Five Burning Questions About Awards Season, and Our Golden Globes Predictions. Plus: The Ingenious ‘No Other Choice,’ with Park Chan-wook!

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of the Golden Globes, Sean and Amanda start the show by answering five burning questions about this awards season (1:05) before sharing their personal predictions for the Golden Globes (26:56). Then, they discuss Park Chan-wook’s ‘No Other Choice’, a clever and class-conscious black comedy, which they both absolutely loved (1:11:07). Finally, Sean is joined by director Park to break down what attracted him to the source material and why there was an incredible amount of intentionality behind every decision (1:33:25). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Park Chan-wook and Jiwon Lee Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:15.8	And this is the big picture of conversation show about no other choice and the Golden Globes.
0:20.1	Today on the show, we'll dig into some Golden Globe predictions. We'll raise some serious questions about the award season as we are on the precipice of some dramatic news or not. We'll also talk about no other choice, which is the new film from Park Chan-Wuk, the South Korean writer-director, who is a flat-out genius.
0:38.0	This is one of my favorite movies of the year. He is a guest on this show, very excited to chat
0:42.0	with him again. The film is getting a wide release finally in January, so more people will be
0:46.3	able to see it. We talked a lot about how he made this film and how he goes about making films.
0:51.7	I mentioned on our year-end episode that he's extraordinarily detailed in how he explains the choices that he made.
0:58.8	So if you like the movie, you'll want to stick around for that conversation right after this.
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