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The Big Picture

Introducing 'The Oscars Show' and the 2018 Oscar Narratives I The Oscars Show (Ep. 91)

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins kick off The Big Picture’s new Oscars Show with a look at the biggest movies of 2018 and how they would have been viewed through the lens of the now-delayed “Popular Movie” category (1:13). They then discuss whether Claire Foy’s stock is up or down after her performance in ‘First Man’ and the buzz surrounding ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ (17:00) before diving deep into the Best Actor race (30:23). We Actually Fixed the Oscars, The Big Picture We’re About to See the Most Competitive Best Actor Oscars Race in Years, Sean Fennessey Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Queen That ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Gets Completely Wrong, Steven Hyden Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys, it's Liz Kelly.

0:03.2

The one shining podcast tour with Titus and Tate officially kicks off next week on Friday

0:07.3

November 2nd.

0:08.6

Chicago sold out, but there's still a handful of tickets left in Columbus, Ohio, Louisville,

0:12.8

Kentucky, and Bloomington, Indiana.

0:14.8

You can find links to buy tickets at theringer.com slash 1-shining-podcast.

0:18.5

I'm Sean Fantasy, editor and chief of the ringer, and this is the one that's going

0:28.3

to be the best.

0:29.3

The ringer, and this is the big picture, a conversation show about the Oscars.

0:33.9

And I am joined by the ringer's culture editor Amanda Dobbins.

0:36.6

Amanda, hello.

0:37.6

Sean, hello.

0:38.6

Amanda, we're doing a show about the Oscars.

0:39.6

And on this week's show, the inaugural show, we're going to break down the most exciting,

0:43.5

best actor race in a decade, determine whether first man did enough to exit our atmosphere,

0:48.2

and explain why the hell we're doing the show in the first place.

0:50.1

So, Amanda, why are we doing this show?

0:52.2

Well, number one, because we love the Oscars.

0:54.0

We do, we do.

0:55.0

And we talk about it a lot, and we figured we might as well record it and make other people

0:58.4

listen to it.

0:59.5

But also, this is a great Oscar season, which is, by the way, it's October and it's

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