March 2, 2025

Lights, Camera, Oscars: Navigating the 97th Academy Awards Buzz

Lights, Camera, Oscars: Navigating the 97th Academy Awards Buzz

**Host:** Alex First
**Guest Critics:** Sandy Kaye, Peter Krause
**Episode Summary:**
In this lively episode of First on Film & Entertainment, host Alex First is joined by critics Sandy Kaye and Peter Krause for a spirited conversation leading up...

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Season 4

**Host:** Alex First
**Guest Critics:** Sandy Kaye, Peter Krause
**Episode Summary:**
In this lively episode of First on Film & Entertainment, host Alex First is joined by critics Sandy Kaye and Peter Krause for a spirited conversation leading up to the 97th Academy Awards. With excitement in the air, the trio discusses the nominations and their predictions for the big night. The episode kicks off with a humorous exchange about the Oscars and the quirky happenings surrounding the event, setting the tone for a fun-filled discussion. The critics delve into the standout films nominated for Best Picture, including *Conclave*, *The Brutalist*, and *Emilia Perez*, sharing their insights on storytelling, performance, and cinematic artistry. Alex challenges Sandy and Peter to a trivia quiz about the longest films in Oscar history, leading to surprising revelations and friendly banter. As the conversation unfolds, they explore the significance of inclusivity in this year's nominations and highlight the contributions of Australian talent in various categories. Listeners can expect a blend of insightful critiques, engaging trivia, and a passionate celebration of film as the Oscars approach.
**Highlights:**
- **Oscar Predictions:** A spirited debate on the Best Picture nominees, with *Conclave* and *The Brutalist* emerging as frontrunners.
- **Trivia Fun:** A light-hearted quiz on the longest films in Oscar history, showcasing the hosts' knowledge and camaraderie.
- **Australian Talent:** Acknowledgment of the significant contributions from Australian filmmakers and actors in this year's nominations.
00:00:00 - Sandy Kay and Peter Kraus discuss the Oscars ahead of time
00:02:52 - There are 10 nominations for best picture this year, Sandy. What have been the longest
00:05:34 - Alex asks some trivia questions about the Oscar nominations for best picture
00:08:03 - Three films received 10 or more nominations in this year's Oscars
00:12:20 - Timothee Chalamet is 12th person to portray Oscar nominee
00:13:23 - We haven't talked about Australians. We gotta talk about Australians, don't we
00:15:31 - Porcelain War is nominated for documentary feature Oscar
00:16:53 - Nominations for best picture go to Conclave, Dune Part 2
00:21:11 - Sandy says Conclave will win best film
00:23:29 - So let's go to Best Director. Who do you think will win
00:26:27 - Peter Howell picks his favourites for best actor and best actress
00:30:13 - Sandy: I'm rooting for Demi Moore. I think she did a sensational job
00:32:45 - Peter Sheridan: Excellent film. I think it works extremely well
00:34:13 - Sandy thinks Kieran Culkin will win Best Supporting Actor
00:36:01 - Best Supporting Actress, Monica Barbaro for A Complete Unknown
00:37:26 - Okay, let's go for the next category being Best Original Screenplay
00:40:08 - We haven't seen a lot of the best animated feature films yet
00:41:27 - This is Best International Feature. Of international features. Amelia Perez from France nominated in Spanish
00:42:21 - Dan: I think Seed of the Sacred Fig will win cinematography Oscar
00:46:39 - Peter Howell gives odds for the Oscars in various categories
00:49:18 - Best Actor is short priced favourite for Adrian Brody
00:52:48 - Do you think the host will do a decent job at the Oscars
00:53:20 - Gene Hackman died at 95 from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning
00:55:18 - We got to go. Let's, uh, circle the wagons and see how we did at Oscar ceremonyJoin the First on Film & Entertainment team for this engaging episode, and stay tuned for more film insights and reviews in the weeks to come!
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First on film and entertainment, Get it all and with

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me today, Sandy Kay and Peter Kraus. The others have

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deserted us so highly reliant upon your good Gray, Sandy

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and Peter, you're a calcil trends.

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Is that all right?

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Web calc trad as always.

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I'd be very disappointed otherwise, Sandy, we're going to bring

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sanity into this conversation. Correct.

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I think I'm not known for that, but okay, I'll try, Yeah,

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be a level best.

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It's all right, we'll sort of battle through it all

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with just three rather than what five of us. Having

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said that, these are the days of awe before the Oscars, right,

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we're talking about literally a day before. But that's okay.

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This is when it's everyone's a winner. Right. It's kind

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of like before the football season starts. Sandy, you know

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every one of the eighteen teams you're not.

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Going to the football Please spare I shall, yes.

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The Mighty Bombers. How many times can I insert as

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andration O Wooden spooners? Ay? Ay, that's Richmond this year.

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Having having said that, it is an exciting time and

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of course Nova has a big event each year, does

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it not? Peter and what do you I don't attend.

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I watched by myself. Actually I like to make notes

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and so on in that context. But you know I'm

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anti social. So what does that say about? Well, it's

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about it's a special event for the media, isn't it

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it is.

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I'll be there on Monday.

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Well yeah, and being tomorrow. So having said that, do

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you get Nibley's and all that sort of stuff as well?

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We get two drinks and a snack box for thirty

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three dollars.

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And a snackpot And what is the is the snack

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box full of healthy food? Peter?

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I would say probably not, but I mean big deal.

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Yeah, lashing out there you go, sanity. Have you ever

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been to Nova.

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To the Well, I've been to Nova, but I certainly

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haven't been to this event. And I have to say

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I missed out on an invitation. So what can you do?

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Oh well, I'm sure that have you, Sandy? That everybody?

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What have you? You're the life of the party. It's

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just a question of being invited, right, So let.

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You can't be the life of the party if you're

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not invited to attend.

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Well, that's true, that's true. Like maybe maybe we can

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change that in the future, who knows. I wanted to

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make some general remarks about what these are the ninety

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seventh Academy Awards. Now obviously a lot more inclusive than

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they have been in years gone by. I mean, the

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last what three four years have been much more inclusive.

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There are a number of Australians that feature, and I

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always like the quirkies, and so there are a few

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quirky bits and pieces. So maybe we'll start there. Let's

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this is my pick for Best Picture and Best Director,

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and we've known that for some time, and also Best Actor.

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But it's two hundred and fifteen minutes long, excluding the

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interval of fifteen twenty minutes whatever it is, But that

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makes it the fifth longest Best Picture nominee of all time.

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Now I haven't pre prepared the other two, but I'm

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going to pose this question to both of you, and

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we're only talking about those pictures that have been nominated

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for Best Film in the history of the Oscars. What

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have been the longest? There are four others? Would you

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like to hazard a guess, either of you?

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Laurence of Arabia in fact, no, no, okay, Gone with

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the Wind, Yes, that's that second Prize at two hundred

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and thirty eight minutes, so we're doing it.

