Can The Oscars Be Fixed?
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Awards season in Hollywood is in its final stretch. The suspense is rising. The Oscars are imminent.
The ceremony is always full of glitz and glamour, but for years it’s been plagued by disappointments. Long and boring broadcasts. Unjustified snubs. Clunky skits and speeches. Despite it all, Sam loves to watch, but he has some ideas to fix Hollywood’s biggest night.
Joining the show are two entertainment journalism heavyweights:
Jacqueline Coley is awards editor at Rotten Tomatoes and host of Seen on the Screen with Jacqueline Coley.
Clayton Davis is chief awards editor at Variety where he also hosts the Awards Circuit Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | at the ceremony when they are doing the rollout of Best Picture nominee, one battle after another, |
| 0:05.9 | Deanna Taylor and Sean Penn hit that stage and reenact in a PG-13 version, that weird sexing. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine! Let's just stop there. You can imagine it, right? |
| 0:17.1 | Sadly, yes. I don't think I should. |
| 0:20.2 | It's a good idea. |
| 0:22.8 | Hey, y'all, Sam here. |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you so much for listening to my show with KCRW. |
| 0:26.4 | We are going to talk right now about the Oscars. |
| 0:29.9 | The show is coming up very soon. |
| 0:32.2 | All the nominees are in that final stretch of campaigning. |
| 0:35.2 | The suspense is rising. |
| 0:37.4 | But I want to talk less about the nominees |
| 0:39.0 | and more about the show itself. I have always loved watching the Oscars, but I've also |
| 0:44.5 | always had notes. This show is too long. This gets her clunky. They cut off the speeches, |
| 0:51.4 | etc., etc. So this episode, I am joined by two awards insiders to brainstorm |
| 0:56.9 | some big Oscar fixes, changes to Hollywood's biggest night. I'm joined in this challenge by |
| 1:03.5 | Jacqueline Coley, awards editor for Rotten Tomatoes, also the host of the podcast seen on the |
| 1:09.3 | screen with Jacqueline Coley. |
| 1:11.8 | Also joined by Clayton Davis, chief awards editor at Variety, where he also hosts the Awards Circuit podcast. |
| 1:18.9 | Just think of us, like, if there was a Royal Rota for trophies. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.6 | It's a silliest job, but it's the best job in journalism. |
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