Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood Reporter answers the last of our burning questions about the upcoming Academy Awards. How might Parasite pull off the upset? What stalled the momentum for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood? Why did Joker receive so many nominations? & more!

What Is This Show/Introducing Our Guest - Top of Show

Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter!

Where You Can Find His Work + His Socials Listed In This Section!

Recapping Our Chat w/ Scott Last Year + His Work - 2:38

Our Personal Histories as Feinberg Fanatics - 4:25

OSCARS PREVIEW W/ SCOTT FEINBERG:

Who’s Winning Best Picture? - 5:32

Which “Undercard” Category Would Indicate The Biggest Wins? - 9:20

What Happened to Once…? 11:23

The Academy’s Surprising Joker Love - 14:20

Campaign Effectiveness - 17:48

What The Academy Learned From This Truncated Schedule - 23:35

Feinberg Gives Mike1’s Parasite Theory The Final Word - 25:50

Scott’s Most Vulnerable Heavy Favorite - 29:00

Academy Balloting: Bias vs Merit - 31:15

Scott Feinberg’s Socials, Where to Find His Work, + All Other Relevant Info - 35:00

Your Homework/Our Socials - 37:20

Words of Wisdom/What’s Next From MMO - 38:39

Scott Feinberg is one of the major reasons we do what we do. He is the awards columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, the mastermind behind The Feinberg Forecast, and the brilliant host of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast, where he interviews contenders for the Oscars, Tonys, & Emmys. We’ve loved his work for years and can’t help but gush over many of his recent highlights since last we spoke.

In fact, one of OUR greatest MMO highlights came with our first chat with Mr. Feinberg on episode 165, and we highly recommend you go back to that very special MMO Interview to hear all about Scott’s origin story from a Connecticut kid who loved old movies to the industry’s foremost Oscar-ologist.

But with his return to MMO, and for our penultimate episode before Sunday’s big event, we thought it absolutely necessary to get right down to business. So we asked Scott the last of our burning questions heading into these Academy Awards and of course, Mr. Feinberg didn’t disappoint.

Scott begins with a breakdown of Best Picture from 1917’s resume to Parasite’s chances at an upset to what went wrong for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. We also discuss how Joker scored so many nominations, which favorite in the acting categories might be most vulnerable, who ran the best campaigns, and why the truncated season won’t become the new norm. As all podcasts with Scott Feinberg, this is certainly a must listen.

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