The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

[00:00:01] Blank Check with Griffin and David Blank Check with Griffin and David Don't know what to say or to expect All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check What a wonderful night for blankies, blankies, blankies Who will win? And the nominees are

[00:00:30] Dun dun dun dun dun Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Little women trying to live their lives Little women don't want to become wives What kind of book deal will Joe get? Negotiate with Tracy Letts

[00:00:54] dun-dun dun dum dum dun It's a story about a little marriage Being split up onto very different coasts In LA she works on a big pilot and in New York he moops This portrait's on fire, lady's on fire her dress is on fire

[00:01:26] Literally in metaphorically everything's on fire portrait of a lady on fire And I think I'm gonna sit in this wheelchair and tell the camera all the things I've done. I'm not that happy in this retirement home. Oh, no, no, no. Yes, I'm an Irish man.

[00:01:46] Irish man, Till and Jimmy Hoffa made me sad. But the ring from Joe Pesci made me glad. And also I'm a Rocket Man. Rocket Man, Elton John, Bio-Pix pretty good. But compared to Bohemian Rhapsody, it's like a fucking masterpiece. One Glove, scissors two, and the red jumpsuit, babe.

[00:02:18] One Glove, it's about us, Jordan peels us, babe. Oh my God. In Wong's farewell, the grandma's gonna die to make her happy. They settle on a line. These are getting shorter and shorter. Good though, these are fragments. Yeah. People in the basement, parasite. Gotta make that ram-dong, parasite.

[00:02:45] That's James Brown's out of sight. Ooh, nothing really matters. Anyone can see. Nothing really matters. Nothing really matters, but four key. Toy Story four key. How am I gonna get evicted? That was... They're gonna kick me out. It's really special. That was incredible. Thank you.

[00:03:21] That was actually incredible. Thank you. I'm very proud of you. Yes. I worked on about eight other ones. The best thing you've ever done. It might be. Not on the podcast, just total. I've been practicing in the shower for a couple weeks.

[00:03:32] So what's in the cutting room floor? What's on the cutting room floor? There are a few I just never cracked what the right song was. I never came up with the right lyrics. I would try out different things. I never found a good Uncut Gems one.

[00:03:44] I never found a good One Sponetime in Hollywood one. Tough to wrangle that. And now I'm trying to remember what was cut. Because on the train ride here, I was doing the official process of cutting things from the app.

[00:03:55] Both from the song list and from my nomination categories, making the tough decisions. But I decided those were the strongest ones. There were also, I will say this, many of those songs originally had multiple versions. Of course. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two versus a bridge. Someone else?

[00:04:10] I'm pretty alone. I mean, I think... Stop me if this sounds crazy. You could get in the booth, cut a little album. You think cut a little album? Cut a little LP. You know, mix tape. A mix tape. You remember I was talking about... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:04:26] You wanted to do an album. You wanted to do like when The Simpsons would release an album, you know? Like he wanted that energy. Well, and look, yesterday, at the time of recording this, yesterday, Rumor Mill started hitting that Warner Brothers wants to hire Taryn Egerton

[00:04:40] to do Little Shop of Horrors. A lot of blankies online were like fucking Griffin Newman Erasure. Yeah. And I was like, look, I can't really sing and they were like, come on. And I was like, you know what? You're right, I'm gonna prove them all wrong.

[00:04:51] So all I'm saying is Ben, the second we finished recording this episode, CC Warner Brothers. Sure, okay. courtesy of Warner Brothers Pictures. Yeah, it's Warner.brothers.example.com. Yes. I mean, it's always... Cut a record, send it in the mail. Sure, sure.

[00:05:06] Lay this down on a, let's get a seven inch going. Right, right, right. What a wonderful night for blankies. Welcome to Blank Show. 2020. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. La, la, la, la. You are alright, alright, that's enough, that's enough.

[00:05:20] It's just so sad that there's not a host this year. You could do it. Well, this is the problem. No one wants the job. It's putting an arrow on your back, you know? Oh, just yeah, because the woke police will come. The woke police. Destroy your life.

[00:05:33] Because now the front row is the cancel brigade. They're ready. Yeah. I mean, we, I think we can say this now. Yeah, let's say it. We, because it's... I have no idea where you're about to say it. I mean, the Venn process is so difficult.

[00:05:44] Because it's a job that no one wants. No one. Right? We tried to get way ahead of it this year. And like June or July, we have who we thought was the perfect host. And then Shane Gillis got himself in a little trouble. He pushed too many boundaries.

[00:05:57] He pushed too many boundaries. We said Shane... And he missed, and he missed. He missed. That's the problem. We said Shane, you can push boundaries as long as you hit. He pushed too many. And he missed. You're too many. He missed.

[00:06:09] Will that ever not amuse us even though it's just a tiny grammatical error from a racist? I don't think so. I want to just also clarify, when we are obsessed with that and make that joke all the time, that's the thing we're obsessed with.

[00:06:22] Yeah, the weird grammatical error. The metaphor doesn't track. You don't push... You don't miss a boundary when you're pushing. It doesn't make any fucking sense. Here's another correction I want to offer. Chris Gether does not like Shane Gillis. Yeah, no shit. He tried to...

[00:06:35] Literally Google New York Times Chris Gethered Shane Gillis. That's what I advise you people. Arguably the number two reason he got fired. Yes. Now, monkey awards. The blankie awards. And who's here to celebrate with us, but officially entering the Five Timers Club. I'm so excited you guys.

[00:06:55] Oh, that's a good point. Is this our fifth of these? This is our fifth. We should be locked in this annual. Fifth annual blankies. And here putting on officially his blank check five timers bathrobe. The co-chair of the blankies awards. Like this is like introducing Don Hudson

[00:07:15] or Phillip Burke to do the speech. Joe Reed, AKA Reading Range. I forgot about reading range out. Of course, my favorite. Thanks you guys. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, five timers. I can finally show my face around the Richard Lawson's and Emily Ashida's of the world.

[00:07:32] It's a very exclusive. Powering and shame. I mean, Ashida got herself in trouble moving to LA. So she might be catchable. That's a thing for a while. It was like, OK, Ashida is kind of embarrassing everyone else. She's starting to laugh. She's laughing the field.

[00:07:44] But now you're like, she might be like a once a year person for the next three years. If that's going to stock your. She's got a lot of warning. We have to see her though. With once a year we're going to get my mama. Mama.

[00:07:56] Oh, you say the mother of like us. All right. We know with the ma we should go on ma. Yes. 2019, which is all over my ballot. I don't know if you guys. It's not on my but it's not far from some of my.

[00:08:08] I love this is what's weird. Best surprise penis in the movie. Yeah. Did you guys see ma? No, there's a surprise. I mean, I think it's a fakey. But when she pulled that dick out of Luke Evans's towel. Yes, I did not expect. I'm sorry.

[00:08:19] This happens in the film. Yes, it happens in the midst of her. She's going to slice it with a. But it's what do you call it? Scumble. But it also is in the midst of a scene where it seems for a second

[00:08:31] like she's going to transfuse his blood with dog blood because men are dogs and. And we're going to really chill movie. And it seemed for a second and all I wanted was for that scene to play out. Yeah.

[00:08:44] And to see what would happen with Luke Evans with dog blood in him. I got to say it's very weird because I didn't see ma as I just said on air, but I'm looking at my notes and suddenly every nominee I have written

[00:08:53] down is being replaced with mom. Yeah, yeah, mom is being transfused. Magically, it's being transfused onto my list. Welcome to the blankies. Yes, we're here to discuss our favorite films and performances and other achievements of the year. And let's just plug it right here.

[00:09:09] 2019. Let's just plug it right here. We're right after this back to back recording our best of the decade. Gave over to the patron. Patron. Patron. A couple of check. Feb 11th, we will be dropping best of the decade, which was hard by the way. Really tough.

[00:09:26] It was certain categories, especially I was just like, how am I expected to be to narrow this down? 30 to 40 people fit in there. Anyway, yeah, we'll get to that. But we'll get to that. And that's for the Patreon. Right.

[00:09:36] The only other disclaimer I want to offer is sometime between recording this episode and the next episode, the trailer for F nine is going to drop. That's true. And I will be commenting on it live. Very excited about this.

[00:09:50] Whether it's in this episode or next episode, we should do it in this episode, but we'll find out. We'll see. It depends on what it goes. We'll see what it is because the live stream is going to be a concert first. Oh my God. Wow. Who's there? Luda.

[00:10:00] Of course. Sure. I'm forgetting everyone else who's there, but I know. I'm sure VIN is going to sing a tune. Oh, I hope VIN sings. I hope. It's like an angel. It's interesting, like poor table. I assume to you this is going to be like the

[00:10:11] Doughboys episodes where Mitch is watching. Watching a Patriots game. Right. And for me, this is the only thing that like I'm like, it has to be playing in mute in the background. Live stream starts officially one hour, four minutes.

[00:10:23] As I mentioned, Mike, the last time this situation happened, Griffin and I were doing a spelling bee, a movie spelling bee at the ideology. And Griffin just made it very well known that we were going to be doing this while the fast day trailer breaks.

[00:10:38] What was the thing you included a fact from the fast day trailer time with every clue? You would describe something from the fast day. If someone asked for a clue, they also got a description of something that happens. Yes, like nobody easel and Charlie's there on kissing. Right.

[00:10:54] We all know was better than that movie. None of us had seen it yet. So we were all sort of trusting that he's being honest, right, which people thought I wasn't right because the trailer was crazy. Yes, it was.

[00:11:05] OK, anyway, this is the fifth annual Blankie Awards in which we pick our favorites of the year, our favorites of the year, Oscar style. Yes. And we should dive right into it. Do we always start with supporting actors? I always forget how we do this.

[00:11:15] Right. I mean, we're such a word. It's not. So it feels like the right thing to start with. Yeah. And look, more and more, I'm going to be going from the hip this year. Uh oh. I before you've always been very prepared for that.

[00:11:27] But but as much as you joke and guess I'm never prepared for this. In most years, I do more of like what you guys do. I think or tend to do. I know you do, David is the first movie I see of the year is default.

[00:11:40] My number one. Yeah. And then I'm adding everything to that ranking. So if in December I see a movie I really like, I go, fuck, is that number six? And then I'm pushing things out this year.

[00:11:50] I just decided if I like something, I put a little star next to it. That's interesting. Foreign students out to me and put a star next to it. I'm not giving things slots until the end of the year. Sure.

[00:11:58] So we'll see if that changes the results at all. It's a good way to do it. I will say in my four acting categories, I have zero overlap with no, I'm sorry. One out of 20 nominees overlaps with the Academy. Wow, that's insane. Kind of crazy. That's crazy.

[00:12:12] But that'll make it fun because I like a lot of the performance. Yeah, probably. But you know, whatever. But here we go. And here's the category that includes the one overlap. So we're doing best supporting actress first. OK. My nominees for best supporting actress are

[00:12:24] Sophia Kanado, Wild Rose, Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers should have been an overlap. Right. That's a weird non-overlap. Yeah. Florence Candice LeBron Bergen Pugh for Little Women. So that is your overlap. Because Florence Pugh is the new Candice Bergen, who is the new LeBron James because she gets fucking buckets.

