Oscar History Lessons with Joyce Eng, Plus Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Project Hail Mary
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Bringing back our favorite recurring feature, in which we compare this year's Oscar race to previous years and see what we can learn. How is Matt Damon like Peter O'Toole? What if Inde Navarette's Oscar campaign is like Jennifer Lopez's? Joyce Eng joins Katey and Chris to explain it all. Then, Katey catches up with Project Hail Mary directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller about the nerves headed into their springtime box office hit, how they balance earnestness and comedy across their work, and the Hollywood legend who inspired Sandra Huller's unconventional onscreen style.
00:00 Intro
00:23 Coming Up...
01:49 Oscar Nerds Assemble: Historical Comps
02:18 Nobody Knows Anything Yet
04:21 Digger Box Office Bombs
07:50 Why Hollywood Is Rallying For Tom Cruise
10:37 Cruise's Path To A Nomination
14:01 Best Actor's Crowded Field
16:07 Is Project Hail Mary The Martian?
19:13 The Odyssey Comps
21:27 Could The Odyssey Get Snuck Up On?
24:01 Supporting Actress Wide Open
27:03 Julianne Moore And The Pattinson Gamble
30:13 Artificial And Festival Goggles
34:32 Can Ai Headlines Boost The Film?
35:37 Up Next: Phil Lord And Chris Miller
36:25 March Release, Maximum Pressure
37:19 Selling A Movie You Can't Pitch
39:42 Have Audiences Changed?
40:25 Optimism Versus Comedy
42:09 Why Getting Along Is Spectacular
44:19 Asking Collaborators To Be Scared
46:10 'A Film By A Lot Of People'
48:21 Directing As Two Minds
50:00 Ryan Gosling's Wild Instincts
51:34 Sandra Huller's Cozy Power
53:43 The Yellow Raincoat Theory
55:27 What You Leave In Someone's Head
57:29 The Stories That Make Us Cry
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