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Gone Gone with the Wind, and we've got the Brutal

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List at two fifteen being number five, so there's still

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one better than Gone with the Wind in terms of

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running time. Nomine Patrick, very good, that's it two and

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four eight minutes. Now the other two, so I'll go

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up the Brutalist the Ten Commandments at two hundred and

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twenty minutes, Lawrence of Arabia at two twenty two, Gone

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with the Wind at two thirty eight, and Cleopatra at

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two forty eight. There you go. Trivial pursuit questions. Okay,

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if you look at the there are ten nominations for

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Best Picture this year, sany Now, if you put them

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one after another, that makes it the longest Best Picture

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lineup ever. It runs for twenty four hours and forty

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five minutes. Who says movies are not too long? Peter,

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I do, right, and there you go. But this is

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the longest in the history of the Oscars. Now, hopefully

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the ceremony isn't the longest in the history of the Oscars,

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because that's one thing a lot of people complain about.

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Do they not be to some extent, but Colin and O'Brien,

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i'm sure will have some funny things to say to

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make the event watchable.

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I'll tell you what it's a It's a hard it's

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a hard road to hope because it doesn't matter how

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clever you are, you can you can be found out,

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can't you? I mean need this sort of environment and

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not everything goes down well?

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And terms can you watch it here on Monday night?

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Pardon me?

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Where can you watch it? In Australia on Monday night?

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Ten o seven? It's Live to Wear at eleven o'clock

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and then repeated at ten o'clock PM.

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Oh awesome, Okay, that's great, Thanks for telling us that.

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Can I just tell you which of the nominations for

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Best Picture of the ten?

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We'll get there. And I just want to go through

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a bit more trivia, not not that I'm trying to

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closere Are you love your trivia? Alex go far trivia?

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Right?

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Okay? So okay? Now the ray Fines, who has been

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nominated for Conclave as Best Actor twenty twenty eight years

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after his first nomination for Which movie Peter ray Fines

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think about it? Ah?

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Goodness? Do you have to think about it.

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Yeah, so go back twenty eight years. I mean, that's

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the blink of an I for you when you were

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born in about when when Adam was a boy. So

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you know, I know it's like yesterday. So a very

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well known film that not everybody appreciated, I've got to say.

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And it's a three word title which you have to

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be patient to endure.

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Oh the English patient?

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Yeah exactly. Yeah. So now that makes him the second

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that's the second largest gap in the category, after whom Peter,

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after whom. Right, that's that's a harder that's a harder question.

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This is this is when we need Greg because he's

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a trivial pursuit buff right yeah, yeah.

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So you know, no idea, You just here to embarrass

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me and Peter, are you alstra hell?

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Female?

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It's a male. That's correct though, and you're right absolutely,

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I've injuc.

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I'm glad you're targeting Peter though not me, is it,

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Daniel day Lewis, No, No, it's not.

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He was but a boy Henry Fonda and ah, yes,

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one year gap right right? Okay, So now it's the

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first Brazilian film, of course, to be given a Best

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Film Oscar not at least or gong or nomination. So

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that's that's important thing. And okay, let's look at a

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complete unknown Timothy Shalla May, the twelfth person to receive

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an Oscar nomination for somebody who has oh might guess what?

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My notes have suddenly disappeared from the screen. It is shocking.

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You might have to live like the rest of us.

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Then, oh no, okay, so well, okay, so let's go

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to Fernando Torres, the second Brazilian nominated for an acting Oscar,

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and the other one was Fernanda Montenegro. Right, yes, and

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the two of them joined Judy Garland and Eliza Minelli

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as the only mother and daughter nominated for best Actress.

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There you go to that. Okay, that was that went

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down like a lead balloon.

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Could have.

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Sorry, what was that? Sandy?

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I really could have lived without that information, are you?

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Yes?

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I'm losing this war very well. Hang on, I'm now

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going I'm now going back to try and find the

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other I reckon, this is great. Somebody must have done

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a lot of hard work to actually come up with

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these these trivial facts. But don't don't most of us

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like trivia.

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I mean, I'm just because that's what.

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Yeah, can I just say one quick thing, The French

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Bizarre Academy Awards have just been announced and Amelia Perez

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was the biggest.

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Winner that, which doesn't surprise me at all. Yeah, and okay,

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so let let me say Amelia Perez received thirty nominations

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for the Oscars, the most for any non English language

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film in Academy Awards history. I mean, that's that. And

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so the previous best was ten, So that's really outstripping it.

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And we're talking Roma and Crouching Tiger, Tiger, Hid and Dragon. Now,

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for those for those people interested in where I'm getting

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this trivia from bad luck, I'm not going to tell you, no, no, no,

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it's only fair if you go to next Best Picture

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dot com it lists and good on them. Stats and

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trivia from the ninety sixth Academy Award nominations by somebody

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called Daniel Howard Howat. We're going to credit him with

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a lot for having sort of given me all of

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So three films received ten or more nominations in this

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year's Oscars. Right now you should be able to tell me, Sandy,

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one of them at least. Well, I've given you Amelia

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Perez what are the others? Right, there's two more?

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Can you pull? I can tell you yes, So that's

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anist correct yep, and there and with oh Wicked.

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Yeah, and that's the fifth time that this has occurred,

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dating back to nineteen sixty four. So there you go.

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And a couple of people this year received four individual

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nominations for the year. That's that's pretty amazing. Sean Baker

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and Jacques Audiard are the two. Which is an Jacques

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Curdiard for Amelia Perez of course, which we've just talked about. Okay,

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so there was that one bit that I'm trying to

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move down to. There are so many facts and figures

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here it's not funny, and I'm trying to get to now.

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Wicked is the fourth film the score ten nominations without

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a Best Director nomination, so obviously WI could just took

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care of itself.

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Peter, Well, it's happened several times. I mean, think of

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Driving the s Daisy where Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated.

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No, that's true, that's true. Well, and you know the

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with with regards to what's her what's her first name? Gascorn?

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The is oh, yes, fifth openly queer person nominated for

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portraying a queer character pla yeah, yeah, yeah, which so

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that that's that's following Jodi Foster in Niad Coleman Demingo

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and Audustin, Stephanie Hugh in Everything Everywhere all at once,

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an Ian McKellen the Gods and Monsters. So that's that's interesting.

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And then Zoe Saldana, who I think is laid down

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mosta win Best Supporting Actress. Sird Fro Latino nominated for

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Best Supporting Actress, following Perez and Hariana de Bose. So

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and yeah, so that's and it's the first time to

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Afrotino performers were nominated in the same year because Domingo

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was nominated this year as well, Black Actor. Right, Yes,

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so there's that, And now I can give you finally

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complete the one about Timothy Shallo may twelfth person to

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receive an OSCAR nomination for portraying a real life Oscar

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nominee or a winner in Bob Dylan, right, because Dylan

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won the Oscar for Best Original Song for Things Have

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Changed from Wonder Boys, and Chalomy is the eighth person

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to receive an Oscar for portraying a Nobel laureate. I

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was surprised by that. I mean that's a lot, but

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I suppose Nobel laureates, by their very nature, have got

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stories to tell. Yes, we're talking Walter Pigeon as in

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Madame for Madame Curie, Greer Garson in Madame Curie, Alexander

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Red's portraying Eugene O'Neil, Russell Crowe, a Beautiful Mind, John

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For trivia? Now you can find for we haven't talked

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about Australians. We've got to talk about Australians, don't we,

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surely before we go into the category. Okay, So Guy

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Adam Elliott and Liz Kearney. Yeah, yes, I mean that's

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pretty There are some other ossies as well. Visual effects

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that are quite a few, and visual effects better Man,

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I'm going to mispronounce his name and iologize Nelson sepul Vida Fauser.

