We break down the nomination slate for the 2024 Academy Awards and answer all your burning questions:

Was Barbie snubbed?

Does France regret its lack of faith in Anatomy of a Fall?

Are the Academy voters basic?

Can The Creator take down Oppenheimer?

Listen for all this and more...

On this episode, we pick teams of movies we think will garner the most Oscar nominations when the Academy announces this year's slate on Tuesday morning.

We are also joined by a special guest at one point. Please enjoy.

We set out on the golden road to Oscar Night 2024 by marking out true contenders and pretenders based on the recent SAG, DGA and PGA Award nominations.

Plus we discuss our early 2024 watches and if any would have cracked our 2023 top ten.

We continue the annual tradition of revealing our top 10 films of the year to each other on New Year's Eve.

Despite the many horrible things happening throughout the world and the dredges other art forms have found themselves in, there were a lot of great movies that came out this year.

Thanks to any and all who listened to our episodes this year.

We crashed the allegedly public Varda Lounge Launch Party and lived to bring you this uncensored report. We also review TIFF's first Member Appreciation Weekend and then get into some belated Spooktober Watchlist discussion.

We discuss all the films we saw at TIFF 2023, including Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron. We also bring you a live, on-the-ground report from TIFF's Festival Street. Are the corporate activations finally back and better than ever? Only one way to find out...

We spill tea on TIFF's obtuse ticketing system and its successful assault on our chances of getting The Boy and The Heron tickets. Then we reveal our initial selections for the festival before ending with a discussion around the potential drama behind the TIFF-Bell sponsorship divorce.

Our yearly allotted vacation saw us journey to the plastic-surgery-soaked shores of South Korea via a 13-hour flight. We discuss the movies that helped us endure the long-haul and where they rank among the various films we've watched on other flights in the past. Shout out to The Leche Whisperer AKA El Macho Gato AKA Puss-in-Boots for keeping our sanity intact while soaring amongst the clouds.

Death-defying divers, ankle-breaking athletes, game-changing farmers and a selfless carpenter. What do all these things have in common? They are the subjects of the documentaries we saw at Hot Docs 2023. And what do all Hot Docs 2023 films have in common? They are all preceded by what may go down as the greatest advertisement of the year. We discuss all this and more on another incredible episode of the pod.

Another year, another tribute to the golden god slumbering beneath Los Angeles. We give our thoughts on the Oscars viewing party we attended, the show itself, the winners, the controversies and most important of all: the red carpet fashion.