And action! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your first annual What Went Wrong Oscars season coverage, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies, and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone a potential best picture

winner. As always, I am Chris Winterbauer, joined today by my co-host Lizzie Bassett for the first

in our mini-series run of bonus episodes covering this year's Oscars race. Lizzie, how you doing this

morning? And can you tell the fine folks which two films we are starting with?

I certainly can. And before we even get into it, I just want to say, this has been an amazing year for movies.

A great year. I feel like sometimes when the Best Picture nominees come out, I'm kind of like, ah!

Yeah, you're like, wow, they really needed to fill out 10 slots, I guess, this year.

Not the case this year.

This year, it's really stacked.

In fact, we'll get to, I have some snubs.

Like, I might have put them in over a film or two on this list.

Sure.

But they are not snubs in the traditional sense where I feel like they were really wronged.

I just thought

it was such a good year that you just couldn't get all the good movies on here. I agree. So we are

kicking off this first episode in our best picture, Oscars coverage, with two movies, and this is not

going to be one versus the other. These are sort of paired thematically. We're going to discuss both.

And today we've got sinners and one battle after another. I am very, very excited to talk about both of these movies with Chris. And just so you all know, this episode is going to be completely in front of the paywall. We want you all to hear what these episodes are going to be like. If you would like to hear more of them, we will be doing more of these episodes for all of the

best picture nominees, but you will have to subscribe to hear those. You can subscribe in Apple or

Spotify, or you can join our Patreon for $5 to hear the rest. All right, Chris, lead the way.

This, as you mentioned, Lizzie, has been, in my opinion, a great year for the movies. It's been a great year

for certain franchises. It has been a great year for original films. We'll discuss a couple,

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