Best Picture Must Be Doing Something Right

Joseph and Jamie discuss their predictions for the 96th Academy Awards. Is Oppenheimer going to sweep? Who's going to win the tightly contested Best Actress race? We debate this and more in our concluding episode of the season.

Joseph and Jamie discuss Cord Jefferson's comedy American Fiction, starring Oscar nominees Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown, and Bradley Cooper's biographical drama Maestro, in which he stars opposite Carey Mulligan.

Joseph and Jamie discuss both of the summer box office smash hits that are nominated for a combined 21 Oscars this year: Greta Gerwig's comedy Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and the Best Picture frontrunner, Christopher Nolan's biographical drama Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.

Joseph and Jamie discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' genre-defying Poor Things, which is nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, as well as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor nods for its stars Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo.

Joseph and Jamie discuss Jonathan Glazer's World War II drama The Zone of Interest, starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Huller, which is nominated for 5 Academy Awards.

Joseph and Jamie discuss the winners at the British Academy Film Awards, and go in depth into a winner of 2 awards from the BAFTAs- The Holdovers- starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Oscar frontrunner Da'Vine Joy Randolph.

Joseph and Jamie discuss our BAFTA predictions, and our featured Best Picture nominated film, Anatomy of a Fall, directed by Justine Triet, and starring Best Actress nominee Sandra Hüller.

Joseph and Jamie discuss the new Oscars category (Best Casting), our dream acting Oscar winning quartet, and Celine Song's Best Picture nominated romantic drama Past Lives, starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo.