Way Too Early Oscar Podcast

Matt and Marisa continue their "pilot program" of turning this into an EGOT podcast with their reactions to this year's Tony Awards. In the episode, they discuss their favorite speech of the night, the constant sound issues and completely forget to mention the incredible Hamilton 10th anniversary performance.

Marisa and Matt pivot into a whole new awards season: The 2025 Tony Awards! The duo talk about all the buzzy shows this season like Oh Mary!, Maybe Happy Ending, and the controversial Othello revival. Find out what show this season is one of the worst they've ever seen. And which Broadway star inspired them to take the show in a new direction?

Well, that's all folks... Matt and Marisa are joined by Alex Marcus to talk about the 2025 Academy Awards! Were they charmed by Conan? Were they surprised by the Anora sweep? What did they think of Timmy's yellow suit? Find out!

Surprise! Matt and Marisa are back because they forgot to do a category: Best Sound. In the episode, they discuss why Wicked is superior to other recent live-sung musicals and marvel at the work it must take to create all the sound from scratch in something like The Wild Robot.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their individual category breakdowns with two of the biggest. In the episode, they discuss how The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez went from front runners to also-rans, how Sean Baker's recognition feels like it's been a long time coming and once again encourage you to see The Count of Monte Cristo.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with their favorite categories: Actresses. In the episode, Marisa confesses to being a longtime Ariana Grande fan, Matt speaks for both of them on how great Isabella Rossellini and they talk about how exciting the Lead race is.

Matt and Marisa tackle their first set of major categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder how a Sing Sing actor failed to make the list, discuss Succession brain and disagree on the Timothée of it all.

Matt and Marisa finish off the technical categories. In the episode, the marvel at the visual in Dune: Part Two,and talk about their love for two ape-centric movies.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Cinematography and Editing. In the episode, they discuss whether The Brutalist was the visual marvel it promised to be, highlight the subtle comedy of Conclave and Marisa continues her hate campaign against Nosferatu.

Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with the writing nominations. In the episode, they discuss how cool The Substance is, marvel that September 5 didn't get more nominations and once again bring up The Count of Monte Cristo.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the music categories. In the episode, Matt wonders how Wicked's score earned a nomination but Dune 2 didn't, Marisa names some wild alternate nominees for Song and they both lament a major snub for Score.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technical categories. In the episode, Marisa begrudgingly compliments Nosferatu, Matt jokes about dressing his bridesmaids as the Bene Gesserit from Dune and they both wonder what Gladiator II is doing anywhere near the Oscars.

Marisa and Matt break down three more 2024 Oscar categories: Best International Film, Best Animated Film, and Best Original Score.

Matt and Marisa launch their annual breakdown of all the Oscar nominees with the Live Action, Documentary and Animated Short Film categories. Thanks again to ShortsTV for providing us with viewing links for all the films. The showcases hit theaters 2/14.

In this episode, Matt and Marisa reflect on this year's Golden Globes (Demi is running! They ate pasta and gossiped while watching together!). They also react to the SAG and DGA nominations and the current status of the big six Oscar races. Tangents include: Marisa's dad's love for Maria, our enthusiasm for The Fall Guy, and the random Amazon Prime Original Series that Matt's fiancé loves.

Marisa and Matt sound off on the silliest award show: the Golden Globes, which just announced their nominations this week. Tune in to hear them debate what counts as a "comedy" these days, try to predict whether The Substance is a serious Oscar contender, and speculate on whether or not an icon of 1970s cinema will make an appearance on the red carpet (which icon? the answer will surprise you).

Marisa and Matt are joined by Tom Moore to discuss some of the highlights from this year's New York Film Festival including Anora, Emilia Perez, Queer, Maria, and The Brutalist.

Staff writer Sean Cordy joins co-host Marisa Carpico to talk TIFF. In the episode, we discuss the films he saw and reviewed, the overall experience and how the festival shifted the Oscar conversation.

In the kick off to our season, PopBreak podcaster and writer Sam Niles joins Marisa to recap his second year at the Venice Film Festival. He gives a rundown of all the films he saw as well as an overview of what it's like to attend the Fest.

Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of The Pop Break's annual Oscar pool, Kat Manos and Chris Diggins to chat surprises, highs, lows and Kimmel's hosting performance.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their annual category breakdowns with their weirdest grouping yet: Animated Feature, Directing and Picture. In the episode, they discuss the movie that had them recording down to the wire, Christopher Nolan's momentum and whether anything can beat Oppenheimer at this point.

