The 2022 Oscars are finally upon us. There are always two big questions as we approach

the Oscars who will win and who should win. Today we're going to try to help you win

your Oscar pool and see some terrific movies at the same time. I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Linda Holmes. On this episode of NPR's Top Culture Happy Hour, we're offering

up a guide to this year's Oscar nominations. Here with me and Stephen from his home

studio is Glenn Weldon of NPR's Culture Desk Hageland. Dreams made of shadow and light

the night. And also here from her home studio is Aisha Harris. Hey Aisha. Hello and don't

look up. We are all here together. We are going to first go through the best picture

category. We have episodes on all of these. So we're not going to dwell on the individual

ones too much. We are mostly going to talk about who what will win and what should win

in case you need a refresher. Let's give you a refresher. Bellfast is Kenneth Branagh's

semi-autical biographical film about a working class family in 1960s Northern Ireland.

Coda is Sean Hader's coming of age movie about a teenage child of deaf adults. That's

what Coda stands for. Don't look up. Is Adam McKay's satire particularly beloved by Aisha

about two astronomers trying to warn people that a comet is about to destroy Earth. Drive

my car is a film from Japanese director Ruyuska Hamaguchi about a widow director and his

driver. Dune is Denny Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel.

Being Richard is Renaldo Marcus Green's movie about Richard Williams, the father of tennis

stars Venus and Serena Williams. Likarish Pizza is Paul Thomas Anderson's dromity about

the relationship. Please put relationship in quotation marks between a 15-year-old child

actor and a 25-year-old woman. Nightmare Alley is Guillermo del Toro's noir starring Bradley

Cooper as an ambitious 1940s drifter who joins a traveling carnival. The power of the

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