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The 98th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which took place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States. During the gala, the AMPAS will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories, honoring films released in 2025. The ceremony will be televised in the United States by ABC and streamed on Hulu. Comedian Conan O'Brien is set to host the show for the second consecutive time,

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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Movie Goodness where we examine life through cinema here on the KB Radio Network. I am your host Kevin Reed and it's time to go over the award show of the season. Well I would say the second best because the first best is the Goody Awards which is here on the KB Radio Network. But the second best, the most important... day or award show in hollywood are the oscars the 98th academy awards just went final we just got our winners in all 24 categories and we're gonna do the results and reaction to those awards probably not gonna do all 24 we're just gonna stick to the main big awards i guess you could say this award show took place on march the 15th at the doobie theater in hollywood los angeles and it aired on abc and hulu for all of you streamers out there but uh this this is coming to a close as far as it being on abc which has always been at least in my uh uh stint here on planet earth always been on abc but it is slowly winding to a close as I think next year or the year after. it will begin to broadcast on YouTube. And so for all you nostalgia buffs, this bottle is up because it's coming to a close. This ceremony was hosted by Conan O'Brien, who returned from last year, who did a decent job last year. This year, it was all right this year. I will say this, this year flew by. This year... uh awards it was pretty quick you know central time it ended around what 9 30 that is odd because i'm used to these academy awards ending around 11 o'clock central time where i'm at and i don't know about you but that that doesn't work for me it's really hard to stay up for these awards especially especially when you really want to get to the big awards and they save those to the end of the night and you finally get your best picture around 10 30 11 o'clock and you're like oh my god by the end you're fighting sleep and everything i can only imagine eastern time in the united states uh where is like 12 o'clock where is ending but it ended pretty quick and the show kind of flew by it was it was really really good i mean It was streamlined, and you had an extra award. Added to this year's ceremonies where this is the first year where we got the best casting category at the Oscars, which is long overdue. When you think of all these ensemble films that has this ensemble cast, I should say, and you look at that cast and how those the cast works in those characters, everybody is just banging. And, you know, you don't get. a lot of recognition for that you know you get one nominee out the bunch or something like that and i guess it de facto celebrates everybody in that cast but i think the cast and director deserves a lot of credit for uh finding these actors and actresses who can perform in these certain roles so it's good that you finally got that this year uh i think they're gonna add a stunt category in the coming years as well which will be awesome because they deserve their recognition as well but this was a streamlined ceremony and nobody is happier than me i will say going into this i had some predictions i had some thoughts uh especially if you uh listen to the episode my uh goody awards from last year I had a lot of the nominees. It was pretty close. And that was the first year that ever happened. I'm like, man, my ballot is close to the Academy Award ballot. It was weird. But did I have the same winners as them? Not really. Not so much, but I did. I did get about, I'll say 75% of it right on my end. And I think that was the right decision. But all of these nominees, and I know it's a cliche, but honestly, all of these nominees deserve their shine. They deserve to win. And congratulations to all those who were nominated and a special congratulations to the winners. And we have some monumental wins that happened here. some first time. ever wins uh that happened here i mean first time for a certain group certain certain demographic and i think that is amazing my pick going into this to be the big winner tonight was sinners i thought sinners would be uh sweeping not not so much sweeping they were nominated for 16 academy awards this year i didn't i know in no world you where they're going to win 16, all 16. But I was hoping for at least nine, you know, get half of them, a little more than half of them booked. But it didn't happen that way. The closest one was 13 nominees for One Battle After Another, which was also a phenomenal film that deserved all those nominations as well. Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value both had all three had nine nominations apiece Hamnet had eight Begonia F1, The Secret Agent and Train Dreams had four and Avatar, Fire and Ash, Blue Moon it was just an accident K-Pop Demon Hunter and Surratt had two respectively for those as far as the the multiple nominees are concerned that wraps them up and so the big no pun intended battle of the night was between two warner brothers films and that is sinners in one battle after another and no matter who won warner brothers won well i guess you could Paramount One de facto As well but this was a big night for warner brothers and uh their team over there just shelling out these oscar worthy films you know these original films and if you look at the list of nominees throughout this ceremony it's it's pretty original man you didn't get any copy and paste films you You know, yeah, Frankenstein, that's like the... 500th adaptation of that novel but you know it was unique it was a different vision um yeah avatar fire and ash but it wasn't nominated for any big categories as far as beck's picture and actor and actress and stuff like that but you know that aside from that everything else was the original going into tonight and so let's go through you these nominations and the winners of of these categories and i'm gonna try to do all 24 but i doubt if i do all 24 i doubt it but i must definitely stick to the big ones let's start with best visual effects the nominees for best visual effects were avatar fire and ash f1 jurassic world rebirth the lost bus and sinners i don't think i don't think anybody picked any other movie except for avatar fire and ash which one for best visual effects how can you go up