into Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer before moving into the stats and attempt to predict how many Oscars Oppenheimer will win -- between 5 and 9 is our best guess.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye discuss the BAFTA winners and the upcoming SAG and PGA awards as we close in on the Oscars.

Mark Johnson and Sasha Stone do a solo podcast to predict the BAFTA awards. Category by category for almost two hours! For all of our predictions, check out awardsdaily.com.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson talk the Oscar nominations and go through our preliminary predictions category by category. How will this crazy year go? The Barbie snub and the Oppenheimer sweep - will there be any major changes? Who knows. We discuss all of it.