The Fourth 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? He's back Griffy Crystal

[00:00:33] Griffy Crystal Uptown Griffy Chris He's uptown Upper East Side To him going to Union Square is a getaway That's like a summer vacation I went to Greenwich Village I went down south for the holidays You never heard of this subway, it takes you all the way down

[00:00:53] Down south to Union Square Once again a hosting crisis for the Oscars means We call him Griffy Crystal Everyone was so excited when they went Look, everything fell apart, Eddie Murphy dropped out Bill is back and then everyone that year went Oh fuck, wait a second

[00:01:09] I'll say he did blackface Let me as an opener Let me tell you Let me just start off with this James Corden should be hosting the Oscars Probably every year, certainly this year The man is ready The man is ready This is my ABC complaint

[00:01:29] He's ready made for the Oscars Celebrities love him He's an actor He can sing, he can dance He has a Tony He's got a zillion Shut up! He's got a zillion viral Fucking things he can plug people into For like segments The man was essentially

[00:01:51] Created to host the Oscars He's English I'll cut this out because I don't want David to encourage the Academy No, they won't ABC Kibosh They won't allow people like Because Myers would do fine and Colbert would do fine as well You know, like they're just not allowed

[00:02:07] Who are the big stars of ABC's right now? Nathan Filion, the rookie himself John Filion John Goodman and the cast of the Connors By the way, I'm still watching the Connors It's good Lisa Goranson and Michael Fishman to host the Oscars Just the two of them

[00:02:23] Gritty should host the Oscars Gritty would be good Gritty would be good I am not a big James Corden fan I don't really watch James Corden I don't enjoy James Corden that much He's not a comedian But he's an actor doing an impression of a comedian

[00:02:39] It doesn't matter He was built for the Oscars Built? Whatever, you win Did you see the thing where he jumped out of the plane with Tom Cruise? Yeah, oh my god, so funny It was fine Gritty gets lolls It's what they need Gritty's got too much integrity

[00:02:57] Gritty should host the spirits Gritty should be in the tent on the beach Jimmy Kimmel, sucks He's bad, not funny Not good, show bad Has a weird relationship to celebrities And that he both loathes them and yet craves lyrics Doesn't watch movies He's a bad stand up

[00:03:15] Has hosted a cruddy show for 15 years He hosted the Oscars, guess what? He was fine Hot take, Jimmy Kimmel was better than James Corden I think I agree with that But at the same time, I'm still like, Corden it'd be fine Also, I can't

[00:03:27] I think Corden's big thing The rock is what you said Is that he's not a comedian, that's why everybody hated him when he got the job Right But he gets 10 gazillion YouTube hits He's exactly what they are looking for

[00:03:39] God, I can't wait to start my Tick season 2 press tour Where I suddenly do a heel turn And grovel at the feet of James Corden's producers To please give me airtime Yes, you should grovel You could do something funny with him

[00:03:53] This podcast is in no way a liability to my acting career Oh no one's listening to this Yeah right Shit, people listen to this That's the catch 22 That's my Corden and Rain, I'm sorry The Crystal songs are bad Crystal singing is bad I constantly have 2,2003

[00:04:13] Crystal songs stuck in my head Really? They're stuck in their earworms All his 97s are in mine I'll tell you what the 203s are That stick in my craw Okay, ready? C. Biscuit This is vague, remember C. Biscuit's song to the tune of Goldfinger The other one is

[00:04:35] Mystic River That Mystic River Old man eastwood He just keeps going Is that the one that ends with him saying Don't sing anymore to Clint Eastwood Like he's saying in Paint your Wagon Don't sing anymore And then Clint was like hold my beer Grand Turrino

[00:04:55] That was the inspiration for Grand Turrino Hold my slits, Grand Turrino Using Old Man River for Mystic River Is the laziest thing I can imagine No, no, Moon River for Mystic River One more One more step down the lazy

[00:05:09] But it's Billy Crystal so he does Old Man River He wants to get as close to Mammy as he can Old man eastwood He's fully done Al Jolson for one of those songs At some point I guarantee it Ben cut everything out, start the podcast over

[00:05:23] Let's insult some more people Yeah, I love when we insult Can I tell you a weird blankies related dream I had last night Sure These are the blankies by the way I had a dream that I went to someone's birthday An old camp buddy of mine

[00:05:37] Which everyone's gonna grovel up But get ready for the No, it wasn't The point was it's someone I'm friends with in real life But then the dream introduced the retcon idea That Bradley Cooper was one of my summer camp friends That Bradley Cooper occupied

[00:05:51] The Ezra Miller space of like That guy we were all really friends with And now he's big deal And now we feel a little shitty about texting him Because it's like I don't know but we were close We all feel that way about Bradley Cooper

[00:06:03] I was hanging out with Brad My old camp buddy Brad I had friends with him when we were 12 Which doesn't add up because he's 15 years older than me And then in the dream I kept on going to other friends and going like

[00:06:15] I gotta say I feel bad because we're recording the blankies Tomorrow and I didn't put Brad in Best Act there And I forgot that we're such good friends And it felt like Bradley Cooper had Inceptioned my dream To try to chart Sean Penn did

[00:06:29] I was gonna say I have the statement here from Sean Penn That I wanna read about Griffin not including Bradley Cooper Apparently my friend My old friend Brad Have they worked together? I don't think so Anyway the dream ended with me saying love you Brad

[00:06:43] And he said love you Griffin And then I went wait a second we did go to camp together Then I started like doing the Kaiser Soze And realizing the dream made no sense Wait a second but he was already in wedding crashers

[00:06:55] When you were in camp you saw wedding crashers I saw wedding crashers at camp Like I was tying the whole thing together Well we've started off by Praising James Corden and talking about camp Everyone's turned off this episode And then burned their device People are bleaching their iPhones

[00:07:15] Well of course it is the Blankey Awards The what? The fourth annual? The fourth annual Blankey Awards Where we honor the best In what we consider to be the best The best of our best Blankey Awards we have with us is always Reading Rangiojo read himself

[00:07:31] That was my really sweaty attempt When I wanted everyone on our trivia team to have a nickname I do remember that Reading Rangiojo You were Stone Cold Sam's Which James Newman He came once and you were so quick on the draw You went Stone Cold

[00:07:47] For some reason I thought that was Sam Maybe it was, both of them used it Sam used to use it Both of them still refer to you as Stone Cold Yeah Stone Cold Sam's And then of course And then of course producer Ben Duster, Poe Laureate

[00:08:03] Perdure Ben, Mr. Positive Piper Fennel Tybreaker Booker That happened White Hop Benny Derpite Benny Different titles of course Kyle Benfrews, No Way Ben Aalabens with a dollar sign Ben and Tina Fennelmaker Perdure Bain Warhawz Ben Glitch Mr. Ben Credible Eat, Drink, and Haasly

[00:08:41] What I love about this podcast Is that no Bit stays retired No, Epid isn't retired It's just sort of like It's in retirement It's an emeritus kind of a thing It might come out once in a while I'm in my season four of Taxi You really

[00:09:01] Show up in Taxi Season I literally I walk around now just jam into Angela theme from Taxi on Loop My Chill out show right now is Star Trek Voyager It's Cass from Star Trek Voyager The other thing I do is I walk around my house

[00:09:19] Doing Judd Hirsch impressions now Ah come on Lowy stop giving such a tough time He's a nice boy Judd Hirsch just like a slightly more working class Version of your dad is that what that is No but it's a very fast and there's another

[00:09:31] Sing Songee come on Lowy come on Luck is trying here In one year's time I will be in the Five Timers Club so now I'm going to be Insufferable for the next 12 months As I anticipate We should make a Five Timers Club T-Shirt And sell it On T-Public

[00:09:49] But exclusively to people who are in the Five Timers Club We protected up the Wazoo It's Password Protect We've got lots of categories to do I assume We should quickly mention Liam Neeson was fired as the host We had announced that he was hosting the Blankies Then

[00:10:05] Unfortunately we just don't want to deal With the devastating fall out Of course This horrifying story that happened cold pursuit Only opening for $10 million I asked him Liam can you just You can host but just don't bring it up Literally don't tell that story for the sixth time

[00:10:23] Okay just three times Then he hit button Yeah I was going to say then he got so pissed at Getting fired that he's been roaming the streets Looking for Griffin Newman That Robin Roberts interviews incredible Cause you're like okay he's ready to do Like damage control

[00:10:39] Look I know him I'm sorry that was ridiculous Robin I'd like to tell the story again For Bayum you're just telling it again I fucking swear to god Robin here's a story Weird Burn London to the ground Burn London to the ground Batman Does he ever say Batman

[00:10:59] He should Batman I keep hearing about this He says Mr. Wayne He always says Mr. Wayne Burn London to the ground What a year for movies 2018 This may have been the most movies you've seen in a year You over the last couple months have kept on going

[00:11:17] Like guys can we wrap up I gotta make it to Like a 415 wildlife You were doing your due diligence You've been dating I went on some movie dates But I saw a bunch of like Not dumb movies this year

[00:11:31] You essentially had like a couple seats taped off at Bam To go see whatever was playing that week With whoever you were dating I have never been a movie date I mentioned this on my podcast the other day Rarely will go on movie dates For whatever reason

[00:11:45] So the ones that I have really like Stick out in my mind It's not great for a date because There's something to talk about I go see movies when I'm seriously dating a person Because at that point I'm like we can handle If we disagree on this movie

[00:11:59] On a first date I'm just like I have actively gotten mad at people Who have seen a movie with me and we're And we don't We diverge on exiting the theater I've gotten mad at someone for seeing the wrong thing As we're leaving I was too flippant

[00:12:15] We have to sit in this My thing is though After the relationship ends We talked about Ricky and the Flash On my podcast the other day Every time I see Ricky and the Flash I think of this guy Who gets custody of the movie No longer dating now

[00:12:33] But it's like these like wistful sort of Just like uh oh You remember This was you were dating John Cougar As usual by the time this Episode rolls around every year I am so sick of all these movies And I never want to discuss it again

[00:12:49] The Oscar discourse is always poison But this year it's like triple poison I also feel this thing at the end This year it's like one drop and you're dead It's like the chemical That Scarecrow puts in the watery Gotham and Batman, I guess Burned London to the ground

[00:13:05] It does feel like Gotta scoff them to the sky Every year there's the thing where like End of December I'm going like working overtime Trying to fill in all the gaps And then first week of January I'm like I'm still at this, I need to have

[00:13:19] No blind spots going into the blankies And by the second week of January I'm like I never want to see a 2018 movie I hear a brick wall and I'm like You know what? That Eternity's gate? That escape room I got to see Serenity

[00:13:35] I got to see Escape Room I did, I escaped the room That movie rules, have you seen that? I know I have not but I've heard good things They better make 28 of them They need to That was the reception that I feel like Happy Death Day got

[00:13:51] Last year, two years ago or whatever And then now I feel like that feeling doesn't last long Like I couldn't be less interested in Happy Death Day The ending of this thing Happy Death to you fucking rules I saw it last night

[00:14:05] I'm not a primer but a team slasher movie I swear to God It's not quite as good as Happy Death Day But it's great We agree 2019 is the year of no bad movies Every movie in 2019 is good Everybody's gonna be The 8th best film of 2019

[00:14:21] Everybody's gonna be comparing that movie to Primer I don't understand why you feel like Giving yourself credit for that These were those things where an hour into the movie I was like, this movie's like Primer And then I was like, I wanted to beat that

[00:14:33] I just want to say The last 15 minutes of Escape Room Are so goddamn good And genuinely In a non-nerd way give you the thrill Of Nick Fury showing up at the end of Iron Man The ending of Escape Room is kind of Amazing They just immediately go like

[00:14:51] We're not ending this like a horror film We're ending this like the greatest cinematic franchise Of all time And they build it out in a way where you're like Well now I have to see 20 of these Netflix Lost in Space Who I worked with In a movie

[00:15:07] One of the many films I've made that will probably never be released For non-controversial reasons For the controversial reason of no one liked it enough Taylor Russell She's great I knew her from the Netflix Lost in Space Which was kind of bad but whatever

[00:15:21] You didn't know her from Hot Air I'll see it if you give me a cut We'll never happen Give me a DVD Here's Steve Kugin's assistant I know You told me like eight Steve Kugin stories Which is all I wanted

[00:15:37] You mostly did that movie to tell me a few Steve Kugin stories I did, I also had a cold during the entirety of them It was right after the tick It was after season one We gotta start If someone came out And just read the script

[00:15:51] That we just said verbatim at the real askers It killed I don't know what A.B. is talking about It's time for chit chat What if I've been listening to the taxi theme song People just sitting there Stunned, silent Paul Schrader lights himself on fire

[00:16:09] Academy president John Bailey Just reading a transcript of the blanket That script on the prompter as Julia Roberts is going Scroll through, scroll through Scroll through, keep going God Are we starting with best supporting actor like we usually do? I think we do

[00:16:25] Best supporting actor of the year Who's presenting? Our winners from last year Griffin, your winner was Patrick Stewart and Logan Of course it was Who would be a fun presenter? Yeah My winner was the obvious winner Willem Dafoe in the Florida Project The best performance of last year

[00:16:45] What's your opinion? Your winner was Michael Stolberg Call me by your name This is a good trio The Wolfpack The three of them Can't Buddy Brad The age character actors And Willem Dafoe was also the right-out winner So Patrick Stewart comes out

[00:17:05] And he's doing his famous quadruple take Michael Stolberg Is speaking A very crisp diction And Willem Dafoe is eating a live rabbit And they are presenting Best supporting actor And they read off My nominees for best supporting actor Patrick reads it all After doing the quadruple take

[00:17:27] The rarely seen quadruple take And the nominees for best supporting actor And just a preface I'm going wild this year baby My nominees for best supporting actor are Brendan Gleason For Paddington too Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther