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So there you go. That's for visual effect. I'm sure

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Oh, I'm getting lots of noise in the background, you Alex, Yeah.

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Me me shuffling. But there's cinematography Greg Froz Dune part two.

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a couple of others, producer Maya Gnips that they're they're

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the ones I know, Well what else? Sorry?

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What a good name? I might change mine?

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Maya Gnips, Gnips.

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Andy Gnipps. How does that sound.

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Nips g n y p Yeah, nip nationality?

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Is that just for a bit of trivia?

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Well these days you couldn't tell, could you. I mean,

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I'm now I'm now using this to Google machine? Is it,

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mister or which which Google machine? I'm just them here

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her she we there you go from Wikipedia. If we

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can trust Wikipedia. A film producer based in Australia and

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the United States. So what one night in each place

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and mayag Nip is a she. Yeah, and I'm just

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looking at Wikipedia again, produced documentary executive producer of a

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TV series, Muslim Matchmaker. There you go, commissions.

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It's another film to mention an Australian production with international directors.

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Is Porcelain War nominated for Documentary Feature?

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Oh? Is it really? Okay? There you go, I've missed

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Porcelain War, you know, throw the baby out with a

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bath border right. I'm just looking at the official trailer,

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A two minute twenty one thing, a war wage by

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professional soldiers against ordinary civilians. There you go, Peter.

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It has lots of artistic visual effects and so on,

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because it's about Ukraine and artists who are living and

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surviving in war.

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And it won the Director's Guild of America Award. There

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you go, Peter. So yeah, and I'm looking at it

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from Awards Daily. Porcelain War masterfully illustrates the enduring power

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of art in the face of adversity. And that's what

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we're about. We're artistic, aren't we? The three of us.

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Face of adversity.

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Absolutely, I'm full of adversity.

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You are. I'm full of admiration because I put up

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with your adversity.

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This week?

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Do I deserve? Do I deserve an Oscar? For that?

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Peter and Honorary Oscar.

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Now, Sandy, over to you. You can give us the

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Best Picture nominees and then you can give me your

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fancy and you're under Bubbler, the one that may may

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throw a cat amongst the pigeons.

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So that's the drum roll. There's nominations for Best Picture.

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Go to Anora the Brutalist. A Complete Unknown Conclave June

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Part two, Amelia Perez, I'm still here. Nickel Boys, the

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Substance and Wicked.

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All right, so before we give you before you give

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me your under bubbler, and you're your winner. I've seen

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nine of the ten. The only one I haven't seen

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is Nickel Boys. What about you, Sandy.

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I've seen eight of the ten, but the two I

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haven't seen is June part two, and I haven't caught

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up with. I'm still here yet, I have seen Nickel Boys.

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Ah, Okay, Peter, I've seen them all.

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Oh, Peta, of course you have.

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Okay, see you're you're you're the ultimate arbiter here, Peter. Okay, Sandy,

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go for it. What's your what's the one that's going

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to push your winner to the ultimate extreme.

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I if I was the Academy and the vote depended

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on me, I would give it to Conclave without a doubt.

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I thought that was a tremendous story, fabulously acted. It

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was not only inspiring and educational, but also thoroughly entertaining

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and extremely timely given what's happened happening right now in

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the world. So I would go Conclave, and my under bubbler,

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as you called it, I'd haven't. And it's really hard

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because i'd have now, or I guess I would have

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to give it to Amlia Perez as the under bubbler.

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Okay, And bear in mind where we, like everybody else,

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wish the Pope extremely well, and it's very sad that

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only the twenty four hours he's taking a turn for

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the worse as well, and he's been a real fighter.

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But at least now we know what happens once he goes.

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I mean, he's going to go sooner or later, right,

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And we know then what the whole process is. Because

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it's Conclave, we understand a whole lot more well, certainly

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that I never knew about, and I'm sure a lot

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of people listening also never understood that process of how

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they get there, and Conclave was based on the actual

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process that all of these priests go through to choose

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a new pope. I thought it was spectacular.

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Well, it's interesting. I mean, I must admit I knew

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most of it, Peter, did you have? I just thought

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it was really well done with the twist at the

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end and so on as well. But I mean I

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knew the process, did you not, Pete.

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I've seen a couple of other films dealing with popes

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and the election process, and so I was semi familiar

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with the process. But the twist at the end of

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Conclave is the big surprise, I think.

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Also, Sandy. I mean I presume you were certainly where

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in terms of the smoke coming out of the chimney

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and all of that.

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Once I knew, I just didn't know what the whole

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deal was before that. However, you know, you talk about

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the twist at the end, and without giving anything away,

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I thought that was actually the weakest part of the

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film really. I mean, I think it's sent a good message,

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but it kind of played into political correctness, and I

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just I'm not sure that was actually necessary.

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the fact that all of these people are human beings

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before one one rises to the to the mantle of pope,

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that's what you admire.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I really liked it. It

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made all of those contenders seem very normal, and the

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whole process very political, and it was certainly something that

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I didn't expect from the Roman Catholic Church. Not that

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I sat in judgment over it, but I was certainly

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enlightened by it, and I thought the acting by all

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the players was really fine.

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And don't forget, it's based on a novel, so obviously

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it's pure supposition about the twist and the out the

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parts of the process.

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Now, Peter, you give me yours, and I'll give your

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minds how to speak.

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Okay, I'll give you my racalciturnt and you give me yours.

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Now anyway, Now, look, it's a fairly wide open field

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based on previous awards that other guilds and Screen Actors

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Guild and everyone else has been giving. And I've been

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watching Variety very carefully to see what their feedback is

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from some of the voters, and so my hunch, obviously

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it's just a hunt. Is that. I agree with you, Sandy,

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Conclave will win Best Film and the Underbubbler is going

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to be Anora.

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Yeah, it's a good choice. I like Tomora a lot.

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Yeah, I liked Anora a lot as well. I'm going

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to stick with the film that I When I saw it,

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I thought, my golly, this is going to win. And

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I mentioned that earlier. The brutalist. I thought it was stunning,

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really richly woven taine tale of pain and perseverance, and

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I mean the brutalist refers to the style of architecture,

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and we're talking about something in the wake of World

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War II, and somebody coming to America, the opportunities presented,

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and the barriers that are put in front of him

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as well, and the character that he is, and then

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his wife joins him, and so on and so forth.

