The Academy Awards are coming up soon, so we set aside a bit of time to talk about them. We rank the Best Picture nominees and talk about the nominees in the leading actor, director, animated feature, and song categories. Then we take some time to shout out our favorite 2023 films that didn't get any real Oscar love.

Movies discussed in this episode: Basquiat (1996), Sexy Beast (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Your Name (2016), A Thousand and One (2023), All of Us Strangers (2023), American Fiction (2023), American Symphony (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023), Asteroid City (2023), Barbie (2023), Blackberry (2023), Bottoms (2023), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023), Dumb Money (2023), Elemental (2023), Eyeballs in the Darkness (2023), Flamin' Hot (2023), Godzilla Minus One (2023), John Wick Chapter 4 (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Maestro (2023), May December (2023), Nimona (2023), Nyad (2023), Oppenheimer (2023), Past Lives (2023), Poor Things (2023), Rustin (2023), Society of the Snow (2023), Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), Suzume (2023), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), The Boy and the Heron (2023), The Holdovers (2023), The Iron Claw (2023), The Killer (2023), The Taste of Things (2023), The Teacher's Lounge (2023), The Zone of Interest (2023), Theater Camp (2023), Upon Entry (2023), You Hurt My Feelings (2023).