The Awards Girlies

Well, that's all folks... Matt and Marisa are joined by Alex Marcus to talk about the 2025 Academy Awards! Were they charmed by Conan? Were they surprised by the Anora sweep? What did they think of Timmy's yellow suit? Find out!

Surprise! Matt and Marisa are back because they forgot to do a category: Best Sound. In the episode, they discuss why Wicked is superior to other recent live-sung musicals and marvel at the work it must take to create all the sound from scratch in something like The Wild Robot .

Matt and Marisa wrap up their individual category breakdowns with two of the biggest. In the episode, they discuss how The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez went from front runners to also-rans, how Sean Baker's recognition feels like it's been a long time coming and once again encourage you to see The Count of Monte Cristo .

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with their favorite categories: Actresses. In the episode, Marisa confesses to being a longtime Ariana Grande fan, Matt speaks for both of them on how great Isabella Rossellini and they talk about how exciting the Lead race is.

Matt and Marisa tackle their first set of major categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder how a Sing Sing actor failed to make the list, discuss Succession brain and disagree on the Timothée of it all.

Matt and Marisa finish off the technical categories. In the episode, the marvel at the visual in Dune: Part Two ,and talk about their love for two ape-centric movies.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Cinematography and Editing. In the episode, they discuss whether The Brutalist was the visual marvel it promised to be, highlight the subtle comedy of Conclave and Marisa continues her hate campaign against Nosferatu .

Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with the writing nominations. In the episode, they discuss how cool The Substance is, marvel that September 5 didn't get more nominations and once again bring up The Count of Monte Cristo .

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the music categories. In the episode, Matt wonders how Wicked 's score earned a nomination but Dune 2 didn't, Marisa names some wild alternate nominees for Song and they both lament a major snub for Score.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technical categories. In the episode, Marisa begrudgingly compliments Nosferatu , Matt jokes about dressing his bridesmaids as the Bene Gesserit from Dune and they both wonder what Gladiator II is doing anywhere near the Oscars.

Marisa and Matt break down three more 2024 Oscar categories: Best International Film, Best Animated Film, and Best Original Score.

Matt and Marisa launch their annual breakdown of all the Oscar nominees with the Live Action, Documentary and Animated Short Film categories. Thanks again to ShortsTV for providing us with viewing links for all the films. The showcases hit theaters 2/14.

In this episode, Matt and Marisa reflect on this year's Golden Globes (Demi is running! They ate pasta and gossiped while watching together!). They also react to the SAG and DGA nominations and the current status of the big six Oscar races. Tangents include: Marisa's dad's love for Maria, our enthusiasm for The Fall Guy, and the random Amazon Prime Original Series that Matt's fiancé loves.

Marisa and Matt sound off on the silliest award show: the Golden Globes, which just announced their nominations this week. Tune in to hear them debate what counts as a "comedy" these days, try to predict whether The Substance is a serious Oscar contender, and speculate on whether or not an icon of 1970s cinema will make an appearance on the red carpet (which icon? the answer will surprise you).

Marisa and Matt are joined by Tom Moore to discuss some of the highlights from this year's New York Film Festival including Anora, Emilia Perez, Queer, Maria, and The Brutalist.

Staff writer Sean Cordy joins co-host Marisa Carpico to talk TIFF. In the episode, we discuss the films he saw and reviewed, the overall experience and how the festival shifted the Oscar conversation.

In the kick off to our season, PopBreak podcaster and writer Sam Niles joins Marisa to recap his second year at the Venice Film Festival. He gives a rundown of all the films he saw as well as an overview of what it's like to attend the Fest.

Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of The Pop Break's annual Oscar pool, Kat Manos and Chris Diggins to chat surprises, highs, lows and Kimmel's hosting performance.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their annual category breakdowns with their weirdest grouping yet: Animated Feature, Directing and Picture. In the episode, they discuss the movie that had them recording down to the wire, Christopher Nolan's momentum and whether anything can beat Oppenheimer at this point.

Matt and Marisa start to wrap up their category breakdowns with some of the favorites each year, Best Lead and Supporting Acting. On the Actress side, they discuss the dead heat between Emma Stone in Poor Things and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon . For the Actors, they wonder if Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers might pull a win out from under Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer .

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with one of their perennial favorite episodes of the season, the Animated, Live Action and Documentary shorts.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with some of the harder films to watch this year, Documentary and International Feature. In the episode, they rave about seeing Perfect Days together at NYFF and Marisa tries to hide her bias in the Doc category.

Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matt and Marisa deliver another supersized and super rushed episode of their category breakdowns for this year's Oscar nominees. This time, they rave about the costumes and sets in Barbie and Poor Things , talk editing and wonder why Napoleon keeps popping up.

Matt and Marisa kick of this year's category breakdowns with a supersized episode. They cover both Screenplay categories, both Adapted and Original, Best Score and the category that haunts them every year, Best Original Song.