On this episode of Screen Babble we're talking all things award season and Benji has even created a leader board for us all to follow so we're on top of who is set to win big this year. First up Kelly and Matt, cannot let an episode go by without having a chat about the TV event of the year so far - The Traitors. Listen as they educated Benji as to why it's a great watch.
Benji takes us through this year's film award hopefuls and the team discuss whether it is in fact a good year for film. Matt has prepared a super-handy guide to where you can watch all the best picture Oscar nominees as well as how much that will set you back!
Finally, we fast forward 12 months and consider the big hitters we can expect to be lining up for gongs in 2026. Matt even brought his crystal ball!
Thanks for listening - remember to follow us on Tik Tok @screen.babble
Benji takes us through this year's film award hopefuls and the team discuss whether it is in fact a good year for film. Matt has prepared a super-handy guide to where you can watch all the best picture Oscar nominees as well as how much that will set you back!
Finally, we fast forward 12 months and consider the big hitters we can expect to be lining up for gongs in 2026. Matt even brought his crystal ball!
Thanks for listening - remember to follow us on Tik Tok @screen.babble
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00:00Hello and welcome back to ScreenBabble.
00:15We've probably all watched way too much TV in January.
00:17No, I've scratched that actually.
00:20There's no such thing as too much TV, is there?
00:22We've already, we've already had one of the TV events of the year behind us with the traitors
00:27having already been and gone.
00:29But don't worry, we'll be tuning into hours and hours of TV so we can tell you what you
00:33need to be switching on and what's to be avoided.
00:35I'm your host, Kelly Crichton, and I am joined by National Royal Critics, Benjamin Jackson
00:40and Matt Mohan-Hickson, telling us what's what and what's not.
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01:11Today we're looking at award season and what lies ahead for the big hitters in TV and film
01:16particularly actually we're going to focus on today.
01:18Hi Matt and Benji.
01:20I'm sorry, but before we move to prestige TV, what about the traitors?
01:24I know Benji, you tried to avoid it as much as possible.
01:27Yeah, look, I've got a very challenging Sudoku puzzle.
01:30So I'll let you guys talk amongst yourselves while I start working on this.
01:35In Philistine.
01:36Well, I don't have a pen, so all right, I guess I'm going to have to sit contently.
01:40Oh, tell me, tell me about the traitors, guys.
01:43Yeah, Sudoku's okay, but have you ever tried a round table?
01:47What, a round table Sudoku?
01:50No, no, no.
01:51Did they do that on the traitors?
01:53In the Sudoku, I'd probably be into it then, but now go on, like everyone I know and their
01:59dog talks about the traitors.
02:01I avoid it.
02:02I don't know why, maybe because I'm a contrarian, but what am I missing out on so much that
02:07makes it must-see television?
02:09You haven't watched any of the series, have you, before?
02:11No, no, no, no.
02:14It's just so modest, Benji.
02:15Yeah.
02:16It's just so delicious.
02:17Well, now look at me, Matt, I am a guy that exerts very poor self control when it comes
02:22to Moorish things, but I just don't know about the traitors.
02:26I don't know what I'm missing out on.
02:27I have a question for you.
02:29Did you enjoy Big Brother in its heyday, like the first three or four years?
02:34Did you enjoy-
02:35Oh, the OG when voyeurism wasn't so prevalent in the media.
02:40Yeah.
02:41I guess.
02:42No, there's, and I heard someone making this comparison, there is an element of that to
02:46it where it's just normal people in a room and you're observing how they interact with
02:54each other, put in certain situations and how those relationships play out, et cetera.
02:59Now, obviously there's that element of someone's, they know someone's lying, at least one person,
03:04probably more.
03:05So there is sort of suspicion and paranoia and all those things, but it's a fascinating
03:11observation in how people work and take and play a game, you know, although, and we maybe
03:20hold off the criticism for a few minutes, you can kind of see that people are coming
03:23into more of a strategy now than they did in the first two series.
