It's time for the Smartest People Oscar Predictions! Hopefully we are of some help to your ballots this weekend 🙏🏻 we also discuss the releases we're looking forward to in 2024.

Movies discussed (* indicates spoilers):

• Oppenheimer*, Everything Everywhere All At Once


• Poor Things*, Nyad


• Eileen


• The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse


• Barbie


• The Zone of Interest*, Killers of the Flower Moon*


• 20 Days in Mariupol


• Anatomy of a Fall


• Maestro*, Society of the Snow


• A Star Is Born (2018)


• Green Book


• Asteroid City, Napoleon (2023)


• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar


• Godzilla Minus One


• American Fiction


• Following, The Prestige, Tenet, Vice


• Dune: Part 2, The Taste of Things, Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, La Chimera


• Civil War (2024), Ex Machina, Annihilation, Inside Llewyn Davis, Drive, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, MEN*


• The First Omen, Challengers, Hit Man, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Mad Max: Fury Road, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Nosferatu (2024)


• Longlegs, Joker: Folie à Deux, Joker, Faces of Death (2024), The End (upcoming), Nightbitch, Gasoline Rainbow, I Saw the TV Glow, Maxxxine, Mickey 17, Megalopolis, The Way of the Wind, They Follow, It Follows


• Margaret

The Smartest People in the Room is hosted by Rachel Casey and Maddie Weiner. It is edited by Maddie Weiner. Original theme and interstitial music is by Scott Boice - follow him on Instagram @sc00gle and find more of his work on ⁠⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠⁠.