They call us TALKIE TALK! Join us as we discuss the merit of In the Heat of the Night and decide if it belongs in the great pantheon of the Talk of Fame.
Brent, TJ, and Chris are here to smash their brains together about the newest MCU outing as well as an update on one of your parents’ favorite games. TJ apparently likes shows about architects too. …and Chris has brought a sour piece of news to Breezy.
Talkie Talk #156 Umbrella Academy / Apex Legends / Game of Thrones
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Back! Back in the talkie talk groooooove. Join TJ, Chris, and Brent as they discuss the media they’ve been consuming in the last week. Turns out it’s not a whole lot but they spend an hour doing it.
The whole gang gets together and takes a break from the awards that don’t matter to the ones that do. Does Monty Python and the Holy Grail make the Talk of Fame? What does this mean for the rest of the MP catalog? Is David a herring? Yes…yes he is.
The guys get together to talk one of 2018’s critical darlings in The Rider. Luckily, none of us were injured during the recording of this podcast. At least not enough to have to be put down.
The MUAHS Guild splits up their Make-Up Awards and their Hair Style Awards which make them harder to predict. Keep checking in for David’s Oscar Nomination piece which will dive into all the Guilds and what you can take away from them! Here’s this year’s nominees along with last years, and last year’s Oscar noms.
The nominees are:
Best Contemporary Makeup: A Star is Born Beautiful Boy Boy Erased Crazy Rich Asians Welcome to Marwen Widows
Best Contemporary Hair Styling: A Star is Born Crazy Rich Asians Nappily Ever After Vox Lux Widows
Best Period Makeup: Bohemian Rhapsody Mary Poppins Returns Mary Queen of Scots Stan & Ollie Vice
Best Period Hair Styling: Black Panther BlackKklansman Bohemian Rhapsody Mary Poppins Returns Mary Queen of Scots
Best Special Makeup Effects: Aquaman Black Panther Stan & Ollie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Vice
And last year’s nominiees:
Best Contemporary Makeup: Baby Driver The Big Sick Ghost in the Shell Pitch Perfect 3 Wonder
Best Contemporary Hair Styling: The Big Sick Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Pitch Perfect 3 Wonder
Best Period Makeup: Blade Runner 2049 Bright Darkest Hour The Greatest Showman I, Tonya
Best Period Hair Styling: Atomic Blonde Beauty and the Beast Blade Runner 2049 Darkest Hour I, Tonya
Best Special Makeup Effects: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Darkest Hour The Shape of Water Star Wars: The Last Jedi Wonder
and the Academy Award nominees for Makeup and Hair Styling were: Darkest Hour Victoria & Abdul Wonder
Be sure to check back in for more Oscar news! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
We are in the thick of nomination season now, and while the annual nomination prediction episode of Talkie Talk is just around the corner, and our in-house Oscar analyst is working on a large piece to show you what the guild’s mean, we still want to keep you posted as the nominations come out!
The nominees are:
Contemporary Film: A Star is Born Crazy Rich Asians Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Ocean’s 8 Widows
Period Film: BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Mary Poppins Returns Mary Queen of Scots
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film: A Wrinkle in Time Aquaman The Avengers: Infinity War Black Panther The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Last year’s CDGA nominations:
Contemporary Film: Get Out I, Tonya Kingsman: The Golden Circle Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Period Film (historically the best Oscar predictor): Dunkirk Murder on the Orient Express Phantom Thread The Greatest Showman The Shape of Water
Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film (how do these not win more?) Beauty and the Beast Blade Runner 2049 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Thor: Ragnarok Wonder Woman
The 2018 Oscars nominations (Phantom Thread took it down): Phantom Thread Beauty and the Beast Darkest Hour The Shape of Water Victoria and Abdul
Be sure to check back in for more Oscar news! And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
The Director’s Guild has announced their film nominations and we know just as much as we did before they were announced.
Their feature film nominations are:
Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born Alfonso Cuaron – Roma Peter Farrely – Green Book Spike Lee – BlackKklansman Adam McKay – Vice
And the first timers:
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born Carlos Lopez Estrada – Blindspotting Matthew Heineman – A Private War Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Going back to 2013 you might think we have just learned that Peter Farrely or Adam McKay are getting an Oscar nomination (Cooper, Cuaron, and to an extent Lee, are pretty locked up at this point). You might think that because every year from 2013 on has seen exactly one DGA nom get replaced by the Academy Awards. They have been:
2017: Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards) replaced by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) 2016: Garth Davis (Lion) replaced by Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) 2015: Ridley Scott (The Martian) replaced by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) 2014: Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) replaced by Bennet Miller (Foxcatcher) 2013: Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) replaced by Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
Looking at this data one could surmise that all you have to do is pick one of Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) or Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) to replace one of Farrely and McKay. But then you look at 2012. A bizarre year for Directors indeed:
DGA: Ben Affleck (Argo) Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) Tom Hooper (Les Mis) Ang Lee (Life of Pi) Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Oscars: Ang Lee (Life of Pi) Michael Haneke (Amour) David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
So obviously anything can happen. If you are filling out nomination ballots make sure Cuaron and Cooper are on it and roll the dice. Coogler and Lanthimos have legitimate shots at nominations, just like Farrely and McKay.
Talkie Talk #146: Watchlist / Breezy on the Streets / What to Watch
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Watchlist Tuesday is back after the holidays! The boys talk Sorry to Bother You, The Death of Stalin, Bird Box, and If Beale Street Could Talk. Breezy features a discussion of the PGA nominations. The “what to watch” section goes to hell because the boys like colorful pictures. Unedited for your listening pleasure.
Brent: Sorry to Bother You (1:00), A Simple Favor (6:18), Bad Times at the El Royale (10:30), Aquaman (14:20), To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (14:50)
David: Leave No Trace (17:52), Skate Kitchen (22:02), The Death of Stalin (26:04)
Chris: Timespinner (31:55), Pacific Rim Uprising (33:55), Bird Box (38:00), If Beale Street Could Talk (42:50)
