The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Suncoast" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where the film's lead star, Nico Parker, won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance. Based on first-time feature Director/Writer Laura Chinn's own life, the film is a dramatic, humane, and, at times, funny experience that received positive reviews from critics for its performances from Parker, Laura Li...

"Perfect Days" had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the festival's Best Actor prize for Japanese star Kōji Yakusho. It would go on to be selected by Japan as their entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards and would eventually receive the Oscar nomination. As the film expanded to more theaters, Academy Award-nominated director and co-writ...

"Godzilla Minus One" was one of 2023's most surprising success stories. The film grossed over $105 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese "Godzilla" film of all time; it crossed over into the U.S., where it received an overwhelmingly positive response from critics and now has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects making it the first film in the 70-year-old franchis...

As we attempt to catch up with all of the Oscar-nominated films, one that escaped our regular podcast schedule upon its theatrical release here in the U.S. was Takashi Yamazaki's critically acclaimed "Godzilla Minus One" starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Yuki Yamada & Kuranosuke Sasaki. With many calling it the best Godzilla film ever made, th...

"Orion And The Dark" is an animated feature film based on the children's book of the same name by Emma Yarlett. Written for the screen by Academy Award-winner Charlie Kaufman, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and animated by Mikros Animation, the film is a dark but honest fable for children and adults about overcoming childhood fears. Stars Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, director Sean Charma...

For Episode 379, I am joined by Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, Giovanni Lago & guest Katie Luxford. This week, we're touching on the latest developments in the Oscar race, previewing the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, revealing the 2023 NBP Film Community Awards nominations, and more. Tune in as we discuss these topics, go over the polls, give our reactions to the trailers for "Th...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Giovanni Lago. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from "the twisted mind of" Matthew Vaughn, "Argylle," starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena & Samuel L. Jackson. With a $200 price tag, big Hollywood names, a marketing...

"Fitting In" premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival (originally titled "Bloody Hell"), where it received strong reviews for its approach to modern femininity, with particular praise directed towards the leading performance from Maddie Ziegler. Director/Writer Molly McGlynn, Ziegler and her co-star Emily Hampshire were kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their experiences making...

THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For our latest throwback review, we remember the film that substantially accelerated Christopher Nolan's career, his innovative, indie breakout and Oscar-nominated hit film "Memento" starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe P...

"How To Have Sex" premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and won the Un Certain Regard prize. After playing at other film festivals and opening in the U.K., it's finally releasing here in the U.S. this weekend. Director and screenwriter Molly Manning Walker and the film's lead star Mia McKenna-Bruce were both kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with...

For Episode 378, I am joined by Alyssa Christian, Dan Bayer, Tom O'Brien & Danilo Castro. After our adventures at the Sundance Film Festival, the Next Best Picture Podcast is back to discuss the fallout of the Oscar nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which is set to occur on March 10th. How did we do on our predictions? What were the big takeaways this year? Tune in as we discuss that...

It's that time of the year! It's our annual Sundance Film Festival recap podcast. For the 2024 film festival, we gathered a group of people from outside NBP who were in-person at the festival and covered it online. Tomris Laffly, Murtada Elfadl, Jillian Chilingerian & Sydney Volpe are joining me for this packed episode. Please take a listen as we reveal our top favorite films from the festival and...

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 Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid were up nice and early yesterday to announce the nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards. As per usual, there were many surprises, shocking omissions, and lots of high emotions from the Next...

"Origin" had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for adapting Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Academy Award-nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who plays Wilkerson in the film, was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her role, working with writer/director Ava...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Ema Sasic, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Daniel Howat. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from Ava DuVernay, "Origin," starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Niecy Nash-Betts, Nick Offerman & Blair Underwood. Making its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden...

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The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were held last night after being delayed due to the actors' and writers' strikes from last year. While Matt Neglia could not be present to host due to his traveling schedule, Alyssa Christian, Giovanni Lago, and I were able to watch the show live and hop on the podcast immediately following the show to deliver our instant reactions to the winners and the cerem...

"Rustin" had its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, where its leading star, Colman Domingo, received the best reviews of his career, bringing the untold story of Bayard Rustin to the screen. Grammy-winning musical artist Lenny Kravitz contributed to the film by writing the end credits song "Road To Freedom," which was nominated for a Critics Choice and Golden Globe Award and is sh...

"Flamin' Hot" premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and was later released on Hulu and Disney+ over the summer. Academy Award-winner Diane Warren has been nominated at the Oscars 14 times in competitive categories. This year, she's shortlisted for writing the song for the film titled "The Fire Inside," performed by Becky G. Nominated already by the Society of...

For Episode 377, I am joined by Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, Daniel Howat & Giovanni Lago. It's a massive episode this week! Because Cody and I will be at Sundance starting Wednesday this week, we're delivering our final Oscar nomination predictions earlier than expected to you all following the nominations for PGA, DGA, and SAG, but without the final BAFTA nominations. Hopefully, our ove...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Dan Bayer & Giovanni Lago. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from David Ayer, "The Beekeeper," starring Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, Phylicia Rashad & Jeremy Irons. It's another action film led by Jason Statham, released in the month of January, filled with a lot of bee-puns. Were we expec...

"Barbie" became a cultural phenomenon in 2023, becoming the year's highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman. Greta Gerwig may have already had a devoted fanbase following "Lady Bird" and "Little Women," but her success and impact on the industry truly exploded with her latest film. Gerwig was kind enough to spend some time talking with Ema Sasic about the film....

"Poor Things" had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion and received some of the best reviews for a Yorgos Lanthimos film. It's a technical marvel in almost every regard, and throughout this entire awards season, we've conducted several interviews with the team involved in the making of the Golden Globe award-winning film from nearly all aspects...

"Air" had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it received solid reviews for its writing, ensemble cast, and Affleck's smooth direction, making the true story about the development of a sports shoe entertaining. The film has earned three Critics Choice Nominations for Best Ensemble, Editing for Academy Award William Goldenberg (who won an Oscar for editing Ben Affleck's Best Pi...