The Awards Girlies

Matt and Marisa continue with some of the heavy-hitter categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder if Will Smith will get his career Oscar, laud Andrew Garfield's theater kid energy and highlight some actors they wish had been nominated.

Matt and Marisa deliver their second episode of the day with their first heavy-hitter category: Best Director. In the episode, they take the chance to once again praise Steven Spielberg's work with West Side Story , wonder if Jane Campion may have sabotaged her front-runner status and highlight a few snubs.

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of all of this year's Oscar nominees with one of Marisa's perennial favorite's, Documentary Feature. In the episode, the lament not being able to see Writing with Fire before recording, talk about how essential Summer of Soul is to music history and Marisa brings up a movie that makes Matt say absolutely not.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss the remaining shorts categories thanks, as always, to ShortsTV . In the episode, they bemoan how simplistic many of the live action nominees are, wish that some of the documentary shorts dug a little deeper and pray Lead Me Home doesn't pull a win.

Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with a trio of technical categories: Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. In the episode, they go to bat for some unsung feats in cinematography, try to understand why the Academy likes Nightmare Alley so much and once again argue that just because a movie has the most editing doesn't mean it has the best editin...

Matt and Marisa continue their discussions of this year's nominees with two more technical categories: Visual Effect and Sound. In the episode, they talk about the mind-melting sound in Dune, complain about having to endure Free Guy and are finally forced to talk about Spider-man: No Way Home.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with two categories that the Oscars only half care about airing live: Costume Design and Makeup and Hairstyling. In the episode, they try to figure out how to understand Cyrano, Matt compares Cruella to Drag Race and they both find an excuse to profess their love for Malignant.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the writing categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. In the episode, Matt once again defends King Richard , Marisa gets indulgent in the Adapted category and they both talk about how excited they are that Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for The Lost Daughter . Come back tomorrow for the Makeup and Hairstyling and Cost...

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdown of this year's Oscar nominees with International Feature. In the episode, they rave about Japan's Drive My Car , discuss the surprise delight of Bhutan's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom and wonder once again if Flee may split its own votes.

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of every nominee in the 2022 Oscar race with the animated categories. For the Feature category, Marisa rips apart The Mitchells vs the Machines , Matt mounts a surprising defense for Raya and the Last Dragon and they both wonder if Flee might split its own votes. For the Short category, they discuss how not kid-friendly this year's nominees are, their frus...

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual category breakdowns with two of the most chaotic categories: Best Original Song and Best Original Score. In the Song Category, they praise Billie Eilish's work for No Time to Die , dare to talk about Encanto 's Bruno and wonder how far Diane Warren will go to finally win her long overdue Oscar. For Score, the pair begin their multi-episode praise of Dune , com...

Matt and Marisa return to dissect the totally bonkers Screen Actors Guild Nominations. Marisa feels to blame for Kristen Stewart's big snub and Matt revels in the chaos. Plus, they discuss the alleged return of the Oscar host.

Matt and Marisa return to finally gush about West Side Story , discuss the final awards contenders of the year and sweat about the future of theater-going.

Matt and Marisa return to catch up on all the current movies in the awards race, from the surprise of the little-seen The Last Duel to the disappointments of House of Gucci and everything in between.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss all the movies Matt saw at NYFF, a few non-NYFF releases and Marisa finally gets to enjoy what a disaster Dear Evan Hansen is.

Matt and Marisa kick off the Oscar season by breaking down the implosion of the Golden Globes and have a spoiler-filled discussion of the movie of the summer, In the Heights .

On the final episode of the season, Matt and Marisa are joined by The Pop Break’s editor-in-chief, Bill Bodkin, and the winner of the site’s Oscar pool, Sean Cordy, to recap the highlights and disappointments of the 93rd Academy Awards.

Our series breaking down this hear’s categories ends with the big one: Best Picture.

In the penultimate episode of the season, Matt and Marisa dive into the Best Director nominees.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about two of their perennial favorite categories: Best Supporting and Lead Actresses.

Matt and Marisa begin to dive into the BIg 6 awards with two categories they usually don't care about but do this year: actors.

In their final episode before the Big 6 Categories, Matt and Marisa discuss the highs and lows of the International Feature nominees.

Matt and Marisa dive into this year’s strong group of documentary feature nominees.

Matt and Marisa wrap up the technical categories with the nominees for Best Achievement in Production Best Achievement in Cinematography.

Thanks again to ShortsTV, Matt and Marisa got to watch all the nominated shorts and they break them down in this supersized episode.