Critics' Choice, PGA Nom Reactions - Half Beef - ORC 03/8/21

The 2021 Critics Choice Awards get an MMO review & recap. Plus, we react to the nominations from the Producers Guild of America. So to get it all done, we group our takes going movie by movie to discuss what they’ve won, lost, and how they all may do come Oscar Noms Monday. What is This Episode? - Top of Show . CRITICS’ CHOICE TV PRESENTATION: Highs - 2:00 Lows/WTFs - 6:09 TV Round Up - 10:00 . CRITICS CHOICE RESULTS/PRODUCERS GUILD NOM REACTIONS: PGA Best Picture Stats/Noms - 11:40 Nomadland - 14:30 Borat 2 - 21:13 (And a WIDE OPEN Supp Actress Race) Soul - 30:25 (incl PGA Animated Feature Noms - 31:25) Trial of the Chicago 7 - 32:33 Sound of Metal - 35:36 Minari - 37:14 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - 43:20 Promising Young Woman - 45:36 One Night in Miami - 49:11 Mank - 51:28 Judas and the Black Messiah - 55:57 Snubs - 57:30 . PGA Documentary Noms - 1:02:20 . Where To Find Us/LEAVE US A 5* REVIEW! - 1:03:35 Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:04:21 We begin with a review of the Critics Choice 2021 Awards broadcast on The CW. There’s some highlights, lowlights, and corny-ass dad joke catastrophes to lament / celebrate(?). But we also genuinely rejoice in some of the winners as we begin the episode with our thoughts on the TV side of things. Then to discuss all the film awards, we actually decided on a unique organizational format for this particular recap show, and it’s all because we got the odd pairing of the Critics Choice Awards Show AND the Producers Guild of America nominations. Now if you know our stuff, then you’re familiar with how the PGA noms usually lead us into a film by film power ranking discussion on the Best Picture category. So we have some stats that back up this traditional MMO programming decision before using the PGA noms to group our thoughts. In other words, we structure this episode much better than how I’m writing about it right now. We go movie by movie, reciting all of the win/loss tallies and many highlights from the Critics Choice Awards. This mirrors and becomes quite the companion piece to our last episode, where we followed a similar structure to preview the Choice, but more so, to look ahead to the Oscar Noms and contending prowess of all these films. What do we make of Nomadland’s piping hot start? Are the Soul Best Picture dreams dying while the Borat 2 dreams awaken back from the dead? Is Minari holding serve? Will the industry return to The Trial of the Chicago 7? And how do we view the races in all of the categories as we head into nomination Monday? Yes, it’s an awards show recap. But hopefully, the format & structure will play for weeks to come. As always, we want to hear your thoughts. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are at Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & hear us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thank you! And do stay safe, everybody.