The Next Best Picture Podcast

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2009 retrospective has begun!! And we're kicking things off with Scott Cooper's film directorial debut, which won Jeff Bridges his Oscar, "Crazy Heart," which also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, and Colin Farrel...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture The Next Best Series Podcast is back as Nadia Dalimonte and Giovanni Lago join me to discuss the latest series, shows, and awards season updates for all things television! On this return episode, we discuss the shows which d...

"Anora" is our latest Oscar Best Picture winner. At the 97th Academy Awards, Sean Baker's film won 5 awards in total, including Best Director, Actress for Mikey Madison, Original Screenplay, and Film Editing. Co-producer Alex Coco was kind enough following the awards season to sit with us and reflect on the Best Picture win, the reaction from audiences towards the movie for good and for bad, and w...

For Episode 433, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Cody Dericks, Giovanni Lago, and Will Mavity to discuss the Oscar contenders we are most looking forward to in 2025. We also talk about the end of the SXSW Film Festival and the movies some of us had the privilege of seeing there. Both topics tie into the polls as we reveal the winner of last week's poll, asking, "Which Films From SXSW 2025 Are You M...

For this week's main podcast review, Nadia Dalimonte, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago, and I are here to discuss the latest film from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, "Black Bag," starring Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abella, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke & Pierce Brosnan. Written by David Koepp and set within the British world of spies where trust is scarce, t...

"Novocaine" stars Jack Quaid as Nathan Caine, a bank executive with the inability to feel pain who goes out to rescue his co-worker after a group of bank robbers takes her hostage. The film has received positive reviews for its comedy, action, and charming lead performance from Jack Quaid. Directors Dan Berk & Robert Olsen were both kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work...

"Misericordia" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Premiere section, where it competed for the Queer Palm. It received positive reviews and later went to screen at the Telluride and New York Film Festivals (where this interview took place). Director/Writer Alain Guiraudie was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen...

"The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" has had a long road to release, and there was a time when many weren't sure if it would get a theatrical release. It is the first fully animated and theatrically released film in the Looney Tunes franchise based on entirely original material. The voice of the iconic characters Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, Emmy Award-winning actor Eric Bauza, was kind...

For Episode 432, I am joined by Dan Bayer and Giovanni Lago to discuss the fallout of the 97th Academy Awards and all the online discourse that came along with it. We also talk about the beginning of the SXSW Film Festival and the movies that have been screened there so far. We also reveal the winner of last week's poll, asking, "Which Oscar Win Made You The Happiest Last Night?" and ask this week...

For this week's main podcast review, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago, Brendan Hodges, Tom O'Brien, and I are here to discuss and review the latest film from Academy Award-winning South Korean filmmaking Bong Joon Ho, his much-anticipated follow-up to his historic Best Picture Oscar-winning film, "Parasite," an adaptation of the 2022 sci-fi novel "Mickey 7," titled "Mickey 17," starring Robert Pattinson...

"Eephus" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its deliberately paced, sentimental, and charming look at the final game of an amateur New England baseball league before their stadium is demolished. Director and co-writer Carson Lund was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below....

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture The 97th Academy Awards are officially over. Another awards season is behind us, and it was indeed a night to remember with some tight races, deserved wins, and a respectful ceremony that honored the heroes of the LA fires a...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture 'Twas the night before Oscar, and over in Los Angeles, I'm having some last-minute thoughts and hesitations about my winner predictions for the 97th Academy Awards. Naturally, I felt the NBP Film Community would feel the sam...

For this week's main podcast review, Sara Clements, Tom O'Brien, and I are here to discuss and review the latest film from Alex Parkinson, "Last Breath," starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, and Cliff Curtis. Based on a true story, the survival thriller film follows a group of deep-sea divers who race to rescue a stranded teammate after an accident. It is a remake of Parkinson's own 2019...

"Last Breath" is a survival thriller film based on a true story, directed and co-written by Alex Parkinson, about a group of deep-sea divers who race to rescue a stranded teammate after an accident. A remake of his own 2019 documentary, the film stars Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, and Cliff Curtis. Parkinson was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, wh...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Two-time Emmy Award-winner, American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch wrote for the Academy Awards from 1989 to 2014 and was the head writer for his final fifteen years. He was kind enough to come onto our...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Last night, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) held their 31st annual awards ceremony, rewarding the best acting in film and television for 2024. For the third year in a row, the ceremony was streamed through Netflix. There were...

For Episode 431, I am joined by Nadia Dalimonte, Josh Parham, Daniel Howat, Cody Dericks, Tom O'Brien, and Will Mavity. This is it. It's time for us to deliver our final winner predictions for the 97th Academy Awards, which will be held this Sunday, March 2nd. Tune in as we discuss all 23 categories in detail and use all of the information from this season's precursors to make the best predictions...

For this week's main podcast review, Sara Clements, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Tom O'Brien, and I are here to discuss and review the latest film from Osgood Perkins, "The Monkey," starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott & Elijah Wood. Hot off the success of "Longlegs," Perkins decides to switch gears and adapt the 1980 Stephen Kin...

"The Monkey" is the latest horror offering from acclaimed director Osgood Perkins ("Longlegs"). Based on the 1980 short story by Stephen King, the film stars Theo James as twin brothers whose lives are turned upside down by a cursed toy monkey that causes random, horrific deaths. The film has garnered positive reviews for its mixture of gnarly horror and absurd black comedy. Actor Theo James was k...

"Universal Language" had its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received universally positive reviews and went on to be the Canadian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. It may not have received the final Oscar nomination, but now the film is currently playing in theaters, and Director/Co-Writer Matthew Ran...

"Incident" examines the 2018 shooting of Harith "Snoop" Augustus by Chicago police officer Dillan Halley through a series of bodycam and surveillance footage montages. The film reconstructs the incident and its aftermath by piecing together perspectives from multiple sources—such as surveillance cameras, CCTV, dashboard cams, and body-worn cameras—into a synchronized split-screen presentation. Dir...

"Anuja" had its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its story of a gifted nine-year-old girl who, alongside her sister Palak, faces a life-changing opportunity that tests their bond and mirrors the struggles of girls worldwide. Philosopher-turned-filmmaker Adam J. Graves and producer Suchitra Mattai were both kind enough to spend some time speaki...

"The Last Ranger" had its premiere at the Pan African Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its story of rhino poaching and conservation efforts in Amakhala Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa, during the pandemic. Based on actual life events, the story was brought to the producers by David S. Lee after witnessing the results of a poaching attack. Director Cindy Lee & Producer...

"Conclave" had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and was nominated for a bunch of prizes this awards season. Most recently, it received 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, won the Art Directors Guild for Contemporary Feature Film, won the Costume Designers Guild for Excellence in Contemporary Film, and won 4 BAFTA Film Award...