Best Picture Power Rankings and Brutal Honesty About ‘The Brutalist’

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Sean and Amanda dig into ‘The Brutalist’ (with spoilers!)—the text, the reception, the performances, the score, its awards chances, its lasting presence in the American film canon, and everything in between (1:00). Then, they’re joined by Joanna Robinson to weigh in on the Best Picture race and rank all 10 films nominated for the award based on their current chances to win the race (1:31:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Joanna Robinson Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Pressbox podcast.
0:06.6	The Pressbox is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture,
0:14.4	and wants to understand how that news really gets made.
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1:12.3	I'm Sean Fennessey.
1:13.1	I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the Big Picture.
1:14.2	A Conversation show about brutal boys and brutal girls.
1:18.9	Today is the day.
1:20.5	It's a very important day on the big picture.
1:23.8	Certainly will be Best Picture Power R ranking with our friend Joanna Robinson.
1:27.9	We may talk a little bit about Nosferatu, but most importantly, Amanda is here to talk about the brutalist.
1:35.6	Banana!
1:39.8	We're back.
1:41.0	I want you to start singing the disco rebex.
1:48.3	Bona na, n's, nts, n disco remix. Honestly, it's a great score.
1:50.4	The world has been waiting, honestly, months to hear you talk about this movie.
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