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Take Ultra preview - A look ahead to the Oscars

3/9/202611 min

Here's a cheeky preview of our latest Take Ultra video episode in which Mark and Simon look ahead to this week’s Oscars and assess the state of the race. 

Ultra-Vanguardistas get these live streams every other week, our weekly T2 episodes in video and loads more. You can join them here: https://www.patreon.com/c/kermodeandmayo/membership  

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Clips

BAFTAs Don’t Sway Best Actor
“Better Than Winning” Moment
It’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s Time
Impossible-To-Call Supporting Race
Penn Over Del Toro
Buckley As Near-Lock
Calling Out SNL’s Tourette’s Skit

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Simon Mayo· Host0:00

    So Awards Shmawards. Does that have its own little bit of video? I don't think it does, because we can't do this very often, so we- Just a bit of jazz hands ... are gonna be spending money. Bit of jazz hands.

  2. Mark Kermode· Host0:09

    Awards.

  3. Simon Mayo· Host0:09

    It's, "Hello, it's a FaceTime with the family." [laughs] Um, it's the last Take Ultrah before the Oscars, which are happening on Sunday, March the 15th. So state of the race then. Uh, post-BAFTA shakeup. Final Oscar voting is underway right now, which ends on March the 5th, so, um, tomorrow.

  4. Mark Kermode· Host0:28

    Yeah.

  5. Simon Mayo· Host0:28

    And the BAFTAs have, uh, significantly stirred the pot.

  6. Mark Kermode· Host0:31

    Have they though?

  7. Simon Mayo· Host0:32

    So Mark will probably say- Have they?

  8. Mark Kermode· Host0:33

    Have they?

  9. Simon Mayo· Host0:34

    Who... Well, maybe they, or has it indeed.

  10. Mark Kermode· Host0:36

    Or, or has it?

  11. Simon Mayo· Host0:37

    Um, Mark will say, "Who will win and who should win?"

  12. Mark Kermode· Host0:39

    Okay.

  13. Simon Mayo· Host0:40

    So first of all, Best Picture. Closest race in years. Um, two films dominate everything. Sinners, 16 nominations, the most in Oscar history. One Battle After Another, long-term critical favorite. IndieWire said, "The BAFTAs did not resolve the battle, but they softened Chalamet's lead losing at the BAFTAs." Um- I don't think they did because he, he, he, he lost to Robert Aramayo, who's not in the running for the Oscars. Yes. Right, right.

  14. Mark Kermode· Host1:05

    So I don't think they did soften it. Sorry.

  15. Simon Mayo· Host1:07

    Variety still projects Sinners as the most likely overall winner tally, and Entertainment Weekly, I think that is, suggests the race is genuinely split, but leaning slightly towards One Battle After Another. So Best Picture.

  16. Mark Kermode· Host1:19

    I st- I do think it's gonna be One Battle After Another. Um, did you say Variety said that, that, that, that the, that they th- they think that it's going to win this category, or they

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