Episode 475 - Our Final Oscar Nomination Predictions For The 98th Academy Awards & The "EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert" Trailer

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 408 minutes

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Summary

For Episode 475, Nadia Dalimonte, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, Daniel Howat, and Tom O'Brien join me for the year's biggest and most exciting episode to endlessly discuss what we think will be nominated for the 98th Academy Awards. Yes, it's our famous, comprehensive, epic annual final Oscar nomination predictions episode! We recommend you listen to this mammoth-sized episode in three parts: the Shorts categories (4:13), the Below the line categories (1:15:43), and the Above the line categories (3:29:29). There are no fan questions this week and only one trailer discussion for Baz Luhrmann's "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert." For last week's poll, for the release of "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple," we asked, "Which Is Your Favorite Ralph Fiennes Performance?" And for this week's poll, for the upcoming Oscar nominations, we ask, "Which Film Do You Think Will Be The Next Best Picture Oscar Winner?" Thank you all for listening (no matter what the runtime says), supporting (our Patreon keeps so much of this operation running and could always use your help), and subscribing (every person matters for an independent outlet such as our's). You are the lifeblood that allows us to do what we do, and we cannot thank you enough. Enjoy the nominations this week. Daniel Howat, Cody Dericks, and I will be in Sundance when they drop, but we'll keep you updated with more to come as this year's awards season rolls on. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Oscar goes to...
0:01.8	Oh, thank you so much. This might be the one-time I'm speaking. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture. Could you double-check the envelope? And I can't deny the fact that you like me. Thank you, life, thank you love. Where did we fall in the movie? And Maria is see Al-Enlidheim. At the movie theater. This is nuts. It's a top. I'm the king of the world!
0:23.6	And the Oscar goes to... And the Oscar goes to... Gentlemen, my only object is being here is to try and get out of the truth. Watch like a watch like this! He's looking at you, Kent. Frankly, my idea I don't give it. It could have been a contender. Passing you a... I could have been somebody. They could only kill me with a golden wood. What have I done? Oh me, Mr. Tibbs. I'm gonna make him an awful again. The census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some father me. For Frodo.? I'm not Friot I can't stop
0:56.0	watch coming.
0:57.0	This ain't reality TV
0:58.0	I'm all not
0:59.0	You hate bloggers
1:01.0	You mock Twitter
1:02.0	It's time!
1:03.0	He's fast!
1:04.0	I'm the condemn
1:05.0	Destroyer of World
1:07.0	And the Oscar goes to
1:08.0	Oh,
1:09.0	Anora
1:10.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the next best picture And the Oscar goes to... Oh, Anora.
1:18.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast, episode 475.
1:24.0	I am your host, the owner, editor, and chief of Next Best Picture.com, Matt Neglia.
1:32.0	The time of recording is 10.9 a.m. on January 18th, 2026. And here to join me for our famous final Oscar nomination predictions episode. We have a large panel of awesome guests here
1:39.5	to dive into all these categories in great depth and detail. Hopefully this isn't going to take another six hours.
1:47.0	Nadia Dallamante.
1:48.0	Hello, everyone.
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