Burning Questions for the Most Uncertain Oscar Race in Years

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Matt is joined by New York Times awards season reporter Kyle Buchanan to preview the 2024-25 Oscar race now that the table is mostly set. Kyle sets the table for a fascinating Oscar season—one without a clear front-runner like ‘Oppenheimer’ was last year—and highlights the biggest narratives that have emerged, including the movies with the strongest momentum, early 2024 films that could make a last-second surge, and other burning questions (02:09). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the MLB playoffs (28:28). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Kyle Buchanan Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, it's not that confusing.
0:02.5	I'm Rob Harvilla, host of the podcast 60 Songs That Explain the 90s, except we did 120 songs.
0:08.9	And now we're back with the 2000s.
0:11.2	I refuse to say aughts.
0:12.5	2000 to 2009.
0:14.2	The Strokes, Rihanna, Jalo, Kanye, sure.
0:17.8	And now the show is called 60 songs that explain the 90s, colon the 2000s. Wow. That's too long a title for me to say anything else right now. Just trust me. That's 60 songs that explain the 90s, colon the 2000s, preferably on Spotify.
0:37.2	It is Friday, October 4th.
0:39.8	Yes, it's October.
0:40.9	The election is in full swing.
0:42.3	The candidates are chosen, and the campaigns are going all out.
0:45.9	I'm talking, of course, about the Oscar race, the only election that matters to the town.
0:50.3	Fall festivals are over.
0:51.7	We've seen the reviews.
0:52.6	Craig and I have been seeing the movies pretty regularly. The awards consultants are putting out their precursor honors, the key media
0:59.9	appearances for the stars and filmmakers, the campaign stops, the parties. It's an interesting
1:05.0	year because there isn't a huge frontrunner like Oppenheimer last year or a big commercial
1:09.5	favorite like Barbie or Avatar.
1:12.1	One of the frontrunners right now is a three and a half hour romantic drama called The Brutalist
1:16.8	about a Hungarian architect who survives the Holocaust and moves to America.
1:21.2	Or Anora about a sex worker who marries the son of an oligarch that won the Palm Dioric can.
1:26.8	I try not to get too hung up on the Oscar race.
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