Best Picture Countdown to the Oscars: "The Secret Agent"
Rogue Energy
iHeartPodcasts
3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Amy and T.J. give you the cliff notes of each of the 10 Oscar nominated films this year as we wait to see who the Academy gives the most prized award to of the evening. We will share a synopsis of each movie, what they’re nominated for and what the critics and audiences thought of the films. We will also give our impressions of them and tell you whether you should watch it… or skip it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.5 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:14.6 | We continue now with Oscar movie number 8, |
| 0:18.9 | The Secret Agent. |
| 0:24.9 | This one was a surprise for us. Yes. Well, first of all, I did not know anything about it and I wasn't sure what language it was in. So, look, I don't |
| 0:32.7 | mind a subtitled movie because I actually feel like I get to read a book and watch a movie |
| 0:36.1 | all at once. And after a few minutes, I forget I'm seeing subtitles. |
| 0:41.2 | And it's so interesting, even when you're watching a movie in another language, you can still |
| 0:46.0 | tell when the acting is amazing. |
| 0:49.7 | And that was the case with this film. |
| 0:51.8 | This Oscar nominated film, yes. The Secret Agent has four |
| 0:55.3 | nominations among them, other than Best Picture, Best Actor, Best International Feature, and Best |
| 1:01.9 | Casting. Now, the leading this one is Wagner Mora. He is your main character, and he is the one |
| 1:07.8 | who really got award season off with a bang, I guess, because he |
| 1:12.6 | pulled off what was considered an upset. He won one of the first big acting awards of the season. |
| 1:17.1 | Was that the Golden Globe? I think it was the Golden Globes. And I think everyone was looking |
| 1:20.5 | at Timothy Salome or Leonardo DiCaprio or Michael B. Jordan. And all of a sudden, Wagner Morrow wins. Yes, that actually put the secret |
| 1:30.2 | agent on the map, at least for me, because it was the first time I had even heard of this movie. |
| 1:34.4 | I think on the map for a lot of people. This was not a movie that was considered a big box office |
| 1:39.2 | movie. Only made $18 million at the box office. But it is, quite frankly, and we should probably say, Robes, |
| 1:45.8 | the beginning of this one had us more intriguing than any movie we saw. |
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