Mike, Mike, and Oscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show . SINNERS OSCARS PROFILE: . Spoiler-Free Review: Historic Box Office/Review Scores and WB Redemption - 2:06 Coogler’s “Studio Ruining” Deal - 11:52 The Fumbling of Marketing Black Helmed Films Internationally - 15:00 Expectations/What is an Oscars Movie? - 18:43 . Michael B Jordan - 23:11 Casting/Supporting Performances - 25:37 Ludwig Göransson and Music - 28:06...

What is This Episode? - Top of Show Mike1 Almost Died . NEW RULES FOR ACADEMY VOTING: New “Must Watch” Rule - 4:00 Academy Widows Can Go to Screenings - 12:08 Casting Gets a “Bake-Off” Shortlist - 14:13 The “Diane Warren” Rule - 18:07 PGA Deadlines Moved - 22:15 AI Finally Gets Rules That Aren’t Rules - 23:55 Oscars/Awards Schedule Finalized - 27:27 . MIKE1’S TAKE ON THE STUNTS OSCAR - 30:42 BARGA...

April’s box office bounce back is driven by A Minecraft Movie, and creatively, we have seen an upswing in the quality of 2025 films as well with Sinners, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Warfare, etc. In fact, AlsoMike delivers a baker’s dozen of new movie reviews in this episode. 3:10 - A Minecraft Movie: discussing the blockbuster box office, social media frenzy, and history of video game adaptation...

Christina Jeurling Birro of the outstanding podcast, Pop Culture Confidential joins us to discuss the Cannes Film Festival and the films announced in the lineup for its 78th edition. Plus, we happily begin with some talk about the new Oscars Category… Stunts! Finally, we are getting a Stunts Design Academy Award - 2:09 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE Christina’s history attending & covering the Cann...

From A24 through Warner Bros, we go studio by film studio and discuss their known film slates and focus on the undated films that could vie for Film Festival love. A24: Eddington, Highest 2 Lowest, The Entertainment System Is Down, etc - 2:21 Amazon/MGM: After the Hunt, Madden, Hedda - 16:12 Apple Original Films: The Lost Bus, F1 - 18:11 Bleecker Street & Briarcliff: The Wedding Banquet, Sneaks, e...

With Cinemacon in the rearview, we look ahead at the Fall & Winter Film Release Calendar and discuss the Oscars chances for all of the major films. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 2 - 1:03 September’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, One Battle After Another, etc - 7:41 October’s The Smashing Machine, After The Hunt, Good Fortune, etc - 18:04 November’s Bugonia, Wicked: For Good, Zootopia 2, etc - 32:0...

It’s a spring news catch-up episode! Conan & Nikki return as show hosts, Will Smith raps about the slap, and the Academy apologizes for their statement re: Hamdan Ballal. Plus, we dive into lots of Emmys, Sundance, studio shake-ups, and early takeaways from Cinemacon. Otherwise, sorry… the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood news dropped after we stopped recording on Tuesday night. So that’ll be discuss...

Mike1 returns to break down the Spring & Summer release calendar as we speculate which films could have Oscar chances, which films could have a chance to be hits for their studios, and which films the Mikes will enjoy watching most/least. Recent Oscar Noms from the Spring & Summer - 1:57 THE SPRING & SUMMER FILM CALENDAR: March Meltdown at the Box Office and a Death of a Unicorn Review - 4:22 Apri...

Andrew Morgan of Recent Activity & What’s On Netflix returns to MMO for this Best (& Worst) of the 2025 Film Year Special Episode. We begin with how we handled our Oscars Hangovers, and then dive into some preliminary talk about how critics got onto their high horses after watching The Electric State. NOTE: All reviews in this episode will be spoiler free, only getting into some plot premise infor...

Izzy of Be Kind Rewind returns to MMO to give her Oscars thoughts and, most importantly, take Mike1 to school! Be Kind Rewind Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@bkrewind Be Kind Rewind Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/bkrewind/posts Mike, Mike, and Oscar Linktree https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Variety's Chief Awards Editor Clayton Davis rejoins MMO to put a final bow on Oscars 2025...and cast the Awards Circuit Off-Broadway Conclave Play?! ***Spoiler Warning for Conclave at the end during the final question*** Make sure to check out Clayton's work at Variety! https://variety.com/author/clayton-davis/ https://variety.com/t/awards-circuit-podcast/

What Is This Episode - Top of Show . OSCARS 2025 RECAP EPISODE: Red Carpet Fashion Takes From 2 UnFashionable Mikes - 1:53 Pros/Cons of the Broadcast - 7:53 . Show Open/Conan’s Monologue - 15:46 Culkin Finishes His Supporting Actor Sweep - 20:51 Video Packages for BP Noms - 23:04 Flow Upsets in Animated Feature - 24:12 A 50:1 Winner in Animated Short!!! - 27:12 . Paul Tazewell Makes Costume Design...

What Is This Episode - Top of Show WELCOME THE DUKE, DAVID LONG! . OSCARS PREDICTION + GAMBLING PREVIEW SHOW: Explaining Odds + Welcoming Our Sponsor: Kalshi! - 2:02 . Sign Up kalshi.com/mmo and bet on the Oscars! . Best Picture: Anora v Conclave - Literally, Place Your Bets - 8:47 (Predictions - 22:43) Director: DGA All The Way? - 28:18 . Lead Actress: Odds + Any Love For Fernanda? - 33:36 Mikey...

