Way Too Early Oscar Podcast

Matt and Marisa are joined by winner of ThePopBreak.com's Oscar pool aka the site's Editor in Chief, Bill Bodkin, to break down the highs and lows of last night's Academy Awards.

Happy Oscar Sunday! We're breaking down the 10 nominees for Best Picture.

A breakdown of the 2022 Best Director category.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about the boys. In Lead, they worry about the Brendan Fraser situation to the point that Marisa does a heel turn on Austin Butler. In Supporting, they surprise each other with their takes on the boys from The Banshees of Inisherin and wonder if anyone could possibly beat Ke Huy Quan.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about their favorite categories of every year: the actresses. In the Supporting category, they discuss the rapidly changing narrative for predicting who will win and list some of their favorite performances of the year in their alternates. In the Lead category, they break down the Andrea Riseborough controversy and pray for a Michelle Yeoh win.

Matt and Marisa tackle their last set of the non-major categories: Best Original and Adapted Screenplays. In the Adapted category, they relish the chance to praise Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, hype up Top Gun: Maverick once again and put their weight behind Sarah Polley's work with Women Talking. In the Original category, they use The Fabelmans to once again worship last year's West Side Story, Marisa argues Tár's epilogue ruins the whole movie and Matt suggests The Banshees of Inisherin is Martin McDonagh's best work.

Our breakdowns of this year's categories continue with a double feature of some of our most unhinged categories: Score and Song. We complain (again) about All Quiet on the Western Front's many nominations, dissect the Diane Warren of it all and Marisa teases the dark evil that is her Spotify Wrapped.

Today's second episode focuses on a category we struggled to see before the ceremony: International Feature. Matt and Marisa once again complain about All Quiet on the Western Front, discuss the shocking twist of Close and Marisa goes to bat for The Quiet Girl.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Documentary Feature. In the episode, they talk about being devastated by A House Made of Splinters, marvel at the footage in Navalny and offer up another movie that could have earned a nomination.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss some of the bigger technicals: cinematography and editing. They discuss their surprise over Bardo and ponder what Empire of Light is doing here.

Matt and Marisa return to talk two more technicals. In Costuming, they delight over Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and marvel at Ruth Carter's fashion forward work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In Makeup and Hairstyling, they lament the battle of the fat suits.

Matt and Marisa continue their category with a perennial favorite, the shorts. Once again, they got to view all of this year's nominees thanks to Shorts TV. You can catch their presentation of the shorts categories in select theaters starting this weekend.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with this year's nominees for Animated Feature. In the episode, they lament having to watch yet another Pinocchio adaptation, praise the sweetness of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On and wonder if The Sea Beast was created by an AI.

Matt and Marisa continue their category with another technical: Best Production Design. They discuss Babylon's hedonism, Elvis's maximalism and Marisa fixates on the proverbial clay pots of Avatar: The Way of Water.

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual tradition of breaking down every category with a technical category double header. They ponder over All Quiet on the Western Front's multiple nominations, gush over Top Gun: Maverick and once again express their love for The Batman.

Matt and Marisa try to process this year's Oscar surprises and snubs. From Andrea Riseborough's lightning fast campaign to the love for everything from RRR to Top Gun: Maverick.

Matt and Marisa discuss the baffling resurrection of the Golden Globes, what the SAG nominations may mean for the Oscars and catch up on the last few awards contenders of 2022.

Matt and Marisa finally return to recap this year's Oscar hopefuls, from the staying power of Everything Everywhere All at Once to Tár's last act problems.

Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of ThePopBreak's annual Oscars pool, Tommy Tracy and DJ Chapman (host of our podcast on all things Bachelor Nation, Roses and Rejections), to talk about this year's chaotic telecast. In the episode, they discuss the Chris Rock/Will Smith situation, CODA's Best Picture win and the moments from the ceremony that made them smile and cringe.

Matt and Marisa conclude their annual breakdown of all the Oscar nominees with the most important category of all: Best Picture. Listen as they ridicule Don't Look Up one last time, disagree on The Power of the Dog and rave about Spielberg's West Side Story.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about the latter's favorite new category: Fan Favorite. Listen to them slowly lose their grip on reality as they discuss girlboss Cinderella, list their favorite films of the year and speculate on which nominees might know how to code.

Matt and Marisa finally get to talk about some of their favorite categories, the actresses. In the episode, Marisa deals with the existential crisis that her beloved Kristen Stewart may lose, Matt once again goes to bat for The Power of the Dog's Kirsten Dunst and they both praise Ariana DeBose's star-making turn in West Side Story.

Matt and Marisa continue with some of the heavy-hitter categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder if Will Smith will get his career Oscar, laud Andrew Garfield's theater kid energy and highlight some actors they wish had been nominated.

Matt and Marisa deliver their second episode of the day with their first heavy-hitter category: Best Director. In the episode, they take the chance to once again praise Steven Spielberg's work with West Side Story, wonder if Jane Campion may have sabotaged her front-runner status and highlight a few snubs.