against that movie that movie is a visual effect is nothing nothing about that movie that doesn't say visual effects is one every single not year but every uh year that movie you know a version of that movie has come out and so Bye. Yeah, that was a no-brainer. F1 has some awesome visual effects. Sinners, subtle, good visual effects, especially with the Michael B. Jordan of it all, playing two different characters, but seamlessly looking like there were two different people there, you know, throughout the film. I thought that was a really, they did a really good job with that. I didn't see the lost bus. I was trying to catch it before the awards so I could see. Because, you know, I didn't see visual effects from that movie. I just thought it was like a whatever movie. I knew nothing about The Lost Bus. Still don't. But I do want to watch it. And Jurassic World, you know, copy and paste, man. It's the same thing. Dinosaurs running around. They look good. They did look good. But I didn't think in no world was it going to be Avatar firing ash. You're a winner. for best visual effects best film editing your nominees one battle after another f1 marty supreme sentimental value and sinners the winner well before i announced the winner you know that more often than not the film that wins best editing usually wins best picture so when they announced this winner i already knew i kind of prepared myself going in Thank you. that this movie was going to win best picture but the winner for best film editing one battle after another and i can't complain with it too much i thought that was uh some exceptional work there one battle after another is an awesome movie awesome movie along with sinners like i said that those were the two movies that were battling this award season So when you try to, at least for the last few months, when you were trying to figure out who had the edge here or there or whatever, it was between those two. You know, all the other films, as good as they are, as rightfully nominated as they were, they were just there, man. They were just competing for third or fourth, you know, because it was one and two came down to those two films, in my humble opinion. But the winner for best film editing, one battle after another. Best costume design. And I'm touching in on this one because I'm kind of surprised, but I'm not surprised by the winner. The nominees was Frankenstein, Avatar, Fire and Ash, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and Sinners. My pick going in was Sinners because I believe that was just... Some beautiful costume designs by Rufy Carter, who is like an icon when it comes to costume design in film. She has she won for Black Panther, I believe. And, you know, if you go throughout her filmography, what film she has worked on, she is stellar in her job. And she did an awesome job, I guess, because I know personally that look. you know that that that uh that era of mississippi no i didn't live in that era but uh my family did you know my my my elders did and yes it was so active accurately depicted in this film and i thought it would win but when the winner was announced all i could say was yeah i see it the winner for best costume design goes to frankenstein frankenstein was it was beautiful i mean i have no other words to say you can say what you want about the film yes we've seen frankenstein in so many different iterations throughout the last 50 60 70 years but man this had this had a certain look that just looked victorian era and it just I haven't seen Frankenstein in this light before, and that costume design really popped in this film. So it was rightfully deserved for this movie and for the costume designer. Frankenstein, best costume design, best hairstyling and makeup. You had Frankenstein nominated again, along with Sinners, The Smashing Machine, The Ugly Stepsister, and Ka- Ka- kakuma kakuma i haven't heard of that movie but it's a japanese film but the winner was frankenstein frankenstein won that and if you look at the list of nominees i can't really fight that they can't can't really fight that that was that was that's accurate you know uh as much as i'm a big fan of sinners uh yeah the hair and makeup was great but man Frankenstein, I'm telling you, it was like a painting. a motion capture painting or however you can i can't quantify it i can't put it into words but it was just beautiful to look at and speaking of which uh best production design and the winner was frankenstein so you know the other nominees was hamnet uh marty supreme one battle after another and sinners yeah the production design was great the only other one out of that category would be sinners and that's not biased it just the production design was great on that film as well as hamnet hamnet has some really good production design as well but i'm telling you uh frankenstein had some of the just gorgeous you really went into that world and it was all about the production the way the the set design the production design the costume design it just Note. amazing so those three uh uh wins for frankenstein were right that it was it was beautiful it was beautifully made and the details was just phenomenal and so congratulations on frankenstein on three academy award wins uh all in designing categories let's move over to cinematography Cinematography was gonna be tough that was a tough category your nominees were frankenstein again you also had marty supreme one battle after another train dreams and sinners this was a tough category because train dreams looked amazing i didn't know anything about train dreams i just randomly saw it and i was like man this is a gorgeous movie it just looked great it was a good movie as well but uh i was just in awe in how it looked one battle after another also looked great it looked like a uh 70s movie and uh uh exportation film from the 70s it just had that feel that look and everything just worked you know if you don't shoot that right it can come off really really bad but it came all flawlessly, I believe. Franken... going back to Frankenstein on how beautifully it looked it was beautifully shot beautifully shot um uh Marty Supreme I'm not a big Marty Supreme guy sorry I I know that's probably blast for me but I'm just not a Marty Supreme guy nothing about that movie really appeared to appeal to me I think it was a good movie but I I does it deserve all these accolades I don't know I gotta watch it again that's one of those ones i have to watch again uh but uh As far as the cinematography of it all, it was good. But at the end of the day, there can only be one. Best Cinematography goes to centers for Autumn Darren Akapa. I believe her name is. If I'm butchering her name, I deeply apologize. But