Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Go Streaming

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🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show, we preview the Oscars and Trump’s demolition throughout renowned institutions of art. Isaac Butler — author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act and host of the new Criterion Channel series, The Craft of Acting — sits in for Stephen Metcalf. First, the hosts discuss I’m Still Here and the continued addition of non-English speaking films getting some of the biggest Oscar buzz. Then we tackle the latest Trump shakeups at the National Endowment for the Arts and The Kennedy Center. Finally, Dana and Julia sit down with the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Bill Kramer. Endorsements: Dana: The documentary Pictures of Ghosts (2023) Julia: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, also discussed on Culture Gabfest in September 2023 Isaac: The film Z (1969), available on streaming Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dana Stevens, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest.
0:13.7	The Oscars are streaming edition.
0:15.9	It's Wednesday, February 26, 2025, and this week we will be discussing, first off,
0:20.6	the Brazilian movie I'm Still Here, an Oscar nominee week we will be discussing, first off, the Brazilian movie
0:21.4	I'm Still Here, an Oscar nominee in the Best Actress, Best Picture, and Best International
0:26.0	Film category. We'll also talk about the state of affairs at the National Endowment for
0:30.4	the Arts, a cultural institution that finds itself imperiled as the Trump administration
0:34.8	reshuffles its priorities. And finally, at the end of today's show, we have an Oscar-related special segment.
0:41.0	The CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bill Kramer, will join Julia
0:45.8	and I for a discussion of this upcoming weekend's Academy Award ceremony and the future
0:50.4	of the institution that is the Academy in a movie industry that's rapidly changing
0:54.8	in the era of streaming. I am joined today by beloved friend of the program, Isaac Butler. Hello,
1:00.7	Isaac. Hello. I like that beloved friend of the program. I'm going to...
1:04.6	Bafop. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I'm going to have to get a pin made.
1:07.8	And joining us from Los Angeles, where she's a fellow at the Annenberg School of Journalism,
1:12.1	is Julia Turner.
1:13.1	Hey, Julia.
1:13.8	Hi, hi.
1:14.9	All right.
1:15.3	Well, we've got good stuff this week.
1:17.1	I'm interested in all these topics.
1:19.2	And it's our last show before the Oscars.
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