Episodes

  • 2026 Oscar Predictions: One Battle After Another Shakes Up the Oscar Race

    2026 Oscar Predictions: One Battle After Another Shakes Up the Oscar Race
    Sep 11 2025
    Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk about One Battle After Another and how it landed with the critics. Does that make it an Oscar frontrunner? Is it the Oscar frontrunner? Have a listen.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 2026 Oscars: Analyzing the Race Post Telluride and Venice

    2026 Oscars: Analyzing the Race Post Telluride and Venice
    Sep 3 2025
    Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen have a long conversation about Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Scott Kernene attended and viewed all the movies, both seen and unseen.
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • 2026 Oscars: Episode 4 of the Oscar Primer - The Tastemakers

    2026 Oscars: Episode 4 of the Oscar Primer - The Tastemakers
    Sep 1 2025
    Sasha Stone continues the Oscar Primer series by talking about the tastemakers who head to film festivals everywhere and help shape the Oscar race.
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    45 mins
  • 2026 Oscar Predictions: Kicking off All This and the Oscars Too

    2026 Oscar Predictions: Kicking off All This and the Oscars Too
    Aug 28 2025
    Sasha Stone begins the weekly podcast series leading up to the 2026 Oscars, featuring new guests Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen. From AwardsDaily.com.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 2026 Oscars: Oscar Primer Episode 3 - the Stats with Special Guest Mark Johnson

    2026 Oscars: Oscar Primer Episode 3 - the Stats with Special Guest Mark Johnson
    Aug 23 2025
    Mark Johnson joins Sasha Stone to discuss how important stats are to predicting the Oscars. We also go through our preliminary predictions before Venice and Telluride.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Oscar Primer Episode Two - The Critics

    Oscar Primer Episode Two - The Critics
    Aug 17 2025
    The film critics dominate the Oscars now in a way they never did in the past. But what defines a critic now? Almost anyone can write reviews and shape the Oscar race. So what are they? How much power do they have? Are they good or bad for the Oscars?
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    50 mins
  • Oscar Primer Episode One - The Film Festivals

    Oscar Primer Episode One - The Film Festivals
    Aug 10 2025

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    42 mins
  • 2026 Oscars -- What are the Oscar Bumps Out of Cannes?

    2026 Oscars -- What are the Oscar Bumps Out of Cannes?
    May 27 2025
    Jeff Wells recounts his trip to Cannes and the films he saw that he liked, and which ones will land in the Oscar race. It's a quick summary of Jeff's thoughts while Sasha mostly listens.
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    38 mins