Best Actress Oscars Category Review - Close(r) to History - Ep 158

Plus a Snubs Named Toni & Not Named Toni Discussion. ***This is a Spoiler Free Episode*** We talk about some Oscar Reel Scenes in broad strokes. So if you’re allergic to hints and generalizations, then perhaps beware. Otherwise, we avoid any plot spoilers. Intro / The Knicks Trade KP / You Don’t Care - Top of the Show Best Actress Snubs - 1:53 Glenn Close, The Wife: Why She’ll Win - 12:41 Why She Won’t - 18:15 Yalitza Aparicio, Roma: Why She’ll Win - 21:10 Why She Won’t - 23:11 Olivia Colman, The Favourite: Why She’ll Win - 26:25 Why She Won’t - 32:07 Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born: Why She’ll Win - 36:05 Why She Won’t - 40:57 Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Why She’ll Win - 46:12 Why She Won’t - 48:55 Perfecting Perfection AKA Our Re-Rank of the Nominees - 52:36 (W/ More Intriguing Questions) Outro / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 59:08 It’s our Best Actress Category Overview! Glenn Close is finally having HER year, or is she? Lady Gaga turned in one of the best musical performances of the decade, but will she win? Olivia Colman delivers as much range and intrigue as any actress in the past several years, but she’s not showing up to award shows? Yalitza was teaching pre-school, and now she’s nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Then if Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar Nom for enthusiastically shitting into a sink, she’s gonna win an honorary EGOT for forging literary letters, right??!! We breakdown each of these nominees, making the case for and against their chances of winning. It’s a rhetorical exercise only the greatest minds could make plausible, and we’re are far from said heads. So what you’re left with… is another batshit episode of Mike, Mike, and Oscar. And of course - YES, we have a major discussion on the snubs of this category, both those named Toni and those not named Collette. Check out our previous category overviews on Lady Gaga’s Best Original Song and Mahershala’s Best Supporting Actor nominees. We also have Oscar Sprint Profiles for the films of each of this Best Lead Actresses, and you can check out over forty 2018 movie reviews in both our OSP & Movie Event playlists on Soundcloud. Do let us know what you think of this category or comment about any of the many recent MMO episodes we’ve been releasing fast & furious in the recent weeks leading up to Oscar’s big night. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can like / share / review / subscribe & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and wherever you find podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us.