Way Too Early Oscar Podcast: Recent Episodes
Way Too Early Oscar Podcast
Hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor discuss the current Oscar race from the surprises and snubs to the unrewarded gems.
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 return to talk two more technicals. In Costuming, they delight over Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and marvel at Ruth Carter’s fashion forward work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In Makeup and Hairstyling, they lament the battle of the fat suits.
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.
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.
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.
Matt and Marisa conclude their annual breakdown of all the Oscar nominees with the most important category of all: Best Picture. Listen as they ridicule Don't Look Up one last time, disagree on The Power of the Dog and rave about Spielberg's West Side Story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matt and Marisa continue their discussions of this year's nominees with two more technical categories: Visual Effect and Sound. In the episode, they talk about the mind-melting sound in Dune, complain about having to endure Free Guy and are finally forced to talk about Spider-man: No Way Home.
Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with two categories that the Oscars only half care about airing live: Costume Design and Makeup and Hairstyling. In the episode, they try to figure out how to understand Cyrano, Matt compares Cruella to Drag Race and they both find an excuse to profess their love for Malignant.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On the final episode of the season, Matt and Marisa are joined by The Pop Break’s editor-in-chief, Bill Bodkin, and the winner of the site’s Oscar pool, Sean Cordy, to recap the highlights and disappointments of the 93rd Academy Awards.
In the penultimate episode of the season, Matt and Marisa dive into the Best Director nominees.
Matt and Marisa return to talk about two of their perennial favorite categories: Best Supporting and Lead Actresses.
Matt and Marisa begin to dive into the BIg 6 awards with two categories they usually don't care about but do this year: actors.
In their final episode before the Big 6 Categories, Matt and Marisa discuss the highs and lows of the International Feature nominees.
Matt and Marisa wrap up the technical categories with the nominees for Best Achievement in Production Best Achievement in Cinematography.
Thanks again to ShortsTV, Matt and Marisa got to watch all the nominated shorts and they break them down in this supersized episode.
Matt and Marisa return for a supersized episode covering three whole technical categories: Best Achievement in Editing, Visual Effects and Best Sound.
Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technical categories. This time, it's Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling and Costuming.
Matt and Marisa continue their Oscar nomination deep dive episodes with two of the most fun (and chaotic) categories: Original Song and Original Score.
Matt and Marisa kick off their annual deep dives into all the Oscar categories with Animated Feature.
The Oscar nominations are out and Matt and Marisa are here to help you unpack them. They talk snubs, surprises, actresses and the film that made them decide they won't be seeing all of this year's nominees.
Matt and Marisa return to recap the downright dystopian 2021 Golden Globes. We discuss the broadcast's worst moments, the best speeches and break down what these awards might mean for the Oscar race.
We're back! Hosts Marisa Carpico (Film Editor at ThePopBreak.com) and Matt Taylor return to discuss the surprises and snubs for the nominees at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. And Matt recaps everything he watched at Sundance 2021.
Hosts Marisa and Matt and guests Bill Bodkin and Tom Moore go over the biggest surprises of the 92nd Academy Awards. From Parasite to the best and worst speeches, Eminem's appearance, Martin Scorsese's reactions, Greta Gerwig, diversity in the show, and so much more.
It's Oscar Week! The Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast returns for another super-sized episode. Pop Break's Film Editor Marisa Carpico and Senior Editor Matt Taylor look at the potential winner for the 2020 Best Picture Award.
The nominees are: 1917, Ford v. Ferrari, Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story.
Another super-sized episode. Pop Break's Film Editor Marisa Carpico and Senior Editor Matt Taylor look at the potential winner for the 2020 Best Director Award.
Marisa and Matt look at the nominees for Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best International Feature.
Matt and Marisa look at the potential winners for the 2020 Best Actor Awards, Lead and Supporting.
Matt and Marisa look at the potential winners for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
Matt and Marisa predict some of the most difficult categories to choose a winner for: the short films!
Matt and Marisa react to the Oscar nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards, from the surprises and snubs to the totally expected.
Matt and Marisa dive into the cavalcade of films that came out during the Holiday Season.
November means Oscar Season is in Full Effect. Pop Break's Film Editor Marisa Carpico and Television Editor Matt Taylor are back for a big time episode.
This episode they look at: Parasite, Harriet, Motherless Brooklyn, The King, The Laundromat and Dolemite is My Name.
Matt and Marisa discuss the Oscar potential for: Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Shia LeBeouf's Honey Boy, the indie melodrama Waves, the Christian Bale/Matt Damon vehicle Ford v Ferrari, and they end the pod with a deep dive into Doctor Sleep and why didn't anyone watch it?
The second part of our New York Film Festival (NYFF) Recap and Review. In this episode, Matt and Marisa discuss: Adam Sandler's Uncut Gems, Marriage Story starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson and Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit.
Our second annual New York Film Festival (NYFF) podcast, which will also discuss two of the biggest, buzziest films of the fall (so far).
Our second annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) podcast. Television Editor Matt Taylor speaks to Film Editor Marisa Carpico about his annual adventure in the Great White North and the films he saw
Just because it's the dog days of summer at the movies does not mean the Oscar talk ceases! Pop Break's film editor Marisa Carpico and television editor Matt Taylor return for another episode.
