We Actually Fixed the Oscars | The Big Picture (Ep. 510)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Ringer’s Sean Fennessey, Bill Simmons, and Amanda Dobbins discuss the recent announcement about upcoming changes to the Academy Awards and debate how to usher the ceremony into the new era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fantasy, editor and chief of the ringer and this is the big picture a conversation
0:10.4	show with some of the most famous and successful podcasters and editors in the known United States.
0:17.0	I'm very excited to be joined by a ringer culture editor Amanda Dobbins.
0:20.2	Hi Sean.
0:21.4	And Bill Simmons, the pod father.
0:23.2	I'm actually director.
0:25.0	You're a filmmaker.
0:26.0	I directed the wig kiker in 1987 for my school of 40 minute parody of the hitchhiker
0:31.2	and HBO.
0:32.2	When will that be premiering?
0:34.2	You'd be horrified.
0:35.2	Okay.
0:36.2	There's an entire cemetery scene that I'm not proud of.
0:38.1	Oh wow.
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:40.1	Okay, so maybe we'll be celebrating that movie next year at the Oscars, which is what
0:43.2	we're here to talk about.
0:45.2	Yeah.
0:46.2	There was an announcement this morning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
0:50.2	Twitter account and I'm going to read to you what it said.
0:52.8	Great.
0:54.5	And then we just coming to the hashtag Oscars.
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