03:28But let's go back to the start in a way, just to say series three of the traitors just finished
03:34up a couple of weeks ago.
03:35It feels like it might be a bit in the past now, but we wanted to touch on that because
03:37it is a significant TV moment, 10 million viewers at its peak.
03:44Is there anything else doing that?
03:45That's not a major sporting event or maybe something like, maybe like the final of Happy
03:52Valley or something?
03:53Not even, I don't even think that that got 10 million, you know.
03:56I think what like Gavin and Stacey and Wallace and Gromit at Christmas got 20 million, but
04:00that's Christmas Day and that's cheating a bit, isn't it?
04:03Yeah.
04:05You know, whatever.
04:07Yeah.
04:08So yeah, so I guess just a few things to point out, like Claudia Winkleman, absolutely savage
04:15Queen Claudia.
04:17She's so good at it and she, they dress her so spectacularly or she, I would presume she's
04:22very involved in her styling and in this beautiful castle in Scotland.
04:28And you know, from the get go, you're kind of second guessing what's going on because
04:33in the very first episode, there's, they're all on a train going to where they're supposed
04:36to be going and next thing the train stops and they're told three people have to get
04:39off and you're a little bit like, oh my God, so already they have to sort of sacrifice
04:42themselves or whatever.
04:44And it's amazing insight into the individual characters, like straight away.
04:50Now it's only 12 episodes, but it feels like a hell of a lot more because it's across three
04:55or four weeks, isn't it?
04:57Yeah.
04:58So it's Wednesday night, Thursday night, is it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?
05:01Yeah.
05:02Why don't they chuck an omnibus like they used to do with EastEnders?
05:05But I guess with BBC iPlayer, you can just go and binge it all.
05:09You don't, you don't need to omni anything anymore, do you?
05:13Yeah.
05:14So, so yeah.
05:16But I think, yeah, Matt, take us through some of the key characters, maybe three or four
05:20of them.
05:21Yeah.
05:22So obviously there was Linda that was sort of like the social media, the early season
05:26social media darling for her absolutely terrible acting skills.
05:31She's a retired opera singer, which she didn't channel that in like operatic way, just channeled
05:36it in like, oh, people have died.
05:39Oh, it's me.
05:42She kept getting caught when Claudia was like, traitors.
05:45And she went.
05:46She got caught almost straight away, yeah.
05:50So she was absolutely fabulous.
05:52Mina, I was really gutted for Mina, but I think she fell in that trap of getting complacent.
06:00All three of the traitors fell in that trap, didn't they, where they thought they were
06:03doing great and they were playing the game.
06:06Armani was the same, wasn't she?
06:07And even Charlotte towards the end.
06:11Charlotte really got tripped up in the end, unfortunately, but they all did a good game
06:15like those guys.
06:17I didn't like that Sia twist.
06:18I think they introduced it too well.
06:20It just ruined it because like, realistically, you're going to have to vote both of them
06:24out at that stage because you're like, you can't really believe either of them.
06:28Unless they both come out and say we're both faithfuls, but then they could be both betrayers.
06:32So yeah.
06:33So there was this twist, Benji, at the end where one of the players got to ask another
06:39player into a room and be told what their situation was, whether they were a faithful
06:43or a traitor.
06:44And it just, it actually messed the whole game up for both of them.
06:47Both of them ended up being voted out because no one could trust what either of them were
06:50saying when they came out.
06:51As it happened, one of them was a traitor.
06:54The girl that was invited in was a traitor.
06:57But when they left the room, she was like, oh, she's got, she's, um, this is what happened.
07:04I told her I was a faithful.
07:05That's that.
07:06And then she was like, no, she's a traitor.
07:08And then she's like, you liar.
07:09You know, basically it made it a little bit more cutthroat, didn't it, as well?
07:15It was like incredibly evil acting, I thought.
