Join Matthew McQueeny, Tim Castano, and Jayme Alfano Mulhern for their 12th annual Mix-Minus Podcast Oscars special! Dive deep into the 2026 Academy Awards as our hosts explore each of the major categories and nominees.

This year's Best Picture race is a battle of titans, featuring:

• Sinners (the record-shattering frontrunner with 16 nominations)

• One Battle After Another

• Hamnet

• Marty Supreme

• Frankenstein

• Bugonia

• F1

• The Secret Agent

• Sentimental Value

• Train Dreams

For Best Actor, the heavyweights include Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent). The Best Actress race is equally stacked, featuring Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Emma Stone (Bugonia), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value).

Supporting roles have sparked some of the season's biggest debates, with Teyana Taylor, Elle Fanning, Wunmi Mosaku, Amy Madigan, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas up for Best Supporting Actress, while Sean Penn, Delroy Lindo, Stellan Skarsgård, Benicio del Toro, and Jacob Elordi battle it out for Best Supporting Actor.

Erik Johnson is the Founder/CEO of Guest Player Connect, an entrepreneurial endeavor that brings youth travel baseball into the modern era. In this episode, Erik talks about growing up with baseball, college, a digital marketing career in healthcare, lucrative side businesses, parenting and coaching, marriage, and how all of his experiences have culminated with Guest Player Connect.

Matt Garrepy is Chief Critic at CMSCritic.com, Chief Digital Officer at Solodev, and has worked far and wide at companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon. Matt talks in this episode about growing up in Rhode Island, living around the USA, sports, clusters, his career in technology, storytelling, and entrepreneurship.

Matt talks Superbowl LX, Sam Darnold, using generative AI for same game parlays, 2026 Oscar-nominated movies he has seen to date, upcoming London trip, and new media endeavors.

Matt talks about the secret promise of August, football, and the retirement of Alex Rodriguez.

*originally released 8/7/16

Matt comes back after a long hiatus to update you on the last year of his life, professional travails, and the great prospects for 2026.

Matt talks about his intentions to go on a trip to Texas in September, HBO, and Netflix.

*originally released 8/26/2018

Matt talks about the Anthony Davis trade situation, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh.

*Originally released 1/29/19

Matt talks Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, free time, Christmas Movies, and the current problems with the NBA.

* originally released 12/14/2019

Michael Days is the Editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and author of Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished as President.