she won for Best Cinematography. And this was monumental. on so many levels because she is the first woman to win in this category hats off to her look bro sinners was the best looking move watching that movie in imax just opened my eyes to a whole nother world you know up to that point up to that point almost a year to the day close to if not today sitting in the theater watching sinners in IMAX I never thought it mattered I honestly didn't I'll go see movies in IMAX and you know it looks great everything looks great but I never really put it in perspective on how different a movie looks you know with with 70 millimeter versus your normal theatrical format and It just blew my mind looking at the landscapes. Because let me put it like this. Sinners was shot down here. It was literally shot around my house. It was shot here, blocks away from where I'm currently sitting here recording this episode. I don't know how they shot it to look because I can look out this window right here and it doesn't look that good. It doesn't look that vibrant as it did in this movie. And that was done by this great cinematographer who worked with Ryan Coogler previously, I think in Wakanda Forever. And I believe with Creed, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. But I know for certain Wakanda Forever. I didn't 100% like Wakanda Forever's cinematography. I thought it was dark, real dark in areas. And it just, the lighting was off to me. The boy, she made up for it here. This was rightfully earned and so monumental on so many levels. uh being the first woman to win in this category congratulations to autumn uh i wish her all the success in the world and she's gonna be amazing going forward she has an eye the way she shot this movie was amazing amazing it brought back the love and the envy dare i say that i have to make movies this is why i always wanted to make movies looking at this on the big screen and so congratulations on winning in that category best sound the best sound the nominees are frankenstein one battle after another sinners uh surat and f1 which was your winner for best sound that was a no-brainer as well f1 you felt like you was on that track you you heard every streak every burnout every you pill out every the the the other f1 car formula one cars whizzing by you heard it every step of the way and i i was just locked in and it was so oh it was so good it helped make this movie better than what it should be because this not this should not have been as good as the movie as it turned down, but it did it and it was phenomenal i love f1 uh and it rightfully deserved to win best sound now let's go to our brand new category best casting and this was a tough category as well and i would imagine going forward every year is going to be tough because these are some phenomenal casts that that you have to put together, especially for these. awards heavy films you know these are some big casts you have to put together and the casting director is the lichpin to all of that and trying to narrow it down to one there's really no winner or loser here in my humble opinion now it's good that we had a winner but you know i i think that they all won in my humble opinion the nominees were one battle after another hamnet marty supreme The Secret Agent and Sinners. Of course, I was banking on Sinners. But, one battle after another, that was a tough one. That was a tough one. It was between those two, as it was throughout the night. But, at the end of the day, the first ever winner of the best casting goes to, one battle after another, Cassandra. Oh Lord, help me with a last name. Kalou Kondis, I believe. I'm going to stop there. It sounds about right, so I'm just going to rock with that. If I butchered it, I apologize. But congratulations on winning Best Casting. I can't argue it. Can't fight you on it because that was a phenomenal cast. The mere fact that she found Chase Infinity to be the lead, this was her first movie. you know, found her and she fit so well. And she, she actually, worked, she worked, man. She went toe to toe with Leo, Leonardo DiCaprio in, in worked with Sean Penn and it worked, you know, so she, she is solely responsible for finding this young talent. You know, it is awesome, man. I mean, Tiana Teller, Regina Hall, Benicio Del. the tall rule. Oh, what a cast. How can you get mad at it? How can you get mad? Yes, I was pulling for centers, but you know, that was my heart, but my head told me it was one battle after another. And yes, it did win. Let's move over to the, to the music category here, beginning with original song, best original song. And this calls great debate in my house with me and my wife. I had a song that I felt should have won. She had a song that she felt should have won. And it was like, neither of us were wrong, but I had a reason. Of course, she had a reason for hers, but I had a legitimate reason for mine, I felt. But that's besides the point. Our first nominee, Dear Me from Relentless, I Lie to You from Sinners, Sweet Dreams of Joy from Viva Veta, and Train Dreams from Train Dreams, as well as Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters. Let me tell you what songs I have. picked i picked i lied to you from sinners she picked golden by k well for k-pop demon hunters well needless to say my wife won k-pop demon hunters uh golden wins best original song this is why this is why i picked i lied to you that song was the was the core of that film that song was the the whole motivation of that movie now golden yeah gold you can make the same argument for golden but the reason the reason i didn't pick golden which i love i love the song it was a good song love the movie but golden felt so pop it felt so billboard top 100 which it is it didn't feel like a song from a movie you know it just felt like a song that is a k-pop song you know it didn't it just didn't fit it i don't know i can't explain it it could be the bias in me that it could be the bias in me but i just felt that i lied to you was that one song and it's that one scene where that song is in centers that just opens the movie up and it turns it turns that movie on his head and from that moment on it becomes more than what what we were initially introduced to up to that point and it was it was just poignant and that's why i felt it was best song but i'm not mad i was just i was just uh uh expressing to her that i felt i lied to you should have won you know but it is what it is golden yeah good good on him and i like i think k-pop demon hunter was one of the better films of the year i think it should have been properly nominated for best picture that's how much i love that movie i loved k-pop demon hunters i love golden how could you not it was on the