Matt and Marisa and guest Bill Bodkin dive deep into Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
Film editor Marisa Carpico and Television Editor Matt Taylor sit down to talk about the movies of mid-summer and their Oscar chances. Films discussed include: Pixar's Toy Story 4, the rock drama Wild Rose, Mindy Kaling's Late Night, and the Awkwafina vehicle The Farewell.
Film editor Marisa Carpico, and TV editor Matt Taylor return to talk about their experience at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival -- the first time Pop Break has ever attended the festival. Marisa discusses the best and worst of the 500,000 movies she saw at the fest, and she and Matt discuss which movies have the most potential to stick around for Oscar season.
Welcome to Season 2 of the Way Too Early Oscar Podcast! We are about a month removed from the 2019 Academy Awards, and we're diving right back in with a short episode looking at some of the movies from 2020 that have real (or not) Oscar potential.
Pop Break's film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor return to talk about the NASA documentary Apollo 11, the bizarrely enthralling Climax, Julianne Moore's heralded performance in Gloria Bell, and the #1 movie in America: Jordan Peele's Us.
The 2019 Oscars are in the books, and we're breaking down the entire show. Pop Break's Editor-in-Chief Bill Bodkin hosts the post-show with Film Editor Marisa Carpico, Television editor Matt Taylor, and Music Editor Kat Manos (who won ThePopBreak.com's Oscar pool).
The foursome talk about the surprising wins for Green Book, and Olivia Colman. The wins for Spike Lee and Bohemian Rhapsody. They analyze the show's host-less aspect. Also, they reveal their thoughts on Bradley and Gaga's steamy performance. There's a lot of jokes made about ABC's new show Whiskey Cavalier and Ridley Scott's liquor commercial.
The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast has hit the end of the road. Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV Editor Matt Taylor are giving their hot takes, razor sharp insight, and predictions on the nominees for Best Picture.
The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast is heading into the home stretch. Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV Editor Matt Taylor are giving their hot takes, razor sharp insight, and predictions on the nominees for Best Director.
Matt and Marisa give their hot takes, razor sharp insight, and predictions on the nominees for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
Matt and Marisa discuss the nominees and predict the winners for Best aCtor and best Supporting Actor.
Matt and Marisa discuss the nominees and predict the winner of the Best Documentary Feature category.
Matt and Marisa go through the nominees and pick the winners for the Editing and Cinematography categories.
The Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast is kicking into high gear. Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV Editor Matt Taylor are giving their hot takes, razor sharp insight, and predictions on the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.
Matt and Marisa go through the Production Design and Costume Design nominees to pick their favorites and call out a few snubs.
Matt and Marisa go through the Best Song and Score nominees and discuss the Gaga of it all.
Matt and Marisa remind listeners and themselves the difference between sound editing and mixing and discuss the nominees and potential winners for the sound categories.
Matt and Marisa talk about the prosthetics of Border, the snatched wigs of Mary Queen of Scots and the visual messes of Avengers: Infinity War and Ready Player One.
Matt and Marisa go through the Best Adapted and Original Screenplay categories. We stand up for favorites like Can You Ever Forgive Me? and wonder how the heck Green Book ended up here.
Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! Our Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast is kicking off 2019 with a new episode.
Our hosts, Film Editor Marisa Carpico and Television Editor Matt Taylor, talk about a number of big releases during the Christmas Season.
The 8th episode of Pop Break's Way too Early Oscars Predictions podcast is back, and we're tackling some big time awards.
The Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards released their nominees, and our hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor have got a lot to talk about the snubs, the surprises, and the just what in the hell were they thinking.
The seventh episode of our Way Too Early Oscar Predictions is here ad we're looking at all the early awards shows. That's right Awards Season is here, and we're breaking it all down.
In this episode our hosts, film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor, look at the National Board of Review, NYFCC, Gotham Awards, and even talk a wee bit about the Golden Globes, and the Oscars.
The 6th episode of Pop Break's "Way Too Early Oscar Predictions" is back with post-Thanksgiving hot takes.
Film editor Marisa Carpico, and TV editor Matt Taylor return with their thoughts on the ever-drawing close Awards Season, and a batch of movies with big time awards potential.
The fifth episode of our "Way Too Early Oscars" podcast is here. And you know what? It's not that early anymore. But...we'll keep the name. Our hosts, film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor talk about the most recent run of Oscar potentials.
The fourth episode of the Way Too Early Oscar Predictions is back! Film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor return to talk Oscars. Both attended this year's New York Film Festival, and break down some of the movies they saw there.
Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor discuss Matt's third trip to the Great White North for a weekend of Oscar potentials.
Welcome to our "Way too Early Oscar Predictions" Episode 2.
This is a regular podcast where film editor Marisa Carpico, TV editor Matt Taylor, and possible guests come together to discuss the potential Oscar nominees. Do they know it's way too early to predict? Sure. But in their mind IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY TO PREDICT.
In our very first episode, Matt and Marisa recap the first half of the 2018's awards-worthy films.