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2026 Oscars Special

3/12/20261 hr 17 min

Paul and Amy break down the 2026 Oscar nominations, celebrating the surprises, lamenting the snubs, and making their early predictions for Hollywood’s biggest night. They champion overlooked favorites like Edington and Sorry, Baby, Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man, and Amanda Seyfried in Testament of Ann Lee, while digging into the year’s major contenders. And with Sinners leading the pack with a record 16 nominations and momentum shifting after Michael B. Jordan’s SAG win, they debate whether the film can overtake the other awards-season juggernaut: One Battle After Another.

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Clips

Marty Supreme actually has a point
Eddington: the misunderstood satire
Seyfried robbed, here’s why
Bougonya surprised us both
Frankenstein as tech-bro parable
Boardrooms don’t love movies
Movies versus films, cleanly drawn
Sinners gets its own episode
‘Terrible bad’ but I loved it

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First 90 seconds

  1. Amy Nicholson· Host0:01

    The year is 2026, and it's time to talk Oscars. [upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to Unspooled.

  2. Paul Scheer· Host0:21

    Unspooled. Yes, welcome to Unspooled. We are normally a podcast that dissects good films, but today we are gonna dissect all the best films of 2026, supposedly. I guess I should say all the films chosen by The Academy as the best films of 2026.

  3. Amy Nicholson· Host0:41

    Exactly. Or maybe we'll just start throwing elbows right at the beginning because, hello, I'm Amy Nicholson. I'm the film critic for The Los Angeles Times, and I have a pick for what should've been nominated this year but wasn't. I am really salty that my movie Hedda did not get nominated for anything. It was the Tessa Thompson adaptation of Hedda Gabler, uh, directed by Nia DaCosta, who also did, you know, the latest, uh, 28 Years Later.

  4. Paul Scheer· Host1:04

    Yes.

  5. Amy Nicholson· Host1:05

    I can just imagine that there are people out there, your eyes might be glazing over like, oh, an Ibsen play. Okay, sure, whatever. It is the saltiest, meanest, funniest, nastiest, great movie [laughs] greatest movie of the year. It's so intelligent. It's one of the best adaptations I've ever seen. Amazing costumes, really funny. Nobody watched it. I'll be screaming about this movie for the end of time.

  6. Paul Scheer· Host1:28

    Amy, I know you talked about that movie,

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