[00:12:45] And also because she's amazing on Instagram, much like LeBron James and much like Candice Bergen. And Candice Bergen. All three of them. All three of them. So once again, her official nickname from here on out is Florence Candice LeBron Bergen Pugh.

[00:12:56] Love it. Best comedic performance of 2019, Little Women. That's my take. And then two classic Rift chaos picks. My fourth nominee for best supporting actress is Rebecca Ferguson as the hat in Dr. Sleep. Oh, wow. Great pick. I love this. Fucking great pick. I love this.

[00:13:11] Here's the only thing I want to say about that before you even name your fifth pick. You know, the three hour directors cut just dropped. I know. Got to check that out. I need to check it out. Because I am just feeling it brewing inside me.

[00:13:22] That's the Roman J. Israel this year where I'm like that movie that I kind of liked but have problems with might be amazing. And all the earlier views I've read of the directors cut make it sound even better. Exactly. And I'm wondering if and the directors cut

[00:13:35] just dropped this week, right? I think it just came out on Blu-ray or it's coming out next to there, whatever. Just dropped. I feel like potentially a directors cut could give her the win in this category. Rebecca Ferguson in Dr. Sleep is the most

[00:13:48] I've ever liked a performance that also made me think so much of Jane Krakowski doing Jackie Jorm's job in 30 Rock. Great take. I mean, I'll just start on my take. Her decision to play the most evil force in the world

[00:14:02] like a middle-aged woman at the Litchfield Jazz Festival. I said it's going to lock for the Stevie and X movie. It's a hundred percent. She's fucking Tanglewooding out of control. OK, Ferguson is the hat got us so derailed that you haven't even said your fifth.

[00:14:16] Your fifth. And get ready. Oh, God. My fifth nominee is Judy Dench and Katz. I'm on board with that chaos. I'm on board with that. I kind of love. I think she's very locked in in Katz. I think so, too. I'm highly enjoying it.

[00:14:28] And I think that is. I think that is the hardest and most impressive performance of a year. It is. I think this is great. I think we're off to a good start. I think I have a good five. But my picks are so boring.

[00:14:40] You might have been weird. I'm telling you. I got weird picks this year. That's good. I think everyone talks about like obviously fucking Ian kills Katz, right? He's great. But Ian's got this one song. He's pretty much. Judy has like three songs on Payfoss for them.

[00:14:55] And so much of Judy's performance is literally just other people talking about how she's the most important creature in the world. Yeah. And then cutting back to her, I'd argue she looks the most ridiculous of anyone in the entire movie. Yes. She can't really sing. She can't dance.

[00:15:08] All right, singer. She certainly can't really dance. It is pure presence and pure commitment to something that is ridiculous. But also you want to go to the heavy side layer. So you're trying to butter her up, right? That's to be fair. OK, because she is, you know,

[00:15:21] she's in charge of that process. To be fair. I'm trying to sort of. Yeah, you're trying to do a little bit. Yeah, OK, I'll let you guys write your fuck. Oh my God, that's all right. Go ahead, Joe. Alrighty. So in alphabetical order as

[00:15:35] per the Academy's tradition, so classy, starting with Laura Dern for Marriage Story. So I do over. I overlap with the Oscars more than I think I expected this year. Jennifer Lopez and Hustlers, who should have been top competition over Laura Dern in Marriage Story.

[00:15:50] Florence Pugh for Little Women, all the things you said about Candice Bergen, were off the top of my head as well. So very well done. Margot Robbie and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hell yeah, not bombshell. Hell yeah, she got nominated for the wrong movie. She did.

[00:16:03] And then Joe Yo-Jong in Parasite. I mean, really, to me, it's just who you pick that. That's right. You're spoiled for choice. I will say this about Parasite because there were a lot of, you know, wise and correct takes about how it's very tough

[00:16:17] for foreign language movies and Asian movies to get acting nominations. But like they never knew who to campaign for that movie because it is such a true ensemble. And everyone is so goddamn good in it. I mean, Son Kang Hoon's maybe the most recognizable face.

[00:16:30] So there was some hope he would catch on. But like it's really tough. The same thing happened to Knives Out actually, which is like you have so many cast members that you don't really know where to go. And it is also such a true ensemble.

[00:16:41] I will say I did not on any of the Parasite people at different points. I had different cast members in every single category. I give it my honorary ensemble award, especially seeing it a second time about a week ago.

[00:16:53] It is crazy how well that cast just works as a fucking company. Yeah. And that I just couldn't single out one. Well, I nominated Park Sodam and Parasite. Yeah. And but the other, you know, did you finish your five? Yeah, yeah. OK, cool. I also nominated Florence Pugh.

[00:17:10] Nice. Yeah. Who is on all our ballots, as is Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers. I also nominated Jhao Zhusin for the farewell. And I nominated Annette Benning for the report, which is the obvious Oscar nomination, like lazy that people would have mocked. Yeah, didn't happen.

[00:17:30] That would have made me happy. Right. And instead they went for Kathy Bates and Jule, who's great. I actually think she gives a good performance in that movie. But but that kind of felt like them being like, yeah, let's flip a coin to the veteran.

[00:17:42] It is also weird that the lobes are the ones who got the Benning nomination. Right. Yeah. She is incredible. In her she's now been so it's twice in a row now between this and 20th century woman snub is about as bad as like the election

[00:17:57] of Donald Trump will be talking about that later on. He's from now. Yeah, but no, no in in the report. Annette Benning is incredible. She's incredible. That movie doesn't work. I'm a big fan of the movie and I feel like a lot of people

[00:18:15] aren't, but that movie doesn't work if it doesn't have movie stars. Yeah. And also she's not doing an impression of this person, but she is doing this sort of like very like detailed quiet performance. Yes. And she's playing someone who's kind of unlikeable,

[00:18:30] but in like a very involved and she's so good in the movie. Yeah. But come on, who are our winners? I think it's Pew. That's caught this. I think Pew is my winner. It's a it's very defensible. I have JLo JLo too, but you would be number two.

[00:18:45] It's almost a coin toss between JLo and Pew and it's a coin to your JLo as tempting as it is to match all three of us in the same thing, which hasn't happened since the first year. What did we all match on that one?

[00:18:56] Michael B. Jordan, I think is the only time we've all matched in Cree. That's right. On one pick. I've seen although I have to say in a recent spreadsheet realignment, this happened all the time for me. He lost the he lost that award. So what do you do?

[00:19:10] Tom Hanks and Bridget Spies. Hanks came in and sneezed all over him. I got to say, even just the last 15 minutes of talking in this episode has made me re-question 18 things in my best decade back at. Oh, sure. Well, I'm walking back and forth on everything.

[00:19:23] But Pew for me is just it's a very special performance and it is. It's just such a perfect supporting performance. Yeah. It's kind of like such an ideal for me of what I want out of a supporting performance where someone just owns

[00:19:36] every scene they're in without hogging the screen. She's always the most interesting thing happening in any frame when she's given the reins over her own little slide of the narrative. Yeah, it's the most compelling part of the movie.

[00:19:51] I also it was the second time I saw little women in theaters was late and missed the Tracy Letts opening. It's good though. Came in pretty much at the end of Seersha with. A girl really was sitting down as you have in the carriage. You are right. Right.

[00:20:13] And it was kind of interesting to me how much if you don't see those first two scenes, how much less it feels like Joe's movie. Oh, sure. Yeah. It feels kind of democratic. Yeah. Yeah. But it is. It's just it's an actor who's just so ready right there

[00:20:29] is clearly going to be the dominant force of the next decade or one of the dominant forces of the next decade. And I also just think, you know, I love standing for comedic performances on the show. I go out of my way to give awards to comedic

[00:20:40] performances and partly because the mainstream comedy is dying. Yeah. There weren't many traditional comedic performances, but everything she does in Little Women I think is funny. What's amazing about what she does in Little Women is because you know, you think back to like the 94 version

[00:20:55] yeah, and they cast two different actresses. Kirsten Dunst is the young Amy and then Samantha Mathis as the older Amy. Excuse me, Princess Peach. Sorry. I stand very well correct. Princess Peach OBE. Yes. Um, but the fact that they decided to do this with this one

[00:21:12] actress to play Amy and she sells it so well, the younger version and the older version, even though her voice is so unsuited to playing like a child. Yeah. It's such a sort of like deep and sort of like husky voice.

[00:21:27] No matter how prepared I think I am, I'm always taken aback the first time she opens her mouth and anything I'm watching being an Instagram video or a film performance. I always think I know how deeper voice is. Right.

[00:21:38] And then she starts talking and like she's the new cat. She has a great. She is the new cat. I love that. Yeah, but that she's able to do that and like still sell Amy and all her sort of like bratty young aminess. It's great.

[00:21:49] Now please break up with Zach Braff. Can the two of you make your case for Lopez? No, I'm going to make the case for Zach Braff. She can date Zach Braff. Who cares? People can tell you they're young.

[00:21:57] I mean, we all dated Zach Braff when we were young. It's miss. We've all had our mama with Zach Braff. You know what's interesting about Zach Braff that would draw me to him? What? He's a very rich man who can buy me anything I want.

[00:22:07] There are two people my father always saying she's dating him for money. I know, but there are two people my dad always goes. Can you imagine like just how rich that guy is? And the two he always brings up are dancing and breath.

[00:22:18] Well, because he never gets over dancing and dance and it is right. You can't even think about it. But right where Braff where it's like, is he even famous and he must have so much money. Right. Like so little post scrubs. Right. Exactly. And it doesn't fucking matter.

[00:22:32] She was kind of in that zone to Siegel where it feels like he's like, you know what? I'm going to do something if I want to do it. And otherwise you might not hear from me for a while. Right.

[00:22:41] I think for Becker, he probably was making because Becker lasted a while. I think did five, maybe six seasons. You know, over a hundred episodes. I saw dance inside the actor studio. Yeah. And they didn't even mention Becker and I'm like, he had another show.

[00:22:57] Guess who's seen to syndication numbers that they don't have time to talk about every episode of Becker. David Lawrence, Simms, and guess who loves Becker? David Lawrence. That's correct. Nice. The dog, the dog are far, far, far. All right.

[00:23:10] My winners Jennifer Lopez, she fucking incredible in that movie. Yes. One of the performances of the century. I mean, I agree with the two of you and it feels like it's all been said. I'm not mad at you make your little my thing was actresses

[00:23:21] and specifically actresses with actors too. But like I really get the like spark of it from actresses is when they're able to sort of gather up all of their like movie star charisma and star wattage and whatever and just like pour it all into this

[00:23:37] character and like grab you by the lapels and like make you sit up and pay attention. And that is exactly what she's doing in this while at the same time, like it's an incredibly physically committed performance. It's incredibly emotionally committed performance like she

[00:23:52] and and what's Constance Wu's characters name? I can't remember Jessica, I believe isn't it? Yeah, maybe. Sure. No, Jessica is her character on fresh off the boat. But anyway, her and Constance Wu's character have such a bond in that movie.

