Sasha Stone an Jeff Wells discuss the Oscar nominations and lament the Oscars pushing Emilia Perez on woke grounds. When does it all end?

Sasha welcomes Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells to discuss how to fix the Oscars and other movies this season like The last Showgirl, Anora and Conclave

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye discuss the BAFTA winners and the upcoming SAG and PGA awards as we close in on the Oscars.

Mark Johnson and Sasha Stone do a solo podcast to predict the BAFTA awards. Category by category for almost two hours! For all of our predictions, check out awardsdaily.com.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson talk the Oscar nominations and go through our preliminary predictions category by category. How will this crazy year go? The Barbie snub and the Oppenheimer sweep - will there be any major changes? Who knows. We discuss all of it.

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The Golden Globes are Sunday, here what we think might win -- it's not that different from what other people think will win, though Sasha does try to go out on a limb for the fun of it.

Mark Johnson dives into the categories below the line for part two. We also talk about The Color Purple, Maestro, Barbie, and where the Best Picture race stands as of early December.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson discuss the below the line categories like Cinematography, Editing, Costume and Production Design. Part one of two.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson talk the Middleburg Film Festival and how that may or may not have impacted the race. David Fincher's The Killer, Bradley Cooper's Best Actor chances and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson discuss everything you need to know about Oscar season. Who are the bloggers, the predictors, the pundits? Who makes up the Academy? What's the process of choosing Best Picture? We go through it as best we can in an hour. There is obviously a lot more to it but this is a good start.

Sasha Stone, Mark Johnson, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye attempt to predict, at this early stage, the Best Actor and Best Actress race. We also recommend streaming shows and movies.

As Hollywood fights back flames, the nominations are being postponed right and left. It's a tragic situation but the show must go on. Sasha Stone is joined by TheContending.com's Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to catch up on what is happening in the race after the Golden Globes, the DGA and the SAG nominations. Sponsored by Focus Features.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson talk the new Golden Globes, different from the old Golden Globes and how their new diverse membership might impact how they nominate in the major categories.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson discuss Telluride and Venice, which movies are going to head into festival season and how strong they are. Barbie's Best Picture chances, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon are the frontrunners. How many number-one votes does a Best Picture contender need?

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and special guest Marshall Flores talk Oppenheimer and Barbie's record-breaking weekend. The first hour is with Mark, then the second hour is a deeper dive on Oppenheimer if you have the time to listen.

Mark Johnson visits the Dolby Theater and attends the 95th Oscar ceremony! We do the post-game wrap and talk about the winners and losers.

Sasha, Ryan, Clarence and Mark deliver a very long podcast going through our choices for the big night.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson talk about the Producers Guild and SAG going all the way for Everything, Everywhere All At once - how will it fare at the Oscars? The SAG Awards were on Youtube for the first time. Is this the future for awards shows?

Sasha, Ryan, Mark and Clarence predict what we think will happen at the PGAs and SAG Awards this weekend.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson, Clarence Moye on the Directors Guild this weekend, whether or not the Oscars are a bubble and can anything defeat Everything Everywhere All At Once?

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson talk the frontrunners for the Oscar race in the major categories. Is it Everything, Everywhere All At Once? Is it Top Gun Maverick? Is it the Banshees of Inisherin?

Sasha, Ryan and Clarence chat about the Oscar nominations, which dropped this morning. Some surprises, some disappointments, what is the frontrunner for Best Picture?

Sasha Stone is joined by TheContending.com's Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to discuss the wide open Best Picture race, along with the other major categories. Who are the frontrunners? What narratives do they need to win? Is this a weak year? We discuss it all.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson, Clarence Moye negotiate their final Oscar nomination predictions before the big day.

Sasha Stone joins Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson to talk about the Golden Globes which are Tuesday night. And we're talking DGA, PGA and SAG.

The Golden Globes were announced with some surprises. We go through our general takes and then talk about the movies that really moved us this year.

Very excited to talk to the writer of the film Vengeance, BJ Novak. He wrote, directed and starred in the sleeper hit. Vengeance is one of the strongest screenplays of the year.

As we head out of the film festival season, we're just waiting on Avatar before we close everything out. We talk The Fabelmans, Brendan Fraser and The Whale, Bill Nighy in Living, TAR and a bit on the Best Actress race. Happy Thanksgiving!

Sasha, Ryan, Clarence and Mark check in on the Oscar race after Venice, Telluride and New York. We're heading into the heat of Oscar season now and the race is starting to become more clarified. A heated debate on the problem with the ratings ensues.

Sasha Stone, Clarence Moye, Michael Grei on the best bets at Telluride, including Empire of Light, Bones and All, Women Talking, TAR, etc.

Mark tells us about his sudden stroke!

Sasha Stone and Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson and Ryan Adams talk Best Picture 2023, what our target films are this early out and whether Top Gun has what it takes to go all the way.

Sasha Stone and Mark Johnson talk all the happenings at the Telluride Film Festival, mainly how it has changed up our predictions. What if anything did we add or take out? Filmd discussed include Sean Baker's Anora, Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, Jaques Audiard's Emilia Perez and more.

After becoming the subject of Hollywood gossip, you can hear what Sasha Stone thinks in her own words. This is all about how a story in the Hollywood Reporter caused a small bubble in the film industry to lose their minds. Also, Clarence Moye is starting a new site called The Contending and will be having his own podcast and everything else. Mark Johnson takes us through the potential Telluride lineup. We thought we needed to check in and fill you in on everything going on.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Marshall Flores close out the 96th Academy Awards. We talk about our favorite moments from the Oscars, what still haunts us even now, What did we get right, what did we get wrong. Join us as we "put a bow on it" and finish the year.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye dig into the categories one last time before Sunday night, March 10, 2024. We go through Oppenheimer's wins, and we look at which categories are locked and which ones could go either way. Emma Stone vs. Lily Gladstone, Visual Effects, Screenplay, Production Design and Costume Design are some of the big question marks.

Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams, Mark Johnson and Clarence Moye discuss the Oscar race as it stands today, the last day of Oscar voting. Now that the SAG and PGA have joined Oppenheimer, and with more awards coming this weekend, there are just a few loose ends that need to be tied. We're almost ready for the Oscars on March 10.

For this episode of Sidebar, Sasha Stone talks to Marshall Flores, the stats guru of AwardsDaily.com. We do a long deep dive into Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer before moving into the stats and attempt to predict how many Oscars Oppenheimer will win -- between 5 and 9 is our best guess.