[00:17:49] The Ballad of Buster Scruggs And Corey Hawkins for Black Clansman That is a great scene Please An incredible scene This is what I love about your nominations Griff You make me think, you make me realize that there are performances that I hadn't considered Alright go on outside

[00:18:09] Stick up for performances I like Also Griff was a grump about 2018 So I feel like your faves are going to be I love my faves this year I have more movies this year but the things I love I'm going to the mat

[00:18:21] For me 2018 was the I loved a few movies And I liked a ton of movies Like a lot of movies But only a few loves Oh no okay so now Michael Stahlberg stepping up Yeah Stilbarg Stilbarg takes the second to get real

[00:18:35] He's sitting down because we're going to take a second This is tough I had seven That I couldn't budge from forever You were tweeting the other night and I'll say One of the seven that you were tweeting I would argue that one of those seven was a lead

[00:18:47] Contender so I'm curious to see if you kept an end We're going to have this argument but okay We're going to have a lot of category arguments I figured because Two of these people have been talked about

[00:18:57] A lot too, these people are Oscar nominees that I feel like Okay They've got to do Sam Elliott in Starsborne, Richard E Grant Can you ever forgive me? I'm going to leave them aside Because you want to fight for your guys I want to fight for my guys

[00:19:09] I got Josh Hamilton in 8th grade Great performance Nikki Holt in the favorite Nicholas For a second I thought you meant Nicola Holt From Transformers Push me, Nicola Holt is to quote Rebecca Bonas Alex Wolfe in Hereditary who's the one we're going to argue about

[00:19:27] I had to imagine And then Steven Yeun in Burning Yeah I mean a gentleman's fight Stone Cold Wolfe is not a lead I don't know if I think he's a lead Because he's not No one's a lead in that movie except for Tony Holt

[00:19:41] And we will get to that later Jesus Alright Sam Elliott In A Star Is Born Yeah By the way this is going to be the me yelling about A stars because I'm enraged at this point Apologies to my camp buddy Brad Steven Yeun in Burning Michael G Borden

[00:20:05] Michael B Jordan in Black Panther Brian Tyree Henry in If Beal Streak of Talk It's an obvious fight I mean there's a zillion others I could pick there And I'd like to read the blankies I had put together their nominees this year

[00:20:17] Kindly submit to me by Amelia O Diaz From the subreddit Their best supporting actor nominees are Sam Elliott Brian Tyree Henry if Beal Streak of Talk Michael B Jordan Black Panther Steven Yeun in Burning Daniel Kalooia Widows

[00:20:33] Daniel Kalooia Widows is one of those where it's like I wanted in there Where the fuck is Grant Where the fuck is Hugh Grant Where the fuck is I mean you know my cutting tip I gave that spot to Gleason Gleason's great in that movie

[00:20:45] The scene, you know the pivotal Gleason scene Where he turns Is one of the I don't know 40 best scenes in any film Right? Not since the train came into the station Not since the workers left the factory If you're doing an NBA comp

[00:21:03] Like I don't know Julius Irving Like Moses Malone Like it's in the top 50 Here's my argument for Gleason Here's my argument for Gleason over Grant Okay cause I knew that was going to be my hottest take this year My argument for Gleason over Grant is

[00:21:17] He plays a character named Knuckles McGinty End of argument What a great argument we just had Here's my actual argument, okay I watched the film a second time with my family on Christmas day I've seen the film I think 5 times I had to arm wrestle my family

[00:21:31] Into watching it, they thought this is some grip and bullshit Since then To be fair to your family On the surface it seems like some grip and bullshit Great, I had to argue this isn't Only, this is not exclusively some grip and bullshit

[00:21:43] This transcends the usual grip and bullshit We watched it on Christmas, my whole family is into it They can't stop talking about the do's That's what they call it, the do's P2 P2 Everyone in my family is in sense that it got zero nominations

[00:21:55] But I was re-watching the film And I was trying to pick, okay am I going to go Gleason or Grant On this re-watch And I said here's the thing I got to give Gleason the edge for This is an impossible balancing act he does Which is

[00:22:07] You genuinely believe that he is a Dangerous convict There is actual menace to this performance And tension that he might murder Paddington And yet it I'm not really afraid that he's going to murder Never goes too far in a children's Better called priest is one of the best

[00:22:23] Like one-liners in that movie When you introduce him in that movie You go, this guy is probably in prison for murder And somehow he doesn't Ruin the entire movie by Bringing too much intensity He's walking a fine line And he's making a sweet marmalade

[00:22:39] I think he's great, it's just that Hugh Grant like it's just one of those Things where he comes into the movie He's a boss bitch It's a skill piece He does like 18 monologues in various ways But he's also playing a man That man's vulnerability so well

[00:22:55] Like from minute one From when Paddington says the thing to him on stage Yeah It is obviously an amazing Metacommentary on Hugh Grant And then at the end of the movie He's like, why don't I just do a Sondheim number

[00:23:09] In case you forgot that I'm incredible in this I'll say this This is a year where there are No nominees presented by Either of you or the blankies that I disagree with These would be my next Like eight people Like Hamilton, Grant Elliot, Tyree Henry

[00:23:27] Like these would all be my next Bunch this year had too many good Supporting actor performances And I chose to double down a fight for my guys Listen and also counterpoint say the Oscars Sam Rockwell and Vice Like there's none of that bullshit In this room

[00:23:43] I'm SMHing over here now I think all three of us agree Sam Rockwell and Vice does what he's asked to do For a minute and a half It's a funny scene These two scenes are funny But it's not even that impressive Of a W impersonation

[00:23:59] I think it's good But for that performance to be that Small in a movie that's That sloppy It has to be transcendent For me to go, that deserves a slot in a five Get out of town Get out of the town Who was the very obvious snub

[00:24:17] Like the Oscar It was Shalameh who you did not like The guy you wanted to get left out For the other guy you wanted No, but there was someone I was rooting for To sort of To break everybody For some reason didn't catch fire

[00:24:33] By the way, I still think he might win I know I made that prediction a couple months back I still think he might win I love Richard E. Grant to be clear I think it's a good performance Sam Elliott I swear to God

[00:24:47] Richard E. Grant has been the only person Making awards season better For their presence in it Everybody else who's been giving attention He's the Paddington of Oscar season Like you feel like he's improving everyone he touches Yeah, no I know He's kind of polite, he makes everything right

[00:25:03] Who's your winner? My winner is Tim Blake Nelson Yeah He's great in that First of all pure supporting performance Of course Every one of them is in the film Every one of them is in the film But what I love about this performance

[00:25:23] Is it's kind of my Grant argument I feel like I take Tim Blake Nelson for granted Because he's just this weirdo type And he comes in and he's a good flavor He's like a seasoning on the dish I listened to his WTF And totally forgot

[00:25:37] I locked the gates with TBN I had to think Right I totally forgot that he's a Juilliard trained Hyper intellectual Oklahoma Jew Who sounds nothing like his characters He's not like How you doing Mark? All you get is dirty Right

[00:25:57] It's my favorite Tim Blake Nelson in Minority Report Dig up the past Because he so often plays slow creeps Which he does really well I think the first time I knew of him was O'Brother That was his first really big acting Yeah that's the first thing I remember

[00:26:11] He was mostly a playwright and a director I was just listening to him talk about Buster Scruggs And he was just underlying not like patting himself On the back way but he was talking about Why it's hard to work with the Coens

[00:26:23] And he was like their language is super Super flowery and super specific Like I need people who are theatrically trained Because you really need to understand the rhythms of it I had to learn guitar from scratch Because I'm actually playing guitar In all those scenes

[00:26:37] I had to horseback ride I had to skill shoot Turn into an angel and float into the sky Right, he had to do all that In camera But I was watching that performance and laughing for 10 straight minutes

[00:26:49] I was like this is the funniest thing anyone's done in years And then I listened to this podcast And I was like I was not appreciating how much work went into that And once again What an impossible line he's towing He's playing a guy who's so casual

[00:27:01] He's just like when I'm Buster Scruggs His language is all those monologues Yeah, he's in such control And all the fucking physicality of him I mean the bit with him fucking hitting the slat in the table I mean that's so big Like all this shit is incredible

[00:27:15] I just think it's a meticulous, technically Like impeccable performance That also was the funniest thing I've seen in the last year I can't wait to see Tim on stage next year presenting this award So mine was tough between

[00:27:27] First of all I think I am on the road to making Nicholas Holt the Amy Adams of the Blankies I'm gonna keep nominating him But he's not quite the win yet You did give him the win for Mad Max

[00:27:37] Never mind, he got it first out of the gate He was the someone who won their first nomination Yeah, I don't even remember Elisabeth Cander? That was the other part of my dream My other part of my dream was that Elisabeth Cander was gonna win again

[00:27:49] And we were all like how did that happen twice Just like oof, okay Because it was like for the Danish girl part 2 She should win for Tomb Raider That's a great performance It's a color puzzle Joe, who's your winner? Mine is Alex Wolfe for hereditary

[00:28:05] I wanna talk about this now When you bring up your lead actors My winner is Stephen Yon for Burning Such a good performance Maybe the performance of the year Like an actor I have always thought was fun Did you watch Walking Dead? He's so likeable on Walking Dead

[00:28:27] Very likeable on Walking Dead But I was never like this is a fucking actor And his Spoiler scene in Burning is the greatest I've never seen anyone play Spoilering that well Oh yeah Never I can't believe it 18 million emotions go across his eyes

[00:28:49] This is a guy who has been so remote That you're like Is he just like a rich jerk or is he a psychopath? And he's been playing that You know, keeping you guessing So and then at the end of the movie You're just like, holy shit

[00:29:03] Like everything is suddenly coming to the surface with this guy It's a very good point I never watched Walking Dead So I've only been introduced to him He's in like Okja and the support guy This guy's really interesting But everyone else is mostly talking about his performances

[00:29:19] Through the prism of like, oh it's so different than Glenn Right I walked out of Burning He had such a conundrum of just like Am I just really attracted to Stephen Yon He's a gorgeous guy And he uses it so well

[00:29:33] My Burning review got incredible traffic on The Atlantic Which is weird for an already South Korean film That's almost three hours long And I'm certain it's because I picked a very sexy picture of Stephen Yon There's no shortage of those two

[00:29:47] But that's another one where you watch the Walking Dead And it's just like, I'm not hot for Glenn Like I don't understand and then you watch Burning I'm a little hot for Glenn Now I am Yes And the Blankies chose Daniel Kaluya Well he's fantastic

[00:30:04] He's good at staring at folks He's good at staring at folks But he's also like, he is so good at Like that could just be a one dimensional terminator And instead I like I mean, that's my, we'll get to it It's a movie I really love this year

[00:30:20] The one dimensional terminator? Terminator Flatland Just like, he's bored He's not into this He's not into it That's him going to watch TV while they're at town I don't know why you want to do politics There's no joy left for him And he's ruined from war

[00:30:42] And from whatever else has happened to him And he's bored to shit And he's trying to make it interesting every time But he has to do a scary thing And you can see him being like, I'm kind of happy And then at the end he's finally excited

[00:30:55] And that's what doesn't mean Anyway, best supporting actress Say, here are last year's winners Griffin Newman selected Holly Hunter In the Big Sick Classic Griff Pick AKA Griffin's mom Reppin' my mom David Sims picked Lori Meckoff As did Joe Reed and the Blankies Lori triple wins

[00:31:18] The Year of the Mom One of the great performances Agreed, which only has been topped by her work On The Connors this season My nominees for best supporting actress She has, I'm not joking My nominees for best supporting actress are Hilly Lou Richardson Support the Girls

[00:31:34] She's so good Dolly Wells Can you ever forgive me A performance everyone should be talking about Zoe Kazan The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Elizabeth DeBecchi In Widows And Sakura Andu In Shoplifters Lead performance That's my one category where I'm being a little tricky

[00:31:54] You're being tricky because that's a lead performance I'd argue it's an ensemble film Much like your argument for it Appearance of the Leeds I would argue the dad's the lead And everyone else is supporting If she wasn't with the cops at the end

[00:32:05] I'd be with you but no She's the lead But the problem is Her with the cops at the end Is what gets her the nomination She's the lead Catch-twine too We'll talk about her later Okay In lead act Oh, interesting Okay If you guys are ready to argue

[00:32:19] If you're supporting Do I have a lineup for you? We got some Okay, ready to supporting actress Let's go Supporting actress Olivia Coleman In the favorites She was my number six If I put her in She was gonna be in supporting So I agree 100%

[00:32:31] We'll talk about it in a second Elizabeth DeBecchi In Widows Regina King And If Beale Street Could Talk Molly Parker And Madeline's Madeline Joe Pick Very joe-pic Classic Joe Pick Classic Joe Pick And even to the point that I don't know if I even love the movie

[00:32:46] But you love that She's fantastic Rachel Weiss in the favorite She rules Coleman DeBecchi King Parker Rachel Weiss I got Elizabeth DeBecchi In Widows Yes, the three for The only one The only one Haley Lou Richardson In Support The Girl Okay Regina King

[00:33:03] And If Beale Street Could Talk Play Clive Lee In A Simple Favor Wow There you go Wow And Michelle Yeo In Crazy Rich Stations That's a great one too Are you gonna Arrest David For stealing two Joe picks For his own category? Those are two very Joe-esque

[00:33:18] Those are two real Joe picks Here's the thing though Well, no, because I love the shallows I was gonna say like Blake had never been I had never been on the Blake train No But the shallows I sort of I bought like a one way ticket

[00:33:30] You know I was like The shallows isn't exactly a Performance like Now I have like a season pass I would disagree I think I mean obviously The masterful directing of John Colet-Sara But I also think that That's an incredible performance That was the first time

[00:33:42] I believed in her as an actor She's good But I feel like the thing about the shallows Is like also the shark jumping out of Shallow water And like eating that person And also guys look It's 2019 Okay we shouldn't be talking about this

