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Talkie Talk #153: Who Should Win, Pt. 2

Who should win the Oscar! Part 2 has the (more) major awards!

Talkie Talk

Talkie Talk #153: Who Should Win, Pt. 2

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3rd Annual Talkie Awards (The Timbus)! We go through an extensive town-hall style debate to see which movies should win in every category of the 2019 Academy Awards. The winners… may surprise you. The discussion… may just save your life.

Part 1 has the specialty categories and technical awards (check out TT #152). Part 2 here has the heavy hitters here: cinematography, writing, acting, directing and Best Picture.

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Below is The Media By Us Oscar vote; we indicate a winner along with the vote totals (and the runner up, where possible):

Cinematography: The Favourite (3-1, Roma)
Original Screenplay: First Reformed (4-0)
Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman (4-0)
Supporting Actor: Sam Elliott, A Star is Born (3-1, Mahershala Ali)
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Favourite (2-1-1, Regina King, Emma Stone)
Lead Actor: Christian Bale, Vice (2-1*, Bradley Cooper)
Lead Actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite (4-0)
Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma (4-0)
Best Picture: Roma (2-2**, The Favourite)

*Lead Actor Protest Vote – Ethan Hawke should be here.
**Best Picture – deadlock, went to #2 votes to break tie.

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

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Talkie Talk #152: Who Should Win, Pt. 1

Who should win the Oscar! Part 1 has the technical awards!

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Talkie Talk #152: Who Should Win, Pt. 1

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Part 1 has the specialty categories and technical awards. Part 2 (later in the week) will have writing/acting/directing and Best Picture.

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Below is The Media By Us Oscar vote; we indicate a winner along with the vote totals (and the runner up, where possible):

Live Action Short: Skin (3-1, Mother)
Documentary Short: A Night at the Garden (3-1, Period. End of Sentence.)
Animated Short: Bao (2-1-1, One Small Step, Animal Behaviour)
Foreign Language: Roma (4-0)
Documentary: Minding the Gap (4-0)
Animated Film: Into the Spiderverse (3-1, Isle of Dogs)
Visual Effects: Avengers: Infinity War (3-1, First Man)
Sound Mixing: First Man (2-1-1, A Star is Born, Roma)
Sound Editing: First Man (3-1, A Quiet Place)
Original Song: “Shallow” (A Star is Born) (4-0)
Original Score: Black Panther (3-1, Isle of Dogs)
Production Design: Black Panther (3-1, Roma)
Makeup/Hair: Vice (3-0, 1 no vote)
Film Editing: BlacKkKlansman (3-1, Vice)
Costume Design: Black Panther (4-0)

Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.

> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
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91st Academy Awards Predictions

It’s nearly here! Which means our Oscar prognosticators need to go head to head (to head) to see who can come the closest – also helpful if you want another set of picks if you’re doing a nominations pool. Come Tuesday January 22st, we shall see who is the Oracle amongst us. We’ll shown the category, and each prognosticator’s picks (with consensus ones in bold).

The Shorts

Specialty Movies

Super Techs

Music and Makeup

Making it Beautiful

Screenplays

Supporting Acting

Lead Acting

Final Cut Pros

Best Picture

Talkie Talk 150: Predicting the Nominations of the 91st Academy Awards

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Talkie Talk 150: Predicting the Nominations of the 91st Academy Awards

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Oscar nominations come out tomorrow! Be the most informed at your office by listening to TMBU’s nomination prediction podcast! Chris, TJ, and David make their picks in each category, from animated shorts all the way to the big kahuna.

State of the Race: Guild the Lily

So many guilds, so little time before Oscar nominations. Using statistics to make sense of predicting a wild movie year.

There are multiple ways to predict the Academy Awards – come January 22nd, we’ll find out which way was most correct. Until then, you could go with your gut, you could check out sites that aggregate bettings odds on the favorites (thank you GoldDerby for existing!), and you could also go with what the guilds say.

Making a movie requires interfacing with many unions in the multi-faceted levels of production – these unions (for acting, directing, writing, costume design, etc.), who also describe themselves as guilds, all annually reward their peers across the industry for the best in show. The convenient aspect of these guilds is they announce their nominees and/or winners before the Oscar nominations come out. The other obvious convenient aspect of these guilds is they actually overlap with the members of the Academy that vote for the Oscar awards.

You can trust your gut, or give GoldDerby more page views, or you can read on and see what these guilds are trying to tell us about nominations. So far, the following guilds have announced nominees:

Talkie Talk #148 – Year End Lists Part 1 (Video Games/Worst Movies/Best TV)

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Talkie Talk #148 - Year End Lists Part 1 (Video Games/Worst Movies/Best TV)

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For this podcast, we are wrapping up 2018 with our first set of year end lists. In this hour, we share some of our favorites, as well as some of our least favorites. Check a look at those lists below! Timestamped in case you just don’t care how many times Chris calls a game a “great little game.” Also, all lists in descending order… for suspense?