07:18Like she did the best that she could, Charlotte, with trying to survive that, but like it was
07:23too late for her.
07:24She gave it a good go, didn't she?
07:26Like, oh, you wouldn't want to work, like, you wouldn't want her to be like your boss
07:30at work, would you?
07:31No.
07:32Like, so does the traitors, for me, it feels like the traitors normally a new season occurs
07:38shortly after Christmas.
07:40Would that be fair to say?
07:41Yes.
07:42Is that because there's, from the sounds of things, certain almost panto elements that
07:46go along with it?
07:47Yeah, it's a good observation, but I think to be honest with you, you know, BBC knows
07:51what it's doing.
07:52Everybody's sat at home in January doing nothing, broke and tired, and very happy to
07:56spend quite a lot of time watching a programme like this.
07:59Yeah, like, can't be bothered playing Cluedo with the family members around the Christmas
08:03table anymore.
08:04There's enough Cluedo for Christmas.
08:05Yeah, exactly.
08:06Let's watch a grittier Cluedo take place on the BBC.
08:08Yeah, then you don't have to like flip your TV, do you?
08:11Like, you know, you flip your board if you lose at Cluedo, but you can't flip your TV.
08:15Yeah, exactly.
08:16There's money in TV licensing there as well, much like Monopoly, but yeah, less said about
08:21that, the better.
08:22The other thing that's worth a mention, actually, is Uncloaked, which is the visualised podcast.
08:27That's with Ed Gamble, is that correct?
08:30Correct, yeah.
08:31BBC Two straight afterwards.
08:34And it was around the time of Trump's inauguration and stuff like that was going on.
08:38And normally I'd watch the 10 o'clock news, but I was so like, I was news avoidant during
08:42that time.
08:43So I'd go and I'd just flick on Uncloaked because I was like, it's easier to watch this
08:47than watch the news.
08:49So I think they probably, you know, got a bit of an advantage out of that as well this
08:54year.
08:55But I think a couple other things just to mention was that there was a couple of darlings,
08:59wasn't there, Matt?
09:00So Alexander, for one, has become like a social media king out of this, hasn't he?
09:04Everyone just loved him and they've raised, what, about 70 grand because he was saying
09:08that he was going to give money to charity and the charity that, you know, if he wanted
09:12to give his money, some of his money to charity, and people loved him so much that like they've
09:17raised about 70 grand for the charity.
09:19Yeah, it's really nice.
09:20It's really good.
09:21Yeah, really nice.
09:22Like, yeah, that's good.
09:23Good bit of community from a TV, isn't it?
09:24Instead of people slacking people off on social media, they've come together to raise money
09:29for charity.
09:30Well, an interesting, again, cross section of society, but I think, yeah, one criticism
09:37I've heard is that, you know, same thing that happened to Big Brother.
09:41People started coming in with a game plan and maybe weren't totally being themselves
09:45like they had been originally.
09:47And there was a couple of people this year who had a strategy.
09:51And Charlotte, who was one of the, we were just talking about her there, one of the traitors,
09:55she put on a Welsh accent, even though she lives in London, because she thought people
09:59would trust Welsh people more.
10:00Now, she was born in Wales, I believe, but it was like, what?
10:04At the start.
10:05But actually, she got very far in the game.
10:07So you kind of think, oh, maybe it did make a difference.
10:10There was a priest who decided she wasn't going to tell anybody she was a priest, which
10:14was a bit weird.
10:16And then I think she didn't do herself any favours in the end, but she did kind of come
10:19out halfway through the thing.
10:21And then the final person was Leanne, who pretended to be like a nail technician, and
10:25she was actually a soldier.
10:26And she ended up winning.
10:27Winning.
10:28Now, if she had said she was a soldier all along, people may not have trusted her as
10:34much as they did, you know, because they could feel like, oh, she's got tactics, she understands
10:38these things, how these games work.
10:41So who knows?