[00:24:08] It's actually like a very like palpable sort of a thing. Destiny, right? Destiny, correct. Dorothy, but yes, exactly. Yes, yes. I just think it's I think she's nailing it on all, you know, on all different levels. But it's it's me. It's it is the quintessential movie star performance.

[00:24:25] And I think those things don't get valued as well as they should. I agree. And I think look what I love so much about the Pew performance is it's the opposite kind of movie star performance. It's someone fully undeniably arriving and Lopez is the opposite one.

[00:24:41] Lopez, if if Pew is Jude Law and talented Mr. Ripley to come with the 1999 analog, then Lopez is Tom Cruise and Magnolia. Oh, OK. Someone finding the performance that channels their entire legacy as a star into the best piece of acting they've ever done. Let's do best supporting.

[00:24:59] And they're going to give it to Dern, who's the Michael King. It's a good performance. I'm someone who's been good for so long. She's great in that movie, but I do too. Yeah, but she's very good. None of us would pick her. No, I do like her though.

[00:25:11] Everybody likes Laura and she's going to win an Oscar, which she doesn't have one of. And it's just sort of one of those, you know, when you look back, he was like, huh, what was the story here? And it's like it was her.

[00:25:21] It was she was on a hot five year run. Yes. I kind of prefer her in Little Women, which is a scorching take because some people think she's bad. I know that's very. But I like her wild energy, you know, like wild, wild parentheses 2015 or 2014.

[00:25:42] Like I like her as the sort of like sparkly kind of like overflowing with passion. Mom, I think she's great. Right. She's she's playing a good Renata. And I will say at the critics circle when she won,

[00:25:58] you know, you then have to formally sort of vote on like, are we going to just give it for one movie or we're going to give it for both movies? And when that voting was done, we gave her both movies.

[00:26:07] It was like, OK, we moving on to the next category and I went like, she also was in cold pursuit this year and everyone looked to me and I was like, I just figured I had to say that no comedy points and no comedy.

[00:26:21] Doesn't your film, Chris, are called ever award comedy points? I don't know. Yeah, I'm going to make a motion. Make that motion. Yeah, make that motion. So all right, best supporting actor. Oh, let's go back. I'll go. I'll start Griffin. Can we go? Yeah, yeah, snake style.

[00:26:34] Yeah, all right. Best supporting actor. A term I only know because of Dove. Right. Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Joseph Heshey, I'm seeing in the Irishman. Tom Burke in the souvenir. Alessandro Nevola in the Art of Self Defense and Song King Home Parasite.

[00:26:55] I'm boring this year. I don't think so. Whatever. Those are pretty good. Those are great. All right, mine are those guys. Timothy Chalamet and Little Women. Chris Cooper and Little Women. Joe, I almost thought about trying to wedge me in there

[00:27:11] and I was going to take your ass. Soup in that. Yeah, he's a real flawless. Mud and soup. Mud and soup. Mud and chops. Yes. Tom Hanks in a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He is a beautiful day. He is in a beautiful day in that neighborhood.

[00:27:26] Was sorry, Richard Schiff and Clemency. Richard Schiff and Clemency. Good performance. My number six was I felt bad about cutting him. And once again, you you I'll leave you to my guilt. He was my Toby himself. And Wesley Snipes and Dullo might as my which is that was

[00:27:44] that was a close one for me to love Wesley. OK, boy, there's one big decision based on category placement. I have two actors right now, one and best actor, one best supporting actor who both arguably could go either way. OK, we'll go on.

[00:27:59] And I think this is just talk through it, you know, I think this is the decision I'm going to make. All right. Jamie Bell and Rocket Man. Great performance. Alessandro Neville and the Art of Self-Defense. It's just he's just so good in that movie.

[00:28:12] Wesley Snipes, Dullo might as my name. Jeremy Bob under the Silver Lake. Who's that? Is that the piano man? Yes. That's like maybe the scene of the year. He's incredible. Yeah. And this is my flipper. It's it's Willem Dafoe in the lighthouse.

[00:28:31] I would call him like in this year of two handers where one got deemed supporting, right? Yes, he is the supporting in the lighthouse. Much like Pitt, much like Anthony Hopkins, much like there's another really obvious one. There's a lot of two handers

[00:28:46] where they just kind of had to make a decision. Yeah, I came out with the other one. Well, I'll say my flipper with it is at Tom Burke in the souvenir. With him, I was sort of like coming up being like, well, I think it's a lead role.

[00:28:57] And then they ran him supporting. And I was like, I guess he is in and out of the movie. And also it is almost sexist for me to call him the lead in that movie because of the way that movie is designed.

[00:29:09] So I was like, yes, sure, he's supporting. That's that movie just more so than most of the ones we're talking about really feels like a duet to me, even though it is her story. Her story and yeah, I don't know. But well, you'll talk about him now here.

[00:29:23] I'll talk about him later. He's my winner to be clear. Yeah. That's the performance. That's my hesitation because I think Defoe is my winner. But if he was in this category, he would probably be my winner. Defoe is such a recent winner for me. I do enjoy him.

[00:29:36] And that's why I'm putting Defoe here and giving him the win because I've snubbed him a couple times in the past. I didn't give him the Florida Project one. Yeah, fucked up. And I feel like this is this is the Defoe of the decade pick for me.

[00:29:51] So you both went with Alessandro Nevola from the art of self defense. I did not see his movie, which is a pretty good movie with a really funny unbelievable firecracker performance with just this absolutely like, oh, I forgot Alessandro Nevola is talented.

[00:30:08] Yes, like, not that I don't like. No, yeah, he's fine. I'd like to mean plenty of things. But I also you're like, oh, there's a well of talent that no one has. I think he is very often maybe not misused but not used to his best strengths

[00:30:22] and something like disobedience. Yeah, this passion, they love film, which I like a lot. And I think he's very good in. You watch that and you're like, this is a skilled actor doing it. Yeah, right. They're only probably performances that it's, you know, it's it's one thing.

[00:30:34] He's good at it. Yeah, I think very often people hire him just to do one thing because he is good at stillness. He is good at seriousness. Very serious. And then something like our self defense where he's playing like they're taking that.

[00:30:47] He's been noticing different instruments at the same time. Yeah, so funny in that movie. He's so good. That movie is sort of like an American Yorgo's Lent, the most movie like it has that sort of weird unreality where you're like, people don't talk like this. Especially the ending.

[00:31:01] Yes, but it also kind of rules. I feel like that was totally passed me by. I didn't get a big release. It was a summer movie, you know, like it's very good. There's also because this year also had the art of racing in the rain.

[00:31:13] So it really kind of I missed that art. Who's your winner? My winner, I think it's Timothy Shalamet for Little Women. I think he's so good at playing that kind of you would almost feel like an actor like that would be reticent to sort of go full boat

[00:31:32] into this kind of like young sort of like, you know, young hot thing, fuck boy kind of a thing. Right. But he like he not only goes fully into that, but then he gives this character such like, you know, you understand why he's

[00:31:48] sort of lashing out the way he is and sort of striking out for this connection with these, you know, these March girls and whatever. I had gotten so fucking sick of Timmy. I know after the king, I was ready for revolution. I wanted to be thrown to me.

[00:32:04] Did you see those on back to back days or no? No, I just remember you telling me after the king, I think I'm done with him and then after Little Women going, I'm back. Yeah, basically. I mean, the king.

[00:32:13] The other thing with the problem with the king, apart from that, it's not a very good movie and it was also it's like I was so ready to love that movie. I love British history. I love Shakespeare.

[00:32:21] And many have said it's good to be the king and it's many of them. I mean Ralph for one. And there you go. And he's not spoken once. The king is that I mean Ben's going to weigh in. Oh, yes. You know, yeah.

[00:32:34] Ben always saves his best for last in the blankies. Exactly. The problem with the king is that also I went in and had already screened in Venice and people were like patents and just got a great, you know, great partner.

[00:32:44] And so I spent two hours being like when are they going to get the fireworks back? Because he comes in in the last 15 minutes. Wow. And when he comes in, you're like, oh, yeah, this is great,

[00:32:54] but you have suffered through to be being like, should I be the king? Is it to be the king? And I'm like, oh my God, how's some fun? And then Little Women, she just knows how to use him. Yeah. She really does. Yeah.

[00:33:05] I think they have such a great sort of like working chemistry him and Sersha and Gerwig all together. It's I'm sorry, just Sersha is not in the New West Anderson, which I remember her being announced and everything was saying that she was in it. Dispatch.

[00:33:21] And she got dispatched or did because I was ready for her in Chalamet. Chalamet still in it. She's not in it. And the poster that came out, there's a young actress who I've never heard of who's in that.

[00:33:31] It's her with like a mustache and it's like a suspicious situation. They're pretending that she's Benicio del Toro. That's amazing. Yeah. Anyway, I mean, she's talented enough to do that. Yeah. But yeah, I mean like, I don't know who else.

[00:33:41] I mean, Brad Pitt, Bradley Pitt, he's quite good. Yeah, I just caught him literally at the last possible second. And it was like, I'm going to win an Oscar. I just said I'd rather give the spot to someone else who's not in the conversation.

[00:33:54] This guy, Joe Pesci, you heard of him. Phenomenal. He's doing a lot of good work. He was on my long list for I didn't love a lot about the Irishman, but he was absolutely my favorite thing about that. I thought he was so good.

[00:34:04] And then Song King Ho, like I think they the most crucial turn in parasite rests on like just imperceptible shifts in his face and the finals. Yeah, and you need him to build and also I mean he's just he's just a very resting actor anytime you want.

[00:34:21] I mean, this was this was a tough year for supporting actor because there were so many two-handers as we said that it's like you have true supporting I enjoy Hopkins in aid. Pope I enjoyed a lot about two pups. I enjoyed a whole lot about two pups.

[00:34:33] Very enjoyable. It is weird for it being like the most easy watching movie that I still haven't gotten around to watching it on Netflix. But I tried to cover more people who are true supporting performances and other than to I think that's fair.

[00:34:44] Yeah, was was kind of knocking out a lot of the more ensemble ear to hand or pick. I want to do my two seconds on Jamie Bell. You fantastic in that movie. Friend of the show. Kind of a heart and soul of them.

[00:34:54] But I message him to be cliched this months ago. So I'm not just saying this because I know he's probably listening right now. It is my David O'Yellow award for the thing that's toughest to do,

[00:35:04] which is just to play a decent uncomplicated person in a movie that is like so big. And we're tearing who I think is very, very good in the movie has like so much to play.

[00:35:14] Yes, his job is just stand there and kind of express concern and remain steady. Right. And he's so fucking good. He makes the story and Bernie has an excuse to be. Yeah. Jerry Bob, we said scene of the year.

[00:35:27] I mean, that's just like a perfect one scene chaos. But what do we mean? That scene is incredible under the silver like I just like is that perform? He is good. I can't. I think that seems the best scene in the movie.

[00:35:37] I think it's maybe the best scene of the year, but I also I think that performance is doing a lot of work. I think there's something to the fact that it is a younger actor and old age makeup playing some weird maniacal sketch comedy old man.

[00:35:48] Yeah, rather than it being an actual old man. And I think that falls into the performance. I give him credit. I watched under the Silver Lake on a train back to New York from Buffalo. And then I sometimes think it didn't happen.