[00:33:56] Because we're far from the shallows now Yes, that's true Best supporting actress We're far from the shallows now That's the law There's a note down In the shallows The best supporting actress Chosen by the blankies Elizabeth DeBecchi and Widow The only person that All four

[00:34:10] Regina King at Beelstreet could talk Haley Lou Richardson support the girls Emma Stone the favorite Rachel Weiss the favorite I should say Haley Lou Richardson Was a close sixth on mine Star she is It's deceptively good too Because it's surfaced It's just like oh she's just very bubbly

[00:34:25] Right And like that I mean obviously the scene where She pops out of the back door And sets off the little pop gun Next to Regina Hall Is took me by such surprise I cackled I in delight Well and here's the metric Like a child

[00:34:39] I used to argue for The skill of that performance It's a very well written film Yes Right? Andrew Brzezowski Very good writer But that is a performance Where you could hire someone Who was just bubbly And they would service the film well

[00:34:53] That character does not need to be played As skillfully as it is Everything that elevates that character Is what she's contributing to the film And you look at her in that last scene Where they're all up on the roof And it's oh it's so good

[00:35:04] And it's also I hate actors Who clearly play Unintelligent or unsophisticated characters With condescension You can tell I think this character is dumb And she is clearly locked into What is great about this person Who just sees the world so clearly And so joyously around her

[00:35:22] It's a wonderful performance She's the movie star tomorrow Is she your winner? She is not Who's your winner? My winner is Sakura Handoff Shuffleitra That's a credible performance Category fraud But that final scene That's the performance of the year for me That final scene with her

[00:35:36] Talking to the police When she starts rubbing her face It blew my mind Because I go How does any actor come up with that choice? The best scene of Like in a movie this year Beating the Marmalade scene Where she hugs the girl

[00:35:49] Yes, this is what love feels Yeah Oh boy I need a break That's an incredible performance And I'm being tricky And giving her best supporting actress Because I want to give her an award You're fucking tricked I'm a fucking tricked

[00:36:01] Do we use the dupicki of it all here To talk about why widows didn't Do it We'll come up more Certainly on this episode Knowing that you're a hero It just makes me so mad I think that movie is too frosty For people or some people

[00:36:15] It's too Michael Manny And McQueen's never going to be All that populist But don't you feel like This is him being populist Right, this is his version of it Don't you think they Fox searchlights who are usually Very smart about these things Kind of settle on

[00:36:34] The worst of It's Fox Which Fox, it's big Fox So that's maybe the key Because they did a sort of like Neither nor kind of Worst of both worlds Marketing campaign Because the marketing was like dark And intense And big block letters And a lot of like

[00:36:53] Black backgrounds Just actors And you're like What is this? But I also think they made it look like For mainstream audiences It was like this looks like too heady Some Oscar bullshit And for Oscar people It looked too much like A thriller Right

[00:37:08] I feel like there's a world in which They could have just really put together A false advertising campaign For that movie And gotten a 20 million dollar Opening weekend And it would have dropped like a stone afterwards But it would have ended up with a higher total

[00:37:21] It would have gotten more people to see it Where do you think it ended? Or I think they could have platformed it Where do I think it ended? Yeah, the probably should 45? Yeah, 42 It's too bad Anyway, Widows fucking rules But who's your winner? Tobiki comes close

[00:37:33] But it's vice It's Rachel vice She's the best person She's the best performance in the favorite She's so incredibly watchable And funny But like not ever You never see her going for the joke But she's so So fucking funny That's a good way

[00:37:48] Romley saw the favorite and just said So she's just the coolest person in the world And I was like That's pretty much a good summation When you dress her that way too Yeah It's like Just everything she does is cool I'm so glad she has endured Yeah

[00:38:01] I was really worried she was going to be the one of the three left out When I saw that movie Me too But it also feels like when It's only her second Oscar nominee Right, when she's nominated and won For a constant gardener That felt like a comeback

[00:38:13] Because it was like Oh, that lady from The Mummy She sort of disappeared for a couple years Yep Still a weird win Very weird win Well it's weird It's a weird sweep She like swept that year Yeah, she was the winner She was like almost immediately

[00:38:25] Everyone was like it's her And the thing about that year Was it was a lot of new It was vice's first Amy Adams is first Wait there was a third Michelle Williams is first Oh right All that year And it was the whole

[00:38:37] In the early stages it was like Oh who of this sort of And Keener was nominated that year And it's like who of this like Mass of like interesting Newish sort of presences On the Oscar stage at least I don't think anyone was predicting vice

[00:38:50] And then vice won literally everything Everything It does feel like She was one of those people Where you go oh this is someone Who might fall prey to the best supporting actress curse And then she's had a robust career And she's worked a lot of great director

[00:39:02] She has consistently done Interesting fucking work Since winning an Oscar Yep My winner is Elizabeth Beckey What a performance She's the phenomenal The fucking auction scene The blankies also chose Elizabeth Beckey I mean I fought so hard for that With the critic circle That last oh I wish

[00:39:19] And that's a real star is born performance We're obviously hit people We've been wise to Beckey for a while But this is one of those performances Where you go like You can't fucking deny this thing I try to think of the first thing I remember seeing her in

[00:39:30] Because it was before Gatsby Was what I remember seeing her in Gatsby, that's what it was And where I was like who is that Yeah Like how tall is she Man for Moncle she's fantastic She's my height Guardians she's fantastic Rules and guardians

[00:39:45] People don't stand for that legend Incredible in the tale this year Incredible performance A very difficult performance now Night manager Night manager she's amazing I mean That shot That shot didn't have enough night manager But that's true So from that So from my taste

[00:40:00] She and Hollander I think are the highlights Of night manager Like everybody is good in that But it's like I forget who tweeted this And someone retroactively Applied the credit where credit is due But one of our critic friends tweeted after Widows One of the reasons why Widows

[00:40:14] Were all so hard Is it's the first movie To just let Elizabeth Beckey be 6 foot 3 Yeah Let her be tall Right Because I remember James Watching the night manager And being like this Elizabeth Beckey She's the next movie star But how do you put her in movies

[00:40:26] When she's that tall What do you do with her Right And Steve McQueen was like Just let her be that tall She's a tall fragile bird in this movie That becomes a strong She's so I just want to say some other things

[00:40:38] One Lucas Haas is amazing at Widows He didn't make my list A great performance A great performance And a crucial character And what a surprise A crucial character With that many big movie stars Like on the poster You don't expect Haas

[00:40:48] To get that much of a meaty role I remember Mike Mike Ryan telling me That when he interviewed Steve McQueen Who is famously Can be techie In an interview Can be like He's a garbage man Mike Ryan said something like Yeah, people can look that up

[00:41:05] Armando I called him a garbage man I want to make it clear That I'm not calling him I think he's a fine director Yeah, he's a great director Mike Ryan brought up the Lucas Haas thing And Steve McQueen was like No one has asked me about him

[00:41:15] He is so important Like I'm so happy You know who's like clapping And was in me Anyway Blake Lively in a simple favor people Blake Lively Hello She's doing a lot I will say the Praise for Blake Lively in that movie Because in my In my sort of

[00:41:32] Gayer Twitter circles Sure People were There was a lot of people on the Blake Lively train To the point where I was like But Annakendrick Because I also think Annakendrick Love Annakendrick in that movie Is doing really good work Love her in that movie

[00:41:43] Deceptively good work in that movie But yeah, Lively is a Glamorous Fashion plate psycho Like Well put I shamefully as taking My bagel out of its bag An hour into this episode Revealed that I still have not seen a simple Oh it's good Simple favor, sorry Michelle Ligo

[00:42:01] I mean like We stand a legend We stand a legend You know it is It's sort of like What do you know It's like an elegance Like it's like She can do that shit in her sleep It doesn't matter Right You need the scene The two

[00:42:16] The movie revolves around The opening in the mahjong Yeah I would say the scene of her On the staircase Where she's sort of like You think you're winning me over And you have failed You know like You know where she says Like you will never be good enough

[00:42:28] Right, sure And then of course The mahjong scene But the opening The fucking hotel opening Is unbelievable Fantastic of course Also the fact that She's the only movie star In the world Who could have done That performance with That amount of Gravitas Star quality gravitas

[00:42:44] She's the only person Yes And the movie is In my opinion And this is not like Even now how to take It's a romantic comedy Fucking Conscious Woo And Michelle Yo I agree Falling for each other That's why it ends with It's a good take

[00:42:58] Henry Golding is literally Just a puppet Proposing with his mother's ring Like you know like That the mother is proposing The weakest element Of that movie Is the romance Between Conscious Woo And Henry Golding Doesn't matter There's a million movies Like that With girls who are like Yeah

[00:43:13] And that's what Golding's doing And that's all I need From him I need nothing else I don't want drama from Henry It's a romantic comedy So we did all our winter I just want to throw in Molly Parker For one second Sure We've I love her

[00:43:26] We've seen that character That's sort of like Flady too much of an actress Actress character Yeah But she brings A Molly Parker darkness to it That you suspect her You're saying she gives it an MPD An MPD Yeah, it's a classic MPD Classic MPD

[00:43:45] She's got a little MPD on it Yeah I don't know She's She elevates so much of that character She elevates Yeah She gets some air She gets some air in that Yeah Okay, do we want to do best actor? Sure Yeah Who are our winners last year?

[00:44:02] Oh, I'm sorry Here we go The winners last year were For Griffin and David Daniel Kaluya Hell's yeah And Edd out And the blankies And for Joe Timothy I was bad and beautiful boy Chalamet And call me by your name Man I'm being mean

[00:44:18] I think he's good and beautiful I don't even think he's not bad I think he's actively good I think I tweeted something like He's Grating and Manored And someone replied to me like The only way he's Grating and Manored Is when he says Please and thank you

[00:44:29] When the waiter is offering him parmesan To be fair Great joke Great joke I mean a gentleman's joke I stuck in my head for months A gorgeous joke What were you going to say, Joe? I don't know I think that's not a great movie

[00:44:47] That he's the one great part of I like Corell in that movie It's not I'm the only person with this opinion To die on I like him in that movie I think he nails it That movie is about How if you have money It won't Money does not

[00:45:02] Money can't help you Stop drug addiction Whereas like Ben is back Which is another kind of Crummy movie on this topic Is about how like Drug addiction turns everyone into an addict Like you know like It's about how Julia Roberts Is behaving like an addict

[00:45:14] She won't return her call Like in order to be like Screaming at people in town And I like the theme of Ben and back a little more Ben is back a little more But I think Corell nails it I just think Ben is boy

[00:45:24] Was the best of the three And for me I don't even want to talk about the other Ben is a beautiful boy Erased Claire Foy narrates the whole thing In her Beautiful Foy Did you guys see beautiful Foy? Beautiful Foy Bunch of beautiful boys Okay best actor

[00:45:39] I'm going to make a shotgun decision Because there's six people And I've had a tough time So I'm going to ask that you guys Go one of you goes first Alright I'm going to continue the theme Of category confusion Mahershala Ali in Green Book Wow Throwing it down

[00:45:51] Yeah I'll take that I'll take that He's a lead He's a lead But it's mostly the people Don't like that movie But I think he's great I think you can't argue with His skill as an actor He's great And in a very different way

[00:46:03] Than he's great in movie Right that movie is a disaster If he's not in it Oh fully Because I think It's almost a disaster With him It is a disaster with him But I'm saying no one would go For that movie if he wasn't doing his work

[00:46:15] He brings so much integrity To that movie And he's playing a character Who the integrity matters to him so much Vigo's performance is good in that movie For what they're asking him to do But also Also that movie would still work If like fucking you know

[00:46:30] The guy who played Vito In the sopranos was in the role And Drew Dice Clay I don't fucking know I'm trying to think of a joke That's mean but someone I don't want to be mean to Joe Reed on the Just to play in that role

[00:46:39] You mean if I was just like Hey fuck you I'm from the Bronx And I'm like driving a car And like that's the movie If the movie was Sims And Marshall LaOli It would still work as well as it does Actual Mario from the video game

[00:46:52] This is like I think Vigo's good too But I think that performance Is a mad TV character It is I mean it is But then the thing is The movie doesn't know How to reconcile I mean that You see Nick Valolonga Nick Valolonga is You are You can

[00:47:07] Watch David Sims be animated Is such a treat I have to say Let's hear it I don't understand how much He does Kermit arms while talking But it's not You don't talk with your hands You talk with your elbows I do Nick Valolonga The hands are a byproduct

[00:47:19] Is the you know The son of Tony I'm aware But even that guy I'm like That's a fucking Sopranos chiseler Background character Like You're telling me That guy is real Where he's like Hey I did a song about New York For the firefighters Have you listened to his

[00:47:35] Firefighters It's a masterpiece It's been playing right now I think it's so weird Then drop it in Drop it in Betty Drop it in It's like Times Square And Lincoln Center There's so much to do in New York Like that's what it is I'm thinking of a movie

[00:47:51] It's like a comedy I want to say it's analyzed this But I can't remember Does DeNiro have like Henschman and analyzed this Who are like funny Joe Viderot Joe Viderot With the face of Great act The face of like A very full bagel

[00:48:03] Like a very sort of like Yes indeed my friend Yes indeed Joe Viderot looks like 18 pounds of gravel Were shot into his face And his character is named Jelly Joe Viderot is so Fucking funny and Analyzed this We stand a jelly So that's the kind of

[00:48:16] Guy I'm thinking of Let's do the Analyze this Franchise for our commentary You should This and that We're doing them You should What are you guys doing next Oh you know A little this That'll be the one where I like There's this scene Where like DeNiro rants at

[00:48:33] Chaz Palmitere For like a full minute In mob mode And Chaz Palmitere Goes like Hey Like what I forget What his name is Like hey Robert Fuck you It's just so funny Kenny Lonergan Writer on Analyze this Yes although he said His script was thrown out

