The Oscars Snubs Draft. Plus: ‘Sirāt’!

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.2 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 170 minutes

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We’re drafting again! Sean and Amanda are joined by Chris Ryan, Joanna Robisnon, and The Ankler’s Katey Rich to right the Academy’s wrongs by drafting the biggest Oscars snubs of all time. Before diving in though, they briefly cover this year’s Best Picture race (2:00). Then, they introduce the new categories and rules for this format and draft (12:33). Next, Sean and Amanda briefly cover Óliver Laxe’s ‘Sirāt’ and talk through its deeply affective emotional provocation (2:06:21). Finally, Sean is joined by Laxe to explain why he feels like the audience dies while watching his film, how he experienced rave culture before portraying it on screen, and why creating transformative images that evoke feeling is the most crucial aspect of cinema (2:16:16). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Óliver Laxe, Chris Ryan, Joanna Robinson, and Katey Rich Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is your latest idea.
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0:21.6	So, your excellent idea stays yours.
0:25.6	Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:46.8	And this is the big picture of conversation show about Oscar Snubbs.
0:50.7	CR is here.
0:51.5	So of course we're drafting.
0:52.4	We also have two very special guests.
0:54.4	One is the one and only, Joanna Robinson.
0:56.7	From House of Our, the Ringerverse, prestige TV podcast, Talk the Thrones, various and sundry
1:04.6	podcast outside of that.
1:06.4	Welcome back.
1:07.1	Thanks for having me.
1:08.6	Also here for the second time Katie Rich. Hell yeahklor, the prestige junkie podcast and a long time. Okay, so I had to ask you this question. Yeah. Do you consider yourself an Oscar pundit? I don't love that word. Okay. But I will say at the nominees luncheon, which I attended yesterday, the Academy President, like, shot it out people who make predictions as being part of the system.
1:28.8	So, it's like, oh, maybe I should embrace being a pundit if the Academy President thinks I matter. But I don't, like, I don't think my predictions are always very good. So I don't want to write up. So I don't know. Affirmed. CR, you are a man. No, I just like, art brute. I'm just like, I didn't even know what are awards.
1:45.7	We are going to be drafting today Oscar Snubs. It's a very complicated series of categories. We will talk through all of them later in this episode. I have a conversation with Oliver Lash. He is the writer-director of Surratt, which is a fascinating movie that Amanda and I will also talk about later in this episode. Please stick around for our conversation. We'll be right back right after this. This episode of The Big Picture is presented by State Farm.
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