[00:36:00] I sometimes feel like it was an experience that I may have like dreamed. It's such an odd. It is an odd movie. I watched it on a screener on a plane to Sundance last year and was kind of like didn't vibe for me.

[00:36:12] And then I saw it again with you and Alex at the Angelica had a much better time with it. It's better to see movies and theaters and now when you're stressed out on one point. Go one step back and give my two cents on the one.

[00:36:22] I forgot to discuss Sophia Canado and Wild Rose. You did already shout her out on a previous episode. But I do. I just want to say my one sense about her. We talk about this and I Rachel getting not Rachel getting married

[00:36:33] Ricky in the Flash episode that the Audra McDonald scene where there are all these interesting layers added because of the racial dynamics of it that you can't tell if that was written into the script.

[00:36:44] If that was just a smart casting choice or if the actors bringing it all themselves. And I think Sophia Canado in Wild Rose is so fascinating because it is a film that in most cases by description would sound like a white savior moving. Sure.

[00:36:55] Most times you've seen that story. It is a rich white domesticated woman reaching out the hand and giving a golden ticket to a person of color. Right. And the fact that the dynamics are flipped in that movie.

[00:37:07] And I feel like Sophia Canado plays the sort of nuance of that in every moment is incredibly compelling and impressive to me. She's great. Yeah, she's also a movie. Wait, I had one other thing I feel like I want to say it's gone.

[00:37:23] Oh no, just pit. He's supporting. He says I carry your bags. I agree. I agree. Very much the picture of being a good supporter. He was never in lead for me. He was always supporting and I just caught him because he's getting he's getting his moment.

[00:37:35] Yeah, you got to defend my Richard Schiff pick because they did catch an air of incredulity there. No, not at all. I would just I adore you. You endorsed. I don't like that movie that much. So it's sort of yeah, I'm OK. I'm OK to mixed on it.

[00:37:50] But no, I just hadn't thought about old Shiffy. Yeah, I was surprised. That's my tucci performance of the year. It's it's one of the just performances performance. It grew on me because the more you think about or the more I think about

[00:38:03] Elphrey Woodard's performance in that movie, which I really loved. Yeah, we'll talk about him. He's such an interesting mirror for her because he also is sort of like you see the strain of what this work that he's been doing has been putting on his life.

[00:38:16] And they're both sort of meeting at the middle from like opposite ends of the spectrum. And they don't ever like have a moment of like really like, you know, commiserating with each other. But like you can tell that like it's, you know, it's the same.

[00:38:30] It's the same sort of weight that's been on him. Hard to. I think he's really, really good. I'm glad he got shouted out. I feel less guilty about leaving him off my list. Yeah, it is one of two performances

[00:38:41] I've seen in the last two months that falls into this. This is exactly what I want to age into doing is an act. Nice. And his Richard Siff and Clemency and Joe Pantoliano and Bad Boys for Life.

[00:38:50] Those are the two benchmarks I'm setting for the next 30 years of my career. Perfect. Pantoliano in Bad Boys for Life. Perfect. Is perfect. That's all I want to be. And he has a scene that any actor all the way up to Tom Cruise would be happy to be.

[00:39:04] Yes, the horse. It's incredible. He's got the Duke. You do have the Duke. All right, let's move on. Should we just move on to the acting kind of like the lead actors? Oh, wait, wait, before we do, the blankies made their picks. Oh, you got this too.

[00:39:18] So they did they did gender neutral picks. So they picked 10 and supporting 10 and actor. All right. But in lead. So I will read their 10. Can I say this for just two seconds? Because I feel like this is a conversation. It's very hard to make the 10.

[00:39:31] It's a conversation that's increasing every year about, like, are the separated by gender categories going to fall by the wayside in our progressing culture? And I think the thing is at the end of the day, it is the most fun to nominate performances.

[00:39:45] Yes. You know, it is so much fun to do. You want to have more actors nominated than anything else, right? Because it's the easiest thing to latch on to. And also the fear is always if you eliminate gender lines, then men are going to take over every category.

[00:39:59] That is my that is my fear. Now for the blankies, they pretty much maintained 50 50 parody. It was pretty close. They did. I mean, the thing I will say is that the real problem is winners not nominees. The reason that it'll probably never change

[00:40:13] is that you want to winners. Yeah. But anyway, here are the supporting for winners. That's right me. Yes, exactly. You want to hear the supporting actors, Florence, Pune, little women. This is ranked. So just read top to bottom. What's that name? Florence, Candace, LeBron, Bergen, James, pure cool.

[00:40:33] Thank you. Brad Pitt and one's fun time in Hollywood. Jennifer Lopez and hustlers Joe Pesci and the Irishman song King home parasite willem de Fo in the lighthouse. So those are all performance. Shout it out. Also got Al Pacino in the Irishman solidarity.

[00:40:44] We've got Laura during a marriage story. Daniel Craig in Knives Out, who is a lead. I'm not really sure what's happening there. You can say that Anadar Moss is sort of the lead of that movie. Sure. But so is he.

[00:40:55] He's also that movie is about him realizing that even though he is bored of mystery solving, he is weirdly in on this person, which is what I love about that movie. That's what that movie is about. The movie is like he figures it out really early on.

[00:41:09] Is he and then you know, and then he's just like, well, I'm the greatest detective, I guess. I'm going to follow this thread because he has that whole speech where he's like, you know, it's a parabola. It always ends and I'm always there and he's like, you know,

[00:41:21] he's paro but bored. Right. And then at the end, he's like, here's the thing. I watched you not take the money. You're a good person. Right. You shouldn't give them money. Yeah. And I think the twist at the end of Knives Out is that

[00:41:34] she probably is going to give them money because as he says, she's a good person. Right. But it's in her. She's the boss. Yeah. Yeah. She's always going to have that. I was her role. Great takes all around. I'll throw out my take.

[00:41:46] I still just think this is a word for the year. Performance most in need of facial hair. You want him to have a mustache or something? Any problems with anything? Me and my secret. I can have a great. I just I hope he has a mustache.

[00:41:59] I want a little bit of distance from Daniel Craig in that performance visually. He has an emotional mustache. I feel like that's the problem. I thought it looks naked to me because I can feel him playing the mustache. Yeah. And I don't hold it against anyone in particular.

[00:42:13] And I still love the movie, but I want that stash. Yeah. I'm number 10 with Park Sodam and Parasite Jessica. We stand. Yes. All right. So let's move on. Should we have a winner? Well, number one is Florence Pugh in this ranking. So my guess is she's the winner.

[00:42:29] So should we move on to the lead actors or do you want to do screenplays or I forget how we sort of bounce around here? Let's maybe do the two screenplays. Sure. Whatever. You go first. I almost called you a bitch. I decided it. Yeah.

[00:42:43] You know, I'm always going bitch like, you know, Jesse Pinkman. Like I go fucking 88. I need to be cancel. Yeah. Don't cancel me please. No, you're a different cancel. Please don't cancel me. We should make sure this first play 20 first episode ever recorded at Little Nicer.

[00:42:58] This is a little nicer. First works. Oh, you're in on Little Nicer. I'm in on Little Nicer. It's still a pretty big apartment. It's pretty big and it's definitely Little Nicer. That's the thing. Yeah. And for key came up with that name.

[00:43:11] Shout out and congrats again on your engagement to for key. Best original screenplay. Us uncut gems, parasite, the souvenir and high flying bird. Do I do I bird? That's a good thing. Thank you. Do I do adapted as well? Do we want to talk about these 10 together? Yeah.

[00:43:34] Adapted screenplay, little women, doctor sleep, hustlers, Toy Story 4 and glass. Glass. Yes. All right. A Griffin pick. I do hear it. It is a bit of an odd divide this year. But anyway, go ahead. Adapted screenplay is pretty thin for me. So let's start with a little thin.

[00:44:00] Little thin. Original screenplay, book smarts, knives out. The last black man in San Francisco, marriage story and parasite. And then an adapted Griffin mentioning Toy Story 4 actually changes mine a little bit. A beautiful day in the neighborhood, hustlers, little women, loose and Toy Story 4. Hell's yeah.

[00:44:26] What did it not count? It was gonna be JoJo Rabbit. JoJo. I feel really proud right now. Very good. I guess it counts as adapted. Sequels are always tricky, but yes. Sequels are adapted. That's what glasses adapted to. Original screenplay for me.

[00:44:41] The souvenir, parasite, knives out, marriage story, the farewell. One of the toughest categories of the year for me. There are a lot of very good standard. Exactly. Can I just say, just as a disclaimer, it's just my thing. I couldn't figure out how to do it

[00:45:01] without feeling comfortable. I removed farewell and her smell from consideration all categories this year. I'm definitely, I can't do Alex's movies. He's my actual friend. That's it. I'm not pretending that Lulu is a friend. But she was on the show at Jicks and Feel

[00:45:14] where Alex is actually a friend. In an alternate reality, her smells in like six categories. But I also saw it like a year and a half ago and know him too well and couldn't put it in. Well, shout out Lulu because you're my winner this year.

[00:45:26] All right, originally adapted screenplay, little women, hustlers, the report, transit and the Irish man. Nice. And my winner there is little women. My winner adapts, it's a little way. She's a great piece of adaptation. I really love it as a piece of my word.

[00:45:45] My winner in original is parasite. Yeah, yeah, pretty good one. Yeah, those are my winners. My winner and adapted is little women. My winner in original is probably actually, I think knives out. Well, nice. That's a great screenplay. Yeah, little women is just like it's

[00:46:00] it's the best argument for the art of adaptation. That's what I'm saying. It's just it's a unique piece of it. It's such a specific singer, not the song. Look at one artist can do with the thing you think you already know as well as you possibly. That's right.

[00:46:15] Dr. Sleep, I just love that that movie is both about someone wrote it. I think Flanagan did it, right? Did he co-write it? I mean, he definitely wrote it. I don't know if he has a co-writer, but I think that movie is so smart,

[00:46:27] operating on a meta level, more so than any other leg of sequel about both like a child of an infamous movie character living with that shadow and a filmmaker living with the shadow of the film that they are seqlizing and the weirdness,

[00:46:43] attention between the King Book and the Kubrick movie and who the author is of that thing. I think that script is really, really fucking smart. It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie. Yes, really well and really intelligently

[00:47:00] and really sort of like keeps a balance of it, but like brings back all that stuff that was that was changed from the book. Yeah, that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.

[00:47:12] Like Kubrick's movies, Kubrick's movie, it's, you know, it's its own thing and it should be its own thing and it's great. But like I kind of don't blame Stephen King for like hating. Stephen, no, an impossible task to go like

[00:47:23] I'm going to try to thread the needle and make something that is both very much a sequel to the Kubrick movie and very much a sequel to Stephen King's book. An adaptation of a sequel to a book that is different.

[00:47:32] It's a lot of it's a lot of moving parts. It's a lot of it's a lot of plates to keep spinning. Yes. OK, and I just I'll quickly say Toy Story 4 falls into this weird thing of like Frozen 2 and Rise of Skywalker, which are movies

[00:47:51] that feel like nine months before they came out. They threw out the entire screenplay and started out from scratch and Frozen and Skywalker totally feel like that. Toy Story 4 is the one that had least reason to exist.