[00:48:50] But he is He says he's also never watched it So he doesn't He remember when Lisa Kudrow Hosted the MTV movie awards Because she was promoting Analyze It had already come out And she says to Crystal We need a hundred We need a hundred Yes We all

[00:49:05] That's when you Unite the three of us The reason why the three of us Found each other In this dark world Is that we all held up a flare gun That said Does anyone else ever Movie award When Lisa Kudrow said We made a hundred

[00:49:18] Remember she was in a sketch About the round table And Phantom Menace Right But that opener was her With Dr. Evil Yes And at the end Dr. Evil took off his mask And revealed that he was Actually Billy Crystal They were in Dr. Evil's Volcano base

[00:49:32] Alright so after Marshall We're still in the middle Okay Bradley Cooper and a I'm going to leave my third one To the last because It's a Griffin pick My Camp Buddy Brad Ethan Hawken first reformed LaKeith Stanfield In Sorry to Bother You And in The Griffinist

[00:49:46] I will get on this ballot Tom Hardy and Venom Wow Get ready baby Wow This is a little good Ethan Hawken first reformer Very similar to you Bradley Bradley Meas Cooper Jackson Main In A Star's Point Yes Ben Foster Good pick And leave no trace Good pick

[00:50:07] John Cho In Searching Great pick Tom Hardy Yeah Venom 3 for 3 3 for 3 3 for 3 So do you remember when A no brainer in my opinion Do you remember when A no fucking brainer He's great Yes I cannot believe The only competition was Brian King He came on late

[00:50:29] Brian King was like Put me in the fucking category With a good spear Go on Do I remember I cannot believe Do you remember When you had seen Venom And I said Is Tom Hardy going to win My blankies this year And you said No but you're definitely

[00:50:45] Going to nominate him Sure I am the only one who Didn't nominate Tom Hardy For Venom And say Your rules And not only that When I said Like shotgun decision I'm picking between 6 He's not even in my 10 Wow It's a weirdly It's an odd category This year

[00:51:02] From an Oscar perspective Never in the conversation We got to look in the more Weirdo genre movies Tom Cruise was my miss Okay so here's Here's my list I'll tell you what My 6 miss was And I wish I could have Found a space for him

[00:51:14] Because I think it's An interesting performance That no one's talking about What can Phoenix do You were never really here I think that's a great Alex Wolfe hereditary Tommy Cruise Mission Impossible fallout Adam Driver Black Klansman A lead I say A co-lead He's great in that movie

[00:51:28] A split He is great in that movie Lead Adam Driver For Black Klansman I say a co-lead No puppet No puppet And my 5th nominee Is Licky Stan Phil and sorry to bother Which is a good performer My 6th guy who I want To sneak in there

[00:51:42] John C. Riley and the Sisters Brothers Get him in there And he's really also good In the Laurel and Hartney Movie In a way that Like he's way better Than anything in that Movie should But I think Kugan's Good in that Riley Both bugged me In that movie

[00:51:57] Well it was just Actually I think All four lead Because also Charlie Henderson And then The Nineria They're good Anyway sorry Who do I love to put Riley in? Driver He's not a lead He's not I'm sorry Every year I talk about how good Adam Driver is

[00:52:15] And then I always knock him Out of my categories At the last second So it's residual guilt here It is and I kind of Want to put Riley in above He's been in my line up For like 3 of the last 4 years I apologize Adam I apologize Adam

[00:52:26] I'm knocking you out For the third year in a row And John C Riley is my fifth nominee The Best Actor You tweeted you would Vote for John David Washington in The Sags Yes From that group Yeah Yeah, I didn't nominate any Of the Best Actor I understand

[00:52:42] I just thought That John David Washington Missed out at the last Second Defoe And at Attorney's gate Who's not bad But like Is not in No way Putting Defoe over Hawking Washington seen Dot to me

[00:52:56] the blankies. The blankies chose, that's Hulu where I've been watching King of the Hell. The blankies chose, I was trying to find the right app. But Netflix is where you're watching Taxi or is it all Hulu?

[00:53:07] Both on Hulu. I'm a Hulu guy these days. I'm sticking with the green. Best actor, fuck I reopened my own list. Best actor from the blankies is Bradley Cooper from Bunk Three, A Star is Born. Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible Fallout, Ben Foster, Leave No

[00:53:22] Trace, Ryan Gosling, First Man, Ethan Hawke, First Reform. Who are our winners? As much as I feel often left out of the enthusiasm for First Reforms, I get it on an intellectual

[00:53:36] level but I don't feel like, I don't know. It's a club that's not for me. Ethan Hawke's my number one. Wow. Bradley Cooper. Wow. Obviously. Like people will weep in shame. John Bailey's last thought is he dies.

[00:53:51] Will be what the fuck was going on with Star is Born. What the fuck happened there? I'm gonna walk the walk. Walkie and Phoenix, best actor. You love that movie. I love that movie. I'm all in. I hate that movie. I'm all in. You hate that movie?

[00:54:05] This is not a surprise. Boy. I hate all of the scum bum movies that you, that, that are like- You hated good time too. I hated good time. You hated good time too. Atta here. Ben, come on. I'm gonna get my hammer out.

[00:54:18] Ben just took out a flaming sword. What about the cards? That note. You might want to throw a joke. There's a hammer card for you. That's what he means when he says the hammer. The blankiest show is Ethan Hawke, best actor as well.

[00:54:31] That was the critics circle almost unanimous. It just felt like that was gonna be the sort of lifetime achievement award this year. He's got a lot of lifetime ahead of him. He does. He does. But I mean, he's been working for so long.

[00:54:43] I've nominated him like 50 billion times. I love Ethan Hawke. He's like my favorite actor. He was on my long list for best supporting actor for... Why am I forgetting the fucking name of it now? I don't know. Julia Naked? Yes. Oh, sure.

[00:54:57] I was gonna say Love Rosie, which is a different word. I like it when he plays, you know, kind of like- He's really good in that. And it's kind of him doing the meta. Like, I'm acknowledging what my reputation was.

[00:55:10] Troy Dyer had actually made the same character in Maggie's plan basically. Yes. But she's really good in that too. But he's just so fucking funny. In Julia Naked. Yeah, no, he is. I love Hawke. Yeah. I love Hawke. You love Hawke. But are you kidding?

[00:55:25] I've nominated him seven times. Jesus Christ. Wow. That's crazy. Wait, what are the seven I wanted to get? Well, you know what? It's six times because John Hawkes was getting included in my... Oh. And two of them are screenplays. Wait, is it two of the three before us?

[00:55:38] So the two sunrise, you nominated for screenplays the last two? Correct. And then what are your other nominees? He's not credited as a screenwriter on the first one. So it's four acting nominations. Correct. Okay. No. I love him in that book. Yeah. Sultan Precinct 13.

[00:55:51] I'll just tell you this. Valerian in the City of A Thousand Planets. I'm trying to think of the other performances you would have nominated for. It's first reformed boyhood before midnight and before sunset. Yeah. It's not even that. It's pretty straightforward. Yeah. So good.

[00:56:03] Bradley Cooper is the best actor. Get out of here. I'm mad about this. Look, this is a good time to announce that he, of course, won Putters and Murmers this year. And it was... I have a whole thing for Putters and Murmers. I have like several nominations.

[00:56:15] I mean, there are other good contenders this year. I just want to give him that credit because you texted me several months ago, Joe. They did several months ago. And you said, is this going to be the first year that the Academy Award winner for best

[00:56:25] actor also wins Putters and Murmers? Right. Those two never lie not. We felt so confident this was going to be his year. Yeah. It wasn't even a thing where I was like, it's because I love the movie so much. I was more just sort of like, yeah, obviously.

[00:56:37] I also agree with you that he's the undeniable alumna that movie. And you know, I have my reservations against that movie. Ridiculous reservations. I've watched it so many times. Kind of an embarrassing amount of times. It rules. Yeah, I know. I love it. Fucking rule.

[00:56:51] It's like your Teen Titans go to the movies. But I watched that and that movie basically cured my plane anxiety for... Teen Titans? 82 minutes or so. Yeah, the rules. So good. Such good jokes. Such a blast. Have you seen it yet? No.

[00:57:05] Because I wasn't, I was not aware of it. I have, I didn't know what Teen Titans was. First of all, once again, a gentleman's 82 with credits. Really? I love that. I do love that. The jokes are just unbelievable. The on set bathroom scene? Great.

[00:57:18] I like, I like the song with the pink balloon man. Balloon man. That's fucking funny. Yeah, all right. Wait, did we say our winners? We said our winners. We said our winners. Cooper, Hock. Yes, Hock. Walkamole. Walkamole. Walkin' penis as we used to say on our trivia team.

[00:57:35] That's right. Yeah. I know you think he's a ham sandwich. Now you fall between Joe and I in that movie. I guess something gets a good performance by him, but the performance by him I prefer this year is the sister's brother. Interesting.

[00:57:45] I think that is something I hadn't seen from him in years, which is like kind of a genuinely funny performance that actually isn't that big. I was worried he was going to be like, it's person size. You know, usual cartoon self in that.

[00:57:57] Yeah, I just like, I mean. Riley's great in it too. Look, it's not like you never really hear is a performance that I didn't think he could do or that I, the type I have not seen him do before, but I think he does everything so well.

[00:58:10] And I think there's one basic decision that sums up like how smart that performance is, which is that he gained a bunch of weight, like that he knew it was more menacing to just be a brick than to be ripped. Yeah. You know what I'm saying though?

[00:58:26] Like he was just like those guys in real life aren't like cut. Right. They're just like a mound. They're like the juggernaut. Right. And they'll just sort of like push you. Right. Best actress. Best actress. Just want to say Tom Hardy rules. Yeah.

[00:58:40] I mean, I can't believe I didn't go all in for that. All right. Just really genuinely shocked. I hear the reason why it's just weird that the blank. I almost left him right on Sunday because I was like, well, Griffin will have them.

[00:58:51] I just hate that movie so much. I agree that his performance is wonderful. I was so pre sold on it being terrible. Yeah. That it it's sword over expectations and genuinely I was like this is like I'm enjoying myself for some stretches of this movie. Okay.

[00:59:08] My take on that movie and I think I said this in a previous episode is it feels like a movie made in a world where Ben Affleck's Daredevil is the only other superhero movie that's ever been made. And they were like, so that's what you do. Right. Yeah.

[00:59:20] Also talk about blenders. I feel like this has not gotten enough attention. Tom Hardy with the Tater tots in Venom is the ultimate blender. It serves no plot purpose. It doesn't tell you anything about the character. Is there going to be? Yeah. Right.

[00:59:32] He just clearly was like, come on. I want a specific. Tater tots. Two other things I want to say about my foster and leaving a trace who got like that's an actor who struggles or I struggle with because he is so big so often. He goes hard.

[00:59:46] He goes hard. And we've talked. I've talked about many times in hostiles when he shows up, you're on my reaction in the audience is really shoot him in the head, bury him where he sits. Do not risk it. Don't take this man one foot.

[00:59:59] He's going to eat your teeth. Yeah. And then we all of course remember Maldith, the sorcerer and Warcraft. We knew that was just that that was, you know, Verite, they just went to his house. The shirtless sculptor with long flowing golden locks.

[01:00:14] He's good in this in the way he's good in the messenger though. That's my favorite. He's good at the lock up. Oh man. He's better when you tell him to do less and to his credit, he said that he took like a fucking razor blade to this script

[01:00:28] and said to Deborah Granik, I want as little dialogue as possible and they cut it down together. The scene that he murders is the scene where he says nothing at all, which is when he's doing the personality test. Yeah.

[01:00:38] And you can just see him wrestling with like what do they think? What do they want to hear? What do I think of myself? That's his nomination. Oh my God. And then John Cho in searching is just Brevura.

[01:00:49] I mean, that man has to own the screen for the entire time. No question in my 10. That movie is such an odd bird for me. I think you're right. The show was very, very good. And like it grounds what is to be grounded in that movie.

[01:01:01] It's just such a strange execution and concept and everything that's going on. I think that movie is really well written. I kept on feeling like it was going to fall into traps and then I felt like they handled everything pretty well. Also, dead ending is screaming at you

[01:01:16] from the end of a hallway. So it was just like, it's happening. It's going to happen. It surprised me. It totally worked for me. It totally got me. To me, it was that Roger Ebert thing of like, is there a character who serves no purpose in this movie?

[01:01:28] And it's like, who keeps showing up for no reason. Yeah. I fucking loved it. That movie was such a delight. I saw it in the theater with Mr. Fansky, like at the Regal Union Square, not a press screening. We just like, That's where I saw it.

[01:01:40] I actually just had a great time. Saw it with Joey Sims at the Regal Union Square. Best director. No, actress, actress. Oh, we forgot to do actress. I'm sorry. I will do actress last because it's the most important character category. Hey, hey.

[01:01:54] Give us the winners from last year. The winners from last year are... I forgot them. Griffin's was Bicky Creeps. Hell yeah, that's right. Flying up a creep for us in Phantom Thread. David's was Sersha, Ronan and Lady Boyd. Joe's was Meryl Streep and the Post. Wow.

[01:02:12] And the Blankies went for Hawkins in Shape of Water. They spread the wealth around. Those are all four good winners. They're all emerging. It's the four quadrants of the stage that converge. Okay, here's my best actress. Tony Collette, hereditary. Melissa McCarthy, can you ever forgive me?

[01:02:32] Regina Hall, support the girls. Eva Melander, border. A movie I haven't seen. Show and I talk together. It's the troll movie. A movie that literally foxes. Yes. You want to be fun. Sexy of the year. Real interesting ways. Sexy of the year. And Joanna Cooley for Cold War.