Matt and Marisa start to wrap up their category breakdowns with some of the favorites each year, Best Lead and Supporting Acting. On the Actress side, they discuss the dead heat between Emma Stone in Poor Things and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon. For the Actors, they wonder if Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers might pull a win out from under Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with one of their perennial favorite episodes of the season, the Animated, Live Action and Documentary shorts.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with some of the harder films to watch this year, Documentary and International Feature. In the episode, they rave about seeing Perfect Days together at NYFF and Marisa tries to hide her bias in the Doc category.

Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matt and Marisa deliver another supersized and super rushed episode of their category breakdowns for this year's Oscar nominees. This time, they rave about the costumes and sets in Barbie and Poor Things, talk editing and wonder why Napoleon keeps popping up.

Matt and Marisa kick of this year's category breakdowns with a supersized episode. They cover both Screenplay categories, both Adapted and Original, Best Score and the category that haunts them every year, Best Original Song.

Matt and Marisa record live and in-person mere minutes after this year's SAG Awards to talk high, lows and Anne Hathaway crying during Barbra Streisand's speech.

Matt and Marisa give their initial reactions to this year's Oscar nominations, the surprises, the snubs and all the rest. In the episode, they lament the few nominees they still have to watch, celebrate the love for Maestro and note that there's still a way for an ex-Riverdale actor to win an Oscar this year.

Matt and Marisa finally kick off Awards Season with an in-depth analysis of the SAG Nominations for the film categories. In the episode, they defend Maestro, begin to analyze the cultural touchstone that was Barbenheimer and wonder what the hell happened with Ferrari.

Matt and Marisa are joined by winner of ThePopBreak.com's Oscar pool aka the site's Editor in Chief, Bill Bodkin, to break down the highs and lows of last night's Academy Awards.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about the boys. In Lead, they worry about the Brendan Fraser situation to the point that Marisa does a heel turn on Austin Butler. In Supporting, they surprise each other with their takes on the boys from The Banshees of Inisherin and wonder if anyone could possibly beat Ke Huy Quan.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about their favorite categories of every year: the actresses. In the Supporting category, they discuss the rapidly changing narrative for predicting who will win and list some of their favorite performances of the year in their alternates. In the Lead category, they break down the Andrea Riseborough controversy and pray for a Michelle Yeoh win.

Matt and Marisa tackle their last set of the non-major categories: Best Original and Adapted Screenplays. In the Adapted category, they relish the chance to praise Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, hype up Top Gun: Maverick once again and put their weight behind Sarah Polley's work with Women Talking. In the Original category, they use The Fabelmans to once again worship last year's West Side Story, Marisa argues Tár's epilogue ruins the whole movie and Matt suggests The Banshees of Inisherin is Martin McDonagh's best work.

Our breakdowns of this year's categories continue with a double feature of some of our most unhinged categories: Score and Song. We complain (again) about All Quiet on the Western Front's many nominations, dissect the Diane Warren of it all and Marisa teases the dark evil that is her Spotify Wrapped.

Today's second episode focuses on a category we struggled to see before the ceremony: International Feature. Matt and Marisa once again complain about All Quiet on the Western Front, discuss the shocking twist of Close and Marisa goes to bat for The Quiet Girl.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Documentary Feature. In the episode, they talk about being devastated by A House Made of Splinters, marvel at the footage in Navalny and offer up another movie that could have earned a nomination.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss some of the bigger technicals: cinematography and editing. They discuss their surprise over Bardo and ponder what Empire of Light is doing here.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with this year's nominees for Animated Feature. In the episode, they lament having to watch yet another Pinocchio adaptation, praise the sweetness of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and wonder if The Sea Beast was created by an AI.

Matt and Marisa continue their category with another technical: Best Production Design. They discuss Babylon's hedonism, Elvis's maximalism and Marisa fixates on the proverbial clay pots of Avatar: The Way of Water.

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual tradition of breaking down every category with a technical category double header. They ponder over All Quiet on the Western Front's multiple nominations, gush over Top Gun: Maverick and once again express their love for The Batman.

Matt and Marisa try to process this year's Oscar surprises and snubs. From Andrea Riseborough's lightning fast campaign to the love for everything from RRR to Top Gun: Maverick.

Matt and Marisa discuss the baffling resurrection of the Golden Globes, what the SAG nominations may mean for the Oscars and catch up on the last few awards contenders of 2022.

Matt and Marisa finally return to recap this year's Oscar hopefuls, from the staying power of Everything Everywhere All at Once to Tár's last act problems.