The 2019 Oscars: Final Ballot Predictions | The Oscars Show (Ep. 128)

The Big Picture

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4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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The Academy has flip-flopped again, saying they would reinstate the four categories they cut from the telecast just last week. Is that the right decision, an indication of a true crisis, or both (0:39)? Plus, an exhaustive breakdown of every Oscars category, including who will (and should) win (36:30). Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennese and I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:07.6	And this is the big picture, a conversation show about the Oscars, which once again is
0:12.3	on fire, or maybe it's resolving itself.
0:15.0	Amanda voting is closed.
0:16.9	The Oscars are just a few days away.
0:18.6	We're going to be doing many things in this episode, including predicting all 24 races
0:23.1	that are coming to you live Sunday February 24th.
0:26.7	But first we really have to talk about everything that has been unfolding in the telecast.
0:31.1	This of course is the big picture's big picture.
0:33.1	Here we go.
0:34.1	This is a problem in the big picture, do you know what I mean?
0:39.2	Amanda we learned on Friday that the four shunted categories that the Oscars had been pressing
0:43.3	for, that the academy had been plotting to shorten this show to three hours are back
0:48.1	on the telecast.
0:49.9	This felt to me like a real traditional news dump.
0:52.2	They tried to get it out at the best possible time of the head of a holiday weekend.
0:55.3	What was your immediate reaction to the news that we'd be seeing these four categories
0:58.1	again?
0:59.6	This is the right decision.
1:01.0	They should have been in the telecast from the beginning and then fatigue and then and
1:06.9	just you know it's like it's good.
1:09.0	We did it.
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