[01:02:52] All right. Mine are Tony Collette in hereditary. Viola Davis in Widows. Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Carrie Mulligan in Wildlife. And my fifth slot is so like the competition. Ultimately won by Charlize Theron and Tully. Favorite of yours. Favorite of mine. Real job. She's wonderful.

[01:03:16] I like both her and Mackenzie. Stone Cold. Viola Davis in Widows. Carrie Mulligan in Wildlife. Regina Hall in Support the Girls. Sakura Ando in Shoplifters. And Helena Howard in Madeline's Madeline. Good spread. And the blankies shows Tony Collette in Hereditary. Olivia Coleman in the Favorite.

[01:03:40] All See Fisher, 8th grade. Lady Gaga at Star is Born. And Regina Hall in Support the Girl. All performances I love. But it's a tough list this year. No one made all four. Best actress for me was like 15 people that I had to whittle down.

[01:03:53] To the point where I wrote, I like leaving off Natalie Portman in Annihilation, leaving off Catherine Hahn in Private Life, leaving off Regina Hall. Hahn in Private Life was on that list. Olivia Cook in Therabreads. Julia Pinoche in Let the Sunshine. Love that one.

[01:04:07] I love to see you let the sunshine out. Cook and Therabreads is whatever. Therabreads is not my favorite. Yeah, I don't love Therabreads. I like Therabreads. Meh, that's what I say to that movie. Let's talk what we talked to Keran and do. We didn't talk Alex Wolff.

[01:04:18] I know this is the wrong category now. That now that we're well beyond it. You have to have the wolf fight? But just because we're talking about Tony Collette. Category fraud and hereditary. Sure, yeah. My thing with Alex Wolff is he's, people keep pointing out to me.

[01:04:31] They end the movie on him. He's the main character at the end of the movie. And it's like, yeah, but he's only that because Tony Collette has fully burned through her storyline. Sure, but I also think the movie so dominates that movie.

[01:04:46] She comes down to this sort of like battle between the two of them. It does a little bit. He's fantastic. It's just like Driver and Black Clownsman. He's the vessel. He's not the lead. He's the vessel. They're trying to use him. No puppet.

[01:04:59] I think so much of that movie is her with... Fucking endowed, baby. Endowed. I was like, why can't I remember her name? Her with the endowed. Her trying to like going through all of her stuff in the attic. With her little dioramas. And it becomes...

[01:05:13] He sort of emerges in that second half of the movie. I mean, he's also in the... That protracted scene at the party and whatever. Right, right. And the scene in the car, which is his scene of the year. Yes.

[01:05:24] After he stops the car and he won't look behind him. Right. And he tries talking to her. Yeah. That's such a good movie. That's a scene. I love hereditary. That's tough. I think hereditary gets caught up in that because there was that debate this year

[01:05:36] with the Quiet Place 2 about like elevated horror and people got really mad about that. And it's just like, can we just say that like hereditary in addition to being the scariest fucking thing I've ever seen is also just a well made like well put together. Right.

[01:05:48] I think people want to say elevated horror because they think saying that it's regular horror is an insult, which it isn't. It's a horror movie. It's also one of the best films of the year. Right. It's both things. They're not mutually exclusive. Right.

[01:05:57] I think horror has periodically allowed itself to sort of wade in the pool of its own schlock in a way that like, we love. Who doesn't love good schlocking horror? And I think that's maybe why people feel the need to differentiate. Yes.

[01:06:11] The problem is that Ari Aster keeps talking about how he like wanted to make a Mike Lee drama and he knew a horror movie. He's been a little like honest about how it's like he knew a genre movie would get attention and get bought and good for him.

[01:06:26] Yeah. Because the movie's good. Tony Colette is so, it's one of those things. He's made another horror movie though. So like I'm excited. I wrote a script for that and it's really fucking. Yeah. It's really fucking. Is it long? It's pretty long.

[01:06:39] Is Florence Pugh the lead of that or is she just a character? I think so. Right. It's her and Jack Rainer. I think are the two leads. She was the only one. Love Pugh. Rainer can be good. I've seen Rainer. I'm sure they'll take her leaving on him.

[01:06:51] My favorite Rainer is a movie nobody saw. I was really trying to get cast in that thing. To no success, but I was like after her answer I was like, I'll fucking do anything. Yeah. But Colette is the opposite of me criticizing something for being too big. Yeah.

[01:07:05] She can go as big as she wants in that movie. It's kind of stunning. I mean, that's just like it's the most acting of the year, but it's also impressive because there's not a single false moment. There's no overreach. Everything's grounded.

[01:07:17] Everything is connected and the breath of what they're asking her to do is insane. Well, and if she doesn't do, if she doesn't go to that length, the shit that happens in that movie wouldn't make sense. Like she's only reacting in proportion to

[01:07:33] what the fuck is going on in that movie. And just talk about smart acting choices. The scene with Ed and Dowd where they're doing the sort of seancey-weegee board thing for the first time and she starts seeing supernatural things that

[01:07:43] she full on can't deny for the first time. Yeah. Most actors would scream. Right. Or start like trembling. Right. And her two things are she starts crying because she can't process it and then she starts laughing out of embarrassment at the fact she's crying. Yeah.

[01:07:59] Like everything she does in that movie is avoiding the most obvious decision. Right. But doing the more complicated thing and then landing it perfectly. That's my way. She's not afraid to let the audience sort of laugh at her too. And that scene where like there she's yelling

[01:08:13] at Alex Wolfe but I'm your mother and I, you know... That dinner table scene. I mean every scene in that movie is like a thing. It rides the edge of insanity and such a good way. I don't like the dinner table scene. Yeah. Really?

[01:08:24] I actually want one of my problems. I love it. Too much. Too much. And I just start, I mean like we don't need to do anything. And also my problem with her editor which has sort of gone away as I rewatched it was that her fucking

[01:08:37] head falls off. Sure does. And then he drives in and he, and it's like if that happened no one would ever speak again. Everyone would just shoot themselves in the head and be dead. Like it's too crazy. Her head fell off. It's like on the road.

[01:08:50] That's what I appreciate the audacity of the movie is just like you're saying they'd never talk to each other again and this movie's going like we have to actually try to figure out what conversation would sound like. Right, right. And how it's same with this conversation.

[01:09:01] I'm rewatched to now prepared that her head was going to fall off. Right. I was like a little more accepting and then on rewatch three I was like man this movie's great. Also just what a fucking beautiful thing. I mean we're just going full spoiler territory

[01:09:13] here but that marketing campaign for that movie is just like this kid is weird. Yeah. And you're watching the first half of the movie you're like what's the thing with the weird kid? Oh. And then the weird kid dies in the most insane way possible.

[01:09:24] You're like I don't know what this movie is now. I agree. I'm just wondering if you have any time in realizing that she gets the it's not that she ate cake with nuts in it but that she ate cake slice like cut with the knife that was

[01:09:36] chopping the walnuts. For whatever reason that was just like this is fucking great. Yeah. Who your winner? Oh your winner is Colette. Who's your winner? Colette. Regina Hall. Regina Hall is great. And the blankies truly really wish I could have put her on my list too.

[01:09:50] That's I mean that movie doesn't work. She's not a real person. I agree. But yeah well who are the blankies? Blankies chose Olivia Colvin which is the category. She's great. It's not fraud to me because it's sort of like she's the queen. Yeah she's the queen.

[01:10:03] She's the fucking queen of England. Yeah. Of all of England. Regina Hall has been so good for so long. Yes. And I feel like you go Regina Hall and Una Farris both come out of scary movie right? Yeah. And it took I feel like 14 years for

[01:10:19] people to finally be like I guess we got to give Una Farris a lot of credit. Right. Where they kept on going like oh she's like the person who's kind of funny in those dumb movies. Right. It took like 14 years for people to

[01:10:28] come around and be like she actually is really good. Right. And at that point she had already transitioned to TV and now she's stuck on mom. Yeah. Which is a okay show. But I miss her being in films. People seem to really like it.

[01:10:38] I miss her being in films. No. Regina Hall took even longer. Yeah. And I feel like now everyone's going like Regina Hall who knew this actress was there rewatch all the dumb comedy she was in. She has always been phenomenal. She's always really phenomenal. She's phenomenal.

[01:10:51] She has always been the best of every single movie she has ever been in. The amazing thing about the Regina Hall thing is it came out of seemingly girls trip. Yeah. And but like support the girls must have already been if not finished like well on the way.

[01:11:07] So it's like. Pajowski is smart and he knew what he took everyone else longer to figure out. Yeah. It's like it's but it's such a moment for her now where it's like I'm so excited for Reverse Big. I can't even tell you. And now she's doing prestige TV.

[01:11:18] She's in more movies. She's above the tell. I'm going to handle this much shaft. Is that what the tagline is? Right. Whatever. Who knows? I don't know. I don't know. Regina Hall rules. Yeah. No complaints there. Carrie Mulligan's a good pick David. She's incredible.

[01:11:35] That movie is flawed in my opinion. Still haven't seen that movie. But she's I love her as an actress and she is the magnetic journey. She goes on because in the beginning you get the sense of like a long long suffering wife kind of a thing. Right.

[01:11:47] And then the turn that character takes right where it's like no this movie is about her going wild. And it's that this was sort of there with her all along. Right. And you underestimated her because you were paying attention to Jill and Hall having a breakdown. Yeah.

[01:11:59] Oh, Jillie. True or false, Melissa McCarthy should win the Oscar as this category is currently. And I think five years from now no one will believe that we didn't give it to her. Of those nominees? I don't. Would you give it to Gaga instead?

[01:12:11] That kind of hurt probably but I mean she's great. I think five years from now everyone's going to go that's so bizarre we didn't give her the Oscar that we all kind of slept on that performance. I mean we didn't sleep on it. She's getting nominated. Yeah.

[01:12:22] She got nomination like I feel like no one's giving it a credit considering that she's getting nominated. It's a quiet ass movie man. It's quiet people now because like lots of people are going to be like why didn't Coleman win? Because Coleman is about to go

[01:12:33] on a run. Yeah. And she's going to be on her TV. She's going to be in movie and people are going to be like what the fuck happened there? You know, like that movie got 10 nominations is going to win zero maybe one. I think it's one at most.

[01:12:45] Yeah. But it's probably zero. So is enough people be standing for her? Enough people will stand for Lady Gaga, especially depending on what happens there. Obviously no one's going to be like well everyone the wife was just you know sitting there. You had to go for the wife.

[01:12:57] What if there was a wife? Which of course there was a wife. Let's just say the wife is winning one award this year at the Blankies. It's best supporting walnuts and that's the only movie deserves. Say what you texted me after you saw the wife.

[01:13:11] The wife is Tyler Perry for white people. It's Tyler Perry for white pseudo-intellectuals. It looks the same. It's got the same sort of like clap back moments where they want the audience to cheer that like she's not putting up with it anymore. The ending is so train life.

[01:13:28] I was just going to say Tyler Perry movies are fun because they go ham. The fact that he fucking dies at the end of that movie is so stupid. And has like a perfect kiss offline as he dies. Fuck that movie. And then I mean I have I

[01:13:40] complained about this? I can't remember but. I can't imagine you've talked about the wife. The framing device of the wife is that she has the same flight attendant on both flight out of the last scene of the movie basically is the flight attendant being like hi.

[01:13:54] I was your flight attendant on the way over and I just wanted to say I heard about what happened during the film The Wife and I just feel really bad for you and Clint close is like thank you and I'm like the flight attendant she's but she's paying

[01:14:05] attention to the Nobel Prize machinations. His blender in that movie is that he writes love notes on walnuts except it's not a blender because it turns out to be right. What? What? He's mad. I saw it by myself at 11 o'clock like a week ago at the

[01:14:26] landmark on the West Side Highway because I was like I gotta just see this fucking thing. And if you walked into that yeah. I was like I've been putting this up for nine months I gotta see it before she wins the fucking Oscar.

[01:14:36] I was like all of this is true. It does have the best supporting. I'm still fine with her Glenclause and she should have an Oscar by now. I can't wait to see her speech Glenclause rules. She should have had her Oscar win Oh boy. for what? Albert Knopf's.

[01:14:52] What? Nobs. I want to be Albert Knopf's for Halloween so badly. I keep on feeling like it's a little touch. 2011. It's also not in the frontal lobes. Well that's why I wanted to do it now. I've been waiting for it to dissipate. Nobs. 2011 best actress listen to

[01:15:07] this lineup you don't want any of these women winning that year for that movie anyway. I'm not sure if it's just Streep and Iron Lady. Nobody likes that she won for that. Violet Davis for the help. Violet Davis for the help. We're all happier that she

[01:15:18] won for her friends. Yeah, I probably should have won though. Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn. Nobody would have been happy if that's her. No worries. Glenclause and Nobs. My Week with the river of Ham more like. It's Rooney Mara in Dragon Tattoo is the only

[01:15:31] one of those. That's performance of Best Five. Yeah, I honestly I would be happy with her with Nobs. I think Nobs is a nightmare movie. I think that's much of a hand-baked movie. She's as much as she can. And as is Jonathan Price

[01:15:44] even though it's a dog shit roll. And Slater is lost. Slater does not know what he's doing. Did anyone talk to him? Max Irons is a weird performance. He fully learned performance. The young version of Jonathan Price is a weird performance. Remember what Max Irons was down?

[01:15:58] I'll let David say thumbs down. A young hottie like it's such a. That's the poutiest performance I have ever seen. It's the pow, it's the powders. Yeah. The powders and frowners award goes to Max Irons. Let's do our screenplays. Why don't you like my short story?

[01:16:12] According to this, we did screenplays last year and actually never said our winners. Oh, wow. Great. Cool. We're good at this podcast. We've been doing it for five years. Adapted first. Yeah. And let's do these faster. Yeah. It's obvious. Gotcha. Okay. You guys go first

[01:16:29] because I forgot to write this list down. So I'm going to have to put it together now. Oh Jesus Christ. Mine are, can you ever forgive me if Beale Street could talk the death of Stalin. And border. I kind of see border. You do.

