100% Accurate 2020 Oscar Predictions Part 1 - The Pictures - Setting the Table - Ep 171

All The Movies With A Chance At Oscar! ***This is a spoiler-free episode*** What This Two-Part Preview Is - Top of Show Recapping MMO’s Oscar Week - 3:50 The Coming Soon-ers - 6:01 (Captain Marvel, Us, The Beach Bum, Missing Link, Avengers: Endgame, Dumbo, Shazam, High Life, Climax) The Sundancers: Sundance’s Recent Award Season Players - 15:40 Apollo 11/The Report/The Farewell - 17:13 Late Night/Clemency/Honey Boy - 22:15 Luce/The Last Black Man in SF/The Souvenir - 27:03 Documentary Possibilities - 29:39 Big Tim Adolescents Long Time Coming Big Names: The irishman - 34:40 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 38:32 The Goldfinch - 42:04 Recently Nominated Academy Darlings: Little Women/A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - 43:44 The Last Thing He Wanted/Gemini Man - 47:17 The Woman in the Window/Ford vs Ferrari - 51:12 The Lighthouse/Yesterday/Queen and Slim/The Laundromat - 54:08 Lightning Round Finish - 58:52 Potential Oscar Breakouts: Harriett/The Rhythm Section/Midsommar - 1:01:04 David Copperfield/Knives Out/Passing/Lucy in the Sky - 1:06:18 The Truth/The King/Ted Bundy/Bergman Island - 1:10:48 Other Blockbusters: Cats/Rocketman/Downton Abbey/Star Wars - 1:11:58 Ad Astra/Disney’s Goodies/Addams’ Family/Sopranos Prequel - 1:13:51 What’s Next/Social Media/Words of Wisdom - 1:16:17 We turn the page toward the 2019/20 Awards Season by previewing all of the buzzed about, way too early contenders for next year’s Oscars. It’s step 1 and part 1 of our Way Too Early Oscar Predictions series, and it’s the necessary step before we can actually make those picks in our next episode. We NEVER stop. It’s all about Oscars 2020 now! This show has quickly become a highlight on our calendar. It’s a blast to look ahead at the calendar at large and locate all of the potential Oscar movies in the slate, and we broke the films down into 6 groups. First, we talked about the movies we got on our schedule over the next two months of March & April with Captain Marvel (next week’s first OSP / Movie Event) and March 22nd’s Us from Jordan Peele. Then we took a dive into the offerings from this winter’s Sundance Film Festival with most of the major players now owned by Amazon Prime, certainly envious of how Netflix emerged as a major player on red carpets this past season. Group 3 is the long anticipated, Long Time Coming’s like Scorsese’s The Irishman & Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The fourth group discusses all the films from recently nominated people from Greta Gerwig’s Little Women to Daniel Kaluuya’s buzzed about performance in Queen & Slim. Group 5 discusses the potential Oscar breakouts like Cynthia Erivo in Harriet and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. Then we cannot help ourselves when we discuss Group 6, the Blockbusters. This past year had a popular film imperative. We wonder if next year could have some crossover hits amongst the potential nominees. MMO doesn’t stop. We’re a year round film preview, review, interview & appreciation pod, and this 100% scientifically accurate process of predicting next year’s Oscars began with this episode. Stay tuned for part 2 where we’ll reveal our selections. Then we’ll have another fun MMO Weekly episode for you Monday before we preview & review Captain Marvel next week, along with (we hope) another early 2019 movie review. “This is the business we’ve chosen.” As always, let us know what you think. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!