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Music your favorite podcast app. Now, on to our Oscars recap. One battle after another, Michael B. Jordan, Jesse Buckley, and K-pop were among the big

winners at Sunday Night's Academy Awards. We'll debate if the old-school feel of the

telecast worked for us, and yes, we'll get into those jokes at Timothy Shalamey's expense.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

It is 1202 a.m., and we are recapping the highs and lows of this year's Oscars on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

Joining me today are my fellow Pop Culture Happy hour hosts, Linda Holmes. Hey, Linda.

Hello, Stephen.

Aisha Harris. How's it going?

Viva La Revolution, Stephen.

They showed that quite a few times.

Brian Weldon, hey, buddy.

Hey, pal.

All right, we're going to get right to it.

Biggest winner of the night, six Academy Awards, one battle after another, one best picture. Paul Thomas Anderson, one for directing and adapted screenplay. Sean Penn, one for actor in a supporting role. The inaugural casting award went to Cassandra Kulakundi's, and the film also won for editing. What did you all think?

I mean, this kind of feels like when Martin Scorsese won for The Departed, where it's like,

okay, is this your best film? I don't think so, but it's time. As I said, when we had our

preview episode leading up to the Oscars tonight, I just think that that is something that the Academy loves to do, and I'm okay with that.

It's a good movie.

I have my quibbles, but overall, not at all upset or surprised.

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