radio non-stop for like four to five months man I think it's still on the radio. But, yeah, man, congratulations to them on a win. Best original score, Begonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, one battle after another, and Sinners. Your winner, once again, is Luke Wick Garrison for Sinners. And, man, what's this, his third Academy Award? He won for Black Panther. I think he won. for Oppenheimer and Danny Warren for Sinner. So he didn't got two with Ryan Coogler. That's awesome within itself. But man, Luke Rick Gorson is quickly becoming my favorite composer in film. I love all of his scores. I even love, because just randomly, I was listening to Tenet, the score for Tenet. The Mike Nolan, Mike Nolan, Jesus. The Christopher Nolan film. that is universally known as his worst movie but i don't hate it but it's not his best but it is an awesome score that fits that movie and every he did the score for the mandalorian he does the he did the score for uh uh i think also for bubble fat the book of bubble fat as well but he he does a lot of scores and i've enjoyed them all I enjoyed Oppenheimer's score, and I can't wait to hear the full Odyssey score, which he'll probably be back up there next year to win his fourth. But the little snippet that you heard from the trailer, it sounds amazing. But he is a phenomenal composer, and that score for Sinners was just, I mean. Amazing. There's nothing else you can really say about it other than the fact it was amazing. Luke Wick Gorson wins Best Original Score for Sinners. Let's move on to Best Animated Feature Film. And your nominees were Ilio, Arco, Little Amelia, Zootopia 2, and K-Pop Demon Hunters. Your winner for Best Animated... feature film k-pop demon hunters and rightfully so i still haven't seen uh zootopia 2 and i saw that it just released on uh apple not apple uh disney plus and so i gotta watch it you know because i love the first one but i never got around to watching too but uh even if i watch it i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna go i'm gonna take a leap and say i don't think it would have been better than k-pop demon i just loved that that movie was so good man so good i i can't believe that it just dropped on netflix that sony pictures did not want to release that movie in theaters they they felt it was going to lose money and it turned into a phenomenon for uh netflix with a number one song and it won academy awards and all this sony pictures must feel like idiots right now it's they gotta feel dumb that they lost uh lost out on all of that but that's neither here nor there uh congratulations to k-pop demon hunters let's move over to the writing category we have best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay and this tells you how the night goes those the two winners in these different categories tells you that i wasn't just whistling dixie here and this was a real thing Let's begin. with the uh adapted screenplay your nominees were begonia frankenstein one battle after another hamnet and train dreams the winner for best adapted screenplay goes to paul thomas anderson for one battle after another and finally he went he finally wanted to this was his first academy award mind you this is the man who made Boogie Night uh uh uh magnolia it the list goes on and the dude is phenomenal and the fact that he just now won and this was a righteous win this wasn't a okay it's finally time to give him one type of deal this was a real deal this this film deserved all of the accolades that it received tonight but uh to continue on with my point let's go let's go over to the best original screenplay where your nominees were blue moon Blue Moon, Sinners, It Was Just an Accident, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value. The winner for Best Original Screenplay, Ryan Coogler for Sinners. You see what I'm saying? You see how these two, Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, were just going neck and neck throughout this entire evening with their projects. This was this was so cool to watch, bro. For me personally, because I'm a big fan of both of them. And so to see them both winning tonight was like just I was just overjoyed. And especially for Ryan Coogler, he's the second black filmmaker to win in this category. The first being way for it. Way for it. Jordan Peele is for Get Out. So... We finally got two black writers to win this award. That's awesome, man. But I will say this. When Ryan Coogler won this, I knew then. I was locked in at that point. I knew that the evening was not going to end like I thought. I knew it. But, hey, stranger things have happened. Let's move over into the acting category. Let's start. with uh ladies go first let's start with actress uh supporting role where your nominees were amy madigan l fanning the actress that released the other actress from sentimental value who name i'm not even gonna butcher because i'm not even gonna attempt to butcher her name but she's from norway uh she was nominated uh when when my musaku for sinners and Tiana Taylor for one battle after another. Let me say this. let me say this let me put this out there i never understood the love that tiana taylor was getting for this movie no disrespect to her no disrespect to the film at all i'm not saying she's horrible in the movie she's not horrible in the movie i just didn't understand all of this award consideration for her portrayal in this movie i just never it it just didn't dawn on me in my humble opinion there were two two actresses who were winging it out for this uh award in this category that was amy madigan and wimba musaku i had picked amy madigan uh in my goodie awards uh a couple of months ago and i felt that When I first saw Weapons, that that was the, that was just the performance to beat. There was no other performance that could beat that performance from Amy Madigan. I'm sorry, it was just nothing I saw that was better than that. And apparently the Academy felt the same way because Amy Madigan wins for Weapons. Best actress in a supporting role, rightfully so. I'm told that That was just a phenomenal performance from an actress I haven't seen on screen in a very long time. You know, I can't think of the last movie I've seen Amy Madigan in. And the only thing I can think of is Field of Dreams. But I know she was in other stuff between that. But that just goes to show you how sporadic her appearances are. At least in my purview, she probably. shells out a movie a year i just haven't seen it but man to just hit the main screen in this film in this little horror film that weird that's weird and told in a uncronological state and all this other stuff and to put it in perspective if her character of gladys