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If you loved Sinners, Marty Supreme, or one battle after another, you're probably pleased

with how nominations unfolded for this year's Oscars.

Sinners alone picked up an all-time record 16 nominations, while one battle after another received

13. And as always, there's an eclectic mix of heavy favorites, left-field surprises, and the dreaded

snubs. I'm Stephen Thompson, and today we are talking about this year's

Oscar nominations on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Here with me are my co-hosts, Aisha Harris. Hey, Aisha.

Hello, Stephen. And Glenn Weldon. Hey, Glenn. Kate Hudson. Hey, Stephen. So we are going to run

down some of the major categories here.

We can't get to every category.

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

But we wanted to give a broad sense of this year's major storylines while also lamenting a few decisions we found baffling.

I'm going to start us off by running down the nominees

for Best Picture. There are 10 in all. Bagonia, Yorgos Lanthamos' movie where Emma Stone's high-powered

CEO is kidnapped by conspiracy theorists and accused of being an alien. F-1, Brad Pitt plays a veteran

F-1 driver who clashes with a young hot shot.

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro's take on the Mary Shelley classic. Jacob Allorty plays the

creature and Oscar Isaac is the scientist. Hamnet. A young English couple meets,

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