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Pop Culture Happy Hour

2025 Oscar Nominations

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This year's Oscar nominations are out, and if you liked Emilia Pérez, Anora, Wicked, The Brutalist, and A Complete Unknown, then you're in luck. As always, there's an eclectic mix of heavy favorites, left-field surprises, and the dreaded snubs. We give a broad sense of this year's major storylines, while also lamenting a few decisions we found baffling.

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0:28.1

This year's Oscar nominations are out, and if you liked Amelia Pettis, Anora, Wicked, the Brutalist, and a complete unknown, then you're unlocked.

0:36.9

As always, there's an eclectic mix of heavy favorites, left field surprises, and the dreaded

0:42.5

snubs. And we've got thoughts. I'm Linda Holmes. And I'm Stephen Thompson. Today we are talking

0:48.6

about this year's Oscar nominations on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Here with us is our co-host, Glenn Weldon.

0:55.6

Hey, Glenn.

0:56.1

Hey, Stephen, it's a wonderful night for Oscar.

0:58.1

Oscar, Oscar, who will win?

1:00.1

Who will win?

1:01.3

Well, we're not going to talk about who will win right now.

1:03.4

We're talking about the nominees.

1:05.4

And we're going to run down a bunch of the major categories here.

1:08.4

We cannot possibly get to every category. And remember,

1:11.8

we're going to bring you our predictions in an episode that'll run closer to March's ceremony.

1:16.7

But we did want to give you a broad sense of this year's major storylines while also lamenting

1:22.2

a few decisions we found baffling like the exclusion of the challeng's score, which I'm still so mad about.

1:29.1

You're getting ahead of me, Stephen.

1:31.1

We're going to start with Best Picture. I'm going to run him down. A complete unknown. Timothy

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