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Favorite Video Games of the Year (1:36):

Brent
Red Dead Redemption 2
David
#3: Paradox
#2: Timespinner
#1: Florence
Chris
#5: Slay the Spire
#4: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
#3: Super Smash Brothers Ultimate
#2: Into the Breach
#1: Celeste
Honorable mention to: God of War & Octopath Traveler

Worst Movies of the Year (29:48):

David
#5: Dumplin’
#4: Super Troopers 2
#3: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
#2: Hold the Dark
#1: The Cloverfield Paradox
TJ
#5: The Cloverfield Paradox
#4: Fahrenheit 451
#3: A Wrinkle in Time
#2: The Meg
#1: Game Over, Man
Chris
#5: The Rider
#4: Ibiza
#3: Fifty Shades Freed
#2: Bad Samaritan
#1: The Titan
Brent
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Favorite TV Shows of the Year (1:01:54):

TJ
#2: Bodyguard
#1: Maniac
Brent
#3: Sharp Objects
#2: Haunting of Hill House
#1: Survivor: David vs. Goliath
David
#5: Forever
#4: Succession
#3: Homecoming
#2: Killing Eve
#1: Atlanta

Stay tuned for our Top Ten Movies of the Year, dropping shortly!

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> Outro song “Extemporaneous Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa

Costume Designer Guild Nominations Announced

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

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Talkie Talk #146: Watchlist / Breezy on the Streets / What to Watch

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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.

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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)

Breezy on the Streets: (50:22)

What to Watch: (1:02:05)

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Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante

State of the Race: Nominations from the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and Annie Awards

The Awards season for December has pretty much wrapped up. We don’t have much going on until the Producer’s Guild Awards in early January. We have seen nominations from several groups, here’s what you need to remember…

Golden Globes – the nominations don’t mean anything in relation to the Oscars. The Golden Globes are held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the HFPA like being wined and dined. The actual awards ceremony itself is a better thing to keep an eye on. You can start to get a feel of how people accept awards which might earn them votes moving into March.

SAG Awards – This is *pretty much* the same group that will be nominating the four acting categories for the Academy Awards. Hands down the best predictor for those specific categories. The SAG version of Best Picture is Best Cast in Motion Picture. This actually carries some weight when it comes to predicting Best Picture. The Actors Guild is the largest percentage of the Academy, and since Best Picture is nominated by all members, one could reason that the five nominees from the SAG awards should be considered strongly for the Best Picture Oscar race.

Annie Awards – The animated film awards.

“Is it those four movies and one of five other ones?”

Yes….yes it is.

So what about this year?

Well, if you want to look for yourself…

SAG Awards
Golden Globes
Annie Awards

But here’s five thoughts, why 5 you ask? Because 5 is the magic movie number don’t you know?

1. Black Panther – it’s getting a Best Picture nomination…I think. Black Panther is performing very well early on in Awards season. It’s got the Golden Globe nomination (the popular vote) and the SAG and National Board of Review nomination (the snobby vote). Watch out for Crazy Rich Asians as well.

2. John David Washington – There’s a moment in BlacKkKlansman when Washington yells “Patrice!” and it sounds JUST LIKE HIS DAD. He’s performance so far this awards season is also reminiscent of Denzel. And honestly, it kind of came out of no where. Again, doubling up on the Golden Globes and Sag seems weird for an actor that was considered an underdog going into the season. JDDubs has vaulted himself into the Best Actor race.

3. The Year of the Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns is the movie that has been appearing on more and more lists. Emily Blunt now has a Golden Globe nom and Sag nom to her credit. But maybe the most shocking thing is Emily Blunt’s nomination in the Supporting Actress category. Talkie Talkers praised her performance in A Quiet Place but the SAG Awards noticed as well.

4. Best Supporting Actor, Who’s Out? – There seems to be 6 solid picks here, and that’s just one too many (what’s the magic movie number?). Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Sam Rockwell (Vice), and Sam Elliott (A Star is Born) all have legitimate shots to get nominated. My gut says to leave out Driver at the moment, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.

5. Animated Picture, Who Gets In? – Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Spider-Man all seem to be close to locks at this point. That leaves one space left. Mirai is the favorite of the foreign animated films. Smallfoot seems to be gaining momentum as well. Early Man got the fifth spot at the Annie Awards and with Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit) behing behind the film they know what it takes to take home a little gold man.

Remember to check in to themediabyus.com regularly for updates on this year’s awards and subscribe to Talkie Talk for weekly State of the Race updates!

State of the Race: Available Contenders for Documentary Feature

In case you want to keep your ear to the ground about the feature length documentaries that may make up the five nominees at the academy awards, I have compiled a list of movies that are on the academy “short list” and where you can find them right now to stream. Although all of them aren’t on here, I think there’s enough to sink your teeth into. Note: I listed only the cheapest option from JustWatch so your particular streaming service may be available also. I also erred on the side of popularity. In the cases where a movie was free on multiple platforms, both are listed.

There’s a movie on here that’s on Shudder. Weird.

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