Hello, folks.

I'm saying folks because I'm thinking of that's all folks.

At the end of those Looney Tunes and Mary Melodies.

Well, also I think people listen to this podcast in groups of five, which officially

makes them folks, right?

You know what?

I like your optimism, and I like the way you envision that. I'm Leonard Malton. Hi, and this is Malton on movies with Baron Vaughn.

And I'm Baron Vaughn, and that is not all, folks.

No, no, we've got a little ways to go.

We've got a lot more to say.

That's right. We're just beginning.

And what we're going to begin with today is a theme or thesis that we will continue next week as well.

We're going to talk about interesting films made by this year's Oscar nominees, films that in some cases you will know, and maybe in a few cases you don't know and you might like to find out about.

And I want to say also that we're

sticking specifically to people that were nominated. There's been some controversy and we'll get

to that later. Okay. Continue, Leonard. You're talking, of course, about the Lego movie, but we'll get

back to that. We'll get back to that. Yes. We'll get back to that.

Well, we're talking about three different people today, two actors and one filmmaker,

all of whom are nominees.

And we're going to start with a fellow who's fairly new on the scene, not brand new,

but fairly new on the scene, Eddie Redmayne.

He has gotten his first nomination as leading actor, best leading actor, for his wonderful performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

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