10:42I'm afraid that it's going to go down that route of, and they kept saying things like,
10:46I don't know why I'm still here.
10:48Who's keeping me here in this?
10:49And they were all trying to dig into the strategy more this year.
10:52So look, hopefully the casting is still strong next year and they bring in some people who
10:57are just going to do their own thing, but that it doesn't go too far down that line.
11:02Would you agree, Matt?
11:03Yeah, no, definitely.
11:04And I think some of the cracks started to show as well.
11:08You know, on Uncloaked, they kept talking about how Joe was like everyone's favorite
11:11and like Claudia said how he lightened up the room and took out the, yeah, but like
11:17they didn't show any of that.
11:18We didn't see that.
11:19He was really annoying.
11:20He got the visit, like the villain edit completely.
11:22I think that definitely reminds you that they edited it so heavily because everybody was
11:26like, oh, when Joe left, everybody was so down and it was like, what?
11:30He came across really like bookish and annoying and kind of moany in it.
11:37So yeah, you know, it's like that thing.
11:40If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
11:41So I feel like we're the product in this, aren't we?
11:45But anyway, we'll be looking forward to it.
11:47Apparently there's going to be celebrity traders later in the year.
11:50So we'll be looking forward to that in advance of depressing January traders next year.
12:04Okay, right.
12:05Moving along.
12:06Cool.
12:07We are going to talk about awards season.
12:08Benji, thank you for bearing with us there.
12:10What have we heard so far about awards season?
12:14I mean, this is a whole thing.
12:15Like you could probably write a book on this, but talk to us about what's coming up.
12:19Big hitters, what we can expect, when's and where's all that kind of stuff.
12:23Well we've had the Golden Globes.
12:25They took place in January, which kind of set the tone a little bit for what we could
12:31expect.
12:32We have recently had both in January, or since we last recorded, the BAFTA nominations
12:37and also the Oscar nominations.
12:41Just as a side note, we've also had the Razzies as well.
12:45Sadly, Joker Foliadur has done very well at the Razzies, and a couple of other things.
12:51The wooden spoon of the road or the race to the Oscars season.
12:56That unfortunately will not be televised, but there's always heaps of clips on the Razzies
13:02There's always one or two films that kind of straddle both awards though, isn't there?
13:06I wonder, is the substance in the Razzies the best?
13:09No, the substance is not.
13:11In fact, the substance has had quite the gallop since we've last talked.
13:15It has been nominated for an Oscar for the best film.
13:20Demi Moore continues her career resurgence, part deux, with her nod in the best actor,
13:28best actress category, with 21st Century, it's all acting, isn't it?
13:34Adrian Brody continues to dominate.
13:37I mean, it'd be pretty weird to not say he isn't a favorite to pick up the best actor
13:43award at the Oscars for The Brutalist, which Matt, I believe, went to see.
13:48And you also were treated to an intermission because that runs about three hours long,
13:52is that correct?
13:53Yeah, it's like over three hours.
13:56I mean, three hours and architecture, it's like, oh.
14:01It sounds like it should be absolutely miserable, like it should, but like it's really compelling
14:06and it's smaller than you'd think because it's quite an indie film, so there's not a
14:11lot of people in the cast, like a lot of the time it's just like Adrian Brody and Guy Pearce
14:16and they're just like bouncing off each other as this sort of Hungarian refugee from sort
14:23of after the Holocaust, he comes to America, he was an architect in Hungary and his patron
14:31is Guy Pearce, who's this really sort of like flamboyant, rich guy who sort of has whims
14:36and he wants to build this community center to remember his mom and they sort of clash
14:42a lot and there's a lot of heroin taken and yeah, it's more, I'd say like those 70s films
14:51like The Godfather Part Two and sort of that era, like that's what it's channeling.
14:56Oh, okay, interesting.
