The Oscar Nominations Recap and Reactions

***This is a Spoiler Free Episode***

Social Media Shoutouts - 1:44

Podcast Plans Going Forward - 4:08

Oscar Nom Categories, Takes, and Info

Best Picture - 8:03

Director - 15:19

Lead Actress - 20:31

Lead Actor - 25:16

Supporting Actress - 31:30

Supporting Actor - 35:20

Original Screenplay - 42:43

Other Categories - 47:06

Overall Thoughts - 1:03:29

Final Thoughts - 1:09:53

We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar, and this is our reaction pod to the 2017-2018 Academy Award Nominations. The day is finally here, the race can hit its home stretch, the Mikes can now react to some Oscar News.

Our podcast has reviewed most of the nominees in our Oscar Sprint Profile series. We’ll finish those by the end of the month with additional pods on The Big Sick, All the Money in the World, Roman J. Israel Esq, Mudbound, and next up, Phantom Thread. But do go back and reference our previous episodes. It’s easy to avoid spoilers, and we have an overload of hot takes with a mix of film appreciation and criticism regarding this year’s Oscar slate.

In this episode, we go down the categories, give you some statistics that replay the race up til’ this moment, recap last year’s Oscars, and chime in with our two cents worth, which is actually more than you’ll have to pay to listen (cuz our pod is free! Get it?!).

Throughout the episode you’ll hear us reference other Oscar Sprint Profile (OSP) episodes we’ve done on various award-contending films. All of these can be found in our library on Soundcloud, Stitcher, and iTunes and we do hope you’ll go back and listen through those as we try to give you all the information you could possibly want about each movie and then some. Plus you’ll hear the origin of most inside jokes that you may not understand otherwise said in this podcast, though we do our best to be as clear as possible.

Feel free to chat with us on social media. We Live Tweet most of the precursor awards and other movie events online or on the smaller screen. We love the chatter and spend lots of time on Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, Twitter, and coming soon, on Reddit. Our website, youtube channel, and other platforms are coming as well. And do stay tuned over the next month as we break down the review the rest of the Oscar films, preview each of the upcoming races to the podium on Oscar night, and we’ll have some other fun surprises in store for you throughout the month.

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