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Obsessed: The Podcast

The Cheesiest Movie Just Crashed the Oscar Race

Obsessed: The Podcast

The Daily Beast

Tv & Film

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning showbiz experts Kevin Fallon and Matt Wilstein break down all the drama in the Oscar nominations. Who lost out on a statuette? Who should be furious? And they have the skinny on the biggest shocks: the jaw-dropping Best Picture nomination for F1, starring Brad Pitt as a race-car driver, and Kate Hudson getting her second nomination for Song Sung Blue after a quarter-century break. Kevin and Matt get into Ariana Grande getting shut out in a Wicked disappointment and have some predictions for who's going to triumph os the big night. Need to know what to say about the Oscars? They've got it all covered. Follow Kevin Fallon on Instagram @kpfallon Follow Matt Wilstein on Instagram @mattjwilstein New episodes every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; early drops on YouTube. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is one Oscar snub that is just like killing me. I'm heartbroken.

0:07.8

Hello, I'm Kevin Fallon, and this is Obsess the podcast, and we are coming to you on my favorite day of the year.

0:16.9

It is my Super Bowl, my Christmas, It is the morning of the Oscar nominations.

0:22.7

And you know that I'm serious about it because I am wearing my glasses right now.

0:25.6

We are going to talk about all the shocking snubs, all the surprises, everything that you need to know to be the smartest person in the room when you have your cocktails later this evening.

0:37.0

Right now,

0:37.7

let's talk to Matt Wollstein, the editorial director of The Daily Beast, obsessed about this morning's

0:43.5

Oscar nominations. Hello, Matt. How are you? I am doing okay, Kevin. It is very early here on

0:49.5

the West Coast. I am in the dark because I have not looked at the Oscar nominations yet. So I'm here to have

0:55.4

seen them yet. You haven't seen them yet. Directly from you, Kevin. So I'm excited to find

1:00.4

I'm kind of, I'm dying to know what has happened. And it's been a long road to this point.

1:05.4

So I'm very excited to hear. Well, I can't wait to break the news to you. I'm very curious.

1:10.7

So there is, in the best picture, especially, one nomination that I think everyone's going to have a field day talking about. It's a crazy one. It should not be in there.

1:21.1

Oh, my God. What do you think that movie is? Because you haven't seen this yet. Okay. It's either going to be some big budget movie that is

1:31.0

like a crowd pleaser or it's going to be something that nobody has ever heard of and is going

1:35.6

baffle everybody. So do you want to give me that at least or do I have to guess just based on

1:40.9

nothing? I will give you a clue. I'll give you two words.

1:44.8

Vroom, vroom.

1:46.6

Oh, I see, I knew it.

1:48.6

It's F1.

1:49.6

I was hoping F1 was going to get in there.

1:52.3

I mean, it's a movie that I was very entertained by.

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