All This and the Oscars Too Podcast

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the Gotham nominations and the Wicked reactions. In the second half, we name our favorite 20 Best Picture winners. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Heading out of October, the Middleburg fest resulted in two winners for the Audience Award - Hamnet and Rental Family. The AFI Fest is coming to a close and we're still trying to figure out where One Battle After Another will land Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the Best Picture race and why Hamnet might be the one to beat. Does emotion drive the Best Picture race or does Film Twitter? Can One Battle After Another overcome box office failure? Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the impact of Marty Supreme on the race and where each category now stands. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Mark Johnson joins Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen to dive into the Best Picture race and the other categories to discuss the frontrunners and whether or not box office hurts One Battle After Another or not. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen run through Best Director, the acting categories and Best Picture looking for our frontrunners and challengers. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk Oscar predictions plus paying tribute to Robert Redford on his death at the age of 89. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk about One Battle After Another and how it landed with the critics. Does that make it an Oscar frontrunner? Is it the Oscar frontrunner? Have a listen. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen have a long conversation about Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Scott Kernene attended and viewed all the movies, both seen and unseen. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone continues the Oscar Primer series by talking about the tastemakers who head to film festivals everywhere and help shape the Oscar race. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone begins the weekly podcast series leading up to the 2026 Oscars, featuring new guests Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen. From AwardsDaily.com . Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Mark Johnson joins Sasha Stone to discuss how important stats are to predicting the Oscars. We also go through our preliminary predictions before Venice and Telluride. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

The film critics dominate the Oscars now in a way they never did in the past. But what defines a critic now? Almost anyone can write reviews and shape the Oscar race. So what are they? How much power do they have? Are they good or bad for the Oscars? Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

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Jeff Wells recounts his trip to Cannes and the films he saw that he liked, and which ones will land in the Oscar race. It's a quick summary of Jeff's thoughts while Sasha mostly listens. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

AwardsDaily's Sasha Stone and Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells get together for a conversation about what's happening right now. What is Sinners about? What are its Oscar chances? Also talk about David Mamet's Henry Johnson and the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone and Jeff Wells take us back in time to discuss Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider's Last Tango in Paris, plus we discuss how the Oscar game can sometimes kill movies. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone is joined by Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeff Wells to discuss all of the movies coming up this year. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone is joined by Jeff Wells to discuss the Oscars which gave almost all of its top prizes to Anora. We also talk about the upcoming slate for 2025. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone and Mark Johnson lay down their final Oscar predictions for the 97th Academy Awards. Who will win, how they might win and why this is such an unpredictable year. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone is joined by Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to discuss the SAG predictions, what might win, what could win, what should win. We close it out with a brief discussion about White Lotus. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

This episode is sponsored by Focus Features and Conclave. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone and Jeff Wells discuss what was a surprising win by Anora to take the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild in one night. Between that and winning the Critics Choice, does this mean it goes all the way? Probably, yes. We discussed how we knew it would and predicted it when almost no one else did. Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone is joined by Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere to talk about the Emilia Perez disaster and what this means for "woke" Hollywood now. Are the Oscar chances destroyed? Can the movie recover and when can we start talking like normal people again? Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe

Sasha Stone an Jeff Wells discuss the Oscar nominations and lament the Oscars pushing Emilia Perez on woke grounds. When does it all end? Get full access to AwardsDaily's Daily at awardsdaily.substack.com/subscribe