The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Killers Of The Flower Moon" had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where its leading star, Lily Gladstone, received universal praise for her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart. She has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama and is currently nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Actress. At the time of this recording, Gladstone had just recently learned she had been...

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 Following the airing of the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards on CBS, Dan Bayer, Alyssa Christian, Giovanni Lago, and Will Mavity hopped on the podcast to deliver their immediate reactions to the winners from the evening celeb...

For Episode 376, I am joined by Josh Parham & Dan Bayer. This week, we're reacting to the BAFTA Longlists, giving our predictions on who we think will win at the Critics Choice Awards next Sunday. The predictions don't stop there, though, as we also provide our nomination predictions for PGA, DGA, and SAG, which are all announcing this week. We also discuss more awards season announcements this we...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago & Will Mavity. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from J.A. Bayona, "Society Of The Snow," starring a cast of primarily unknown actors and newcomers including Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Fed...

"Nyad" had its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, where its leading star, Annette Bening, was meant to receive a tribute award for her career and performance (she will receive this honor tomorrow). It garnered solid reviews for her work as the world-renowned swimmer Diana Nyad, whose 2013 attempt to swim the Straits of Florida at the age of 64 is a record that still gets talked ab...

For Episode 38 of The Next Best Series Podcast, I'm joined by Alyssa Christian, Giovanni Lago & guest Joey Moser. After a long hiatus, we have returned to deliver our final winner predictions for the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards set to take place (finally) on January 15th. We also talk about our favorite television shows from 2023 before we dive into who we think will win in the writing, dire...

"Cassandro" had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Gael García Bernal's lead performance as a gay Mexican luchador struggling to balance his professional and personal life in 1980s El Paso, Texas. Gael was kind enough to lend us a few minutes of his time to speak about his role in the film, his love for lucha libra, how intimate sex scenes...

"The Holdovers" had its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, where it received universal acclaim, with many claiming it to be Alexander Payne's best film since "Sideways." The film reunites him with that 2004 film's star Paul Giamatti in a role that has earned him Critics Choice and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor, while his co-star Da'Vine Joy Randolph has received the same...

"Maestro" had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion. It is the second film to be directed by Academy Award-nominee Bradley Cooper following "A Star Is Born" and features him and Academy Award-nominee Carey Mulligan transforming into Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre. The two were kind enough to spend a little bit...

"Ferrari" had its world premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion. It would later go on to close the New York Film Festival, and now, it's playing in theaters from NEON. Legendary filmmaker Michael Mann examines the life of Enzo Ferrari in 1957 when his life, both professionally and personally, was on the brink of collapse. Academy Award-winner...

For Episode 375, I am joined by Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, Tom O'Brien, Will Mavity & Giovanni Lago. This week, we're saying goodbye to 2023 and previewing the films we're most looking forward to in 2024. We also give our predictions for who we feel will be victorious next weekend at the Golden Globe Awards, discuss more of our favorite movies of 2023, go over other news within awards season, and mo...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Brendan Hodges, Dan Bayer, Danilo Castro & Tom O'Brien. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from legendary director Michael Mann, "Ferrari," starring Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O'Connell & Patrick Dempsey. A biopic less about the cars and the racing and more about a man whose life is on the...

"The Color Purple" adapts the stage musical for the big screen with one of the best ensemble casts of the year. Fellow friends and former Juilliard acting students Danielle Brooks and Corey Hawkins were kind enough to spend time speaking with us about their work in the film playing Sofia and Harpo, respectively. Brooks, in particular, has already been nominated for a Critics Choice and Golden Glob...

"All Of Us Strangers" had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where it received universally positive reviews for its beautifully intimate story of a middle-aged gay man reconciling with the past trauma of losing his parents at a young age, all trying to form a new connection with his neighbor in a mostly empty high-rise apartment building. The Next Best Picture team conducted a seri...

For this week's third podcast review, I am joined by Alyssa Christian, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Cody Dericks. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from Andrew Haigh, "All Of Us Strangers," starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy. Based on the novel "Strangers" by Taichi Yamada, Haigh has injected this supernatural, intimate, beautiful love story with his own personal pers...

"The Iron Claw" tells the unbelievable true story of the Von Erich wrestling family, from their soaring heights in the territory days of wrestling in Dallas, Texas, during the 1980s to their crushing lows, which resulted in unimaginable tragedy for the whole family. Director/Writer Sean Durkin felt a tremendous responsibility in bringing this well-known wrestling story to the big screen, and his c...

For this week's second podcast review, I am joined by Nadia Dalimonte, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago & Ricky Valero. Today, we are reviewing the latest film from Sean Durkin, "The Iron Claw," starring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany & Lily James. Based on the unbelievable, tragic, but inspiring story of the Von Erich wrestling family, the film presents o...

"The Boys In The Boat" is a biographical sports drama directed by George Clooney, based on the 2013 book of the same name by Daniel James Brown. It tells the story of the University of Washington's rowing crew representing the United States in the men's eight at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin against the Nazis. Actors Callum Turner & Joel Edgerton were kind enough to speak with Will Mavit...

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 reminisce and celebrate the 20th-anniversary of the third and final part in Academy Award-winner Peter Jackson's groundbreaking fantasy trilogy, "The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Kin...

For Episode 374, I am joined by Josh Parham, Cody Dericks & Giovanni Lago. This week, we're discussing the Oscar Shortlists for the 96th Academy Awards, our favorite movies of 2023, other news within awards season, and more! We also go over the polls, give our reactions to the trailers for "Love Lies Bleeding" and "The Kitchen," answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! Thank you all for your...

"Freud's Last Session" had its world premiere at the AFI Film Festival, where it received solid reviews for its two central performances. It features Anthony Hopkins, playing Sigmund Freud, who is near death and has one last session with C.S. Lewis, played by Matthew Goode. The two deliver intellectual, powerhouse work in this (mostly) chamber-piece drama. Goode was kind enough to spend some time...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Tom O'Brien. Today, we are reviewing "The Color Purple" starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Halle Bailey & Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice...

After wowing audiences with her feature directorial debut "The Edge Of Seventeen" in 2016, writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig turned her eye toward Judy Blume's influential coming-of-age book and adapted it into the critically beloved "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." The film had its world premiere in Los Angeles in April and has been picking up several wins throughout this awards season, i...

"Migration" is the latest animated film from Illumination, the animation studio responsible for the "Despicable Me" films, "Sing," "The Secret Life Of Pets," and most recently, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie." Director Benjamin Renner was tasked with bringing his experience working in traditionally hand-drawn animated films to deliver something different for the studio. Teaming with "The White Lotus...

For this week's third podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Alyssa Christian & Danilo Castro. Today, we are reviewing the second directorial effort from Academy Award-nominee Bradley Cooper with "Maestro," starring Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Sarah Silverman, Matt Bomer, Josh Hamilton & Maya Hawke. A Netflix biopic less about the music of world-renowned conductor Leonardo Bernstein an...