Critical Darlings: One Battle After Another And Oscar Predictions with David Sims
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đď¸ 12 March 2026
âąď¸ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Critical Darlings, a conversation about the award season conversation. |
| 0:13.0 | One contender at a time. |
| 0:17.0 | Please welcome to this stage, your hosts, Richard Lawson and Alison Wilmore. |
| 0:26.1 | Marie, thank you for that beautiful introduction one last time before the Oscars. |
| 0:32.2 | We are... |
| 0:32.5 | I know. We're here. |
| 0:35.4 | As ever, we're here with our producer ben hello hello good morning and returning guest |
| 0:39.9 | hey one of few returning guests i'm back yeah david sims hello i'm good oh sorry hello how are you |
| 0:47.6 | just crushing this coke zero waking up i mean we're all i think a little worse for the way or given |
| 0:52.8 | that you know we've been running this long Oscar race for months now. |
| 0:56.2 | It's exhausting. Why is it so late this year? Why is it, like, 70 degrees outside and we're still on? The Olympics? But the Olympics are over. They are. They've been over. They ended two weeks ago. I have no other answers. Because it is, it used to be end of March, and then they were like, okay, we know this is ridiculous. |
| 1:13.4 | And they pulled it be end of March. |
| 1:11.0 | And then they were like, okay, we know this is ridiculous. |
| 1:13.4 | And they pulled it to end of Feb. |
| 1:14.7 | But then they're like, except for if there's Olympics. |
| 1:16.6 | And like, the parasite year was like early February. |
| 1:19.1 | Right. |
| 1:19.5 | That's what we need. |
| 1:20.8 | We need early February. |
| 1:22.2 | I think we are also. |
| 1:23.0 | I don't ever want to hear the word hemnet again. I mean, we have, I was expecting this to happen sooner, but I feel like this last week or so, we have gotten a bit of just like Oscar season too long madness where like, we have been various very bad discourses about various nominees. Yeah, and you don't want to talk about these movies anymore, Right. You don't want to talk about the sort of, right, fake controversy. |
| 1:46.0 | But you're like, you run out of things to say about the movies. And so then you're just like, what are we going to keep talking about? Let's talk about how Jesse Buckley feels about cats, you know? And you're like, and not the musical cats, which would also be an interesting topic of conversation. Should I go off on that? |
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