[00:48:02] Who wrote Toy Story 4? I was most fearful of the final credit is Stephanie Folsom and Andrew Stan. I have had people slip me earlier drafts from different writers over the many failed attempts at making Toy Story 4, including the previous last versions, all of which I read were

[00:48:16] insulting and disastrous and having totally freaked out about this movie. And I think they kind of pulled off a miracle that the film works as well as it does. Two things about that one, Frozen 2 is great and I loved it. Oh, should have been nominated.

[00:48:28] Frozen 2 got no credit for being as like perfectly calibrated, queer storytelling as it is without being allowed to have that character be like within the constraints of what Disney had for them, which was we can't let this character be canonically queer. Yeah, to like they're like, OK,

[00:48:51] where then we're just going to have her running through an ice tunnel and like spread like tossing aside like these fallacies made of ice. Like you are describing the one scene in that movie I like so good.

[00:49:02] And that scene I think maybe makes me forget about all the other things about the movie that are kind of that are like wrote. But I don't think they're I think they're at worst paint by numbers. And I think at its best, that movie is really,

[00:49:17] like invest itself into the Elsa character in a way that I was very, very happy. I think there is 15 percent of that movie that really successfully does what you're saying and is really cogent and is what I want out of a sequel.

[00:49:27] And the remaining 85 percent is like watching someone else play a really bad game of Dungeons and Dragons. It is so needlessly dense. It has so many fucking elements. It has so many conflicting story lines. Like I guess the one line of the Elsa thing when it's jamming,

[00:49:43] it's jamming and the rest of the movie had me go on crazy. Yeah, I don't care about their grandparents. I don't care whatever frozen to show yourself. It's not like anyway. But it was the better song too.

[00:49:55] It should have been about the one I was once a most fun dialogue of the year. It's just a beautifully literate, very wordy. So great. That was a late cut for me. That's right. But that's like, I mean, that's like, you know, a spoken musical.

[00:50:09] It's just great to watch those actors run around with that dialogue. Let me give you the blanky picture of the original screenplay. Parasite knives out marriage story once upon a time in Hollywood and uncut gems adapted little women, the Irishman hustlers. Beautiful day in the neighborhood, Jojo Rabbit.

[00:50:25] OK, just give me that. The exact reason I give Parasite my award for best original screenplay is the exact reason I'm terrified of the idea of him doing this HBO show because he's saying it's based around all the scraps of backstory that he built out

[00:50:41] and didn't have time to put in the movie. And I think that movie is so great for just how fucking lean and economic it is. Sure. And how many things are implied, but aren't really dealt into. So it's still going to have to do with the characters.

[00:50:50] It's not going to be like an anthology. I think I still have hopes that he's going to pull out something of an if not like a legitimate anthology, but something that is sort of like what Watchman was for Watchman.

[00:51:03] You know what I mean? I would be happy if it was that. And I think the reason we don't know yet is because he does not know. I think I'm happy to let him sort of like figure it out.

[00:51:11] I think they said, would you want to make a TV show? And he said, why not? And they announced it immediately. He has put no further thought into it outside of knowing he has a notebook of cut. Right. Right. Right.

[00:51:20] All right, let's move on to lead actor actress. Who do you want to go for? We did let's do actor first because we did actress. I think actress is like the actress is my most exciting category. So yeah. OK, so let's do actor David. You're going first.

[00:51:35] I'm going first and this is actor. Yep. Yes, best actor. Yes. Adam Sandler and on cut gems. Leonardo DiCaprio and once upon a time in Hollywood, Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory, Andre Holland and High Flying Bird and Mark Ruffalo in Dark Waters. He just missed.

[00:51:53] He was he was a late cut. Hunchback of West Virginia. Yes. He's so great on that movie bulldog drumming himself. It's just an absolutely incredible performance. You know that now I feel like some people are talking about.

[00:52:07] I do want to proudly say that I shout out Dark Water so hard in an episode in I think Philadelphia episode, which we recorded long before it came out. You were where you were like no one's going to say it's going to vanish

[00:52:19] and it's so good and it is literally had that already. People have this sort of like, wait, why didn't we pay attention to this movie? Yeah, Scott Tobias wrote about that on Vulture. I had a great time with that movie.

[00:52:30] I only give it one word, which we'll get to later. I do think it is the movie two years from now. I will most be perplexed that I didn't put it in most categories. Yeah, it's just such a fucking enjoyable.

[00:52:41] I still want to know what he was doing with Anne Hathaway's character. That's the only thing I didn't get to that incomplete. Yes, incomplete. Great. I think that's right. All right. My I think Anne Hathaway took that role because of course it was tax deductible.

[00:52:54] Yeah. Listen, but good business is good. Any performance in Dark Waters is tax deductible. All right. Mine for Best Actor are Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory. Daniel Craig for Knives Out. Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

[00:53:10] Adam Driver for Marriage Story and Brad Pitt for Ed Astra. I can't believe so close. If you had asked me to pick which one of you. Wow. Yeah. My best actor is. Adam Saylor on Cutshems, Eddie Murphy in Dolomite is my name. Tom Burke in the souvenir.

[00:53:30] Keanu Reeves and John Wick, Chapter Three, Parabellum. Oh, yeah. And you gave a very impassioned right. So I'm not going to go over it again. I just think it's the which happens. So do you remember? I don't remember. I haven't been on a Patreon.

[00:53:40] I can't remember. No, it was on a main feed. It was main feed. It was we were doing box ups game. It was maybe Lion King. I don't know who is before. Keanu. Eddie Murphy, Keanu, Tom Burke, Tom Burke and Adam Sandler

[00:53:51] and my fifth nominee and my winner is Paul Walter, the winner of The Roosterhouse in Richard Jules. I knew he was your winner. I know he was a very good performer to my opinion. He is my winner. It is so much everything I love in a performance,

[00:54:04] as much as I talk about my favorite thing being someone playing an uncomplicated kind person. Well, my biggest pet peeve is actors playing dumb people, quote unquote, or simple people or dorky people, you know, uncool people with a sense of judgment.

[00:54:21] Uh-huh. And especially for this movie and especially for how often Clint Eastwood does not calibrate performance as well And you look at the complete catastrophe that is everything surrounding the Olivia Wilde character

[00:54:33] The amount of nuance that Paul Walter Hauser brings to the film. I think single-handedly transforms it And I think it is incredible that you understand exactly who this guy is He is never playing it with any sense of judgment at every moment

[00:54:47] You were understanding why he's making the decisions acting the way he is saying the things he's saying and also just like Hiding under your chair in discomfort going like please don't fuck yourself over like this. Yeah, I think I think it's a beautiful performance

[00:55:01] I think you're beautiful. I think I Think I disagree. Wow, but maybe not because of his performance. I think the thing about Richard Jule for me is so much of it is Eastwood being like

[00:55:15] They they cracked down on this guy because of the way he looked and they decided that that his profile Made him the right suspect so they railroaded him Well, I was gonna correct you and how I didn't crack down on they were out. Yes

[00:55:29] They were a word of the kid Um and how unjust that is sure and then Eastwood seems to be like but also get a load of this fucking guy Totally and that's maybe why I respect the performance so much

[00:55:42] Yeah, because he is both hitting the necessary comedic beats Yeah To be in line with everything Eastwood is doing and also playing the guy with so much emotional integrity It is weird though like did you listen to the DJ a podcast with Clint? No who interviewed him?

[00:55:57] Scott Cooper, I think which right done. Okay, but um, but like we're he always has the same answer Why'd you why do we don't why'd you hire this kid? I just you know looks like you know like

[00:56:07] Always loves their look. It's always like they just have no addition He got a straight offer he like was shown a picture of him and was like oh interesting Yeah, cuz it was originally gonna be Jonah Hill anyway, I don't think it works if it's Jonah Hill

[00:56:19] I mean I was like I love Jonah Hill as an actor But I was playing the game and I was like I don't know if there's anyone else who could pull this off No, I think you're right there and it's I mean such interesting story such interesting character

[00:56:31] I was just really blown away by every Micro and macro decision he made All right, did I oh yeah who my winner is Antonio that is my performance this year. That's your your watch Absolutely, he's ruined me and I love him as an actor

[00:56:47] I'm like and it's a tough year cuz like I think obviously Sandler is wonderful and uncle James I think Leo is like yeah close to career best Maybe my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio performance. I am not usually a fan. He's no federal Marshall, but like

[00:57:03] Yeah, it's it's it was a great really great performance of his benders I will always have close to my heart because I saw peen and glory I saw an early sort of screening of it pre pre pre Toronto

[00:57:18] Walked out of that screening and the cat's trailer had dropped Wow And so literally I'm in like the hallway outside of this watching the cats trailer on my phone

[00:57:28] Trying not to like freak out even though I'm like freaking out sure and I have to like go find the Snippers like around the corner because it like I'm like bought a meal and sat down with it just like like sit and

[00:57:39] Experience we've all been processing the cat trailer at snippers And so like that and pain and glory have been like wrapped up in my head like the peak of year Yeah, basically. Hey, did you say your winner? I didn't mind that I'm driver for matter for marriage story

[00:57:54] I think he's so phenomenal on that I think he's so first I think the big reason why a lot of people think that movie is slanted towards him is Because he's so good. I agree in it that like you your sympathy sort of like go to him

[00:58:09] And I think because of that not totally up to the challenge. Oh, I think she's good But she's not on his level. She's not on his level really good, but that's my I pretty much agree I think the problem people have that movies

[00:58:19] They don't understand that she has lived her complete arc when the movie begins you've mentioned this to me before I'm with you on that. I still just think he is such a specific lightning in a bottle performer

[00:58:31] This is a great actor. I mean, of course. It's a very dynamic performance He's very obviously in tune with bomb back like you know, they obviously It's an interesting combination of the decade for him to hell. Yeah, which maybe I'll get to soon All right

[00:58:49] So my winner was Antonio who's your winners Paul your winner is Adam? Yes, all right Let's move on to best actress Griffin you go for best actress My nominees are Lapida and Neongo in us Jesse Buckley in Wild Rose Alfrey Woodard in clemency

[00:59:08] Adele and L portrait of a lady on fire and Naomi Merlin Portrait of a lady on fire Those ladies are on fire that both them literally mentioned and metaphorically on fire everything's on fire Mine are Elizabeth Moss her smell. I am under no such constraints

[00:59:24] Yep, Elizabeth Moss for her smell Lupita and Neongo for us Mary Kay place for Diane Florence Pugh in mid Samar and Alfrey Woodard in clemency So I have I have a lot across over the you Griffin. I've got Lupita Neongo in us

[00:59:43] See Buckley in Wild Rose. I have Adele and L in Honell in portrait of a lady on fire I also have Anna de Armas in knives out and Joutau in ash is purist nice My very David very good pick That's what I mean by very David

[01:00:02] David means good Yeah, and my winner is Jesse Buckley Wow, she really has been all year and that was such a surprise movie and performance for me I rewatched her recently had a great old time She's a goddamn star

[01:00:19] Joe my winner is Elizabeth Moss. I've as I got out of her smell I was my literal thought was it's gonna take a lot to beat that performance for the best actress for me And nothing did it's it's so

[01:00:33] The the high wire act of that where it's gonna be I'm gonna be so aggressively unpleasant to you for like The bulk of this movie. I'm gonna dare you to look away

[01:00:43] I'm gonna dare you to not like me and like still it makes good on all of its promises It was amazing. It's so good My my winner in a squeaker is Lupita. Yeah, she's just edging out Adele Honell

[01:00:57] Yeah, who is maybe a little bit cut by a split vote within the sections of my brain The host are yeah But I think she is so incredibly good, but Lupita is just I gotta give her the edge on just a technical level

[01:01:13] That is such an impressive skill piece performance in every way. Yeah The fact that both performances are equally riveting when one is so much showier than the other. Yeah She's just great and I fucking love that movie

[01:01:24] Let me give you the blankie picks number one Adam Sandler on cut gems Adam driver marriage story Lupita Nyong'o us Florence Pugh Midsommar Aquafina the farewell Leo Brad Pitt and at Astra Anna the arm us

[01:01:39] Antonio Banderas and then a tie between Elizabeth Moss and Scarlett Johansson. So I guess they got 11 out of 10 Yeah, I know this is the exact opposite of what their intention was but Lupita was number two on night list three and Who was number two?