if that role wasn't cast correctly, wasn't acted correctly. the whole movie falls apart they needed to nail that role that move that role is the role in the movie yeah you had you had uh uh julia garner you had uh josh brolin in this movie all of them were great but man if they didn't nail gladys it was going to be a problem for that movie and she came in and just turned herself over and just I mean, I wasn't expecting this performance from her. I didn't even know she was in that movie when I watched it. I'm like, oh, isn't that, wait, isn't that the woman from Field of Dreams? That's all I can think of. And sure enough, man, she was amazing in that role. Finally, finally, after 40 years, she gets her flowers. Amy Madigan, winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Best actress in a leading role. You had Rose Burns. Rose Burns for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Kate Hudson for Song, Song Blue. Jessie Buckley for Hamnet. Another actress from Sentimental Value who name I Don't Want to Butcher. And Emma Stone for Bougonia. And the winner of this... esteemed category was jesse buckley a winning for best actors in a lead role i i can't really speak on this because i didn't watch hamlet i watched 10 minutes of it and i fell asleep and it wasn't because i was bored i was tired and i don't know why i picked late at night to start watching this movie because it's on peacock now And I waited till late at night to watch it. And I fell asleep and I never went back to watch it. So I can't give a fair assessment of her performance here. But I can tell you that Jessie Buckley is phenomenal in everything that she's in. I just recently saw The Bride. Even though The Bride, the film, didn't 100% deliver, she did. And so I can't knock her for that. in option. wholeheartedly believe that she gave an amazing performance the other performance uh actress actresses in this category I did see Emma Stone. It was fine. It was a good performance. I don't think it was great by any scratch. It wasn't her best, but it was good. It was a good performance. I didn't see the other two. I didn't see Song Song Blue, Kate Hudson. Everything I hear about it, she was awful in that movie. So I'm kind of thrown off. You know, that's... part of the reason why i haven't watched it because i heard it was bad i heard her performance was bad so i don't know what happened there but i i'm not gonna judge because i haven't seen the movie and i didn't watch sentimental value so all i would say is oh in roseburn i i watched a few minutes of it my wife watched it one night she was watching it and i caught a couple of scenes i didn't watch the whole movie but she was great i'm gonna tell you roseburn is a is very underrated as an actress. And according to my wife, who watched the whole movie, unlike me, she said she did great in it. So I trust her judgment there. But, yeah, congratulations to all the ladies in this category. Jessie Buckley, I'm glad that she won. You know, I can't go off of this particular performance in Hamnet, but I can go off of everything I've seen her in prior and even after. And I can honestly say that, yeah, she deserves an award for something. So that's it for the ladies. Let's move over to the men. And let's start with best supporting actor Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another. Jacob Elori in Frankenstein. Daryl Alindo in Sinners. Stalin Skarsgård in Sentimental Value. And Sean Penn in One Battle After Another. another in my humble opinion last year after watching these films i've seen all of these movies and all of these performances there was only one only one that was phenomenally great you know that that stood out amongst all of them i secretly was cheering for delroy lindo to win you know because i i think he's well deserved i think he was snubbed a few years back for uh oh my god it was that spike lee film that came on netflix why am i blanking on the name but anyways uh he was snubbed in that movie uh in that role he was just awesome in that role but i knew better i knew better sean penn as Colonel Lockjaw in one battle after another was so good because I know Colonel Lockjaw I know a few Colonel Lockjaws and he was them I mean it's like he manifested these dudes that I know you know racist and you may ask yourself how do you know racist that good like that well you welcome to Louisiana but anyways you you know him you know those secret the closeted races that's that's that's that's besides the point that's a whole nother show but anyway he was so good in his role and he deserved to win for best supporting actor uh unfortunately he didn't show up to the ceremony. uh which which apparently pissed a lot of people off he he did that come i think this is third academy award he won for what mystic uh river there's another one that he won besides this one but that's it doesn't matter he obviously he doesn't care so why am i beating my head against the wall to try to figure it out but uh sean penn best actor in a supporting role for one battle another we move on to best actor in a lead role and once again this I'm telling you it's sinners or or one battle after another for almost every category or every category adjacent they were neck and neck supporting went to one battle after another leading went to Michael B Jordan for sinners the other nominees were Timothee Chalamet Beep. leonardo dicaprio uh ethan hawke and warner murata murata i'm pretty sure i butchered his name too but anyways uh Michael B. Jordan was hands down the best performance last year in centers. The dude seamlessly, seamlessly, if I could get the word out, played two different characters and they were distinct. They were distinctly two different characters and they were great. Both of them were great performances and Michael B. Jordan is not. Look. As much as I love sinners, as much as I like Michael B. Jordan, you can listen to past episodes here on the KB Radio Network. I have repeatedly said Michael B. Jordan plays the same character in every single movie. It drives me insane. The only different character that I saw come out of him was Killmonger. Other than that, everything else was basically the same. Until we got to Sinners. And he took it to another level. And this was so deserved. Congratulations to Michael B. Best actor in a lead role. And it's still blowing my mind. How evenly matched Sinners in one battle after another are. At this point in the night. It's like one threw a punch. The other one threw a punch. It was all night like this. So we get to the final two, and it comes down to best director and best pitcher. Let's go to best director, Chloe Zhao for Hamnet, Josh Shalfie for Marty Supreme, the director, Joaquin Thierry for Sentimental Value, Ryan Coogler for Sinners, and Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another. It came down to... Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler. We all knew this. But there can only be one. And it was Paul Thomas Anderson. Winning Best Director for one battle after another. Rightfully so. Rightfully so. You know, once again, I'm cheering for sinners for a number of reasons. But logically, you know, I sit back and I... think about uh you know what truly was the best what you know in all of these categories who was the best what was the best and paul thomas anderson that was a tall task as much as a tall task sinners were uh one battle after another was just as difficult man you just watch that movie that was a tough tough movie to pull off because that could have came off so bad It could have went left very easily, but it didn't. And Paul Thomas Anderson, he should have been won one, but I'm glad he won it for this. Congratulations, best director for one battle after another. All right, ladies and gentlemen, our final award of the night, best pitcher, the one we all been waiting for, your nominees, Begonia, F1. Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams. Tough category. Well, let's narrow it down. F1. F1 had the longest shot out of all of these movies. F1 had no business being as good as it was, but it was phenomenally good. and it deserved to be nominated but that's as far as it was it was going to go it was this was this was the ride you know you went around the track and this is it you ran out of gas here this movie was the best popcorn movie of 2025 but not the best picture in my humble opinion begonia was really good uh unexpectedly good and That's about it. I'm not going to say that it should have won Best Picture. Frankenstein. Frankenstein was also good. It was beautiful to look at, but I just didn't get the vibe that I was expecting to get from it. Even though I do acknowledge that it is truly a phenomenal film, but at the end of the day, it wasn't going to win. Hamnet, I explained earlier, I did not finish watching it. Marty Supreme. fine uh the secret agent another movie that i didn't uh watch yet i plan to watch it soon now that is on uh uh screaming service i forgot which one but i saw it pop up sentimental value is another film i didn't watch sinners you know how i feel about sinners train dreams uh beautiful movie the kind of slow burn didn't think it would win but it came down to sinners and one battle after another as the night dictated one battle after another your best pitcher in the 98th annual academy awards i'm of two minds of this i think because we got kind of a precursor earlier in the night i didn't go over it on this show but you had a tie which is epic i think it only happened like two or three times in the 95 98 years that this show has been in existence in the live action short film category you had a tie and i felt they wasted that tie they should have tied with these two films for best picture that's how i feel at least that's kevin reed's opinion i felt that These two movies were the two best movies of the year, and I really can't have one pull in front of the other. Now, I have a bias, but I'm taking all of that out the way. You know, I'm taking that out of the equation. You know, I would love to have Sinners win, but I can't look past the fact that one battle after another was a great movie and timely, you know. And also had elements of black sportation in it you know it is just everything was there for me uh when it came to one battle after another so i'm not mad at the whim you know i was hoping wishing and praying for sinners but you know at the end of the day i i gotta tip my hat to paul thomas anderson and the cast leonardo dicaprio chase infinity tiana teller even uh regina hall and all All involved Benicio Del Toro All who was involved in this film congratulations to you all so those were your winners of the 98 academy awards just to recap uh the the winner of the night of course was one battle after another it won six academy awards this year sinners hey you can walk out of that theater with your head tail high they won four academy awards shockingly uh frankenstein walked away with three And K-Pop Demon Hunters walked away with two. And so it wasn't a bad night for these films. I mean, you still say that these are an Academy Award winning film. Demon Hunters is an Academy Award winning film. Sinners is an Academy Award winning film. Frankenstein is an Academy Award winning film. And definitely one battle after another. But this battle tonight. Between them and sinners, they won it. So my hat goes off to you. But I would like to know what were your thoughts on the night. Did you enjoy the show? Did you watch it? Did you even watch it? Because I know a lot of people don't even watch it anymore. But I would love to know if you watched it, you were hoping for a certain film to win and it didn't, or did you have a little bingo card or a little... pool going on and how did you do on that pool i would love to know how it all turned out and are you happy with the results email the show kbradiopodcast at gmail.com you can also search for the show on all social media platforms just search for the kb radio network also don't forget about youtube ladies and gentlemen subscribe to the kb radio network channel and like this video if you don't mind don't forget about the five stars the reviews and sharing this show if you're listening on apple podcast spotify our heart radio wherever you are currently listening to movie goodness here on the kb radio network everybody thank you for joining me for this recap and reaction to the 98th academy awards everybody i hope you have a blessed day blessed week blessed night whenever you're listening to this show. Want you all to know that I love you. 