The Oscars are Sunday. Here’s what to catch up on.
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, we talk about the movies that have been nominated for best picture at the Oscars; what to see, what to skip and what we loved, ahead of the awards Sunday night.
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There are 10 films nominated this year for an Academy Award for best picture. From big blockbusters to quiet tales of domesticity, the movies span a wide variety of topics and capture what our movie critics call a diverse year for the types of stories we’re seeing on the big screen.
Today, Washington Post movie critic Ann Hornaday and movies editor Janice Page come on the show to talk about their favorite films this year, what you should try to watch before the Oscars on Sunday and what this lineup of films could indicate for the years ahead.
And if you’re still hoping to catch up on a few nominations we discuss in this episode before Sunday, The Post has you covered. Take our quiz to get a personalized listening itinerary.
Today’s show was produced by Ariel Plotnick. It was edited and mixed by Ted Muldoon.
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| 0:00.0 | So I was thinking about it. Obviously there was like the one portmanteau that |
| 0:07.3 | dominated this year which was Barbinheimer, Barbie plus Oppenheimer. But if you |
| 0:12.4 | were to pick another like two movies to put together in a name that would be the thing that everyone had to see at the theaters, what would be the portmanteau of your selection? |
| 0:23.3 | Let's try anatomy of a zone. |
| 0:25.9 | Ooh! |
| 0:26.9 | Right. |
| 0:27.9 | Or anatomy of a killer moon is good. |
| 0:31.3 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:32.3 | Killers of interest. |
| 0:33.0 | Of course that's my job description. |
| 0:37.0 | Rim shot. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay, moving on. |
| 0:40.0 | Ann Hornanay, the killer of all things interested. |
| 0:42.0 | That's right, I'm here to just. |
| 0:44.0 | Ouch. |
| 0:45.0 | Before we go any further, |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Martine Powers. It's Thursday, March 7th. This is post reports and we are here talking about the Oscars that are taking place on Sunday night. |
| 1:01.0 | Obviously, the biggest night in the film industry, |
| 1:04.4 | the night where people are gonna argue a lot |
| 1:06.6 | about which movies were wronged, |
| 1:08.9 | which movies were egregiously celebrated. And while I'm interested in talking about the Oscar. are because I think they're at least the ones that I've seen are really interesting movies |
| 1:24.3 | but here we have today with us two of my wonderful colleagues Ann Hornaday movie |
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