[01:01:52] Driver so ostensibly. This is what I'm saying. You could say that Lupita and Adam Sandler are the winners sure. Yeah, she was number one in supporting who was the highest ranked male in supporting

[01:02:05] Okay, I know that was what they didn't want to do sure but just for my own mental roll adex sure okay So yeah actresses weird year weird year, I don't have any of the Oscars nominees

[01:02:21] No, I feel like that was the one category where I think the Oscars let me down the most I mean, I like Sersha I guess my winner of those would have been a high runner up for me

[01:02:31] It's she's screwed by how consistently good she's become. Yeah, how much she is serving the movie in that? Well, I mean, she's just road getting right to Winslet territory. She'll be at five before she's 30

[01:02:43] Yeah, they say it's tough to make the five. She's gonna do it before 30. Yeah, man I could only made the five before 30. I mean, she's number one She's jumped up to number one on Griff's pasta dinner list. I'll say that and I'm not gonna harp on it

[01:02:55] But I'll say that Alfred Woodard clemency is the go-to. Can you believe that no one picked this pick? I mean, I realized she's great in the movie and she's you know, one of the best actresses alive agreed

[01:03:08] And the obvious thing is she's got that fucking showstopper technical skill piece Yeah Long shot at the end of the movie. Yeah, that's kind of just stunning But I the thing that pushes that performance over the edge for me the way she plays the drunk scenes is yes

[01:03:23] Incredible it's some of the best drunk acting I've ever seen She's the only time I've seen someone play drunk in this as This is the only thing that opens me up to being able to actually process my emotions. Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah It's it's a really

[01:03:37] That's so good. She's so good It's it's the thing that surprised me the most about Elfrey Woodard is We all kind of love her. I don't know how they couldn't have like taken that ball and run with it Like no Christmas. They fucked it up

[01:03:49] Yeah, I think it's neon just didn't have the bandwidth to with parasite being a runaway I always forget about that angle to it. That's totally right. Neon did the right thing neon had

[01:03:59] Their best picture horse. Yeah, and they put all of their money on that and they should have right And they were justly rewarded for it So yeah, I think punting portrait of a lady to February was a really smart decision Their hand was forced by France. Yes

[01:04:14] my only question is Should they have just not even done the qualifying run and released it next year if they knew it wasn't gonna be They had to do the qualifying run because it was like alright critics had already decreed that a 2019 yeah, but um

[01:04:31] And it is a 20 whatever, you know No, I do think they they do think they should have released clemency in like October They heard that from a January release that movie that late. It's too big of an ask for people

[01:04:42] Yeah with it having started with a trunk season, you know, this is Inside baseball, but it's yeah All right. I mean are we moving on to director? I think there any technical We want to do I feel like we usually fill those in Director my directors Celine shama

[01:05:02] Shama in portrait of a lady on fire. She's not in it. She made up Joanna hog for the souvenir the safty brothers for uncut gems Tarantino for once upon a time and Bong Junho for parasite Nice. Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, it's a good list. I agree

[01:05:19] I've got Bong Junho for parasites Mariel Heller for a beautiful day in the neighborhood Ryan Johnson for knives out credit Gerwig for little women and Lorraine scufaria for hustlers My best director I have Joanna hog for the souvenir

[01:05:39] Celine shama for our portrait of a lady on fire Jennifer Kent for the night and gale nice Jordan peel for us Long Junho for parasite very nice very nice. I mean for me. It's always my top five pretty much

[01:05:54] Yeah, it's my one exception what you'll see and I'll make sure I think yeah, I think Yeah, I guess maybe I can't talk about that until I talk about my top 10 But let me let me see who the blankies picked as well. My winner is Celine

[01:06:07] I don't know who your winners are minus Bong Junho. Yeah, well, he was number one for them as well And then you got credit Gerwig the safty brothers Martin Scorsese who's Scorchesi and un-Solene Was their winner. All right

[01:06:25] It's time guys best picture time. Yep, it's best picture time. It's time guys. It's the best picture time It's time guys. It's best picture time. Are we going from 10 to 1 up? No 1 to 10 1 to 10. Yeah, I think

[01:06:39] 10 to 1 always just sounds weird, but everyone you know what I leave it to you Go to 10 to 1 but just let's all just do them independently. We can't do it

[01:06:47] We won't do that. That was a disaster. It was a bad year. Disasterous thing that's ever happened on this podcast And I've done so many bad things on this podcast. Okay, my number 10 best picture of the year is M. Night Shyamalan's glass

[01:06:59] My number nine is high flying bird. It's a good one Number eight John Wick chapter three Parabellum Number seven uncut gems Number six Wait, I fucked this up I fucked this up hold on hold on hold on hold on. Yep. Okay number six the nightingale

[01:07:22] Number five toy story four I I fucked this up somehow mathematically. Okay, I'm gonna let you guys jump ahead. I put 11 down here I need to figure this out. All right. All right figure it out I can I can vamp for us. Yeah

[01:07:38] All right my top 10 for best picture of 2019 number 10 once upon a time in Hollywood Number nine a beautiful day in the neighborhood number eight the last black man in San Francisco Number seven portrait of a lady on fire Number six her smell number five hustlers

[01:07:56] Number four knives out number three marriage story number two little women number one parasite my 10 Number ten ashes pierce white Number nine dark waters Number eight the Irishman number seven Duff farewell Number six to add Astra Number five to uncut gems

[01:08:18] Number four the once upon a time in Hollywood number three the parasite number two souvenir and number one Portrait of layup. I like this list of best pictures as Seinfeld episode titles The one where there's a farewell to friends version the one where there are dark water

[01:08:34] Where their knives are out Knives out was close for me little women us Peter Lou painting glory. Those are all sort of like hovering Yeah for The best movies of this year were really good. Yeah, it's very good year

[01:08:49] I really like everything in my like top like 30 to 40 anyway go on Griffin. Yeah Griffin figured out I think I figured it out. Okay. I had put 11 down by accident. You said that yes I think John with chapter three is the one that gets cut out. All right

[01:09:02] I believe my list this makes sense now go ahead should be glass number 10 high flying bird number nine uncut gems number eight Irishman number seven night and gale number six toy store four number five Portrait souvenir three portrait of a lady on fire Mr.. Four

[01:09:23] Suvenir four portrait of a lady on fire three us to parasite one, you know, you know, we have to do is put little numbers Everything all right, let me give you the blankies

[01:09:33] Okay, okay number ten midsummer number nine portrait number eight farewell number seven once upon a time Number six marriage story number five Irishman number four knives out number three uncut gems number two little women number one parasite Parasites the king parasites the camp

[01:09:49] It's good to be the king that was Because I was stressing out of my number one is portrait Lee And you're gonna have been in the Paris movie for me all year it Rules my number three despite me saying multiple different things at different points in time

[01:10:05] parasite us portrait souvenir toy story night and gale Irishman uncut gems high flying bird glass. That's my list in order night and gal took the end of the List by storm for you. It did it did and I don't have pronounce her name, but

[01:10:22] Franchasi Aisling the lead actress in that yeah, would easily make the year in our name backwards Aisling Francesca Whatever. Yes. Yeah, I believe it's you pronounced Ashley like Aisling is like Ashley sure It is a tough fits an Irish name

[01:10:35] Yeah, I think that's the best movie of the year that I would never recommend to anybody Uh-huh. It is so fucking punishing, but I love Jennifer Kent. Yeah, she's gonna discover the decade for me Yeah, I like that film a lot think it's very uncompromising

[01:10:49] I think Josh Cooley did a very good job with toy story board is very hard because there were so many hands at different points on that movie Yeah, I'm a director nomination right. That's one of the you know 60 or 70

[01:10:58] Otherwise, it's my top four and I was maybe my most pleasant surprise of I as you know Griffin You had a great time watching to your you were So

[01:11:08] Ready to shit on I certainly was and I have it 45th and would you like to guess what's above it? I mean actually rude I'm not I wasn't expecting it to make the 10 but

[01:11:18] Actually made the 50 it should make the 20. No, but can you guess what's right above it? Can I guess what's right above it? No, I mean what before why am I even asking you this? Wait, let me guess sure

[01:11:30] If he nails this I'm gonna fucking flip. Yeah, I know This is number 44 number 44 on the Sims list 44 on the Sims list I think is Can you give me one tiny hit the tiniest of pants the very famous director? very famous Director I

[01:12:00] Give you more hints. I'm really slowing down the episode. Yeah, I'm sorry You you gave it an award. I gave him the war like right, you know in in the in our awards here One of your winners

[01:12:14] Us no, no us very high for me us 12. Okay Richard jewel. Oh, okay, and then right below it the two popes Got those popes right? But I understand you're a little biased the forky connection at this point

[01:12:30] So I want to shout out some underrated movie and add Astros a movie that is sort of it was six for me Like that is a titanic movie. Yeah, I really love Brad in it. I think it's an accessible forms from him

[01:12:41] I sort of gave him my one nomination over sure. Yeah, it's just yeah You know dark waters. I already shouted out already ashes purest white if no one's seen it has only grown for me

[01:12:52] I've seen it three times job junk. I'm not great at saying Chinese name pretty good I mean forky Forky who is speaks Lune Mandarin and Peterloo is another one of those like get around to it guys. It will be that dark waters

[01:13:10] No, people didn't get into yeah get around to Peterloo Diane and I felt there's one other big one I wanted to see the malloc I See the malloc. I liked a lot. I really I did too I mean And he's one of my all-time Mount Rushmore directors

[01:13:24] And I was so ready for this to be the full force come back for me I liked a lot about it and I never crossed over into love

[01:13:30] Whereas I have been so out on him for so long. Yeah, but I'm looking forward to this bringing me back to the fold It was on my like high on my list of screeners to see and then I was expecting it to get a cinematography

