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Best Picture Countdown to the Oscars: "Train Dreams"

Rogue Energy

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

3.04.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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 IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:13.8

All right, it is Oscar Sunday award show.

0:17.9

Just, I don't know, when you're listening to this, but it's coming up and you still

0:21.7

haven't seen Train Dreams. Yes, it's number nine as we're making through all 10 best picture

0:27.4

nominees, giving you the Cliff Notes. But up next, number nine now, train dreams, the shortest of

0:33.8

the mall, we should mention. The shortest, but it actually felt like the longest to, to, to, we'll explain. Yeah. Well, one of the mall, we should mention. The shortest, but it actually felt like the longest.

0:39.2

We'll explain. Yeah. Well, one of the longest. It's funny. I was surprised when I saw how short it

0:45.1

actually was because it did feel like this very long journey. So this movie got four nominations,

0:53.7

and this was the only other best picture nominee

0:56.5

that didn't have any best acting nods, which is pretty fascinating, given that you've got

1:02.4

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones in this, like two incredible award-winning actors that

1:09.2

neither one of them got a nomination for this.

1:12.1

And Joel Edgerton, what was the other one? F-1. Those are the only two. Do I have it right?

1:18.5

Yes, correct. F-1 and Train Dreams. These are the only two. And I guess that's kind of, I don't know,

1:23.3

I guess somebody had to get left out with so many movies, but... What's interesting to me, though, is this movie in particular.

1:29.7

By the way, so it got Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

1:36.2

Now, Best Cinematography, totally get it.

1:38.2

It is a sweeping beautiful.

1:41.0

It's gorgeous to look at.

1:42.6

It kind of reminds me of even watching like a Nat Geo

1:46.3

special. You're just kind of swept away in this gorgeous landscape in the Pacific Northwest.

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