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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Episode 486 - 2026 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Predictions, “Backrooms" & "Deep Water" Trailers

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

For Episode 486, I am joined by Josh Parham and Ema Sasic as we look ahead to April 9th, and the announcement of the lineup for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, and discuss which films we think will be announced for this year's festival. For this week's poll question, for the release of Steven Soderbergh's newest film "The Christophers," we're asking everyone: "Which Is Your Favorite Ian McKellen Performance?" We also reveal the winner of last week's poll asking "Which Has Been Your Favorite Film Of Q1 2026?", share our reactions to the trailers for "Backrooms," "Deep Water," answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! Thank you all for listening, subscribing, and supporting us. We hope you 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... Oh, thank you so much. This might be the one time I'm speaking. This is not a joke. Moonlight is one 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 he fall in the movie? And Maria is C. Alpinehyl at the movie theater. This is nuts. It's a a tie I'm the king of the world! 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. It's like a watch like this. He's looking at you, Kent. Rightly right here, I don't give it. It could have been a contender. Passing you're... I could have been somebody. They can only kill me with a golden bull. What have I done? On me, Mr. Tibbs. I'm gonna make him an offer again. The census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some father me. For Frodo. For fraud....and a nice kid.'t laugh I can't stop what's coming this ain't reality TV you hate water you've been drinking today you're on Twitter you know he's back if you win it's time this this world this the Oscar goes to destroy of worlds one battle Oscar Hello everyone Welcomeer of worlds. One battle. After another.

1:12.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 486 of the Next Best Picture podcast.

1:18.4

I am your host, the owner, editor-in-chief of Next Best Picture.com.

1:22.0

Matt Neglia.

1:23.0

The time of recording is 10.06 a.m.

1:25.5

On Easter Sunday, April 5th, 2026. And here to join me today, I have

1:31.7

Josh Parham. Hello, hello. And Emma Sassick. Hello. So good morning, everyone. Today we're

1:40.7

going to be talking about what we think will be announced on April 9th for the Cannes Film Festival.

1:46.7

Really, really excited because we'll get a whole new crop of movies for the year.

1:51.1

And as we know from the last couple of years, Cannes has gone on to be very influential in the award season race.

1:56.4

A lot of contenders have emerged from the festival each year in multiple categories.

2:01.1

And so we're going to be discussing that.

2:02.9

We got two trailers to discuss too, one for back rooms and the other one for deep water.

2:08.3

If you don't know what that is, you will find out soon enough, believe me.

2:12.7

We're also going to be going over the polls.

2:16.2

We'll answer fan questions as we usually do. But I want to know

2:20.1

what you guys have been watching this past week. So Emma, why don't you kick us off? It has been a very

2:26.3

interesting little week. Last weekend, I think I finally was able to catch up with Ready or Not

2:32.8

Two. Here I come and they will kill you, both of which catch up with Ready or Not 2. Here I Come and They Will Kill You,

2:36.2

both of which ended up being more or less a very similar film. So it was a perfect double feature,

2:41.6

really, with Sisters Reuniting, Satanic cults, and violence. So love that. Both of them were,

2:53.9

they were fun. They had their moments. i thought overall they were they were okay fine nothing nothing really incredible i did really enjoy the

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