The 2024 Oscars: The Year of ‘Oppenheimer’ and Christopher Nolan

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Sean and Amanda give their immediate reactions to the 96th Academy Awards, which were largely dominated by Christopher Nolan and ‘Oppenheimer.’ They appreciate Jimmy Kimmel’s hosting, admire a barn-burning performance of ‘I’m Just Ken’ by Ryan Gosling, analyze a surprising Emma Stone victory over Lily Gladstone, discuss the increasingly international voting body of the Academy, note the continued cultural power of 'Barbie' (despite winning very little at the awards), and wonder whether this year is a one-off or whether it portends the Oscars telecast making a sustained comeback. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian Curtis from The Ringer, and I want to tell you about the Press Box podcast.
0:06.0	The Press Box is a podcast for anybody who likes news, whether it's about sports or politics or pop culture and wants to understand how that news really gets made
0:17.6	We have new shows every Monday and Thursday. We have long interviews with everyone from John Crackhour to Joe Buck.
0:24.0	Your social media feeds are bursting with information every day.
0:27.5	Let us help you sort it out.
0:29.5	Join us on the press box. I'm Sean Fennesey I'm Amanda Dobbins and this is the big picture a
0:47.3	conversation show about the 96th Academy Awards and if it sounds like I have an unusual
0:53.0	peep in my steps because we have just completed a very good Academy Awards.
0:56.0	Would you agree, Amanda?
0:57.0	It was great.
0:58.0	They nailed it.
0:59.0	What happened?
1:00.0	I have absolutely no idea.
1:01.0	You and I will try to parse it, but I think Kimmel did a great job as as a host
1:05.6	great monologue great kind of moving the show along pacing was great the production choices were for the most part good
1:11.6	we obviously have some notes we always notes. This is the big picture but a lot more things right than we're wrong. Great speeches. You know, just great, great, great musical number obviously at least one great musical number so
1:25.2	everything just kind of lined up great winners too a few surprises not everything was
1:30.5	as chalk as we expected I'm kind of blown away by how quality this
1:36.0	Academy Awards was. I've made a point of growzing about the show for the last
1:39.7	five or six years and this felt unusual. I don't want to say it felt like
1:43.7	1997 or whatever we romanticized about the past but it felt like a show very much
1:48.1	in control and under control and even if we knew that this was all leading
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