What Is This Episode - Top of Show WELCOME SCOTT FEINBERG OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/author/scott-feinberg/ . THE FEINBERG FINAL W/ SCOTT FEINBERG!: Who’s Scott’s Best Picture Winner? - 3:11 How Scott Forecasts in Feinberg + The Role of SAG This Year - 10:40 So Lead Actress Will Be…?? - 16:40 . What Happened at DGA, and The Brutalist’s Burden - 20:43 Why This Year...

What Is This Episode - Top of Show WELCOME JAZZ TANGCAY OF VARIETY! https://variety.com/author/jazz-tangcay/ . ANNUAL ARTISANS CHAT WITH JAZZ TANGCAY!: Checking in on Jazz/Talking LA Post Fires - 1:17 Jazz Interviewing at the SBIFF - 4:29 The Emilia Perez Controversy in the Tech Categories - 9:10 The Brutalist’s AI Use and AI Going Forward - 10:40 . Dianne Warren - Now?! Finally?! - 13:25 The Make...

Here’s our instant reactions to the BAFTA winners including some potential Oscar Race shakeups in MAJOR categories, and we open with the stats to both prove & disprove that statement. BAFTA recent Oscar crossovers & this year has been drunk - 2:20 Conclave wins 4: Was it just a British thing? Will SAG clarify anything? - 4:26 The Brutalist wins 4: we guess lines & what British frogs are called - 8...

We review most of the Oscar Nominated Shorts, I’m Still Here & The Girl with the Needle, update some of the experts predictions heading into BAFTA, react to VES, SCL & Artios + we recap all of the Super Bowl Movie Trailers and more! Updated Predictions from Experts, Our Feel + M1’s Ted Talk on Oscars History - 1:29 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS REVIEWED: Live Action Betting Odds + Anuja on Netflix - 8:30...

Anora’s huge weekend at PGA, DGA, & CCA brings out the best and worst in all of the Oscars punditry (including us), and we must reckon with an entirely different race than we thought we’d be at heading into BAFTA and SAG. How Anora made honest men of us both - 1:34 Burning Questions on Anora’s Lead Actress & It’s Path To BP - 9:41 Stats on the Anora wins at CCA, PGA & DGA - 15:48 Jon M. Chu’s shoc...

The Gascon Emilia Perez controversies have some fallout, we have to review some trailers for Fantastic Four & Jurassic World + review some new movies like Companion & One of Them Days before we dive into a massive Sundance 2025 segment with Reviewing The Reviewers, Guess Which RT Pull Quote is fake and Mike1’s new sick and twisted stipulation on all of AlsoMike’s Reviews. AWARDS SEASON NEWS: Gasco...

The Gascon Tweets controversy has been a horrible new development in this awards season. Although we will not re-read any of these tweets, we feel it's very necessary to cover this issue from all angles. Brief Discussion on the Grammys - 1:17 KARLA SOFIA GASCON TWEETS CAUSE TERRIBLE CONTROVERSY: We don’t re-read Gascon’s Tweets. But here’s the overall timeline - 3:01 Fallout including Statements,...

This is OUR home-made awards show for the 2024-25 Awards Season, the 8th annual Mike, Mike and Oscars! And we’ve completely lost our minds this year. Enjoy. Though FYI there will be some lightly gooey mild spoilers about The Substance & Dune 2. THE RANDOM STUFF SECTION: Most Misleading Title - 2:42 Pervert Categories including Sex That Most Changed The World - 3:52 Movie We’re Most Upset We Didn’t...

The Oscar Noms Fallout might include a backlash to a major contender. Plus, we examine some nominee box office returns and catch up on many new trailers in this Oscar Race Checkpoint. OSCAR NOMS FALLOUT: Is there a backlash brewing against Emilia Perez? - 1:41 Other Nomination Firsts - 9:00 Feinberg’s First Winner Forecast - 11:12 BOX OFFICE REPORT: The Holiday Corridor, PVOD Projections & Oscar B...

What is This Episode? - Top of Show AlsoMike Crushed His Predictions! . OSCAR NOM REACTIONS: Best Picture May Be Down to the Final Four - 2:48 I’m Still Here and Nickel Boys Fill in Spots 9 + 10 - 8:27 . No Bergers in Director - 19:15 Actress Finally Clears Itself Up - 22:35 Actors Have Some Apprentice Surprises - 25:31 Supporting Actress Shows Strength for ACU - 29:25 . Screenplay Categories Focu...

We make our final Oscar Nomination Predictions for the 97th Academy Awards, hear about Mike’s dream, and laugh with us or at us, we don’t care, as long as we’re all laughing. Tallies & Changing Philosophies - 4:15 Best Picture & A Surprise in the 10 - 6:36 Director & Chalk Picks We Hope Happen - 24:57 Actor & Separate Surprises We Like - 27:10 Actress & A Lot of Serious Contenders In Play - 29:47...

Via a Cold Open, we explain how BAFTA & WGA nominations will hopefully offer a distraction for listeners as we all have heavy hearts amidst the wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Heavy hearts, but we’re grateful friends of our show are safe - 2:38 An update on the scope of the natural disaster - 3:38 Awards Season Delays thus far & good people stepping up to help - 5:53 BAFTA NOMINATIONS (+ WGA) B...