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of all of this year's Oscar nominees with one of Marisa's perennial favorite's, Documentary Feature. In the episode, the lament not being able to see Writing with Fire before recording, talk about how essential Summer of Soul is to music history and Marisa brings up a movie that makes Matt say absolutely not.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss the remaining shorts categories thanks, as always, to ShortsTV. In the episode, they bemoan how simplistic many of the live action nominees are, wish that some of the documentary shorts dug a little deeper and pray Lead Me Home doesn't pull a win.

Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with a trio of technical categories: Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. In the episode, they go to bat for some unsung feats in cinematography, try to understand why the Academy likes Nightmare Alley so much and once again argue that just because a movie has the most editing doesn't mean it has the best editing.

Matt and Marisa continue their discussions of this year's nominees with two more technical categories: Visual Effect and Sound. In the episode, they talk about the mind-melting sound in Dune, complain about having to endure Free Guy and are finally forced to talk about Spider-man: No Way Home.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with two categories that the Oscars only half care about airing live: Costume Design and Makeup and Hairstyling. In the episode, they try to figure out how to understand Cyrano, Matt compares Cruella to Drag Race and they both find an excuse to profess their love for Malignant.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the writing categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. In the episode, Matt once again defends King Richard, Marisa gets indulgent in the Adapted category and they both talk about how excited they are that Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for The Lost Daughter. Come back tomorrow for the Makeup and Hairstyling and Costuming categories.

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdown of this year's Oscar nominees with International Feature. In the episode, they rave about Japan's Drive My Car, discuss the surprise delight of Bhutan's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom and wonder once again if Flee may split its own votes.

Matt and Marisa continue their breakdowns of every nominee in the 2022 Oscar race with the animated categories. For the Feature category, Marisa rips apart The Mitchells vs the Machines, Matt mounts a surprising defense for Raya and the Last Dragon and they both wonder if Flee might split its own votes. For the Short category, they discuss how not kid-friendly this year's nominees are, their frustrations with The Windshield Wiper and how much extra research Beast requires. Thanks as always to ShortsTV for allowing us to watch all the short film nominees. You can watch them in theaters or at ShortsTV. Tune in tomorrow for Best International Feature Film.

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual category breakdowns with two of the most chaotic categories: Best Original Song and Best Original Score. In the Song Category, they praise Billie Eilish's work for No Time to Die, dare to talk about Encanto's Bruno and wonder how far Diane Warren will go to finally win her long overdue Oscar. For Score, the pair begin their multi-episode praise of Dune, complain about the catch-22 of loving Nicholas Britell but hating Don't Look Up and laude the subtle homages of the Parallel Mothers score. Tune in tomorrow for our next set of categories!

Matt and Marisa return to dissect the totally bonkers Screen Actors Guild Nominations. Marisa feels to blame for Kristen Stewart's big snub and Matt revels in the chaos. Plus, they discuss the alleged return of the Oscar host.

Matt and Marisa return to finally gush about West Side Story, discuss the final awards contenders of the year and sweat about the future of theater-going.

Matt and Marisa return to catch up on all the current movies in the awards race, from the surprise of the little-seen The Last Duel to the disappointments of House of Gucci and everything in between.

Matt and Marisa return to discuss all the movies Matt saw at NYFF, a few non-NYFF releases and Marisa finally gets to enjoy what a disaster Dear Evan Hansen is.

Matt and Marisa kick off the Oscar season by breaking down the implosion of the Golden Globes and have a spoiler-filled discussion of the movie of the summer, In the Heights.

On the final episode of the season, Matt and Marisa are joined by The Pop Break’s editor-in-chief, Bill Bodkin, and the winner of the site’s Oscar pool, Sean Cordy, to recap the highlights and disappointments of the 93rd Academy Awards.

Our series breaking down this hear’s categories ends with the big one: Best Picture.

In the penultimate episode of the season, Matt and Marisa dive into the Best Director nominees.

Matt and Marisa return to talk about two of their perennial favorite categories: Best Supporting and Lead Actresses.

Matt and Marisa begin to dive into the BIg 6 awards with two categories they usually don't care about but do this year: actors.

In their final episode before the Big 6 Categories, Matt and Marisa discuss the highs and lows of the International Feature nominees.

Matt and Marisa dive into this year’s strong group of documentary feature nominees.

Matt and Marisa wrap up the technical categories with the nominees for Best Achievement in Production Best Achievement in Cinematography.

Thanks again to ShortsTV, Matt and Marisa got to watch all the nominated shorts and they break them down in this supersized episode.

In this episode, Matt and Marisa praise and pick apart the nominated screenplays.

Matt and Marisa return for a supersized episode covering three whole technical categories: Best Achievement in Editing, Visual Effects and Best Sound.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technical categories. This time, it's Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling and Costuming.

Matt and Marisa continue their Oscar nomination deep dive episodes with two of the most fun (and chaotic) categories: Original Song and Original Score.