[01:13:42] nomination and it didn't and so then it sort of like got shoved down to the The bottom of the pile of stuff I had to see it is definitely good I just kind of wanted to be knocked back in a way. I haven't been since New World

[01:13:53] I really love synonyms, which is another sort of Transit which I did give a screenplay nomination and I do once again want to shout out triple frontier The fucking like cable rewatchable movie of the century is absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to watch it again

[01:14:12] And no one talks about no one even remembers that it exists, but it rules I'm gonna go open a window. It's getting hot. Yeah Can I give out the putters and marmots this night just before we go away from best picture? Yeah

[01:14:23] If anybody there listening hasn't seen last black man in San Francisco It's so I think that one really went so underrated this year and It's really I find so interesting about the arc of last black man in San Francisco

[01:14:36] Which I liked and didn't love but but loved a lot of me too. Yeah, I would say if we're gonna shout out a couple

[01:14:41] One of the best scores of the year is my score the year right and I think because we had to prep our decade as well We're not gonna do as many technical categories. We're just gonna shout out a couple things. Yeah

[01:14:51] That was one I had prep that's best music year. No question hands down listen to soundtrack all the time I think Jonathan majors is like probably the next big dude. He's wonderful So he is in my 10 for supporting actor. We nominated him with the Gotham's

[01:15:06] I feel like it was really hot coming It was not that hot coming out of Sundance then when the trailer started playing people were like oh shit This looks amazing. Yeah, then it felt kind of muted when it came out

[01:15:16] And then I feel like it's bumped up again end of year a lot of people stand to movie that some people I think are just very yeah, you like a very you know passionate about it has it's very passionate

[01:15:25] It's such a good mood movie like I love a good mood movie. I forgot to shout out Alita Jesus Christ Oh, yeah, the biggest eyes biggest eyes. Yeah, wait, but wait putters and murmurs. I had a good one this year

[01:15:36] We go who you're just a slam dunk winner. I didn't have any putters and murmurs contenders this year I've been waiting for it to come to me during our discussion Wait a second fuck I'm now with the pressure

[01:15:47] Blanking on the name and I know the fucking name and give me one second Okay, well obviously one well, okay I'm just gonna talk about a few putters and murmurs that are obvious one Bill camp in dark

[01:16:03] 2013 season if Robrom is only trying to win putters and murmurs like it's like One the Irishman could be I know it's actually called I heard you paying houses, but it could be called putters and murmurs

[01:16:26] To let me let me see some other. I mean look Cooper is close. He's not quite a murmur In little women. Oh, oh, oh, yes Cooper the bowl of soup your bowl of soup one, but he's also, you know He never quite murmurs. He's a little too he's

[01:16:45] Stammers and we first one thing K. Callan in knives out as Grandmama or whoever she was. Oh, yeah, here's the thing barely putters Stationary lot of murmur, but K. Callan who played Mack and on Lewis and Clark the adventures of Superman. Wow

[01:17:00] Shout out to K. Callan. I want to just keep bragging that I know who that actress is and then I remember her name She was good. I'm trying to think about their purr. Well, let me say also the old guy who gets his face bashing in Midsomer Sure

[01:17:15] Can I say it to foe and this may never be a category again He wins the toots and poots award this year he did too a lot he's tootin and pootin I mean on that pot. Honestly look

[01:17:30] Vandaris and pain and glory is is sort of in that zone Yeah This is why I didn't give denier a putters and murmurs because denier wins the mark wallberg award for the year Which is will a movie into existence?

[01:17:43] It play the lead role maybe as well as you've ever played anything or at least played anything in a long time Everybody else gets nominated. Yeah, yeah, you just serve the fucking film wallberg in the fighter

[01:17:53] You get your nomination only for picture. Yeah, you get your producer nomination Quiet hero of the film the quiet. He's so good in that movie He is very good in that movie I am just sort of like searching around to see if there's someone I forgot

[01:18:09] Yeah, uh jordan peel existential Carnival based horror film. Yeah of the year. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Is it time between austin toy story 4? He is in it. It's a tie. He is in it. I'm sorry. It's a tie. Uh

[01:18:24] I don't know who's gonna win next year, but this year was a tie Yeah, yeah, well, you know, you never know who's gonna win next year existential carnival film Uh, I I guess I'm I just I have this feeling that i'm forgetting one person

[01:18:35] Yeah, I feel like I had some other joke awards that i'm forgetting now Or maybe not Joe, do you have any well? I mean like yeah, there are any like so for me score for example Oh Wanted to shout out

[01:18:46] Well uncut gem. This is a great score last black man in san francisco I do think day plot was very locked in for little women. I do think mika levy remains You know sort of a must hear composer and her work on monos is incredible

[01:19:02] And I liked the doulin scores in marriage story. I like my randy. I like I really like his doulin scores. It's a doulin banjos, but you know Randy's randy's on his uh on his game. Well, what other good score a parasite has a really good score. Yeah

[01:19:18] Uh, this is i'm i'll admit i'm like stealing this is like a very mtv movie awards category Let's hear it somewhere. That's a great score. Narlia super villain. Okay. Oh, okay ready Thanos in endgame sure, uh penny wise in it chapter two sure

[01:19:34] Ricky t in retired bit sure The actual bomber in richard jewel, right? And of course, Olivia wild and richard jewel and the winner is Olivia wild and richard jewel the greatest intergalactic supervillain of all time

[01:19:48] The park her performance was very it was rick dialed up. It was interesting my interest by her My favorite thing about that Thing in richard jewel is I should have said macaveny and cats rather than the bomber and richard jewel I kind of fucked up my own job

[01:20:01] Right, I mean macaveny and cats also Go for putters. Oh, yes. I mean i mean macavenin almost anything these days Is he was the original winner for mr. Hall? Was that original? Yeah, he had a little bit of a spring in a step with uh

[01:20:13] That's why the the good liar. He does. He does a little bit of an annunciating. Oh, i'm sorry Best um cat of the railway train goes to skimble shanks this year All those years of handing out best cat of the best cat of the railway train

[01:20:28] Was a very very tough year I mean anthony hopkins is trying really hard in the two posts, but I heard they cut out all of his cat of the railway train material

[01:20:37] That was a whole sub arc best orange soda in a film does go to the two posts best um Actor playing a pope who says hey, that's my pizza is uh, anthony hopkins. Yes, it's 306

[01:20:49] I realize i'm six minutes late to the fastest various live stream. I'm hoping they didn't open with the trailer I don't think they did twitter twitter is not alive twitter is not alive with uh with buzz for that

[01:20:59] Another uh, here worst. Here's my worst putters in murmur and this is i'm sorry to say it Meryl streep in the laundromat Stop it. I don't like her in that mode

[01:21:10] Yeah, I don't like her in the mode. She's in when she's like sort of doing her slightly haunted Like older lady thing that she's doing she's also puttering and murmuring and little women to be honest

[01:21:21] She is more of a she's fun. It's not quite murmuring. She's getting she's getting she's arch Um, but then also like you know, uh, meryl streep in the brown face. No, thank you

[01:21:31] Yeah, I mean I like that movie and I can't really were we meant to be surprised by that by the end No, it's very obvious It's one of those performances where you immediately go This is someone in this is someone and then once you get to that level

[01:21:45] It doesn't take you very long to be like, oh, it's meryl. I have another there We go. I just remembered Rob Morgan in just mercy Is an extremely good performance and a big putters and murmurs are but that is the only problem with the movie

[01:21:59] Honestly, is that he's so good that when he's out of the movie, right exactly and tim blake nelson is a best You know is almost best seen chewer in them He's what i'm gonna throw out Tommy lee jones and ad astra Oh, yeah

[01:22:13] Is it is it that he's just sort of he puttered his way all the way to like the edges of space He might be a little more of a sweaters and fretters though Like he's in space fretting while wearing a good sweater

[01:22:23] Sletters and a fretter. He's a sweater and a fretter. I love it. Okay. I'm watching the concert now. Ludacris is on stage Oh boy Um, he looks like he's having a great time Uh, well, I think do we have anything left to say?

[01:22:36] Um, about the films of 2019. No, not really. Uh I think last black man san Francisco would also be my best cinematography winner. I think it's a beautiful looking film It's a nice looking movie

[01:22:46] I think it's the origins of adam newport bearer is probably an x-ray cinematography winner is uncut james That is the most incredible looking movie here Ad astra has great obviously great cinematography ed lockman's dark waters work is very underrated much so

[01:22:59] Um, but yeah, no, let's move on except um Oh, is this over here? Ben have any oh we got some ben awards possibly Uh, yeah, I've been here the whole time How long have we been running? Ben, what's our where are we at? We're at about an hour 20

[01:23:15] Really? Whoa. We've blasted through this really that that little yeah I guess you're right. Yeah, you're right. We usually do. I feel like these episodes are usually so fucking Here's what we usually do talk through every single nominee like fucking insane

[01:23:30] I think we're also stressed out because we have to do the decade as well I'm freaking out about those choices. Yeah, well, I'm excited about the choices, but I'm terrified of my own choices Uh

[01:23:42] Yeah, that's a evergreen drop ludicrous is wearing a shirt that says fake moon landing no no stars in the sky Oh, he's really coming out as a truth there. Maybe I don't know. I don't know what's going on here

[01:23:55] This happened in Miami, which I was really concerned putting all of my effort into try to go to this concert Aside from the fact that we were glad you didn't do that. Yeah our record date

[01:24:04] I also was in florida last week for the whole week. I'm not gonna go to florida Two successive weeks in a row. I did my sad family visit I'm not gonna fly back five days later to see luda, but god this looks like fun

[01:24:18] Um, I'm sorry. Were you saying something david? No, uh, just sitting up mr. Ben. Well, it's it's that time In the blankies episode at the end of the episode we all I'll give out my own original Awards I have my own categories

[01:24:39] And so, uh, we're just gonna get into it. Let's do it. All right So every year I've brought this one back It's films that should be remade with either babies animals or puppets Of course also fruit right and now clowns to

[01:24:56] But maybe a robot or two could be cool Okay, all right. Okay. All right. So for babies How about the baby Irish man? Yeah, right D All the way consistently. I like the idea of tiny little criminals and gangsters. It's funny

[01:25:14] Drew onto their little cute faces and I think deniro could crush moving like a baby I think it would be completely convincing his body language Yeah, all right for animals. How about the lion king? Remake it. Yeah, with real animals. Yeah, great Right, right go full roar just

[01:25:35] John Febber was mold yesterday Trying to tell Simba a little more passion on this I know we totally trash that movie. You just can't wait to begin I know we trash that movie for a great many reasons

[01:25:50] But at the end of the day my biggest complain is that no one got scalped while making that film You can feel the lack of scalping while washing it Okay, Ben sorry. All right for puppets All right, the souvenir, right?

[01:26:03] I feel like it would make it kind of like this Comedia del Arte kind of thing Do you know what I mean? Like it can picture it little puppets. I see that One of those classy European puppets That's what I'm talking about Marionettes? Yeah, yeah, exactly

[01:26:19] Shadow puppet, right It's really beautiful So yeah But it's also kind of one of those things you see and you're like well, I mean I'm glad I saw I don't know I liked it A lot of craft Okay for fruit Maleficent mistress of evil or fruits

[01:26:38] Oh, so you're saying like she could be a mistress of fruit Tension hinges on whether she is the mistress of evil or the mistress of fruit Well, I actually didn't take it that way, but I like that It's just the way you said What did you tell me?