[01:16:42] They never give me a screener. Give me that screener. Saw it in a theater like a civilized person. What the fuck are you talking about? The day that Penny Marshall died, that's what I will remember is seeing border with Griffin the day that Penny Marshall died. We grieved.

[01:16:55] You did. The death of Stalin. Love the death of Stalin. I thought it was very funny. It's so, so, so funny. Mine are, widows leave no trace if Beale Street could talk. Can you ever forgive me if I didn't choose to be a hero? And Black Panther.

[01:17:16] It's a solid list. Death of Stalin should be in there too though. Death of Stalin's one of those things was just like, it's such a well-acted movie that you're tempted to just be like ensemble. It's the ensemble that does it, but like it's a great movie.

[01:17:27] It's a great movie. I was watching an HBO the other day, so great. The my favorite thing of the year was the Cohen's getting nominated for the Oscars and I My favorite bit and death of Ston clattering fancies. Clattering fancies is so good. Rupert friend is so good.

[01:17:40] Thank you. Thank you for saying that. With the hot team. Also when he tries to spit when he's being pinned to the ground, he tries to spit and it lands into his hair. Oh my God. That's so good. I really actually love the scene,

[01:17:50] which is so freaking dark where they're like, no, your wife was a traitor and she was bad. And then they work right in the op. And you ever did swipes again? Here she is! I think that's so fucking funny. Pailin's my favorite performance in that movie.

[01:18:05] I also just love Pailin so much. He rules, but that scene where he kind of talks himself through his head, well Stalin didn't like doing this. But he also was a rebel. Like, you know, he's sort of like, you know. Also the scene after Jason Isaacs shows up

[01:18:17] and punches Rupert friend in the gut and then Andrew Reisbord just comes out of the back and looks at Buschamion goes, harm, harm right there. It's so good. Do you know what? I'll say, yeah. But now you guys are making me realize

[01:18:31] I'm taking one out and putting Stalin in. Okay, ready? Adapted screenplay. If Beale Street could talk, can you ever forgive me? Black Panther, border, and you were never really here. I forgot that Stalin was adapted, not original, so I take back the thing I just said

[01:18:47] before bringing that category. Those are my five. Beale forgive, Black Panther border, you were never really here. Okay, all right. Are my adapted? My winner's leave no tray. That's a beautifully written. My winner is Black Panther. The winner is... Can you ever forgive me?

[01:19:00] I think Black Panther is just like a marvel of screenwriting. Incredible screenwriting. Very underrated. But it didn't get nomination, drove me crazy. I just think the way he approached... We talked about this in another episode that we recorded yesterday, but the way he approached Killmonger in that movie

[01:19:15] is the smartest screenwriting conceit I have ever seen in a superhero film. For all the nominations that that movie got, the ones that it missed are mystifying. Screenplay and supporting actors? You can't not nominate Kugler when you nominated it. If it's one of your best pictures

[01:19:28] and it gets sent to the nomination. Kugler, Jordan, visual effects but it didn't get the shortlist for visual effects is a nightmare to see. The shortlist was so stupid. Yeah. That Aquaman didn't make the shortlist is one of the most shocking parts in the history of the film.

[01:19:42] I didn't realize that literally all the hair in that movie is CGI. And that movie did like four things that no movie is done visually. Anyway, whatever, whatever. Best Brain King. All right, original screenplay. Go. Original screenplay, I have eighth grade. Sorry to bother you.

[01:20:01] Tully, private life and support the girls. David. Shoplifters. Yes. Voice Reformed. Yes. Support the girls. The writer. The favorite. You're really that spoiled for choice in this kid. Like there's so many. I have first reformed. Sorry to bother you. Hereditary, support the girls and shoplifter. Very nice.

[01:20:23] My winner is first reformed. My winner is sorry to bother you. My winner is eighth grade. Here's why I like about sorry to bother you. You do not like sorry to bother you? No. Really? Oh, really? It sucks. Great. I think it's ambitious and it's interesting

[01:20:38] and I think LaKeith is good and I like a lot of what's going on in it. But at the end, I'm just like, stop hitting me. I get it. I like being hit. Maybe I'm a master. Stop fucking hitting me. I like being hit. I'm making it sometimes.

[01:20:53] But I actually hate being hit. You like curling to a ball. Yeah. I fall faster than Bruce Willis one hit. Yeah. I think it's a great screenplay. I love the ambition of it. I just like people just going for it. I love the ambition.

[01:21:06] And I think his points remain so tight and concise. His eyes on the ball the entire time. That movie ain't tight. I think Boots Riley also is looking at this and being like, somebody's going to make this point subtly.

[01:21:21] I'm going to make this point as loudly and obnoxiously. I like making loud and angry. I'm fine with that. It's just like, if you're going to have this crazy third act twist as well, like does the whole whatever. I don't like the twist in the movie.

[01:21:35] The twist is my problem with that one. I love the twist. And I think the twist is perfectly big. I know I'm going to stick in the mud for not liking the twist or not liking the movie. I don't think the Tessa Thompson character is horribly written.

[01:21:44] I would agree with that. Horribly, horribly, horribly written. Maybe I wouldn't say that many horribles. But yes. It's insane and no one talked about it. I'll say this. I think you could throw an exact same criticism with Amanda Seyfried character in first or form. That character.

[01:21:56] I think both those characters are really underrated. Paul Schrader. Also, Black Clansman does the same thing. Yes. I enjoy Paul Schrader, but I've also seen his Facebook. Look, there's lots going on with him. There are not going on. Yeah. I don't know what to tell you. Guy's messy.

[01:22:15] How did we make it through an entire award season with Schrader getting like... 824 literally pointed at him. I believe. Like literally just like just get off fucking Facebook for six months, please. You mean Paul Schrader, the David Erlich of Hollywood? Oh boy. OK, so...

[01:22:32] This episode is going great. Best director. You don't want to do best score? I have... I think we should do director picture and then fill in some of the other categories. That's fine. Let's do that. Right? OK, best director. I got Lynn Ramsey, Ari Aster, Christopher McQuarrie,

[01:22:49] Paul King, Barry Jenkins. That's a good list. Good list. Paul King? Paul King, Patton to the deuce. I have Alex Garland for annihilation. Oh yeah. Ray Jenkins for if Beale Street could talk. Yorgos Lothamost for the favorite. Steve McQueen for widows and David's friend Boots Riley for...

[01:23:10] Sorry to bother you. Hell's yeah, low five. Sorry, I don't like that movie. I feel bad. Everyone like... You don't like wearing boots? I don't think everybody likes it. I feel like it was... You don't like to put on a pair of boots?

[01:23:20] I love a pair of boots. You don't like getting riled up? I'll put my five. Wait, were you going to say... Not everyone likes it. No, you're right. You're right. Steve McQueen for widows, Hero Kazoo Coretta for Choplifters, Paul Schrader for first reform,

[01:23:38] Brad Lemius P Cooper for a star is born. Actually don't know what his middle name is. Of course he was a CIT in theater. Deborah Granik for leave no trace. OK. That's a good line up. And our winners. I... Charles. This is middle name.

[01:23:54] Oh, and the blankies for best director chose to nominate Alfonso Coran for Roma. A movie none of us are talking about. I know it's wild. I think all of us like it. I think it's good. Yeah, I think it's a very good film. I think it's good.

[01:24:06] I struggled with it in the way I struggled with a lot of Coran movies where it's like I did. I struggled to make the total leap emotionally with him because he's so spectacle. See, I usually go in on him emotionally.

[01:24:16] And this was the first time where I'm like, I can't deny this thing, but I also don't love it. It took me a second time. I got there the second time. I have to say second time I watched it.

[01:24:23] I look, I got nothing bad to say about it. I saw it really near Bradley Cooper at Toronto and he was like. I saw that he was like doing Lenny at the Oscars. You saw in BCX. I saw it really near Barry Jenkins.

[01:24:37] What best director nominee did you see? Is that a BJX? I saw it very near my girlfriend. There we go. Who was snubbed this year? Really? Well, she should make a feature. She did. She directed the Green Book.

[01:24:49] That's the worst thing I've ever said about a person I love. She should leave you. Yeah, she should. She's going to sue me for slander. Not only will she leave me, but she will sue me. Blanky's nominate a Fonzo crown for aroma, Barry Jenkins, a Billsbury,

[01:25:04] Cata, Kjergos Lanthimos, the favorite Steve McQueen, Widow's trader first reformed. My winner is Steve McQueen. My winner is Lynn Ramsey. My winner is Steve McQueen. And the blankies show us a Fonzo crown. Sure. Will the Academy? Yeah.

[01:25:17] But if Spike Lee wins that in a surprise, that'll be fun. It'd be wonderful. I also will not be unhappy if Alfonzo Cron wins. I'm very happy that neither Brian Singer nor Peter Farrell got nominated. Everyone in that category is...

[01:25:30] I mean, look, I'm not a big fan of vice, but the other four nominees in that category are stellar. That's the point. Yes. I mean, I was not expecting your ghost and Pavel to get it. I thought your ghost was going to get snubbed.

[01:25:41] I'm cooler on Cold War, not to be fancy with it. I'm ice cool on Cold War. I did love Cold War and I don't... It puzzled me. Griffin looked at me for approval and I approve, honestly. I'm losing my mind. Oh, boy. Alrighty.

[01:26:00] I think Cold War rolls, but it's that's a prickly film. I like the first 25 minutes of Cold War and then it steadily loses. I agree. And then I also like the remaining 65. Short. It's a short one. A whole movie fox. All right. Best picture. Come on, guys. OK.

[01:26:14] Oh, boy. Because to me, director is just a pregame for best picture. Yes, it is. Sure. All right. My number 10. I want to do a tie, but I don't want to be pure. Private life. Nine. Roma. Eight eighth grade. Seven a star is born. Six.

[01:26:31] Can you ever forgive me? Five hereditary. Four. If Beale Street could talk. Three of the favorite two annihilation. One widows. My 10 are burning. Number 10. Beale Street. Number nine. Mission impossible fallout. Number eight. The rider. Number seven. Support the girls. Number six. Leave no trace. Number five. Stars born.

[01:26:55] Number four. First reform. Number three shoplifters. Number two widows. Number one. I was the only critic of the Village Voice Bowl who put widows number one. And you would ask me. Two of us. Yeah. Yeah. I would have happily done it. Yeah.

[01:27:09] It's it fucks doesn't even begin to cover how great widows is. Uh it's a movie I like a lot. I have no explanation for why I didn't make my 10. It's OK. Go ahead. But here's my 10. I formatted this poorly.

[01:27:22] So excuse me if there are any hiccups in reading this. Number 10. Start about number nine. The bleed of Buster Scrubs. Number eight. Support the girls. Number seven. Can you ever forgive me? Number six. Mission impossible fallout. Number five. Cold war. Number four. If Beale Street could talk.

[01:27:41] Number three. P to the deuce. Number two. Hereditary number one you were never really here. P to the deuce. That's what Jamesy calls. Here. P to the deuce. Number 13. Right on right hovering right outside for me were Black Panther Scrugs Paddington First Man Incredibles 2. Those were like hovering.

[01:27:58] It hurt me to leave spider verse off at 10. I thought. Well that's better loved it. Now here's a thing. No one else is hovering for me in many categories. What. Sorry I'm just starting my engine. Mm. Mule. Oh no. What a movie.

[01:28:17] I can't wait to buy that and fucking 4k and watch it six times a day. Bradley Cooper. He's literally on my long list. Me trying to figure out how much you actually like the mule has been like a month long.

[01:28:30] Those are the things where I went in being like for me. Griffin still after me. The basement on this is I'll like it like as this sort of silly thing. Yeah. And the you know ceiling is like I'll fucking love it and it was close to the ceiling.

[01:28:44] Wow. David that's the funniest thing you've ever done. Well thank you. The mule rolls. Yes it does. He has how many threesomes? Two. Two threesomes. That's fucking crazy. Yeah. So if you time if you multiply he has six sexes. Wow. Six sex. The six sexes. He's 70. 70. Yeah.

[01:29:12] He's 88 I think right. I believe he's 88 years old. Is he playing in the 90 year old? He's playing a little older. He's 88. He's 88 right. This film. No. Cleanie's what doesn't write movies. It was written by the guy who wrote the story. It's like the original Crazy. Yes.

[01:29:28] No another thing. Cleanie's what finally comes up with the right metaphor for how he views his filmmaking career which is a garden. Just let me plant another flower. Wear another bow tie. I went into the mule.

[01:29:42] One thing I did not know was the florist thing like that he's like the hottest botanist and or the Illinois or whatever ladies love him and that scene where he's like how you doing your old motherfucker

[01:29:55] and the guy is like how you all muley pants like here you are. He's like I had the best fucking orchids you ever saw. Yeah. I also call that movie Clint v technology dawn of mulling because it's so much good him complain about that's where he just goes

[01:30:10] Internet. What's the line he says we're goes that that's the problem with your generation don't know how to change it. No what is it you don't have to fix a bread box without pulling up the Internet. What does he say I can't remember if it's bread box something

[01:30:23] he says a thing. He I believe he says you don't know how wrong with someone's bread box. I think he says you don't know how to fix a bread box without calling up the Internet calling up the Internet is definitely part yes.

[01:30:35] But that's still a movie where his daughter plays his daughter. Yep. Yeah. Diane Weas is playing or Diane his ex-wife is great in the movie. The final scene is him just going I've been a shitty guy. The final scene is him saying guilty literally literally

[01:30:49] they're like you've been a shithead and he's like guilty. Clutch to Clint singing Graham who has Bradley Charles Cooper play in this movie. He plays the cop who's after him and there's literally a scene but he's what he is playing is the young director

[01:31:00] if like to his Robert Redford yes but he's playing a young director who Eastwood is mentoring and there's a scene where they have a waffle house lunch breakfast. And Eastwood's like you know you got to remember anniversaries and your kids you should be nice to them.

