The Next Best Picture Podcast

"Top Gun: Maverick" has succeeded in every possible area of this industry, from critical to the box office to awards season. The over $1 billion grosser has been nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound. Oscar-nominated film editor Eddie Hamilton was kind enough to spend some time with Ema Sasic discussing his work and experience on the film, while...

"Puss In Boots: The Last Wish" has been one of the great success stories of 2022. Released near the end of the year with mild expectations, the film exceeded them in every single way, with audiences and critics responding rapturously to the film's characters, story, action, humor, and animation. Director Joel Crawford and Producer Mark Swift are riding high with nearly half a billion in box office...

The same year they won the World Cup, Argentina got nominated for an Academy Award! "Argentina, 1985" had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival and went on to have a successful film festival run before winning the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and receiving a nomination for Best International Feature Film at this year's Oscars. Director and co-writer Santiago M...

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 29th annual awards ceremony, rewarding the best acting in film and television for 2022. Because the show was without a broadcast partner, the ceremony was streamed for the...

For Episode 333, I am joined by Josh Parham, Nadia Dalimonte, Will Mavity, Giovanni Lago & Tom O'Brien. Today, we're delivering our predictions for the remaining guild award winners, including WGA, ACE, CAS, CDG, plus the Film Independent Spirit Awards! We also discuss the winners of the PGA Awards and reveal the winners of both the 2022 NBP Film Awards and the NBP Film Community Awards. We also g...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham, Meredith Loftus, Cody Dericks, Eve O'Dea & Danilo Castro. This week we're reviewing the latest film from Elizabeth Banks titled "Cocaine Bear" starring Keri Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale & Ray Liotta. A crazy, gnarly, and completely ridiculous...

Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale" had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it stunned audiences with its makeup transformation for actor Brendan Fraser. Makeup artist Adrien Morot has received many notices this awards season for his contribution toward the film, including a Makeup and Hairstylists Guild win, Critics Choice and BAFTA nominations, and is one of the recipients of an Osc...

2018's "Black Panther" was not nominated for Best Makeup & Hairstyling at the Oscars the year it went on to receive eight nominations, including Best Picture. However, with the sequel, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," the film managed to get nominated in categories it missed the first time, most notably Angela Bassett for Best Supporting Actress, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup & Hairstyling...

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're reviewing And Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Lang Sihung & Cheng Pei-pei. A worldwide phenomenon upon its release in...

"The Quiet Girl" had its world premiere at last year's Berlin International Film Festival and had a (no pun intended) quiet existence throughout the year until Ireland selected it as their entry for Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards. The film went on to receive the Oscar nomination for Ireland, the first for the country. Director/Writer Colm Bairéad was kind enough to t...

"Triangle Of Sadness" had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and won the prestigious Palme d'Or award, the second time director/writer Ruben Östlund ("Force Majeure") had won the prize after his acclaimed 2017 film "The Square." His latest feature film has been nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Östlund was kind enou...

"Marcel The Shell With Shoes On" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2021 and received universal acclaim for its story as the viral YouTube internet sensation transitioned to a feature film and the voice acting from Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini. A mixture of stop-motion animation and live-action, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. Producer and writ...

For Episode 332, I am joined by Lauren LaMagna, Giovanni Lago, Eve O'Dea, and Amy Smith. Today, we're delivering our predictions for what we think will win at the SAG Awards next Sunday. We also do our best to figure out what will happen with the PGA Awards, especially in the aftermath of the VES, ADG, DGA, and BAFTA Award winners, which we also discuss. Toward the end of the episode, we reveal ou...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Meredith Loftus, Cody Dericks, Daniel Howat & Isaiah Washington. This week we're reviewing the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania," starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Kathryn Newton, David Dastmalchian, William Jackson Harper, Katy O'Brian & Bill...

"Emily" had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and received positive reviews for its cinematography, performances, writing, and direction from actress-turned-director Frances O'Connor. Frances spent some time talking with us about her feature directorial debut, which you can listen to down below. Please take a listen and be sure to check out the film, which is opening th...

"Of An Age" is an independent romantic drama written and directed by Goran Stolevski ("You Won't Be Alone") which follows a Serbian immigrant in Australia (Elias Anton) who enters a brief but intense romance with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of his ballroom dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook). Goran was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his second feature film, what it was like...

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're reviewing James Cameron's "Titanic" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warne...

"The Sea Beast" dropped on Netflix over the summer to positive reviews but very little recognition from awards voting bodies until we got to the Annie Awards. Afterward, it was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards. This is one of the year's best animated feature films with an epic scope, beautiful animation, and excellent voice acting. The film marks the Netflix d...

"A House Made Of Splinters" had its world premiere at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where it mostly went under the radar for many despite receiving positive reviews. There were questions about its awards eligibility this year, given it did not have a U.S. distributor for the longest time. Still, it went on to receive nominations from various documentary awards voting bodies and even earned a...

Roger Deakins is one of the all-time great cinematographers. The recipient of two Academy Awards for his work on "Blade Runner 2049" and "1917," he has given us timeless images and visual masterpieces ranging from "The Shawshank Redemption" to "Skyfall." His latest work on "Empire Of Light" reunites him with director Sam Mendes for a fourth time, and he received his sixteenth Oscar nomination for...

For Episode 331, I am joined by Alyssa Christina, Meredith Loftus, Tom O'Brien, Yasmine Kandil, Eve O'Dea, and guest Luke Hearfield. Today, we're delivering our predictions for what we feel will win at BAFTA next Sunday. We also reveal the 2022 NBP Film Community Award Nominations, discuss other aspects of awards season, go over the polls, share our reactions to the trailers for Ben Affleck's "Air...

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Dan Bayer & Tom O'Brien. This week we're reviewing the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, "Magic Mike's Last Dance," starring Channing Tatum & Salma Hayek Pinault. The third (and possibly final?) film in the "Magic Mike" trilogy, Soderbergh returns to direct after taking a break from "Magic Mike XXL," and the results have been a bit mixed from a...

After many doubted it would capture the magic of the first film, since its theatrical release last December, "Avatar: The Way Of Water" has gone on to make over $2 billion worldwide and garner four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. The Next Best Picture team was honored to speak with Oscar-nominated Visual Effects Supervi...

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's feature directorial debut "Murina" had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or award for the best first-time feature of the festival. It then went on to play at other film festivals before getting released theatrically by Kino Lorber in the summer of 2022, and now, it finds itself nominated for three Film Independent Spirit Aw...

Martin McDonagh's "The Banshees Of Inisherin" has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and re-unites him with many of his frequent collaborators. One of the newest ones is Oscar-winning editor Mikkel E. G. Nielsen ("Sound Of Metal"), who was nominated for his work on McDonagh's latest for Best Film Editing. Nielsen spent some time talking with us about his work on the fi...