14:57But it is, it is a long movie and I was very thankful for the intermission because I got
15:02to have my sandwich because it was like, no, it was not lunchtime, yeah, it was not lunchtime,
15:06so I had my sandwich and got to relax a bit.
15:10Is it Oscar bait, which a lot of people are suggesting because there's another film that's
15:16now being suggested as Oscar bait, wholly different than the usual tenets that comes
15:21along with, that's clearly just been made for an Academy Award, so you didn't pick up
15:26any notes of Oscar baiting with it?
15:28No, because I feel like it's like a passion project that's like weirdly like blown up,
15:34like you know, one of those like film festival success stories and then A24, the Buzzy producers
15:41pick it up and give it like a Buzzy campaign, I don't think, you know, it isn't in that
15:45sort of bit of here's a famous person, we're doing their life story, let's win, let's win
15:50an Oscar, I think it's this film.
15:54It's 20 years since Adrian Brody won the Oscar, which was clearly a people called the peonist
16:01Oscar bait as well at the time, yeah, but I mean, we'd be remiss if we weren't to talk
16:07about the problematic movie, one that was a very early favourite to sweep the Oscars
16:14and that is Amelia Perez, has any of you read online the discourse regarding it?
16:21Yes, I've seen that one clip of like a song from it where it's like, what do you want?
16:28Penis to van?
16:29Yeah, no, I mean, I was just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that is the musical number
16:35that's been doing the rounds, there's also talk now of Carla Sofia Gascon has been, well,
16:43she did Blackface earlier on in her career, it's getting really nasty, this Oscars now
16:50you were going to ask me the question, Kelly, has it been a bad year for film?
16:55It's never, we're never going to have Barbenheimer every year, unfortunately.
17:00And I'd say that, you know, the movies that have made the best Oscar, best picture nominations,
17:07they all kind of feel a little bit, God forbid, I say this formulaic, like, you know, what
17:14you're getting with with the main contenders in there.
17:19What I find quite interesting this year is just how dirty the campaigns have gone.
17:24You have calls for two films to be removed for breaking Academy rules.
17:32You have all of this discourse about whether Emilia PĆ©rez is a modern day take on Oscar
17:37bait because of the situations and issues that it takes.
17:42And again, it's a musical.
17:44We know that the Academy, even way back last year, when me and Stephen were talking about
17:49the Oscars, you know, never forget you, Steve, he's not dead, you know, he's dead to me when
17:58he left this company, because I know that he's watching him and Alex, so, you know,
18:04they do.
18:05They do.
18:06Shout out.
18:07Screen battle is 1.0, 2.0.
18:09We know the Academy loves a musical, Emilia PĆ©rez is a musical.
18:13We know the Academy like films that have social issues.
18:16Emilia PĆ©rez definitely has a modern day social issue.
18:20The problem that people have is just the execution of the whole thing.
18:24And I think if it was to win an Academy Award, then perhaps there's going to be quite a noisy
18:30contingent of people saying it didn't deserve it.
18:35We might have another Green Book on our hands.
18:37Yeah, I feel like the, you know, and we talked about this briefly amongst ourselves last
18:43week, but it's the politics thing with the Oscars, isn't it?
18:46They're trying to avoid becoming the Emmys, you know, where they want to have equality
18:51and diversity.
18:53So, you know, people are going to be like second guessing why some films are picked,
18:58you know, if that's an element to them.
19:00I think to go back to the point about is this a bad year for film, up until recently, I'd
19:05only seen two or three of the films that were nominated.
19:08And I just felt like this, these don't feel like spectacular, you know, stirring movies
19:16to me, you know.
19:20Maybe apart from Dune Part Two, though, which has that stirring epicness, but you know exactly
19:26what you get with Denis Villeneuve.
19:27You know, you're going to get that classy cinematography.
19:30Yeah, oh, absolutely.
19:31And that is definitely something that it should be up there for.
19:35But having said all that, I have since watched Wicked, which I really enjoyed.