[01:31:16] Listen I know what I'm talking about and Cooper's like all right all right and it's literally just like it just sounds like a fucking conversation they had like on the set of American Sniper. OK I found the line and this is even better.

[01:31:27] The line verbatim is your generation doesn't know how to open a fruit box without calling the Internet. I knew it was something weird you don't know how to open a fruit box to be fair without calling the Internet where I presented with a fruit box.

[01:31:44] I would have to consult something I would speed dial the Internet and go please help me. We haven't even hit two hours we're doing great. I've been called a fruit box in my time and you know what it's not not enjoyable and much like it is an

[01:31:58] insult much but like the best fruit boxes you open up and share your views with all of us. Everybody yes. All right so best number one for you your best picture of the year is you're never really here. You never really here.

[01:32:10] I want to see you loved from the minute you saw it. I just a masterpiece 10 out of 10. I love it. I think Lynn Rams is one of the best living filmmakers. Movern Caller to me is still just that's a perfect movie.

[01:32:20] It's an incredibly tough film and I saw it twice in theaters because I just couldn't get enough of how good the thing is and I also think it's weirdly hopeful. Now P2 that's wild right P2 you know the critics film of

[01:32:34] the year right the best review movie in history right. You and I have talked about the fact that we were both confused right as to why it was getting so much more hyperbole than P1 right and I think the answer is we need it more now.

[01:32:47] I think with that I do think people came around to one you want a ton it's a little more visually bold like it's got a couple stunner sequences. And the villain is a little better. Knuckles McGinty. Yes I I also feel like there was a contingent of people

[01:33:04] feeling sad that they got left out of the original comics and wave that really I think there's really wanted to be on board for this one. Yeah. Now I'm gonna say so I think P1 is a little better than P2 but they're very close.

[01:33:17] I think Mission Impossible Rogue Nation is better than Fallout and yet both of those movies made my 10 and made my director list. Go to go to college better than both of those. Go to college better than both but five Rogue Nation is the best one.

[01:33:32] I'm so excited for Mission Impossible you know Tom turns himself into a pretzel and a shot to another dementia whatever it's going to be called. I've been watching old Oscar ceremonies I was telling David before we started the 2000 2001 Oscars the Mulan Rouge year whatever took place

[01:33:51] in 2002 the Barbara Walter special that proceeds the Oscar that year because that's the recording I have has that TC Tom Cruise. This is post Nicole divorce with Nicole where Nicole is the nominee. Tom is not the story Barbara decides to interview

[01:34:06] Tom right inside an airplane hangar where like planes are taking off and Barbara Walters keeps going like you chose this place I don't understand he's like 11 but he also has the adult races on so this was like this was very like post

[01:34:20] divorce crisis Tom yes it was quite something. This was the point I was going to make. I'm two films that are sequels to films that I liked more are charting higher than those right they're predecessors and the answer is right here

[01:34:35] I feel like a I was a coward back then I was a younger man I didn't have the courage to argue for the value of great populist cinema sure right and put it up there with what will you say without one Aquaman

[01:34:47] to becomes that in a few years. I've been upset in the fucking crab kingdom or whatever do you know about this Ben do you know they're making a Aquaman spin off called the trench that is a horror movie just set in the trench with the trench monster

[01:35:01] I saw that it's going to fucking rule I've never heard of a wet horror movie before it's deep yeah dark there's a good crap people someone someone make a horror movie list for him dark water that's a wet horror movie there's one's what horror movies

[01:35:16] set on Roosevelt Island dark water that's right where my friends just moved and I've mentioned that movie to them every time I've talked to it feels like a cool place to move to Roosevelt Island yeah they just had a baby

[01:35:26] so they literally went there to step out of the world they were like we're going to raise our baby sure come back later I was just going to say I gravitated towards movies that made me feel a little better about humanity this year

[01:35:38] but the tough movies I liked were the ones that still gave me some fucking kernel of hope and I feel like Beale Street and you were never really here or both movies about people trying to like maintain their integrity in horrific

[01:35:49] circumstances you know I mean I'm you're never really here as a man who inserts himself into the worst circumstances imaginable yeah and and you're trying to figure out why and Beale Street is people trying not to collapse under the systemic pressure of racism

[01:36:04] even our number one widows ends on not a note of like triumph for the heist but it's literally Viola Davis and Elizabeth Dubicki being like we can be friends the triumph is so great I want movies where people do nice things to each other it's so great

[01:36:19] if she didn't say hi the movie would not they have to go through a lot of work to get there I want movies where at the end people go like yeah fucking let's just like reach out and talk

[01:36:26] to each other and try to kind things for each other and shoot Bob Duvall who are your putters and murmurs this year or my putters and murmurs we're talking about speaking of Bob Duvall yeah okay Joe just dramatically flip pages it was not as loud as I thought

[01:36:41] it was a great movement thank you so we did talk about Coop several months ago yeah he's still the top of my list but I'm surprised you did not consider Eva Melander and Ira Milanoff I certainly considered him that is a tandem putter and murmur

[01:36:58] here's what I would say I think that's more of a sniffles and grovels you know because that's a lot of it is a lot of sniffling and groveling kind of you know whereas Be Coops a lot more like alright next up just want to take another look

[01:37:12] Jennifer Jason Lee in Annihilation oh that's an interesting way to there's a lot of murmurs I think that's a good call there's a lot of murmurs out of her especially the end where she has this very crucial model she goes annihilation annihilation annihilation

[01:37:24] I'm going to turn into a fucking nindle bulb now did Annihilation make your list David I know you and I saw that one together I fucking love that movie but it's more it's a top 20 for me yeah yeah top 20 for me but I love that movie

[01:37:37] Jeffrey Wright and Hold the Dark not a movie that I loved have not seen that's a huge putter's and murmurs that's a very putter's and murmurs performance that movie is the most baffling movie it's the most baffling movie I see that movie with like 50 questions

[01:37:49] that movie is literally I think my I think my I said on Twitter I was just like Hold the Dark 2018 Dear Nonsense it was just like question mark it has this insane shoot out spectacle in the middle of it that really has no connection to anything else

[01:38:05] that happens in it well sage and then they come to usually well sage James Badgedale and Jeffrey Wright in his house like drinking wine like what a day and I'm like what do you mean what a day the most police in American history were just murdered like they're

[01:38:18] the president would be in spectacularly violent ways yes with a fucking like with a giant cannon gun right yeah insane insane insane I mean there's I think there's another performance that none of us like in a movie that none of us like

[01:38:32] where if you're going to give it any credit you have to give it credit for putters and murmurs let's hear it Bale and Vice sure yeah I mean Dick Cheney is the king of the it's still the penguin a little bit it's still just like yeah

[01:38:44] but I'm saying if you're if you're grading just on that scale yeah you do some good puttering some good murmuring it fits it's not it's not bad Griffin Joe's doing I'm trying to only talk out of the side of my mouth he's doing the life

[01:38:56] the other one I had I want to be my last one what if I was bad I'm a big tum tum man Helena Marcos in Suspiria which I will grant is maybe more a wheezes and whispers than the putters and murmurs yeah but what the fucking

[01:39:14] the doctor though the doctor man Tilda is well the doctor is is guilt and recrimination sure the tilt is doing a lot who can we can stipulate that I love Suspiria I don't know if I love Suspiria I loved the scene in Suspiria where Dakota Johnson

[01:39:32] dances a woman into a pile of bones oh boy that is quite the scene that was quite I gotta say another putters and murmurs we're not talking about that's it grandma shoplifter sure you're in Kiki I think sure this was a banner year for putters and murmurs

[01:39:46] for putters and murmurs she rules she's amazing and another creative phone called after the storm yes where she a lot of it is just her chiseling at this like ice cream yes great amazing what else do we a score come on give me your scores

[01:40:02] I love doing a score I was tweeting about this the other the other night too incredible year for score it's a really really good year I had just seen at Eternity's gate and I was like I can't believe this to phone nomination but this sounds really good

[01:40:13] and wait and I don't bring up her name because it's the rare female composer I know it's one of these male dominated craft categories Tatiana Lissovia Lissovskaya for that Eternity's gate really good probably in my seventh spot but still I wanna say I just think the best element

[01:40:36] of any film in 2018 the single-year's accomplishment in the field of filmmaking in 2018 is the score for Biel Street oh it's an amazing score Nicholas Bertel yeah that's my number one I definitely is just stunning that's my number one with a bullet I also have Ben Salisbury

[01:40:50] and Jeff Barrow for Annihilation great score which will never get out of my mind ever Daniel Hart for The Old Man and the Gun incredible score highly underrated Max Richter for Mary Queen of Scots not a great movie but a great score that movie fucking

[01:41:04] I haven't seen it it does but great score and then my wild card which few people have talked about this Cliff Martinez for Game Night is a really good score you know we haven't talked about Game Night Clemens is incredible McCatims is incredible Chandler's great yeah yeah

[01:41:22] McCatims is so funny the score I have not considered I love Cliff Martinez it's really weird that's also a beautiful shot but it's like it really like it's a good looking movie yeah it amps up that like drama but in a really over the top way

[01:41:35] where you know it's still like funny yeah wonderful oh no he died is the best line yes it is of the year absolutely um for me Tom York and Suspiria I disagree I think there's a better line reading go ahead that's the problem with your generation

[01:41:48] can't open a fruit box without calling the internet hey Bradley I just want to take another look at you I just wanted to mule another drugs at you can they make a mule sequel please sure starts with a prison scoop then you just start to mule again

[01:42:06] I'm gonna mule myself out of this jail it's just mule two never stop mulling it's just too old it's too ULE because my favorite thing about mule is that he's just driving a car and like he's the point is that he's so old

[01:42:20] that no cop would be like this guy's a drive mule you know so like I would in the prison break he's just like he just gets in a car and starts somebody like hey aren't you a prisoner he's like no don't mind me the same where he bribes

[01:42:31] I gotta go with popcorn tin yeah you know we're all missing the obvious answer I'm so loaded up on fucking cattle corn we're all in a in a trunk that's otherwise filled to the brim with inspicuously blank black duffel bags that are clearly filled with drugs and money

[01:42:52] he just goes with big seas take this cattle corn good products and murmurs was our Garcia in the mule too oh Andy Garcia Mr. Golden Gun Garcia Garcia had a year between that yeah he's kind of a product and murmurs and mom and me too

[01:43:07] because he's a lot of like oh yes excuse me except when he goes close yeah yes across the entire it's a triumph I also love that Andy Garcia is going like I will romance any actress 12 years older than me on screen I'll roll out the beer

[01:43:19] he really had a time of it this year share had a great time Diane Keaton yes yeah good for Andy Garcia he romances Clint Eastwood in the mule he romanced humanity onto that spaceship and passengers and was just like I did wait yeah I wouldn't believe it

[01:43:32] we have to include that as part of his big year because of course they re-release passengers for the 30,000 screens ah every cut wait what were you gonna say though I was gonna say we're missing the obvious answer here which is the sequel to the mule

[01:43:45] is called the mules it's a family business it's with the dollars my score nominees Nicholas Bertel from Beale Street Tom York for Suspiria Justin Hurwitz for First Man which is an incredible score I agree with that I agree with that it's and that movie rules and whatever

[01:44:01] well that's one people sort of come around on eventually Daniel Hart and the old man in the gun and Ludwig Goranson for Black Panther which is my winner and has like the greatest hero theme of all time and it has the greatest city fee yes or you know

[01:44:16] country thing but like Wakanda Capital you know like that state holy shit I'm also gonna say something really controversial I think all the lights should win best song oh that's a great song I think it is a really great song but it should not win no

[01:44:28] I forgot to read this the blankies best pictures oh right shit 10 Mission Impossible 9 Hereditary 8 P2 the Deuce 7 Annihilation 6 Spider-Man to the Spider verse 5 Widows 4 Roma 3 Beale Street 2 the favorite 1 First Reform yeah alright I think I got good fans yeah we do yeah good good list

[01:44:51] you do have a reformed one yeah alright I know we did Voice performers last year so I came with a couple I did too I think there are a couple big standouts this year okay one was Tom Hardy in Venom which is half of a voice performance

[01:45:04] but like wow the voice performance part of that is that's a really good call and you're thinking outside the box thank you yeah okay I tried I don't want to I don't want to be traditional here no yeah the other one that I have is my number one

[01:45:16] with a bullet which is Katherine Keener and Incredibles 2 beat me to it she's so great in that okay me too it because here's who my five would be okay Katherine Keener Incredibles 2 yes she's the inner she's wonderful in that yep Ben Wyshaw P2 the Deuce

[01:45:35] sure doesn't work with Adam right then I think me now I'm really where is he where is he where is he well I'm gonna say Nicky Cage Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse he rules he rules yeah and then my winner for me Clearcut the best voice

[01:45:51] or performance of the year and I'm hoping this is who you're waiting for me to say Jim Cummings Christopher Robin oh for when he was amazing yeah I wasn't thinking here but of course who are you thinking for where is Jake Johnson the fuck are you talking about

[01:46:04] yeah performance is extraordinary that's actually that's that's that's right that's like extraordinary the problem is also like turn it up turn it up no that perform like the problem is Mahershala is also incredible in Spider-Verse you could fill your category Brian Tyler Henry is also incredible in Spider-Verse

[01:46:23] but I remember Malaney is incredible Malaney is incredible Malaney fucking owns yeah performance is in Big Mouth is on TV but he's yeah he's great oh my god no I think you're ready about Jake Johnson though I think that character like that's the key though there's some degree

