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Apr 2022
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Four Favorites: Oscars Fever with Kate H...

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The Black List’s Kate Hagen and Next Best Picture’s Matt Neglia join hosts Gemma and Slim to send off awards season once and for all with our four favorite Oscar-nominated movies of the 94th Academy Awards, whether or not they won (most of them didn’t): Spencer, CODA, Nightmare Alley and Cyrano.

Plus: Kate has has a word with Jane Campion in the Oscars press room, Slim rates CODA thirty stars, Matt is all over Kristen Stewart’s work as Diana, Princess of Wales, Gemma is obsessed with the production of Joe Wright’s Cyrano, our pitch to Netflix and Apple for Troy Kotsur’s next starring role, Bradley Cooper brings full-frontal back, and just how many corgis can the Queen fit into her car?

Links:
The Letterboxd list of films mentioned in this episode; Next Best Picture, Next Best Picture Podcast, Next Best Picture ‘happiest nomination’ poll; Brian Formo’s awards season story; Business Insider story on Netflix’s awards campaign; Letterboxd Most Picture 2022; Letterboxd 2021 Year in Review; Dune Pod; 70mm Pod; Isaac Feldberg’s Letterboxd Q&A with Nightmare Alley’s Production Designer Tamara Deverell

Letterboxd lists mentioned:
Male Frontal Nudity In Cinema; Man Ass

Reviews mentioned:
Reviews of Spencer by Allison and Jay

Credits:
This episode was recorded in Auckland, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania, and edited by Slim. Facts by Jack. Booker: Linda Moulton. Transcript by Sophie Shin. Theme: ‘Vampiros Dancoteque’ by Moniker.

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