Bohemian Rhapsody Freak-Out Inside.

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

Though we do talk about a few movies in some broad strokes like A Star Is Born, Widows, and Bad Times at the El Royale.

Intro / What A Week We’ve Had in the Oscar Race - Top of the Show

Critics Choice & BAFTA Broadcast Info - 2:21

(Complete With Weird Debate About Oscar Years & the Metric System)

Best Picture Categories & Who’s a Real Contender Now - 6:30

Director: Cuaron Versus - 17:18

Lead Actress and that 5th Spot Will Go To? - 19:24

Lead Actor and a Big 2 or a Big 3? - 26:25

Supporting and Some Unlikely Likely Noms - 30:12

Ensemble, British Debut & Much Needed Attention for Excellent Films - 34:55

Cinematography - Cuaron Versus: Part Deux - 37:13

Foreign Film & A Strange Mix - 38:17

Screenplay: One of our Favourite Categories - 39:19

Animated Film & Mike 1’s Theory of an Oscar Switcherooo - 44:38

Production Design: The Crimes of Grindelwald - 45:22

Editing & Also Mike’s Freak-Out Over Bohemian Rhapsody - 47:29

Costume, Hair & Make-Up & is Vice Better Than Darkest Hour - 50:08

Score, Sound, VFX, Song & Auctioneer Voices to Finish - 52:47

Outro / What’s Coming from MMO / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 57:17

What a week this has been for the Oscar Race. We could not ignore this deluge of new nominations and felt that we needed to focus all 3 weekday episodes on these developments. So we covered the hell out of the Golden Globes in 2 previews, a monster recap episode, and another mid-week look at the fallout. To be honest, we’re also still reacting to the shocks to our system from the HFP in this show as well. But we also covered the many Guild nominations in that mid-week show, and now we’re all over the BAFTA slate in conjunction with a Critics Choice Awards Preview.

We chose to go category by category and grouped the many nominations from both award shows accordingly. There are some well timed stats from Mike 1, some callbacks to critics association scoreboard from Also Mike, and both of us make our picks, go on epic rants, and banter like only we could throughout the episode. It’ll be a fast paced show, but we also hope a fun one for your listening pleasure.

Our MMO Weekly this coming Monday will feature our reactions to this Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards. So stay tuned for that. We’ll also have a few Oscar Sprint Profile movie reviews for you coming soon. RBG and If Beale Street Could Talk are the next two on our schedule. Then looking ahead (as we did in the past two episodes) at the schedule, we’ll make sure you stay updated and get your awards talk fix with reactions to the Oscar Nominations in 2 weeks, the SAGs, other Guild Awards and BAFTAs throughout the next month. Finally, we’ll begin to infuse our category reviews once we get those Oscar Nominations, and there will be a few interesting diversions along the way with potential interviews, horror films, and early 2019 film releases. The Awards Season programming is jam packed, and we hope to become one of your go-to podcasts during the next month, as well as year round.

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