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I thought it was an amazing film, very very richly painted,

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very powerful, very distressing, all of those sorts of things,

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and it's sort of epic in nature, and I thought

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it was based on a real human being. It was

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only after because I never read about a film beforehand,

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and it was only afterwards when I looked it up

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that I realized this was a sort of inspired by

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real life architects and designers, but wasn't real. So I

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picked the Brutalist and the two that I also thought

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Anora was an amazing film, and I also like The

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Complete Unknown. I'm a complete Unknown, I might say, even

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though it was only for a period of time in

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the life of Bob Dylan. But I thought Conclave was

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probably the second best film as well. So yeah, Conclave

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through the three of us. Conclave probably gets more votes

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if you're going ten dount of one. But I'm going

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to go with a Brutalist for best Film. So let's

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go to best Director, Sandy, do you want to do

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this one?

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Best Director? Yes, I can definitely do that. Best Director

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Jacques Audiard Familia Perez, Sean Baker for Anura, Brady Corbett

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for The Brutalist, Coralie Fargate for The Substance, and James

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Mangold for a Complete Unknown.

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Thank you now, Peter, you go first for this one.

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I think this is laid down mosaic. Go for it well.

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I think Brutalist won't win Best Film, but I think

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Brady Corbet will win for Best Director.

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Totally agree with you. Yes, and so why is that? So?

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Why do you have a director who wins the Ultimate

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Prize but his film doesn't.

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Well, don't forget that there are a number of people

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that contribute to a film. There's screenwriters, there's a production design, costume,

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all that sort of thing. So the director's vision is

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one thing, but the totality of a film, the whole package,

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is the Best Film award, So they can be separated. Actually,

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he expressed.

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It very well, very very well. Indeed, I would simply ask, though,

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should we not know the vision of the directors at

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some point? As reviewers ourselves? It'd be nice to know

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that because then you can juxtapose what they say they

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are trying to achieve with what they have achieved.

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I'm not convinced about that. It's like asking an hour

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artist what they were intending to do with a piece

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of art and then having to agree or disagree and

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formulate an opinion based on that. It has to stand

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up for itself.

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Interesting. I wouldn't mind knowing that quite frankly, But I

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understand your thought, Sandy, who do you think will win?

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Who do I think or win? Or who would I

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like to win?

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Okay, well, go both? Who would you like to win.

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I think who would I like to win. I'd like

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to see Coralie Faget win for The Substance. I thought

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that was sensationally done. But who I think will win

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will be Jacques Boudyard from Mini Perez.

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Really okay, yes, fair enough, you think, But me, what

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do you think? No? I think that I think Brady

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Corbey will win for The Brutalist. I don't think there's

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any doubt.

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Yeah, you might be right. I don't not really put

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off The Brutalist. I was really expecting too much. It's

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awful when you go into a film with high expectators,

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whether you read about it first or whether you just

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hear from other people what it's like, or and then

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you can't help but to be disappointed if you've got

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high expectations, and you know, for a movie like The

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Substance that I walked into with absolutely no expectations, I

443
00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.680
was totally blown away. The same with Emilia Pereres, the

444
00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:23.599
same with an Aura actually, but The Brutalist. As a

445
00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:28.160
result of the build up, I was quite disappointed with Well.

446
00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:31.559
Let's go to best actor, and in that category you've

447
00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:34.559
got Adrian Brady for The Brutalist. You've got Timothy Chalomy

448
00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.480
for a Complete Unknown, then you've got Coleman Domingo in

449
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:43.279
sing sing, Rape Fines for Conclave, and Sebastian Stan the Apprentice. Again,

450
00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.000
I don't think there's much argument here that I will

451
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:50.519
be interested to see. I think that the performances hastured

452
00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:53.880
out for me were Timothy Shalomy thought it was amazing

453
00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.319
as Bob Dylan put five years or five and a

454
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.519
half years of his life into getting that down, pat

455
00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:03.559
that singing as well as the performance. He's a guy

456
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:06.000
who will win the Best Act to OSK, I have

457
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.480
no doubt about it. His career, the trajectory of his

458
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:12.400
career has been amazing. So but I and I thought

459
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:14.880
Ray Fines was very very strong in Conclave, not that

460
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.200
the others were bad, but I think Adrian Brady will

461
00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.839
win for the Brutalis. What do you think better?

462
00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.799
A few weeks ago, I was thinking Adrian Brody, But

463
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:26.759
with the Screen Actors Guild Awards and a few other

464
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.799
events that have been happening, I think it'll be either

465
00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:37.400
Timothy Chalo Maay for Complete Unknown or Ray Fine for

466
00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:39.359
Conclave SCENEY.

467
00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:43.279
I would definitely give it to Ralph Fine for Conclave.

468
00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:46.319
I thought his performance was outstanding, not that the others

469
00:27:46.319 --> 00:27:50.319
weren't great. I'd go Ralph and then probably Adrian Brody.

470
00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:53.079
I think he's a very high contender in this too.

471
00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:56.720
I mean Timothy Shallo May was grow good. I don't

472
00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.279
know that it actually required a whole lot of acting.

473
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:01.759
I mean give it to him for his learning to

474
00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:04.440
sing like Dylan in the acting. He just had to

475
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:09.480
underplay everything. So I'd definitely go Ralph or Adrian on

476
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.279
this one. However, in saying that both Common Domingo and

477
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:16.720
Sebastian stan did the Apprentice were also fabulous.

478
00:28:16.559 --> 00:28:20.640
Did you like a complete unknown? Yeah?

479
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:24.599
I think another one that I had my expectations built

480
00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:28.200
too high. I thought it was okay, it wasn't. It

481
00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:32.160
wasn't amazing. I thought it was too long. It was

482
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:36.599
quite a good story, but I didn't think it was outstanding.

483
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:43.160
Best Actress Cynthia and Arrivo for Wicked. You've got Karla,

484
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:50.799
Sophia gascon Familiar, Perez, Mickey Madison, Mikey, Mikey, hang on,

485
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:56.559
don't we use that on trains by? Sorry it's Mikey,

486
00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:59.799
Is it okay? Mikey? I apologize, Mickey there's no sea.

487
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.119
Sorry about that. I apologize Mikey Mikey Madison for a nourra,

488
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.799
Demi Moore for the substance, and Fernanda Torres. I'm still here.

489
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:10.559
I'm still here. You just saw that as well, Sandy.

490
00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:12.519
What a performance by Fernanda Torres.

491
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:14.759
Eh, I haven't seen it. That's the one I have

492
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:15.200
to say.

493
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.440
I'm sorry, I apologize.

494
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:18.559
I know I'm going to go. I'm really going to

495
00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:19.200
quickly go.

496
00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:22.079
Okay, well, if you need to go, you need to go.

497
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:22.839
I know.

498
00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:27.319
Demi Moore is going to win this one.

499
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:29.200
Yes, I'd love to say that.

500
00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:33.640
Whight't that be great? I really in terms of you

501
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:38.160
think about this and Pamela Anderson, who also came back

502
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.599
to prominence in terms of the movie that she's just

503
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.839
starring in at the moment, the two of them, I mean,

504
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:47.960
this is the year of the Resurrection, Peter, how religious?

505
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:48.519
Can you get it?

506
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.920
Exactly? Exactly? Now? Don't well, don't you think Demi is

507
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.279
going to win?

508
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:58.799
Look, I'm a big equivot. I'm equivocating about this. I

509
00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:02.759
think it would be no for her to win. But again,

510
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.759
based on some other awards that are made happening, I

511
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.599
have a feeling Mikey Madison might win it.

