Way Too Early Oscar Podcast
By Way Too Early Oscar Podcast
Way Too Early Oscar PodcastMar 11, 2024
2024 Oscars Post-Ceremony
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.
2024 Oscars: Best Animated Feature, Directing and Picture
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.
2024 Oscars: The Acting Categories
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.
2024 Oscars: The Shorts Categories
Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with one of their perennial favorite episodes of the season, the Animated, Live Action and Documentary shorts.
2024 Oscars: Best Documentary Feature and International Feature
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.
2024 Oscars: Best Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling
Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.
2024 Oscars: Best Editing, Production Design and Costuming
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.
2024 Oscars: Adapted and Original Screenplays, Score and Original Song
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.
SAG 2024 Reactions
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.
2024 Oscar Nominations
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.
2024 SAG Nominations
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.
2023 Oscars Post-Show
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.
2023 Oscars: Best Picture
2023 Oscars: Best Director
2023 Oscars: Lead and Supporting Actors
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.
2023 Oscars: Lead and Supporting Actresses
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.
2023 Oscars: Original and Adapted Screenplays
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.
2023 Oscars: Best Score and Song
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.
2023 Oscars: International Feature
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.
2023 Oscars: Documentary Feature
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.
2023 Oscars: Cinematography and Editing
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.
2023 Oscars: Costuming and Makeup and Hairstyling
Oscars 2023: The Shorts
Matt and Marisa continue their category with a perennial favorite, the shorts. Once again, they got to view all of this year's nominees thanks to Shorts TV. You can catch their presentation of the shorts categories in select theaters starting this weekend.
2023 Oscars: Best Animated Feature
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.
2023 Oscars: Production Design
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.
2023 Oscars: Best Sound and Visual Effects
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.
2023 Oscar Nominations Reaction
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.
The Return of the Golden Globes, SAG Nominations and More
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.
2022 Oscar Season Opener
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.
2022 Oscars Post-Show
Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of ThePopBreak's annual Oscars pool, Tommy Tracy and DJ Chapman (host of our podcast on all things Bachelor Nation, Roses and Rejections), to talk about this year's chaotic telecast. In the episode, they discuss the Chris Rock/Will Smith situation, CODA's Best Picture win and the moments from the ceremony that made them smile and cringe.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Picture
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Fan Favorite
Matt and Marisa return to talk about the latter's favorite new category: Fan Favorite. Listen to them slowly lose their grip on reality as they discuss girlboss Cinderella, list their favorite films of the year and speculate on which nominees might know how to code.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress
Matt and Marisa finally get to talk about some of their favorite categories, the actresses. In the episode, Marisa deals with the existential crisis that her beloved Kristen Stewart may lose, Matt once again goes to bat for The Power of the Dog's Kirsten Dunst and they both praise Ariana DeBose's star-making turn in West Side Story.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor
Matt and Marisa continue with some of the heavy-hitter categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder if Will Smith will get his career Oscar, laud Andrew Garfield's theater kid energy and highlight some actors they wish had been nominated.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Director
Matt and Marisa deliver their second episode of the day with their first heavy-hitter category: Best Director. In the episode, they take the chance to once again praise Steven Spielberg's work with West Side Story, wonder if Jane Campion may have sabotaged her front-runner status and highlight a few snubs.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Documentary Feature
Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of all of this year's Oscar nominees with one of Marisa's perennial favorite's, Documentary Feature. In the episode, the lament not being able to see Writing with Fire before recording, talk about how essential Summer of Soul is to music history and Marisa brings up a movie that makes Matt say absolutely not.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Live Action Short and Best Documentary Short
Matt and Marisa return to discuss the remaining shorts categories thanks, as always, to ShortsTV. In the episode, they bemoan how simplistic many of the live action nominees are, wish that some of the documentary shorts dug a little deeper and pray Lead Me Home doesn't pull a win.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Cinematography, Production Design and Editing
Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with a trio of technical categories: Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design.
In the episode, they go to bat for some unsung feats in cinematography, try to understand why the Academy likes Nightmare Alley so much and once again argue that just because a movie has the most editing doesn't mean it has the best editing.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Sound and Best Achievement in Visual Effects
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Achievement in Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay
Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the writing categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. In the episode, Matt once again defends King Richard, Marisa gets indulgent in the Adapted category and they both talk about how excited they are that Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for The Lost Daughter.
Come back tomorrow for the Makeup and Hairstyling and Costuming categories.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best International Feature
Matt and Marisa continue their breakdown of this year's Oscar nominees with International Feature. In the episode, they rave about Japan's Drive My Car, discuss the surprise delight of Bhutan's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom and wonder once again if Flee may split its own votes.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdowns: Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short
Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of every nominee in the 2022 Oscar race with the animated categories.
For the Feature category, Marisa rips apart The Mitchells vs the Machines, Matt mounts a surprising defense for Raya and the Last Dragon and they both wonder if Flee might split its own votes.
For the Short category, they discuss how not kid-friendly this year's nominees are, their frustrations with The Windshield Wiper and how much extra research Beast requires.
Thanks as always to ShortsTV for allowing us to watch all the short film nominees. You can watch them in theaters or at ShortsTV.
Tune in tomorrow for Best International Feature Film.
2022 Oscar Category Breakdowns: Best Original Score and Best Original Song
Matt and Marisa kick off their annual category breakdowns with two of the most chaotic categories: Best Original Song and Best Original Score.
In the Song Category, they praise Billie Eilish's work for No Time to Die, dare to talk about Encanto's Bruno and wonder how far Diane Warren will go to finally win her long overdue Oscar.
For Score, the pair begin their multi-episode praise of Dune, complain about the catch-22 of loving Nicholas Britell but hating Don't Look Up and laude the subtle homages of the Parallel Mothers score.
Tune in tomorrow for our next set of categories!
2022 SAG Nominations
Matt and Marisa return to dissect the totally bonkers Screen Actors Guild Nominations. Marisa feels to blame for Kristen Stewart's big snub and Matt revels in the chaos. Plus, they discuss the alleged return of the Oscar host.
2021 Wrap Up
Matt and Marisa return to finally gush about West Side Story, discuss the final awards contenders of the year and sweat about the future of theater-going.
2022 Oscar Race Catch-Up
Matt and Marisa return to catch up on all the current movies in the awards race, from the surprise of the little-seen The Last Duel to the disappointments of House of Gucci and everything in between.
NYFF 2021 and the State of the Oscar Race
Matt and Marisa return to discuss all the movies Matt saw at NYFF, a few non-NYFF releases and Marisa finally gets to enjoy what a disaster Dear Evan Hansen is.
The Golden Globes Implosion and a Deep Dive on In the Heights
Matt and Marisa kick off the Oscar season by breaking down the implosion of the Golden Globes and have a spoiler-filled discussion of the movie of the summer, In the Heights.