19:40I thought it was, I think it's very close to the stage production and I was maybe, and
19:44I would consider myself like a Wicked aficionado to an extent.
19:49I've seen it in Broadway.
19:50I've seen it on stage in the UK.
19:53I've seen it.
19:54I've read the book.
19:55I've done all the things.
19:57So I think maybe I was wanting something a little bit different.
20:01But actually, when you set lens the fact that they're trying to stay quite true to it, then
20:05it works.
20:06It's perfect.
20:07And I also watched Conclave, which.
20:10Oh, yeah.
20:11Rafe.
20:12Rafe.
20:13Yeah, Rafe.
20:14Oh, my God.
20:15This stellar cast in it, but like not a best picture film by any means.
20:26But maybe it's, again, it goes down to the content behind it, doesn't it?
20:31Or the story behind it is what pushes it.
20:35Would the pair of you like to see the changes to our league table that we've been running
20:39in the race to the Oscars?
20:41So this was January.
20:43The point scoring system is as follows.
20:45You get a nomination for one of the major awards.
20:47You get a one point.
20:49You get a win at one of the major ceremonies.
20:52You get three points.
20:53Simple, easy football terminology, OK?
20:55So in January, as you can see, Amelia Perez was in the lead, followed by The Brutalist,
21:01then Wicked, a complete unknown, Conclave, and Nora Flow.
21:05Wallace and Gromit made it in there as well by getting three nominations across three
21:09of the big award ceremonies.
21:11Nickel Boys, which is very interesting, because that's been kind of summed up as an Oscar
21:17favorite as well in certain areas, but did not get a big release out here, if I remember
21:23correctly.
21:24Matt, is that correct?
21:25Yeah, it's had a very small scale release, which is interesting because it's Amazon,
21:30like Amazon MGM are the ones that are producing it and distributing it.
21:36So it will end up on Prime someday.
21:39I'm guessing that, like, because of the Oscars, they're trying to keep it around lo-fi in
21:43the cinema.
21:44And like in York, where I live, it was like one or two days.
21:48I did notice it's back in later this week, like, but again, it's like one showing on
21:53a Friday afternoon, one showing on a Monday afternoon, which is not really good if you've
21:57got a job.
21:58Is it?
21:59Yeah.
22:00No, it's really not.
22:01It's for retired people.
22:02Yeah.
22:03Yeah.
22:04But it's quite interesting, though, because it's filmed a bit like, you know, peep shows.
22:07I remember a peep show where it was like, from the point of view, like, first person
22:11point of view.
22:12Yeah.
22:13It's like that, but like a dramatic take.
22:14Yeah.
22:15Yeah.
22:16So if there's any chance of seeing it.
22:19And then if we just move into February, which was updated yesterday, and if you want to
22:23take a look at also the Best Actor and Best Actress leaderboard, it's up there on the
22:27Edinburgh Evening News, where you can find this podcast as well.
22:32You can see a couple of changes there now, Amelia Perez, despite all the drama, it's
22:36still topping our leaderboard.
22:37Staying in there.
22:38The Brutalists still topping there.
22:41Interesting, though, Onora, which wasn't really quite fancied.
22:44I mean, there was early hype behind it.
22:47It's picked up a couple more nominations at both the BAFTAs and the Oscars.
22:50OK.
22:51So that's taken third position, bumping down a complete unknown, which is Timothee Chalamet's
22:56Bob Dylan biopic, Conclave, we've talked about, Wicked, which we've talked about.
23:01But if you take a look at the bottom of the table, I mean, unfortunately, Wallace and
23:05Gromit has unfortunately gone.
23:07The Substance, which picked up Best Original Screenplay and the Best Film nod at the Oscars,
23:13that shot up into eighth place.
23:15Nickel Boys, which we've talked about, has picked up a couple more points.
23:19And A Real Pain, which is the Jesse Eisenberg directed film with Kieran Culkin from Succession
23:25getting a lot of praise regarding that.
