The Oscars Death Race Podcast

2022-23 Awards Season Preview - The Films To Keep An Eye On To Prep For Your Race

This episode we have a massive breakdown of all the winners of the film festivals, the main Best Picture (and other) contenders from each studio, and which films I think are the 15 most important for you to watch to get a head start on your Oscars race.

TLDL (in order of release - wide where available)

  • The Batman (Already Released) - WB - C+
  • Elvis (Already Released) - WB - A
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once (Already Released) - A24 - S
  • Top Gun Maverick (Already Released) - Paramount - C+
  • TAR (Oct 7) - Universal - A
  • Banshees of Inisherin (Oct 21) - 20th Century - S
  • Black Panther (Nov 11) - MCU - C+
  • The Son (Nov 11) - Sony - B
  • The Fabelmans (Nov 23) - Universal - S
  • Empire of Light (Dec 9) - 20th Century - B
  • The Whale (Dec 9) - A24 - A
  • Avatar Way of Water (Dec 16) - 20th Century - C+
  • Glass Onion (Dec 23) - Netflix - B
  • Women Talking (Dec 25) - United Artists - S
  • Babylon (Jan 6) - Paramount - A

Some of my Reddit Analysis

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NYC B&W Films - 1950's "All About Eve" & 1960's "The Apartment" | Best Picture Marathon

On this second episode of the Best Picture Marathon of the Oscars Death Race Podcast, I am joined LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY with co-host of the Classic Movies Podcast and longtime friend of the show Jeff on his recent visit to the Big Apple! Coming at you from a diner in midtown Manhattan (so pardon the sound quality), we talk about two Black and White films to win Best Picture that happen to be set in NYC - 1950's "All About Eve" (one of the most nominated films ever) and 1960's "the Apartment" (which I actually got to see the actual apartment right before recording this). We talk about the impact of these two monumental films and how well they capture that Big Apple Energy

Be sure to check out Jeff's podcast, Classic Movies Live! https://open.spotify.com/show/3gy7EYnn7LORzZIgBOF7wG

Jeff's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/gothenburgtown/

CML's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ubcoCML

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Silent Films - 1929's "Wings" & 2011's "The Artist" | Best Picture Marathon

On this first episode of the Best Picture Marathon of the Oscars Death Race Podcast, I am joined by my college friend Prim to talk about the two silent films to win Best Picture - 1929's "Wings" (the first ever BP winner) and 2011's "The Artist," an homage to the silent film era. We talk about film scores, the history of early Hollywood, and why these films are more similar to Top Gun Maverick than you may expect.

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Off-Season 2022 Update - 95th Oscars Date Announcement & Presenting the Best Picture Marathon

In this off-season update, we do a quick catchup about the 95th Oscars Celebration, and announce the start of a new project - the Best Picture Marathon, where I try to watch every Best Picture Winner, 2 at a time during the offseason. The first episode will be in July 2022 and be about the two silent films to win Best Picture - 1927's Wings and 2011's The Artist

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[S2022E13] And That's A Wrap (For This Year) - Recapping the Oscars (and Deathies and Prediction Contest) / Drive My Car / Doc Shorts / No Time To Die / Four Good Days

On the final episode of this season of the Oscars Death Race Podcast, we ignore a certain slap and go over how I wrapped up the Death Race with 7 minutes to spare, who won at the Deathies Awards, Who won at the Oscars awards, who did the best at my Predictions contest, and what the Best Picture Winner says about Netflix's performance at the Oscars this past few years. Catch you all next year!

We Make Movies Better Parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtubfwx_xaM We Don't Talk About Bruno Parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY34SwSA49I 2nd Annual Deathies Awards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnSG77ohlw

This Seasons' Guests can be found at Alex's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/almowbs/ Adele's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/at34712/ Alex Atienza's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/aatienza/ Classic Movies Live: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gy7EYnn7LORzZIgBOF7wG ContraZoomPod: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rdhbCzOpccrSUJG7taoYn SomeGuyNamedJames Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/aboycalledjames/

Current Status: 38/38 Features | 15/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 16 - Catching Up
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft SomeGuyNamedJames
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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[S2022E12] Diving Into the Oscars Pools Prediction Game ft SomeGuyNamedJames

On this episode of the podcast, we bring on #1 racer (according to OscarsDeathRace.com) SomeGuyNamedJames to walk us through making predictions for who will (and who should) win each category this coming Sunday!