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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Movie Goodness where we examine life through cinema here on the KB Radio Network. I am your host Kevin Reed and it's time to go over the award show of the season. Well I would say the second best because the first best is the Goody Awards which is here on the KB Radio Network. But the second best, the most important... day or award show in hollywood are the oscars the 98th academy awards just went final we just got our winners in all 24 categories and we're gonna do the results and reaction to those awards probably not gonna do all 24 we're just gonna stick to the main big awards i guess you could say this award show took place on march the 15th at the doobie theater in hollywood los angeles and it aired on abc and hulu for all of you streamers out there but uh this this is coming to a close as far as it being on abc which has always been at least in my uh uh stint here on planet earth always been on abc but it is slowly winding to a close as I think next year or the year after. it will begin to broadcast on YouTube. And so for all you nostalgia buffs, this bottle is up because it's coming to a close. This ceremony was hosted by Conan O'Brien, who returned from last year, who did a decent job last year. This year, it was all right this year. I will say this, this year flew by. This year... uh awards it was pretty quick you know central time it ended around what 9 30 that is odd because i'm used to these academy awards ending around 11 o'clock central time where i'm at and i don't know about you but that that doesn't work for me it's really hard to stay up for these awards especially especially when you really want to get to the big awards and they save those to the end of the night and you finally get your best picture around 10 30 11 o'clock and you're like oh my god by the end you're fighting sleep and everything i can only imagine eastern time in the united states uh where is like 12 o'clock where is ending but it ended pretty quick and the show kind of flew by it was it was really really good i mean It was streamlined, and you had an extra award. Added to this year's ceremonies where this is the first year where we got the best casting category at the Oscars, which is long overdue. When you think of all these ensemble films that has this ensemble cast, I should say, and you look at that cast and how those the cast works in those characters, everybody is just banging. And, you know, you don't get. a lot of recognition for that you know you get one nominee out the bunch or something like that and i guess it de facto celebrates everybody in that cast but i think the cast and director deserves a lot of credit for uh finding these actors and actresses who can perform in these certain roles so it's good that you finally got that this year uh i think they're gonna add a stunt category in the coming years as well which will be awesome because they deserve their recognition as well but this was a streamlined ceremony and nobody is happier than me i will say going into this i had some predictions i had some thoughts uh especially if you uh listen to the episode my uh goody awards from last year I had a lot of the nominees. It was pretty close. And that was the first year that ever happened. I'm like, man, my ballot is close to the Academy Award ballot. It was weird. But did I have the same winners as them? Not really. Not so much, but I did. I did get about, I'll say 75% of it right on my end. And I think that was the right decision. But all of these nominees, and I know it's a cliche, but honestly, all of these nominees deserve their shine. They deserve to win. And congratulations to all those who were nominated and a special congratulations to the winners. And we have some monumental wins that happened here. some first time. ever wins uh that happened here i mean first time for a certain group certain certain demographic and i think that is amazing my pick going into this to be the big winner tonight was sinners i thought sinners would be uh sweeping not not so much sweeping they were nominated for 16 academy awards this year i didn't i know in no world you where they're going to win 16, all 16. But I was hoping for at least nine, you know, get half of them, a little more than half of them booked. But it didn't happen that way. The closest one was 13 nominees for One Battle After Another, which was also a phenomenal film that deserved all those nominations as well. Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value both had all three had nine nominations apiece Hamnet had eight Begonia F1, The Secret Agent and Train Dreams had four and Avatar, Fire and Ash, Blue Moon it was just an accident K-Pop Demon Hunter and Surratt had two respectively for those as far as the the multiple nominees are concerned that wraps them up and so the big no pun intended battle of the night was between two warner brothers films and that is sinners in one battle after another and no matter who won warner brothers won well i guess you could Paramount One de facto As well but this was a big night for warner brothers and uh their team over there just shelling out these oscar worthy films you know these original films and if you look at the list of nominees throughout this ceremony it's it's pretty original man you didn't get any copy and paste films you You know, yeah, Frankenstein, that's like the... 500th adaptation of that novel but you know it was unique it was a different vision um yeah avatar fire and ash but it wasn't nominated for any big categories as far as beck's picture and actor and actress and stuff like that but you know that aside from that everything else was the original going into tonight and so let's go through you these nominations and the winners of of these categories and i'm gonna try to do all 24 but i doubt if i do all 24 i doubt it but i must definitely stick to the big ones let's start with best visual effects the nominees for best visual effects were avatar fire and ash f1 jurassic world rebirth the lost bus and sinners i don't think i don't think anybody picked any other movie except for avatar fire and ash which one for best visual effects how can you go up against that movie that movie is a visual effect is nothing nothing about that movie that doesn't say visual effects is one every single not year but every uh year that movie you know a version of that movie has come out and so Bye. Yeah, that was a no-brainer. F1 has some awesome visual effects. Sinners, subtle, good visual effects, especially with the Michael B. Jordan of it all, playing two different characters, but seamlessly looking like there were two different people there, you know, throughout the film. I thought that was a really, they did a really good job with that. I didn't see the lost bus. I was trying to catch it before the awards so I could see. Because, you know, I didn't see visual effects from that movie. I just thought it was like a whatever movie. I knew nothing about The Lost Bus. Still don't. But I do want to watch it. And Jurassic World, you know, copy and paste, man. It's the same thing. Dinosaurs running around. They look good. They did look good. But I didn't think in no world was it going to be Avatar firing ash. You're a winner. for best visual effects best film editing your nominees one battle after another f1 marty supreme sentimental value and sinners the winner well before i announced the winner you know that more often than not the film that wins best editing usually wins best picture so when they announced