23:27So yeah, it might have been, compared to other years, not an exciting lineup, but it is just
23:35a sturdy, solid, we'll see what happens.
23:37I mean, crikey, it's developing a lot more the quicker we get.
23:42And then once we have the BAFTAs, we've got the Screen Actors Guild Awards, we've got
23:47the Directors Guild Awards, and then we finally head to the Oscars, which is screening once
23:53again live on ITV1 and ITVX on March the 3rd at 1 a.m.
23:58If you want to follow along with the BAFTAs action, that is screening, if I remember correctly,
24:088 p.m. on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
24:12Pretty early actually, February the 16th, did I write that down correctly?
24:16The professionalism runs here, doesn't it?
24:18Yeah.
24:19So Benji, for listeners then, I think that leaderboard you're doing is absolutely brilliant.
24:23So people, you're going to keep updating that and posting it online.
24:26Is that right?
24:27Yeah.
24:28So we have updated that with both the BAFTA nominations that took place in late January
24:34and also the Oscar nominations that took place in late January.
24:39Next time you can expect an update for that is probably going to be around BAFTA's territory
24:44or Screen Actors Guild's territory.
24:46But it'd be a waste of time if I did all this and went, oh, I'm not going to touch it for
24:50the rest of the Oscars run now.
24:52So it will be updated.
24:54And, you know, we've got a TikTok now, so, you know, we'll give you a gentle nudge and
24:59reminder on the TikTok.
25:00I'm surprised some other major broadcasters haven't hit you up to get you on and explain
25:06your leaderboard.
25:07Who said that they haven't?
25:08Oh, sorry.
25:09Who said that they haven't?
25:10Oh, remember.
25:11I don't know, I feel quite exposed now, right?
25:13Oh, where's that Sudoku puzzle again?
25:15Right, don't worry.
25:16Yeah, cool.
25:17That's amazing.
25:18OK, so I think what we're going to do now is we're going to go over to Matt and we're
25:22going to talk about sort of where and how you can watch these.
25:27And then maybe, Matt, towards the end, we're going to talk about sort of further down the
25:30line again and what's happening.
25:34So yeah, can you talk to us about where people can actually watch these films we've been
25:40talking about and how, I suppose, and what it's going to cost?
25:44Yeah, yeah, definitely.
25:46Obviously, the list for the Best Picture nominees is long again, like they upped that a few
25:51years ago, didn't they?
25:52So it used to be a bit shorter.
25:53So now there's even more films to watch.
25:54Yeah, it seems very long this year.
25:55It used to be like five or six, didn't it, Matt?
25:57Yeah, it's about ten now, isn't it, I think?
25:59Yeah, so they've really like packed it in.
26:02But yeah, so a lot of the films have already been in cinemas.
26:07So stuff like Wicked, Conclave, Dune Part Two, obviously, and Nora.
26:14They've all been in cinemas and come and gone, but you can rent them at home.
26:20So Wicked, you can get from like Sky Store and, you know, Prime Video.
26:24You can rent digitally to watch.
26:26Same with Conclave, but they're about 16 quid each to rent at the moment.
26:31Now, those do come down after like...
26:33Yeah, you might as well be going to the cinema, you know what I'm saying?
26:36You have to get a few people to chip in, I think.
26:39Yeah, fork out for it.
26:41And then Brutalist and A Complete Unknown are still in cinemas at the moment.
26:47If you can catch them.
26:48I think A Complete Unknown just came out, didn't it, I think, Benji?
26:51So that's still pretty...
26:53Yeah, it was a late...
26:55You've got a couple of weeks until...
26:58It's doing well financially, put it that way.
27:00So you've got another month or so until it arrives on home premiere.
27:04And then Nickel Boys is in cinema, but very few showings.
27:09And obviously, you have to sort of catch it on a day when you maybe can go to the afternoon.
27:15If you're in London, there's probably a bit more...