James's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/aboycalledjames/

Be sure to enter my Oscars Prediction Contest by Sunday 12pm ET: https://forms.gle/Ssw3rquzRTBujWWv9

Check out the Deathies Awards on Saturday at 6pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn_nLnw6jO-ra2B6B0whLzQ

Current Status: 35/38 Features | 10/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 16 - Catching Up
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft SomeGuyNamedJames
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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[S2022E11] New Apartment, Who Dis? (Catching Up on the Race) - [Licorice Pizza / Attica / Summer of Soul / Ascension / Writing With Fire / Live Action and Animated Shorts]

On this episode from my new apartment, I catch up on which films I've watched over the last two weeks (mostly documentaries, shorts and Licorice Pizza), as well as the various guild awards that have been announced the last few weeks.

Enter my Winner Prediction Contest (closes Noon ET Mar 27): https://forms.gle/Ssw3rquzRTBujWWv9

Vote for the Deathies Awards (closes 6PM UK time Mar 22): https://forms.gle/SDJzD9QFwFRXi8W69

Current Status: 34/38 Features | 10/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 16 - Catching Up
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft ???
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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[S2022E10] Don't Sweat the Technique - [Lunana / Cyrano / Eyes of Tammy Faye / Cruella / House of Gucci]

On this (moving delayed) episode of the podcast, we go through some Costume and Makeup nominees (as well as catching up on Lunana from last week). Plus news about the Academy of Death Racers Deathies!

Current Status: 30/38 Features | 0/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 9 - Documentaries
  • Mar 16 - Catching Up on Best Picture
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft ???
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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[S2022E9] A Whole Wide World of Film - [Worst Person in the World / Parallel Mothers / Hand of God / Flee / Being the Ricardos / Spencer]

In this episode of the podcast we talk about films from beyond the US's borders with nominees from the International Feature Film category (as well as a few not in the category but still from abroad), as well as some pre-nominee films I watched for Acting categories.

Check out my recent appearance on the Contra Zoom Pod: https://contrazoompod.com/184-2022-oscars-the-nightmare-of-king-dune/

Current Status: 27/38 Features | 0/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 9 - Shorts
  • Mar 16 - Documentaries
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft ???
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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[S2022E8] We Definitely Talk About Animated Feature Films [Raya and the Last Dragon / Luca / Encanto / Flee / Mitchells vs the Machines] + VFX

On this episode of the podcast we talk about the nominees for Best Feature Animated Film - What makes for a good feature animated film and where do they fall short? Plus a quick round of some VFX nominees since we're talking about Disney films

Current Status: 23/38 Features | 0/15 Shorts

This Season's Schedule

  • Dec 22 - Oscars Shortlists
  • Jan 12 - Streaming Nominees (The Power of the Dog / Don't Look Up / Tick Tick Boom / Being the Ricardos) ft AODR
  • Jan 19 - Genre Nominees (Dune / West Side Story / Nightmare Alley / The Tragedy of Macbeth) ft Alex Atienza
  • Jan 26 - Coming of Age Nominees (Belfast / Licorice Pizza / KIng Richard / CODA) ft Classic Movies Live
  • Feb 2 - Nominations Predictions ft Contra Zoom Pod
  • Feb 9 - Nominations Reactions + the Race is On
  • Feb 16 - Animated Films
  • Feb 23 - International Films
  • Mar 2 - Technical Nominations
  • Mar 9 - Shorts
  • Mar 16 - Documentaries
  • Mar 23 - Predicting the Winners ft ???
  • Mar 30 - Season Wrap Up

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