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Another year is in the books.

Let's recap the 2026 Oscars.

Overall, I thought, was a really strong year.

I think 2025 has the potential to be the best year of the decade. Clearly,

the best year in movie since 2019. We are on the up and up. And I think going into this

award show, everybody thought sinners was going to dominate, had a record amount of nominations.

But I warned you, anytime the Academy loads up on a movie like that, usually that movie doesn't end up winning all the awards.

Whenever it happened to Killers of the Flower Moon, where it had all these nominations,

everybody thought it was going to dominate.

But sometimes I feel they just give certain movies, all those nominations,

and that's kind of an award in itself.

And then they're like, all right, but we're going to definitely vote a different way.

That is what I felt, what happened this year.

But let's talk about the big awards.

Best Picture went to one battle after another. I will give you how many of these I got

right in my prediction episode. That one I got right. I think I am on a streak since 2019. I

always nail Best Picture to me. That is the easiest one to identify. I just kind of know how the academy votes in this category specifically.

So I continue my seven year winning streak on that. And in this case, I do think it is well deserved.

That was my number one movie out of all these where I thought it had the right amount of action.

It had the right amount of directing, it had the right amount of directing

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