512
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.680
I mean she was brilliant in an aura, no question. Look,

513
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:19.759
is there any sentimentality amongst the voters? You know, the

514
00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:23.079
members of the Motion Picture Arts and Academy. What's it

515
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:24.640
called again? That the full book title?

516
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:31.799
He has the associates associated, It's the Academy of Motion

517
00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:34.440
Picture Arts and Sciences.

518
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.720
That's it. So is there no sense of career here?

519
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:40.640
They make a decision based on that year? Or do

520
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:41.680
they not? What do you reckon?

521
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.319
Well, when you say they, there's over eleven thousand members,

522
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.279
so you'd have to survey each of them to find out.

523
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.559
But because it is such a diverse membership now and

524
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:56.839
a much broader membership, I don't think sentimentality comes into it.

525
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:01.920
I think it's a personal opinion from each of the members.

526
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.480
Yeah, I think it does come down to those two.

527
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:05.839
What about you, Sandy.

528
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.799
Quote? Do I think I would like to see DEMI

529
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.920
want more win for the substance, So she's in my mind,

530
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.640
the standout. You know, I don't think we should overlook

531
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:21.319
Cynthia or Evo for a wicked either. I think she

532
00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:24.680
did a sensational job. Mikey Madison, I think she was

533
00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:27.039
really good, but you know she's I think she's got

534
00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:31.000
another fifty years of acting where she can win one.

535
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:33.279
So I would really like to see them. And it

536
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:35.720
is pronounced to me, not Demi, isn't it?

537
00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.440
It is to me? You're right, I want her.

538
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.759
I'm rooting for Demi Moore.

539
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:43.039
You're rooting for Demi Moore. Okay, let's let's good.

540
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:51.000
And can I just add one thing, Sandy, never call Raife? Fine, Ralse,

541
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:52.279
you will tell.

542
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.960
You off I would do with somebody if my parents

543
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:58.200
had called me Ralph. I wouldn't like that, either to

544
00:31:58.240 --> 00:31:59.839
be like we're full birthdy.

545
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:03.319
Or say we've offended every Ralph listening to us now.

546
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:08.119
But ever ralph listening doesn't call themselves Rafe. Why does

547
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:09.759
he even call himself Rafe?

548
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.200
Well, because he can? You know, names are made up.

549
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.680
There's an X in every third name, now, isn't there? Right?

550
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:17.799
I mean called Ralph.

551
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:20.640
His parents clearly intended for him to be called Ralph,

552
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.839
not Rafe. He's just modified that because he could.

553
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:26.960
Right, we're presuming, but we don't know that, do we do?

554
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:27.440
We help?

555
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:31.839
I think the real story behind rape fines his name.

556
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:34.519
Yes, there is some Irish background to him, and I

557
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.960
think that's why it's pronounced Rathe.

558
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.960
Well, you know, I'm going to call him Ralph. He

559
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.559
can tell me what.

560
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:43.559
We'll have to have a conclave to discuss this.

561
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.319
Now best supporting actor we have got Eura Borason in

562
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.240
An Aura as Igor Kieran Kalkan Are Real Pain, which

563
00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:56.160
was nowhere near as good a film as it needed

564
00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:57.680
to be excellent film.

565
00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.559
No, how could you say that, Peter.

566
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.599
It was an excellent film and is getting awards left right.

567
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.279
Excellent about it. My trip to Poland was far more

568
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:08.400
interesting than theirs.

569
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:11.240
There you go. See, I don't disagree with you, Sandy.

570
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:15.039
I'm sure it was so rubbish.

571
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:15.599
He was.

572
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.240
Karen Carlquin, who is nominated for Supporting Actor, was really

573
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:21.000
good in it, but he was at song character he

574
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:26.640
played in in succession. He's always the same. But I

575
00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.279
can't believe you liked that film, Peter. I've lost the

576
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:30.480
mat lo to respect for you.

577
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:31.279
Now why?

578
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:35.119
Because it was so well written by Jesse Eisenberg, who

579
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:41.680
has used his anxieties and issues and post Holocaust sort

580
00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:47.640
of situation to fashion a much more inviting story for

581
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.599
a younger generation. I think it works extremely well.

582
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.720
I mean they didn't even go into the house. They've

583
00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:57.119
gone all the way to Poland to see the grandmother's

584
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:58.759
house and didn't even enter it.

585
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.680
The what the Yeah, I I totally agree with you,

586
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:07.240
so Andy. I sat there thinking what where he's fuss about?

587
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.559
And I having said that, I also applaud Karen Kulkin.

588
00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:13.480
I think he's going to win, by the way, the award.

589
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:16.559
But Edward Norton was really good in a complete unknown

590
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.679
guy Pierce a really showy role in the You didn't

591
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:21.079
like it?

592
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.920
I hated gride Peers and the Brutalist, but that was.

593
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:26.199
The whole idea. No, no, but I didn't.

594
00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:27.199
I didn't like his acting.

595
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:28.599
I thought he's he's acting.

596
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.800
I just saw him. Did you say you've obviously seen

597
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:37.920
the movie inside the Australia now that he acts brilliantly

598
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.880
and that I would give him the award for that

599
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.000
foot role?

600
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:43.440
Yeah, I was going to say roll for sure, but

601
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:45.519
I thought he really over acted in The Brutalist.

602
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:50.920
I didn't like, don't agree.

603
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.079
Paid for this big role? Here to do to discuss,

604
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:53.000
aren't we we bet?

605
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:57.000
And for once I don't like agreeing with Peter about anything,

606
00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:59.840
but on this occasion as I do agree with the

607
00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.920
because I thought he played the role as he was

608
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:05.079
asked to play it. And I mean, there's this sort

609
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.719
of belligerent person who barged his way through life, right,

610
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.239
That's that's the role in the brutal Is. Having said that,

611
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:15.280
there's also Jeremy Strong from The Apprentice, So Sandy who's

612
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:16.559
going to win Best Supporting Actor?

613
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.440
Kieren Caulkin will win it, Yep, he seems happy for him.

614
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.800
I like him, but he can't. I don't think he

615
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:26.400
can play anything else other than that for Signa. I

616
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.599
think that's probably who he is. Is a bit like

617
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:32.280
Debora Faness. She can only ever play deborly Faness. I mean,

618
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:34.760
and if you know her, you know that's who she

619
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.440
plays each time. I think Kieran Culkin's a bit like

620
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.639
that too, having seen his other stuff. But I yes,

621
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.920
I think Kieran Culkin's going to win it. Although I

622
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.199
do like you were a Borisov in Honora too. I

623
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:50.280
think that was quite good.

624
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.480
Yeah, I think Kieran had a more substantive role. Not

625
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.760
that that make anything, you know, that's not a guarantee.

626
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:02.880
Peter Kieren Definitely Kieran Colgan okay, Best Supporting Actress Monica

627
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:07.519
Barbaro for a complete unknown, Ariana Geronde for Wicked Felicity

628
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:11.400
Jones the Brutalis, but me Isabella Rossalini for Conclave, and

629
00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:15.320
Zoe Saldana laid down misre for Zoe? Isn't it Pete?

