From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

It's that time of year again, this time with a slight disaster-related delay, but the show will go on.

The 2025 Oscar nominations have been revealed, and the Hollywood reporter Scott Feinberg is here to help us make sense of it.

I do think there's an excellent chance that you'll have some kind of a wicked medley

if they can convince Cynthia Revo and Ariane Grande to do it.

The thing is, even though these are all famous people, they do sometimes get nervous on

Oscar night, especially when they're nominated.

Scott joins me to hash over who's in and who's out,

but first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in

banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So let's start with Netflix. Netflix announced

results, added 19 million subscribers, which means that they have more than

300 million subscribers around the world. And for the people who had been laughing at them

several years ago, calling them, what, the third world something, they have been permanently

silenced, I guess.

Yeah, the stock is up about four or five times from where it was at the bottom of the Netflix

correction.

Now, Netflix typically has strong fourth quarters.

They have a lot of content that comes out.

But the combination of all of these live events, the Jake Paul fight, the NFL games on Christmas,

a new season of Squid game.

They had a hit movie and carry on.

All of it combined to have, this is the best quarter Netflix has ever had in terms of

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