Oscar Podcast #69: Breaking Down the Acting Categories with guest Kyle Buchanan
In this titillating 69th Oscar podcast, I am joined by returning guest Kyle Buchanan, newly of The New York Times where he has his own column called The Carpetbagger.
Kyle and I kick the tires on all four acting categories, taking a closer look at co-leads running in Supporting (like Best Supporting Actor frontrunner Mahershala Ali for Green Book) to a seemingly barren Best Actor season (with only two ‘locks’ in the form of Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born and Christian Bale for Vice) and the overflow of great contenders in this year’s Best Actress race that includes locked and loaded Glenn Close in The Wife, Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born. and Olivia Colman in The Favourite.
Category placement has been a jumble this last week with two studios walking back previously announced pushes: Paramount with Emily Blunt for A Quiet Place (going from Lead last week to Supporting this week) and Sony Classics, doing the same with Jonathan Pryce for The Wife.
We also take some time to talk about Black Panther as an across the board contender (including Michael B. Jordan in Supporting Actor) and why some pundits shouldn’t dismiss it and Widows (from Viola Davis to Daniel Kaluuya to the film’ technical mastery) as major Oscar player.
With music Oscar Podcast #69 runs about 1h 19m.
Opening: Trailer clips from If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is Born.
Closing: “New York City By Day” by Thomas Newman from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Desperately Seeking Susan
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He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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