[01:26:53] So you were just thinking It's just fantasy fruit Okay, okay It's a whole kingdom, but like the rules have changed now. Everyone's fruit Is she fruit as well or is she reigning over fruit? She is dark brews fruit She's dark brews fruit Yeah, because she's mean

[01:27:10] What kind of fruit are we talking about? Like a guava? What is she? A pear? A real bruised pear A real bruised pear They do bruises a lot Alright, so this one is pretty controversial This next one, guys Oh no, boundaries better be pushed Is he gonna miss?

[01:27:28] Hold on to your boundaries Okay This is why they say never host the blankies because you're gonna get cancelled So for clowns Oh boy What if there was a world in which the Oh no Wasn't the only clown Everyone was clowns How twisted would that be

[01:27:50] The problem is that you The whole city is clowns Can you imagine A city of clowns Sounds like Washington DC Whoa Just Just pointing something out Is this set in Congress? Is it all set in Congress? Is it all set in Congress? So Ben, what are you pitching?

[01:28:14] Like a dark comedy? Cause sounds a little bit like the news to me Todd Phillips is C-span Todd Phillips best director nominee Yeah I know what, no robot this year Instead Knives out, right? I want it to be chain Chains out So it's still with humans

[01:28:40] The cast hasn't changed The murder Is chain-centric He's like, oh no I took the wrong medicine Here take this bicycle chain and really wallop Me with it until I'm dead He kills himself with a chain Yeah, okay Sounds well off the chain of man Next F9 to 9 7, 9, 7, 9

[01:29:02] They're asking you to do function 9 On your computer Not yet What if new laptops came out with the function keys And if you hit the function key You would just that movie would play So you hit that 7 and furious Oh my god, furious laptops I love it

[01:29:20] I think Vin's about to come out Oh boy They're introducing the family one by one In color blazer and white pants Weird mix Miami uniform Who's the MCing this event? I think it's Maria D. Manudos Oh sure Yeah, is that her name? Yeah, Maria D. Manudos

[01:29:48] We're watching on your channel FF9 Yeah, which is not the title No Three of them wearing white pants on stage In January There's Vin Diesel This is how this episode becomes Normal blankies length We're just watching an iPad right now Is it being picked up on the mic?

[01:30:14] No, put your mic at it I mean we probably really shouldn't technically But just tell everyone what's happening Let's hope that they drop The trailer so that we can end This episode with you Reacting to it honestly But yeah, let me just get Maria Manudos Maria Manudos' dress

[01:30:32] Maria Manudos' dress is gold And just fast furious Let Ben finish his work I understand this is a very important thing to him So I of course Then also do the weddings Give out the golden mops I'm sorry, I forgot about golden mops Alright so this year

[01:30:56] I would say most of the pics Are a little untraditional Pick is the lighthouse It's so wet, it's drenched In farts It's so splashy It's got poo poo splash It's got dark water Fluid and what not Dark water should also be a dark horse Pick

[01:31:18] Oh am I getting ahead of you? Well here's the thing I decided that I would then pick All the movies this year that really made me cry Oh that made me wet So you needed a You needed a mop I'm up to the face So the farewell

[01:31:36] Just because it's so devastating Of course Cats You lost it during memory Memory is such a good song Gives me goosebumps and it gets me teary-eyed Can we all acknowledge that cats Is simultaneously the best and worst film of the year

[01:31:52] And it can only be Rampus both and nothing else Absolutely It's an A slash half Judy You cried during Judy? You cried at how mediocre it was? So mediocre I thought it was sad No of course very sad when I have an old Judy

[01:32:10] Yeah that's where I'm working I'm in middle age Judy In real life what happened to middle age Judy Did not end there well If you cried watching that movie I got a Wikipedia page that's going to destroy you I went back You liked Judy already I liked Judy

[01:32:28] And then finally the Mulan trailer Oh yeah Oh baby that got me good I'm so into the Mulan Every time We cry as in the heights Every time David Every single time Not only just like At three separate points in that trailer It gets me everything

[01:32:50] He's been waiting like 15 years To make his fucking musical John M. Chew This first film he ever set up was a Bye Bye Birdie remake And that never got made In every film he's made since then He's tried to cash in with a full blown musical

[01:33:04] He's finally getting his fucking chance Also Michelle Rodriguez is wearing Tiny little sunglasses And I can't tell if they're backpack straps Or like shoulder holsters Like a cop pass What if Michelle Rodriguez just stops the whole thing And decides that she's going to take over And announce Widows 2

[01:33:22] Oh my god Widow is dollar sign What if Fast Nine is a widow's Cross-off Vile Davis just parachutes into this Double roll Now they're showing it behind the scenes montage So we got some time for the trailer

[01:33:40] Okay great so let me just get through my um no thank yous Alright the two popes Enough popes Too many popes Is that what you're saying? No zero Absolute zero popes 1917 too old Too far back You want a movie called 2017 Yeah Now you've got my interest

[01:34:06] Motherless Brooklyn this is actually real My good friend is a stuttering advocate And was very offended by the movie Fair enough I think that's fair Portrait of a lady Need more fire So you just wanted like Maybe even forget the portrait The portrait should just be called fire

[01:34:28] It's just like everyone's just It's like that stuntman who's on fire in a movie Like just walking around You think every walk they went on should have been for kindling Yeah basically My favorite part of portrait of the lady on fire Was recognizing Valeria Galino

[01:34:42] And her final scene when she came back on screen Was like that's who that is She's good in that movie The thing about that movie is everyone's good The maid is really good That's performance by a cast member from Hot Shots Part 2

[01:34:54] One of the only people to ever win Best Actress At the Venice Film Festival twice Do you know this? Valeria Galino has won twice I had no idea And one time she won in the last decade Which Hot Shots movie was it that she won

[01:35:08] Of course that's a better performance It was like Talia Shire Do you have any other um no thank yous? Yeah Toy Story 4 Sorry Griff, it's just I can't I haven't watched those movies in years I haven't even seen 3 Well and it sounds like it never will

[01:35:24] I don't see Any reason why I would ever need to watch Toy Story Ever again The reason is patreon.com Slash blank check Wait what? Alright Lastly, Honorable Mentioned Again to the safties But this year for Uncut Gems For Scumbum Rift For Achievement in Scumbum Rift

[01:35:50] Climax for the best voguing scene Of all time Perosmo for being punk as fuck And the Beach Bomb For being Ben's current lifestyle award Yes That has been The 5th Annual Ben's Awards Did we have a robot? No robot, I dropped the robot Now it's Chains

[01:36:14] Now it's Chains, okay Chains out Ben Do you have any special awards Like sometimes at the Oscars They'll give out like a technical achievement Or special award The Irving J. Follberg Award Right, like not every year But sometimes in the Hosley J. Follberg

[01:36:32] Toy Story 1st Computer Animated Film Like Blanky So it's sort of special Yeah, and it's tough to make the 5 Alright, I do actually have something If you'll just give me one moment You could vamp? I'll describe what's happening in the last frame Murray Minudos

[01:36:50] They just played this clip of behind the scenes Like EPK interviews from all the films They're really ramping up the sense of inalienability To this movie She just screams what makes me think Maybe the trailer is coming or maybe another musical act

[01:37:02] Or something's going on on the screen I think fuck You're really spinning up Okay, so For David Simms Oh, David Simms Achievement in Hotness Of 2019 I award him this piece of fashion Oh my god Fashion A sleeveless flannel Is that how best to describe a frayed aflade

[01:37:30] But it's sleeveless Because David had liked to On the record Let our listeners know and you know That you are now being rebranded as Bad David 2020 Nailed hot, and now you're bad Yeah, you're bad You're a bad boy Bad David 2020 Oh, I love it My god Guys

[01:37:57] It's a really good fit This is a very good look Oh, shit Imagine I don't need to imagine I'm looking at it I'm saying I don't know, Maria Minudos is just taking the camera Into like the press tent I don't know what's happening here

[01:38:15] I don't know, it feels like they shouldn't have to pad this out this much Alright, well anyway that was fun Good one guys A great one Where did you get this? It actually fits me I'm gonna go find a good fit for me

[01:38:29] It's R13 is the name of the designer Wow Really cool stuff Kind of like a grungy vibe to it Love it Maria Minudos is walking through the crowd and high-fiving people Just breathing fans They had like six acts listed

[01:38:45] Like there was supposed to be like six musical acts So far I think only Ludacris has performed Griffin, I don't think this trailer is dropping for another hour Yeah Should we just end this episode? We did good, now we're at about an hour 40 Sure So we're killing it

[01:39:01] And everything that happened in the last 15 minutes was really good Yeah Everything you did I kept on padding it out by thinking that the trailer was about to Just interviewing some fucking guy who looks like me now Just Rando

[01:39:13] Joe is there anything, I mean obviously this has Oscar buzz We gotta talk about it Yeah, come listen to our This Had Oscar Buzz podcast Me and Chris File Every week we're talking about The movie's about the characters Loving embrace and God it's cold shoulder

[01:39:27] I got an episode on the book, should I say what I'm gonna cover? Yeah, why not? Fucking Trollshire 2004 remake of Alfie We're gonna have a good time with Griffin in the future I told people it was gonna sweep

[01:39:37] I believe he calls this penis Big Ben in that movie Oh boy Yeah, it's just one of those movies that Just a total misread of what it's supposed to be Of everything And it's Star And I fell for it exactly That's such a rogue

[01:39:53] She loves a nice boy She does mispronounce chapter Okay, well thank you all for listening Please remember to rate, review, subscribe Thanks to producer Rachel Jacobs For editing She's gonna have to bleep out a specific Retired bit No she doesn't have to Jesus don't make her do it

[01:40:11] Okay, Ben's gonna have to bleep out a certain Retired bit Ben's saying no and he's holding up a chain And threatening me with it These are the chainiest Awards we've ever done They truly were off the chain Thanks to Ann for good for our social media

[01:40:27] Thanks to Liam McEvering for our theme Signed, Joe Bonapet rounds for our artwork And go to BlankiesOutRed.com for some real Nerdy shit Bad next week we're back into Demi, right? Next week I believe Is the truth about Charlie with David Lowry

[01:40:41] Okay, so get ready for a little truth telling In my head, really fun episode We already dropped a clip from it on Our Philadelphia episode Larry's a great example of we never see him Outside of when he's on the show with us

[01:40:53] And so we end up talking about Everything because it's our one chance To hang out with him as well I interviewed him once, good guy We end it with a segment where we try to predict What the box office will be I love it

[01:41:07] The weekend that the episode drops When you've afforded the episode I think five months in advance And I believe two or three of the movies We predict no longer We moved out of that weekend Get ready for that segment And as always I'm genuinely having

[01:41:21] A panic attack waiting for this trailer So I'm ending this episode right now Go Patreon for best of decade Bye