630
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:17.599
Absolutely? She's got it one.

631
00:36:18.119 --> 00:36:22.480
I mean, and she did it in various languages. She danced.

632
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.599
She's saying she just does it all, doesn't that? I mean?

633
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:30.519
It's such a prominent performance. And quite frankly, I reckon

634
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:33.719
she should have been nominated as Best Actress and the

635
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.119
other way around in Carlo Sephia Gascon should have been

636
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.440
Best Supporting Actress. What do you yeah?

637
00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:40.199
That was up to the studio.

638
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.039
I know, I know, disappointing in that regard. I thought,

639
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.599
not that I've got anything against Carlo Sephia Gascon. Do

640
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.360
you think Zoe will win it too?

641
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.679
I think she's a shoe in because the other's role.

642
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.599
The other roles as Best Supporting Actress were really minor roles.

643
00:36:57.639 --> 00:36:59.920
We didn't see a whole lot of any of them.

644
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.400
Grande has a shot at it. Hers was quite a

645
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:05.000
large role. I think she was quite good in Wicked

646
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:09.480
Felicity Jones in The Brutalist, Isabella Rousselenni we hardly saw

647
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:16.320
in Conclave, and Monica Barbaro complete unknown, unmemorable. So yes, definitely,

648
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.159
zois Holdana for a million pairyers.

649
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:22.599
Monica Babaro is a terrific singer, beautiful singer in complete.

650
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.159
Well, then they should give her the Best Singing Award.

651
00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:30.599
Okay, let's go for the next category being Best Original

652
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:35.719
Screenplay and Nora The Brutalist A Real Pain September five.

653
00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.559
I wish September five be nominated for more awards. That

654
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.719
was an extraordinary film. And The Substance. So we're talking

655
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:47.840
Sean Baker, Brady Corbet and Mona fast Vold, Jesse Eisenberger

656
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.840
Real Pain, my Ritz Binder, Tim Ferlbaum co written with

657
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.679
Alex or by Alex David for September five and Coralie

658
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:59.880
Fargate for The Substance. Okay, this is a tough category.

659
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.559
I reckon, I haven't got a real handle on it.

660
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:06.519
What do you think, Sandy, I'm definitely going the Substance.

661
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:09.559
I thought that was very original. I remember when we

662
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:13.519
talked about it, you reminded everybody that it was kind

663
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.000
of similar to I can't even remember what, but it

664
00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:18.599
was a bit like something that had happened in the past.

665
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:20.360
But I really liked the.

666
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.000
Story in the substance, and I guess this is what

667
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.920
that award is for. I would go the Substance, but

668
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.800
I think that the Brutalist or no, I think if well, yeah,

669
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.599
the screenplay of the Brutalist was actually yes, it's an

670
00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:40.519
original screenplay. That's a good one too, And I reckon

671
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:42.840
Jesse Eisenberg might pick it up for a real pain.

672
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:44.920
I wouldn't be happy about that, but he might.

673
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:47.480
Okay, so what about you, Pete.

674
00:38:48.039 --> 00:38:51.159
I think Jesse Eisenberg will win it for a real pain.

675
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:55.800
It's getting awards for the screenplay, but the backup, of course,

676
00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:56.719
is the Brutalist.

677
00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:00.199
Yeah, I'll go the Brutalist. Brady Corbay and on a

678
00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:05.000
fast foal. So Best Adapted Screenplay, Conclave's got that one,

679
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.800
hasn't it. Peter Strahan based on the novel by Robert Arra,

680
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.599
complete unknown, James Mangold, Jay Cox based on the book

681
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:16.360
Dylan Goes Electric by Elijah Wald, Amelia Perez, Jacques Audiard

682
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:22.679
collaborating with Thomas bidegain Leah Missius and Nicholas live Chi

683
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:26.559
based on the opera libretto Amelia Perez by Jacques Audiard

684
00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:29.920
the novel Ecoute by Boris Raison. How's that? I mean?

685
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.760
I'm reading directly off things. I've lost the next page.

686
00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.719
This is not gonna Nicol Boys, Sing Sing are the

687
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:41.159
other two? What are you going for there? Beat?

688
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.480
There's a lot of love for the film Conclave. That's

689
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:48.480
why I'm thinking it'll win Best Film, so I think

690
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.599
it will win Adapted Screenplay and Sandy.

691
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.679
I'd really like to see Sing Sing When the adapted screenplay.

692
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.719
I thought that was really well done and very under

693
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:03.519
a pri preciated film. I thought the story was fabulous

694
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:06.239
and they've done it really well. I'd love to see

695
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:06.719
them when.

696
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:10.800
Well, okay, well fair enough. We haven't seen a lot

697
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:14.800
of the best animated feature films yet, seeing Flow this week,

698
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:19.400
Inside Out too. We've seen Memoir of a Snail actually,

699
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.360
and The Wild Robot was really good too, and Wallace

700
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:26.280
and Grommet Vengeance, most Foul Pete. Have you seen all

701
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:29.039
of them or not? Or only four of the five?

702
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:33.400
Four of the five. I'm waiting to see Flow. It's

703
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:36.039
a tough one because it also just won Best Animation

704
00:40:36.159 --> 00:40:41.000
at the Cizar Awards, But I think Wild Robot will

705
00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.199
run with Flow as a backup.

706
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.719
Yeah, I think I agree Wild Robot Sandy.

707
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:48.320
I'll go inside out too on this one.

708
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:52.119
Yeah, it's been very very popular, hasn't it. It's done

709
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:53.079
remarkably well.

710
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:56.199
And it's an adult film that kids have been flocking

711
00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:59.559
to and young adults just can't get enough of. Similarly,

712
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:02.519
Memoir a snail, I have to say, but I'd go

713
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:03.440
inside out too.

714
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.719
And I think The Wild Robot is what a proposition

715
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:09.719
that really surprised me when I saw that, Pete. It

716
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:13.320
really sort of took off no pun intended, But I

717
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.079
thought it was a really strong story and it was

718
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:17.840
quite compelling.

719
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:22.360
Yes, yes, it had a nice mix of sentimentality and

720
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.280
family sort of issues and so on. Yes, I agree.

721
00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:30.840
Now there's a number of these we haven't seen as well.

722
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:33.360
I haven't seen The Girl with the Needle. This is

723
00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:37.159
best international feature. Go there, Pardon me.

724
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.480
I was really hoping you'd want to talk about this.

725
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:46.360
Yeah, Amelia Perez Flow, Amelia Perez from France in Spanish, Flow, Latvia,

726
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:50.199
The Girl with the Needle, Denmark in Danish, and I'm

727
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:54.679
still here Brazil in Portuguese and The Seed of the

728
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:58.320
Sacred Fig German. So it's a hell of a combination

729
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:01.960
of international features. I actually hope that in the future

730
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.880
we're going to get more international features nominated for Best Film.

731
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:09.880
I'm surprised that we're in twenty twenty five and that

732
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:10.800
hasn't happened yet.

733
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:17.199
Peter, Well, there's still that focus on American films because

734
00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:19.239
it is the American Oscars.

