And the Oscar goes to...

And the Oscar goes to... Gentlemen, my only object in being here is to try and get at the truth. What shall I go? What shall I do? He's looking at you, kid. Frankly, my dear, I don't give it. Could have been a contender. Passing yourself. I could have been somebody. They can only kill me with a golden bullet. What have I done? Call me Mr. Tibbs. I'm gonna make them an offer you can.

Love is. They can only kill me with a golden bully. What have I done? Call me Mr. Tips. I'm gonna make them an awful we can. Love you is... It is......too weak a word....I loveter. I lovue. I love you. I love you. I do this instruct. Don't live! If there's something wrong, it's wrong with the instruction. This ain't reality TV.

Respect it, invalidator.

Remember that you told me?

It's time, Robbie.

Welcome to the next best picture podcast.

And the Oscar goes to the shape of water.

Hello, if you want to welcome to episode 105. The Next Best Picture Podcast, I am your host, Matt Neglia.

And joining me today, I have my co-host, Will Mavity.

Hello, everybody.

Michael Schwartz.

Hello, everyone.

Katie Schaefer.

Hello.

And for the first time ever on the show, we've been waiting for a couple of weeks to get him on here.

You've seen some of his blog posts on Next Best Picture.com. We've got Tom O'Brien, everybody. At last. Hi. Oh, this is great, Tom. We're so, so happy to have you on for the first time. How are you? Oh, I'm really great. I'm really happy to be on here because I've been listening every week. And I want to get in on this conversation. So here I am.

Well, this is definitely the week to do it because starting this Wednesday with the Venice Film Festival,

we officially, officially, and also finally, enter into phase one of the 2018 award season.

We finally here, people, we're at the start line.

And the finish line feels very, very far away at the moment, but this is it.

So we have a lot to discuss this week in terms of previewing what's going to be going down at Venice, TIF,

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