[01:46:39] of difficulty I'll knock Nicky Cage out I'll put Jake Johnson but Jim Cummings is still not I would also say Gal Gadot in Wreck-It Ralph Shane Ralph Bricksy internet love shank love some shank America's got shank fever yeah I mean you know Sandler oh yeah blah blah

[01:46:54] H.C.3 I'm trying to think of other voice performances but I guess yeah yeah those are my five I agree Keener's The Sandout of Incredibles yeah I think Ralph Brick's the internet we've said in previous episodes is like an insane step up from already great performance

[01:47:13] in the first movie so who was it that had the really creepy reaction to Incredibles 2 Anthony Olin okay that pissed me off doubly because the real truth of it is like there is some chemistry going on between Holly Hunter and Kevin Keener's characters in Incredibles 2 that is queer

[01:47:33] you know what I mean there's queerness to that not in like textual way whatever but like in the classic sort of like queering and narrative kind of a way that I wanted to talk about and I couldn't because then I thought it was just gonna be a creep

[01:47:44] like Anthony Olin I believe I tweet this out as well but also he wrote an article about Pixar like ten years ago where he devoted three paragraphs to how much he wanted to fuck Elastigirl like he's been on this has been his problem for a while

[01:47:56] while I'm saying like we all agree right I mean I think the third paragraph ends with and yes she can stretch any part of her body and you're like what what are you what you think she could stretch like her liver and the string more and apparently

[01:48:10] he wants to fuck her liver or something I don't know Anthony Lane of course wins best critic of the year third year running for his Incredibles 2 review I also came with a with a with a list of scumbums for Ben this year because I wanted to be

[01:48:24] a good guest I wanted to bring something right we've talked about what King Phoenix and you were never really a classic Ben scumbum yeah and scum on with a hard to go but here's what I'll say what I love about the specifics of the scumbumery it's outer borough

[01:48:36] sort of like weird no middle of nowhere Queens shady like bodega mama's boy scumboy yeah yeah a lot of good just like shady New York locations yeah that's good to I wonder if you've maybe considered Richard Grant and can you ever forgive me is cops quality scumbum

[01:48:56] have you seen that Ben no because you I think you'd appreciate this character a scarcicated scumbum yeah but that's what he is he's a gentleman scumbum truly but he's a scammer yeah he's a scoundrel a scoundrel he's incorrigible yeah but like you can't not you can't

[01:49:11] not love him yeah okay I'm on board and then also Nicole Kidman and destroyer wow is some unconventional scumbum but like she's like a killer no she's a cop gone to see she's a cop who's who's she's like dirty willing to do the bad thing so she's taken

[01:49:28] crime into her own hands yeah yeah uh yeah you're speaking my language and this is like LA like LA scumbum Ben looks so proud right yeah take a look at this let me know what you think does Ben have some category I mean are there other things

[01:49:41] that we won't talk about no I think it's time we're gonna let them uh oh is it my time it's your time to shine okay here we go wait let me just eat the bagel I've had for two hours let me just remind the audience of some

[01:49:52] of your favorites from last year because they're all here oh yes baby driver should be fruit driver main fruit is the honeydew melon nice that makes sense all the money in the world do a CGI puppet instead of Christopher Plummer I don't remember when that was a movie

[01:50:07] Molly's game should have been made with puppies reenact dogs playing poker thank you Pirates of the Caribbean I did not remember you saying this dead men tell no tales what about clowns of the Caribbean dead jesters have no words what is I don't remember that either

[01:50:23] well that's because I lack that is my original category movies that should be remade with either babies animals or puppets but then also fruit and now clowns too but maybe a robot or two could be cool okay so here we go here we go all right

[01:50:36] so for babies alright guys widows or baby widows those are some cute little criminals but they're widowed but babies their husbands their husbands are dead baby Cynthia Revo can still sprint though like can really get around yes all right for animals I thought I love dogs

[01:50:56] fix the movie have all the problematic human characters be dogs so just everyone's a dog everyone's a dog true isle of dogs but then the dog the real dogs are big to distinguish yeah so it's like a cool sort of perspective thing so called like

[01:51:12] isle of big dogs yeah all right all right mid 90s felt right for like a puppet remake sure because that's pretty much just like think it would just make it after school special right it's good it's very accurate all right I'm all for equal representation in Hollywood

[01:51:35] but there is something about crazy rich fruits that's got a really nice ring to it they're rich they're rich they're crazy and they're crazy who's the lead character though a banana all right all right clowns ready player clown yep Ryland's was close for me on

[01:51:55] supporting actor by the way I want to say that oh I want to say something else I'm sorry to interrupt you I want to say something else I rewatched ready player one on a plane to Utah in fact it's good it's a good movie

[01:52:08] it's better the second time if fucking rules I'm buying it on itunes it's a good movie wow thank you I'm so stunned I stopped shooting my baby his eyes bugged out of his head very hard to eat all the action in that movie is fucking incredible

[01:52:24] it kind of rules it kind of rules I'm sorry and it's just Spielberg yelling at us and yelling at himself and it rules I'm sorry I'm sorry carry on please and then now adding a robot or two I was thinking robot Mary Poppins returns yeah yep

[01:52:40] so like that the twist of her return where she's like I'm back and now like yeah like her face opens up she could like like her umbrella now is just like a helicopter yeah oh so so Inspector Gadget is what is what we're visiting Inspector Gadget right right

[01:52:57] right love it alright next up we have the weddings okay so last year some of your slickest flicks were Blade Runner Future Wet yeah what is this? oh I I Tanya where you're pointing out that the rinks were frozen water frozen water yeah Dunkirk soaked to death yep

[01:53:16] Shape of Water title says it all yep and Justice League because the movie is sweaty and Aquaman right right alright so this year we have Serenity got a salty ass dog well that's actually 2019 but whatever who cares give me it okay you also still haven't seen

[01:53:33] I know it's wet it's wet I mean everyone on Twitter is like have you seen it yet and usually people either contact me about big stuff or wet stuff so oh there's a big fish in that movie too there's a big fish there is but it's wet okay

[01:53:47] also plot twist is also big in that movie it's big Manny Max but is also big in that movie yeah it is and it is frequent next up we have Venom because he's sticky and also he gets in the lobster tank that time yeah it's a wet moment

[01:54:03] it's a wet moment classic where his face is melting down the favorite cause it's just like gross wet like throw up and they're like sure getting buckets thrown on that's true that's true you know she burns her hand to chemicals yeah what do you call it lie lie

[01:54:22] yeah yeah so what's the I'm sure a star is born you make the rules here I do a star is born cause he is so drunk he's just a wet man wet himself he's soaked I was not expecting the wetest films category to line up this closely

[01:54:37] with best picture what else come on well of course we've got my man Aquaman I mean that's the winner right that's the clear winner that wins the bucket of water or whatever the award is yeah um yeah I don't know maybe it's a golden mop yeah

[01:54:55] the golden Voss bottle alright now apparently last year you had a category called should have had Jared Leto in it have you kept this category alright that one's got that one well we got an honorable mention for Vice receives the Heathick Award cause Christian Bale's looking

[01:55:11] that really tasty as Dick Cheney ooh yes alright and then lastly we have the um no thank you um no thank you alright first up we got Bohemian Rhapsody uh no thanks yeah it's a bloated biopic directed by a rapist that movie is like

[01:55:28] number one with a bullet in the uh no thank you it's the uh no thank you Hull of Fame I like how there's also no joke to make you're just stating the fact that is a bloated biopic directed by a rapist yeah why is this nominated

[01:55:38] for best picture great question I don't know uh next up we have Roma wow I'm dragged bring a pillow geez you're gonna fall asleep to this flick Roma's also incredibly wet I mean it opens with a three minute shot of tiles being washed I know

[01:55:57] it ends with the whole family the Fierce and Formidable Ocean is a huge character in Roma I think Ben might have been sleeping in my bed apparently yeah I don't think I made it to the beach uh next up we got Green Book uh yeah no thank you

[01:56:11] you lost me at book so it's like here's how it goes it's like green and you're like all right tell me more yeah I'm into that tell me one more word I'm in for one more word after green look look lost me thank you at attorney's gate uh

[01:56:29] sounds too long no thank you sure sure and lastly we have can you ever forgive me no thank you you can't forgive him no you're stealer nah I just wasn't interested uh and that's been fair enough original categories again for the fourth annual blankies

[01:56:47] and that's why he's our finance film you deliver like few others but I have to Anthony Lane has to give us a word back yeah it's true Ben's taking it yeah happens every year we always forget and Lee Lane just wrote an app a review of this episode

[01:56:59] that's just about how much he wants to fuck bet boy oh oh oh oh oh oh boy oh oh oh oh what more is there to say nothing I don't know it truly was a wonderful night for blackies we're fine it was a wonderful night for blankies

[01:57:13] two thirteen with three star-studded ad reads already baked in here's what I'll say yeah this is definitely gonna be better than whatever the Oscars are gonna serve up whatever whatever poopoo that is true and shorter and yet still pay attention John Bailey yeah award all twenty four

[01:57:30] that's the hashtag uh yeah it is I'm with it it is kind of incredible uh a night that is theoretically meant to celebrate the art of motion pictures is now jettison the airing of the categories devoted to the pictures right and the process that puts them in motion

[01:57:47] next to each other you could make a movie without actors yep but you could not make a movie without cinematography in the editing I think also Guillermo Rotoro today tweeted like you're literally removing the two art forms that are entirely inherent yes to like everything is like

[01:58:04] like the Lumiere tradition or whatever you know like these are the two things that are right proprietary to film make it I could go out and make a movie tomorrow and not have any actors in it but I would need cinematography and I would need editing

[01:58:15] those are the only two things you absolutely need to qualify as a movie yes no no no but also that chair with your name on the back of it you do need one of those and you need a picture of you looking behind the viewfinder yeah

[01:58:25] with like um uh like like your hat a hat is like a yeah like maybe a battleship's name right and you're like pointing off vaguely somewhere yeah maybe some like sort of big sunglasses and a photographer to take a photograph of you pointing at a thing

[01:58:37] from your chair right yeah you need that you need that but that's it that's it that's it those are the only three things I can't wait for best hat this year I'm just gonna win Terrence Malick yes always every year still the best hat still the best director

[01:58:48] best hand-to-hand movie profile folks may it never ever change you know he sued them for giving the academy that picture right wow because he doesn't like to have his photograph taken the producers gave that photo the one they've now used both times he's been nominated for best director

[01:59:01] and he sued them for giving the photo away what a cheerful guy which is also it's the only best director photo of someone smiling in history my favorite is they're always so serious and he's smiling you can get in black and white or it's a great hat

[01:59:15] there's the third picture now they're more in a paparazzi era yeah well you're gonna catch me he does have to be on set I love Terry I love Terry can't wait for retigans or whatever it's called yeah I think playing you off okay all right

[01:59:29] he's also he is now directing gardens of galaxy three right yeah that's right yeah it's very manly finally finally we've got him into the MCU and he's also playing Batman now yeah I'm what if that was the twist that it turned out Terrence Malick was hosting the Oscars

[01:59:46] really we didn't want to tell you yeah he's very press shy here he is Terrence Malick what a great movie he's so scared yo what if he comes out and he's like let's talk about me too oh boy oh no oh god representation in Hollywood

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[02:00:59] I'll be on soon discussing yeah we gotta have you on Griff we had David on we talked about Alexander it was a good old conversation and let me watch that four hour mask piece again ah it's you're watching quite something are you watching ultimate

[02:01:11] OK was that the fourth or the fifth cut I think it's the fourth it's the one before the last one it's not the longest one no it's the one that's a little shorter than the intermediate it honestly doesn't matter because like honestly the theatrical cut is fine

[02:01:23] the bigger cuts don't really the longest one is the one that's on Netflix though I'm pretty sure they just make seems sort of fatter and like add more shit to them it's not really necessary yeah I like the length that it should be as long as fucking possible

[02:01:35] yeah it adds a lot of the like romance stuff a lot of a lot of yeah sure but yeah follow us on Twitter at had underscore Oscar underscore buzz my co-host Chris file and I be very very grateful and thank you for having me

[02:01:47] on to be able to tell your fantastic listeners it would be kind of right up there at least yeah please do you're not already listening what's wrong with you I say I don't know any final thoughts David you're in film I'm so excited 2019

[02:02:01] I never want to think about 2018 again as usual what do you think is going to be your best film of 2019 I mean serenity I've seen two films that are three films that are potentially oh that's true I have a because I went to Sundance right

[02:02:14] right I have my best actress contender who is going to be very hard to budge from that spot Elizabeth Moss well Mossy in her smell fucking I don't I don't I can't envision a performance it's going to knock that out but high life blew me away

[02:02:28] and then at Sundance I mean the farewell is yeah you know like I'm excited for that ruin me really good that movie is so good that I sometimes think about how it ends and start crying really yeah which is not it's not like something

[02:02:42] I do on the reg no that's like a lot of movies where I start crying when I think about usually stone cold yeah stone cold and then the souvenir which I assume is coming out this year and is already a sequel is already in production and like

[02:02:53] I cannot overemphasize how amazing this movie is the the there was a movie that came out like a month ago a dogs way home sure there's a dog's journey or something a dog's breakfast is next I thought a dogs way home was the sequel to a dog's journey

[02:03:10] one of them is not related right one of them is a separately produced adaptation of a book written by the same author and the other one's a direct sequel so this is some like like where James Bond like people own half the rights or whatever like like really

[02:03:25] go I like that they're both all three movies are written by the same people Bruce Cameron joints yeah is this also a dog's purpose or am I making of this right that's the one I was thinking dogs purpose dogs journey dogs way home or the three yeah

[02:03:37] I think that's right but only two of them are legally connected to each other the hornets nest the dog who played with fire yeah anyway that's my best picture 2019 agree you're right you're right um and as always fuck the wife get out and I well wait a second

[02:03:55] what and if there was a wife okay you know what and as always reconsider the wife back