735
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:24.199
Don't forget no, no, exactly. So okay, let's start with you, Sandy,

736
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:25.039
where are eating?

737
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:28.719
I think you would the hands down. I would give

738
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.800
it to the Seat of the Sacred Fig. Now it

739
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.079
says that that comes from Germany because its director had

740
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:38.519
to flee Iran before the film was released. He had

741
00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:41.920
already been jailed a couple of times for films he

742
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:46.679
made in Tear Run before this one, and the expose

743
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:51.239
that this provides of the treatment of women in Iran

744
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:57.719
is just sensational. The mix of actual phone footage with

745
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:03.079
the story of this family whose.

746
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:05.079
Father was don't tell me because I haven't seen it yet.

747
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:08.280
It's the best movie out It is powerful. I can't

748
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:11.199
stop thinking about it. So it doesn't really come from Germany,

749
00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:14.199
except that he's found exile in Germany. It comes from

750
00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:17.360
Iran and it is fabulous, the Seed of the Sacred Fig.

751
00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:19.679
I would go for that hands down.

752
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:23.360
And it's in Persian as well, so you've seen it, yes,

753
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.960
Farsi rather than Persian.

754
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:29.079
I have seen it. And it's a German production because

755
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.400
there was no money to produce the film in Iran,

756
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.719
and of course, as you said, Sandy, the director was

757
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:38.239
not able to make the film legally, so Germany stumped

758
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.119
up all the money. That's why it's a German entry.

759
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.719
And look, I would like Seed of the Sacred Fig

760
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:50.719
to win, and my backup is Amelia Perish.

761
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:56.599
Okay, that's yeah, Well again, I wonder you don't think

762
00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:58.760
I'm still he is going to again. I thought there

763
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:01.719
was a remarkable You don't think that's going to feature.

764
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.159
I don't think so. I think it was a late

765
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:09.440
entry to some extent. And there's no buzz from variety

766
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:13.800
about the film in terms of winning an award, so

767
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:18.039
I don't know. It looks a lot of these awards

768
00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:21.599
are wide open and expect surprises. But yeah, I'll go

769
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:22.639
with Seat of Sacred Fig.

770
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:23.239
With the media.

771
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.239
Peis is back up.

772
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:26.719
And I haven't seen it, but because of the chat

773
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.559
around it, I think the Seat of the Sacred Fig

774
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:33.039
seems to be the popular fancy. In terms in terms

775
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:39.039
of the Oscar best cinematography, it's always a challenging one,

776
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.199
and this is one where I think a film like

777
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.360
Dune Part two, which looks pretty spectacular, could fare pretty well.

778
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.760
You've got the brutalist Lowell Crawley, you've got June Part two,

779
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:57.599
Greg Fraser, Amelia Perez, Paul Glame, Maria ed Lachman, which

780
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:01.800
I thought was actually a disappointing film, not good, could

781
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:06.159
have been and nos Ferratu, which was quite again I

782
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:11.840
didn't particularly love it, but it certainly was atmospheric. Jaron Blashkey.

783
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.400
I suppose, I'm I'm thinking maybe June Part two. What

784
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:19.360
do you think, Pete.

785
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:23.599
I think brutalists will win cinematography because of its use

786
00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:26.079
of camera angles and different approaches.

787
00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:30.960
Sorry, yeah, we're talking. Yeah, perhaps perhaps correct. Maybe I'm

788
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.320
confusing production design or whatever with it.

789
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.280
Yeah, I think June will win visual effects.

790
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:39.840
Visual effects. Yes, that's sorry, that that's what I confused

791
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:43.039
it with. Yes, you're quite right, because with visual effects,

792
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:46.480
Alien Romulus better Man June Part two Kingdom of the

793
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:49.039
Plant of the Apes and Wicked. Yes, I agree. I

794
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:50.920
think that's the one that I confused it with, So

795
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:54.599
I'll go Brutalist as well, Sandy, for there's Brutalist.

796
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:58.239
For cinematography, I'd actually go nos Ferratu. I thought that

797
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:03.360
was fabulously shot, and you know you mentioned Maria. I

798
00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:06.199
don't understand why it's been re released about a month

799
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.320
after it was previously released. Is that to coincide with

800
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:09.840
the Oscars?

801
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.320
Peter, Yes, it is. The producers decide to re release

802
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:16.719
films if they get some nominations or whatever.

803
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.559
And it might do better the second time around. Yes,

804
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:24.280
and I think they'll be disappointed. Yes, I go nos Feratu.

805
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:27.000
I'd like nos Feratu to win, but I think you're right.

806
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.360
The Brutalist is going to sweep that one up. And

807
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.800
for visual effects, I would absolutely have to go either

808
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:36.159
Better Man or Wicked. They were fabulous. But then again,

809
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.280
I think June Part two is going to get that too. Unfortunately.

810
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.679
Now, what I want to do at this point, and again,

811
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:46.280
there's all sorts of betting agencies that take a bet.

812
00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:48.239
I don't want to take a bet. But what I

813
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:50.440
want to do is I want to give you the

814
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.800
odds for the pictures, not that we're encouraging bettings. So

815
00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:59.480
folks don't think that I want to bet you want

816
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:02.400
a bit in the There has been a year I

817
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:06.280
picked everyone bar one in all the major categories. But

818
00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.639
it's rare, so you know, it doesn't It doesn't happen

819
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:13.800
all the time. Now, I've got no idea about one,

820
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.800
you know, one thing versus another. The one that I've

821
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.519
looked at in the past, and this is overseas obviously,

822
00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:26.840
is something called odds checker o double ds checker, because

823
00:47:27.079 --> 00:47:31.039
that also talks about the history of the betting. I

824
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.559
don't know why, and I'm just having a look here.

825
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:37.119
The problem that I've got with this when I'm now

826
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.800
looking at it is there are so many numbers here

827
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:43.840
that I'm not sure what the current betting is based

828
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:48.280
on based on this, I'm just having a look at

829
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.280
the Well, we'll start there with the best picture. We

830
00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.760
may not go through all of them, but we we

831
00:47:54.639 --> 00:47:59.800
the There is a strange figure here which makes absolutely

832
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:04.159
no sense to me. It basically has Conclave as the favorite.

833
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:09.079
Well actually no, it's got Anora at nine to four on,

834
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:13.480
which makes that the favorite. Anora is the favorite apparently

835
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:18.239
for Best Picture. Conclave is the second favorite at three

836
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:22.039
to one, and then this is a really weird number,

837
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:25.000
eight hundred and forty three over one hundred. I've never

838
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:28.400
seen that eight and forty three, So that's sort of

839
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.960
eight point four to three to one, right, and then

840
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:36.239
then it blows out after that, very strange. I'm not

841
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:37.960
clear on that at all. I think I'll take the

842
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.960
previous numbers, which were Anora number one, Conclave number two,

843
00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:47.199
the Brutalless number three are complete unknown at number four

844
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:49.760
and that was fifty to one, and you can forget

845
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:53.800
the rest, right, So does that surprise you that Anora

846
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:54.599
is the favorite?

