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The Important Cinema Club

PATREON PREVIEW: The Phantom of The Oscars

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the 2026 Oscars! And its most logical compliment, the Billy Zane movie THE PHANTOM (1996). Happy 30th Anniversary! To listen to this full episode, and hundreds more, subscribe here: www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub

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0:00.0

It's Hollywood's biggest night, the Oscars.

0:04.7

Did you watch this year, Will?

0:05.9

Yes, I did.

0:07.2

Did you watch?

0:08.1

I did as well.

0:09.3

Oh, wait.

0:10.0

I did, but I was also watching the baseball game that was going on at the same time while it was happening.

0:14.5

The World Baseball Classic.

0:16.4

Because I've got to say, Oscar-wise, not very invested in any of the movies that were up for nominations

0:22.6

this year. When was the last time you were invested in the Oscars? The Godzilla one, I wanted to

0:27.2

win Best Visual Effects and when RR was nominated for Best Song. That's pretty much. Maybe Parasite.

0:32.7

And those were the three this past decade that you cared about. Yes. Oh, you know what? I liked everything everywhere all at once, but I wasn't invested in it. Like, I wasn't like, oh, my God. And we've talked about this before. I have never been a guy that's done Oscar pools or anything like that. Literally, the week of the Oscars, I go, oh, wait, yeah, the Oscars are on this week, right? And then I go and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's this weekend. I care about the Oscars only insofar as it consumes film discourse for like six months, which again, I would prefer, I prefer if it didn't. I mean, you're, you're very liberal with how many accounts you, how many words or phrases you mute on social media.

1:13.3

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:14.3

Have you muted Oscar? Do you not see that?

1:16.4

Oh, I wonder. I never see any Oscar posts, though.

1:19.3

So maybe.

1:20.4

I mean, all this shit.

1:21.6

The only ones I see is from you.

1:23.0

It's worse than a Democratic primary.

1:25.3

These movies, it goes on for six months, and they get analyzed and

1:29.9

rehashed and problematized and this and that. A million ways from like September to March.

1:35.8

And of course, the Oscars were later this year than in the last few years. It was like two weeks

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