In this episode, Matt and Marisa reflect on this year's Golden Globes (Demi is running! They ate pasta and gossiped while watching together!). They also react to the SAG and DGA nominations and the current status of the big six Oscar races. Tangents include: Marisa's dad's love for Maria, our enthusiasm for The Fall Guy, and the random Amazon Prime Original Series that Matt's fiancé loves.

Marisa and Matt sound off on the silliest award show: the Golden Globes, which just announced their nominations this week. Tune in to hear them debate what counts as a "comedy" these days, try to predict whether The Substance is a serious Oscar contender, and speculate on whether or not an icon of 1970s cinema will make an appearance on the red carpet (which icon? the answer will surprise you).

Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matt and Marisa go through the nominees and pick the winners for the Editing and Cinematography categories.

Matt and Marisa return to pick the winner for Best Animated Feature.

The Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast is kicking into high gear. Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV Editor Matt Taylor are giving their hot takes, razor sharp insight, and predictions on the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.

Matt and Marisa go through the Production Design and Costume Design nominees to pick their favorites and call out a few snubs.

Matt and Marisa go through the Best Song and Score nominees and discuss the Gaga of it all.

Matt and Marisa remind listeners and themselves the difference between sound editing and mixing and discuss the nominees and potential winners for the sound categories.

Matt and Marisa talk about the prosthetics of Border, the snatched wigs of Mary Queen of Scots and the visual messes of Avengers: Infinity War and Ready Player One.

Matt and Marisa go through the Best Adapted and Original Screenplay categories. We stand up for favorites like Can You Ever Forgive Me? and wonder how the heck Green Book ended up here.

Matt and Marisa discuss the wins, the losses and what they might mean for the Oscars.

Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year! Our Way Too Early Oscar Predictions Podcast is kicking off 2019 with a new episode.

Our hosts, Film Editor Marisa Carpico and Television Editor Matt Taylor, talk about a number of big releases during the Christmas Season.

Matt and Marisa deliver another supersized and super rushed episode of their category breakdowns for this year's Oscar nominees. This time, they rave about the costumes and sets in Barbie and Poor Things, talk editing and wonder why Napoleon keeps popping up.

The 8th episode of Pop Break's Way too Early Oscars Predictions podcast is back, and we're tackling some big time awards.

The Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards released their nominees, and our hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor have got a lot to talk about the snubs, the surprises, and the just what in the hell were they thinking.

The seventh episode of our Way Too Early Oscar Predictions is here ad we're looking at all the early awards shows. That's right Awards Season is here, and we're breaking it all down.

In this episode our hosts, film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor, look at the National Board of Review, NYFCC, Gotham Awards, and even talk a wee bit about the Golden Globes, and the Oscars.

The 6th episode of Pop Break's "Way Too Early Oscar Predictions" is back with post-Thanksgiving hot takes.

Film editor Marisa Carpico, and TV editor Matt Taylor return with their thoughts on the ever-drawing close Awards Season, and a batch of movies with big time awards potential.

The fifth episode of our "Way Too Early Oscars" podcast is here. And you know what? It's not that early anymore. But...we'll keep the name. Our hosts, film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor talk about the most recent run of Oscar potentials.

The fourth episode of the Way Too Early Oscar Predictions is back! Film editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor return to talk Oscars. Both attended this year's New York Film Festival, and break down some of the movies they saw there.

Film Editor Marisa Carpico and TV editor Matt Taylor discuss Matt's third trip to the Great White North for a weekend of Oscar potentials.

Welcome to our "Way too Early Oscar Predictions" Episode 2.

This is a regular podcast where film editor Marisa Carpico, TV editor Matt Taylor, and possible guests come together to discuss the potential Oscar nominees. Do they know it's way too early to predict? Sure. But in their mind IT IS NEVER TOO EARLY TO PREDICT.

In our very first episode, Matt and Marisa recap the first half of the 2018's awards-worthy films.

Matt and Marisa kick of this year's category breakdowns with a supersized episode. They cover both Screenplay categories, both Adapted and Original, Best Score and the category that haunts them every year, Best Original Song.

Matt and Marisa record live and in-person mere minutes after this year's SAG Awards to talk high, lows and Anne Hathaway crying during Barbra Streisand's speech.

Matt and Marisa give their initial reactions to this year's Oscar nominations, the surprises, the snubs and all the rest. In the episode, they lament the few nominees they still have to watch, celebrate the love for Maestro and note that there's still a way for an ex-Riverdale actor to win an Oscar this year.

Matt and Marisa finally kick off Awards Season with an in-depth analysis of the SAG Nominations for the film categories. In the episode, they defend Maestro, begin to analyze the cultural touchstone that was Barbenheimer and wonder what the hell happened with Ferrari.

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.

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.

Marisa and Matt are joined by Tom Moore to discuss some of the highlights from this year's New York Film Festival including Anora, Emilia Perez, Queer, Maria, and The Brutalist.

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 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.

Staff writer Sean Cordy joins co-host Marisa Carpico to talk TIFF. In the episode, we discuss the films he saw and reviewed, the overall experience and how the festival shifted the Oscar conversation.

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 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.