847
00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:59.559
No, it doesn't, you, Peter No, because it won the

848
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:05.760
I just think that Good Yeah is the best really not.

849
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:09.360
Best film, sorry for Mikey Madison. So there's a lot

850
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:14.159
of love for Anora with the British Academy, and there's

851
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:17.199
a lot of crossover membership of the British Academy and

852
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:17.800
the Oscars.

853
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:21.639
Well, okay, so the next category just happened to be

854
00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:28.679
up is the Best Actor, and basically the Adrian Brady

855
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.280
is a very short priced favorite five to two on

856
00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:39.039
versus two two for Timothy Schallamey Ray fines fourteen to

857
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:46.239
one as the third favorite for Conclave. So even though

858
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:51.400
you guys seem to be favoring, very favoring that best actress,

859
00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:57.039
well you'll be very pleased to know. Yeah, absolutely, seven

860
00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:00.599
to four on compared to twos for Mickey Addison, So

861
00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.400
Demi's the favorite, and then twelve to one for Fernanda

862
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.199
toroies I'm still here, and then it goes on from there.

863
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:12.960
Then okay, it's interesting how the various categories are not

864
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.840
necessarily in the order that I would have expected them

865
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:22.760
to be. I'm not sure why oscars and they where's

866
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.280
the best director? Why can't I find out best director?

867
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.559
Oscar with this thing best Animated Feature while I'm fiddling

868
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:35.440
best actor? Best director? Here it is best director, it's

869
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:39.480
a category lower down the page. So best director a

870
00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:44.079
Nora at nine to four on with the Brutalist at

871
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:49.880
second at thirteen over eight, thirteen over eight, And then

872
00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:55.880
is this I find this best director? And then and

873
00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.280
then and then Emilia Perez at twenty to one, so

874
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.159
and Nora versus the Brutalist for the best director category.

875
00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.800
Then we have got one. Are the others best? I

876
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:11.280
bet best supporting actress and supporting actress, we need to

877
00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:15.800
go to best supporting actress. I'll start with and I

878
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:19.400
reckon this is going to be Zoe absolutely twenty five

879
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:24.719
to one on. She's basically you put on twenty five

880
00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:26.320
bucks and you get a cent or something like that

881
00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:29.679
for it. If I've got that right, And Ariana Grunde

882
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.280
for Wicked after that at ten to one, and Isabelle

883
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:36.760
Rosalini for Conclave that's after that, So Ameli has got

884
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:40.079
that sewn up. And I would be surprised if when

885
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.639
I click onto this page it won't be Kieran Culcan

886
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:48.039
even more forty one to one on for Kieran Culcan,

887
00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:52.000
ed that's amazing. Edward Norton twelve to one. Tell you what,

888
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:54.400
you'd be pretty disappointed if you were Kieran Culkin. You

889
00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.280
went along to the awards and you didn't win a.

890
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:01.000
Except those betting agencies are very much like horse racing.

891
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:04.039
The favorite does not necessarily go to win.

892
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.679
But has Kieran Culkin not won one of the major

893
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:12.960
awards in this area? I thought he'd won everything he has, Yeah, right, okay,

894
00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:15.880
and I think I'm not sure about a million PA

895
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:21.559
pair is what about Zoey has as well as as well? Yeah? Exactly, okay,

896
00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:26.039
so best animated feature. I think I'll go there next.

897
00:52:26.320 --> 00:52:29.519
In terms of the odds, not surprisingly three to one

898
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.920
on the Wild Robot, and then nine or four is

899
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:38.639
Flow and inside Out. Wow. No, that's that's an outsider,

900
00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:42.280
as his memoir of a snail, So just.

901
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:44.840
The way to back an outside? Do I like an underdog?

902
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:48.960
I think? I think that's very it's very worthy. Sandy Well,

903
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:51.920
I hate to say this, folks, but we're almost out

904
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:54.079
of time. So is there any other trivia that you

905
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:56.639
want to throw in or any other thoughts about the Oscars?

906
00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:58.920
Do you think, Peter, I'll ask you this. Do you

907
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:01.239
think that the host what's his name.

908
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:03.559
Again, Honan O'Brien correct?

909
00:53:03.559 --> 00:53:05.840
Do you think he's going to do a decent job? Yes?

910
00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:08.559
I do. He's remember seeing some of his shows, and

911
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:17.440
he's a very clever, astute, well researched interviewer as well

912
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:20.360
as hosts, so I think he'll be fine and we should.

913
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:23.079
Speaking of boskers, what about the two time Oscar winner

914
00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:24.400
Gene Hackman, who just died?

915
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.119
Yeah, so sorry, yes, I meant to. I mean that

916
00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:30.320
was shocking that was shocking, is what sixty three sixty

917
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:32.599
four year old wife was there one of the three.

918
00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:34.920
Is that the bit that you think is shocking that

919
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:37.280
he's him at ninety five is married to a sixty

920
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:37.840
three year.

921
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:39.920
Old No, not at all. No, no, the fact that

922
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:43.360
they were no, no, no comment on the age gap

923
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:45.719
at all. It was more that they all were all

924
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:49.360
died in different rooms and whatever.

925
00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:51.519
Mystery yet to be sold, isn't it?

926
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:54.000
It is well, I mean they've said there's two options

927
00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:56.840
at this point, there were two likely options. One was

928
00:53:57.119 --> 00:53:59.599
gas and the other one was what was the thing?

929
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:08.039
The other the other pardon me, pills filled pills? No, no, no, no, no, no murder.

930
00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:13.079
Oh no, golly, you're going No. Both of them were

931
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:19.199
clear substances that that suddenly started appear, That appeared, and

932
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.239
they died without even knowing it kind of thing. Yes,

933
00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:27.400
I don't think that that's no likely.

934
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:30.639
That's funny.

935
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:35.400
Yeah, I think it's it's very very sad. I mean

936
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.719
it really sad that, yes, and it doesn't matter what age.

937
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:40.880
It's interesting. One of his daughters said he was in

938
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:43.800
good health. The last photo of him, he didn't look

939
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:46.679
like he was in good health. Did you see that

940
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:47.400
photo for a year.

941
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:52.280
Yes, well, yeah, I always don't like speculating about health

942
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:54.079
of people. I mean, it's just a shame that he's

943
00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:56.159
died and has such a great body of work.

944
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:03.760
Carbon monoxide poison that was the And again it depends

945
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:06.000
on what you read as to the age of his wife,

946
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.920
but you know with it sixteen three, sixty four, sixty five,

947
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:12.480
that doesn't matter. It's the fact that, you know, if

948
00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:15.039
somebody was going to live longer and then died in

949
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:19.519
these circumstances, very very shocking. We got to go. We've

950
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:23.119
got to go. Let's let's circle the wagons and see

951
00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:26.199
how we did. Enjoy the Oscar ceremony at the Nova.

952
00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.519
You can be bitter and twisted. You weren't invited about it, Sandy,

953
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:34.519
but Net, thank you, Thank you both for your contributions,

954
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.239
and wish you well for the weak ahead, and we'll

955
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:39.840
do it all again very soon. On First On Film

956
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:41.199
and Entertainment,