this winner i already knew i kind of prepared myself going in Thank you. that this movie was going to win best picture but the winner for best film editing one battle after another and i can't complain with it too much i thought that was uh some exceptional work there one battle after another is an awesome movie awesome movie along with sinners like i said that those were the two movies that were battling this award season So when you try to, at least for the last few months, when you were trying to figure out who had the edge here or there or whatever, it was between those two. You know, all the other films, as good as they are, as rightfully nominated as they were, they were just there, man. They were just competing for third or fourth, you know, because it was one and two came down to those two films, in my humble opinion. But the winner for best film editing, one battle after another. Best costume design. And I'm touching in on this one because I'm kind of surprised, but I'm not surprised by the winner. The nominees was Frankenstein, Avatar, Fire and Ash, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and Sinners. My pick going in was Sinners because I believe that was just... Some beautiful costume designs by Rufy Carter, who is like an icon when it comes to costume design in film. She has she won for Black Panther, I believe. And, you know, if you go throughout her filmography, what film she has worked on, she is stellar in her job. And she did an awesome job, I guess, because I know personally that look. you know that that that uh that era of mississippi no i didn't live in that era but uh my family did you know my my my elders did and yes it was so active accurately depicted in this film and i thought it would win but when the winner was announced all i could say was yeah i see it the winner for best costume design goes to frankenstein frankenstein was it was beautiful i mean i have no other words to say you can say what you want about the film yes we've seen frankenstein in so many different iterations throughout the last 50 60 70 years but man this had this had a certain look that just looked victorian era and it just I haven't seen Frankenstein in this light before, and that costume design really popped in this film. So it was rightfully deserved for this movie and for the costume designer. Frankenstein, best costume design, best hairstyling and makeup. You had Frankenstein nominated again, along with Sinners, The Smashing Machine, The Ugly Stepsister, and Ka- Ka- kakuma kakuma i haven't heard of that movie but it's a japanese film but the winner was frankenstein frankenstein won that and if you look at the list of nominees i can't really fight that they can't can't really fight that that was that was that's accurate you know uh as much as i'm a big fan of sinners uh yeah the hair and makeup was great but man Frankenstein, I'm telling you, it was like a painting. a motion capture painting or however you can i can't quantify it i can't put it into words but it was just beautiful to look at and speaking of which uh best production design and the winner was frankenstein so you know the other nominees was hamnet uh marty supreme one battle after another and sinners yeah the production design was great the only other one out of that category would be sinners and that's not biased it just the production design was great on that film as well as hamnet hamnet has some really good production design as well but i'm telling you uh frankenstein had some of the just gorgeous you really went into that world and it was all about the production the way the the set design the production design the costume design it just Note. amazing so those three uh uh wins for frankenstein were right that it was it was beautiful it was beautifully made and the details was just phenomenal and so congratulations on frankenstein on three academy award wins uh all in designing categories let's move over to cinematography Cinematography was gonna be tough that was a tough category your nominees were frankenstein again you also had marty supreme one battle after another train dreams and sinners this was a tough category because train dreams looked amazing i didn't know anything about train dreams i just randomly saw it and i was like man this is a gorgeous movie it just looked great it was a good movie as well but uh i was just in awe in how it looked one battle after another also looked great it looked like a uh 70s movie and uh uh exportation film from the 70s it just had that feel that look and everything just worked you know if you don't shoot that right it can come off really really bad but it came all flawlessly, I believe. Franken... going back to Frankenstein on how beautifully it looked it was beautifully shot beautifully shot um uh Marty Supreme I'm not a big Marty Supreme guy sorry I I know that's probably blast for me but I'm just not a Marty Supreme guy nothing about that movie really appeared to appeal to me I think it was a good movie but I I does it deserve all these accolades I don't know I gotta watch it again that's one of those ones i have to watch again uh but uh As far as the cinematography of it all, it was good. But at the end of the day, there can only be one. Best Cinematography goes to centers for Autumn Darren Akapa. I believe her name is. If I'm butchering her name, I deeply apologize. But she won for Best Cinematography. And this was monumental. on so many levels because she is the first woman to win in this category hats off to her look bro sinners was the best looking move watching that movie in imax just opened my eyes to a whole nother world you know up to that point up to that point almost a year to the day close to if not today sitting in the theater watching sinners in IMAX I never thought it mattered I honestly didn't I'll go see movies in IMAX and you know it looks great everything looks great but I never really put it in perspective on how different a movie looks you know with with 70 millimeter versus your normal theatrical format and It just blew my mind looking at the landscapes. Because let me put it like this. Sinners was shot down here. It was literally shot around my house. It was shot here, blocks away from where I'm currently sitting here recording this episode. I don't know how they shot it to look because I can look out this window right here and it doesn't look that good. It doesn't look that vibrant as it did in this movie. And that was done by this great cinematographer who worked with Ryan Coogler previously, I think in Wakanda Forever. And I believe with Creed, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong. I could be wrong. But I know for certain Wakanda Forever. I didn't 100% like Wakanda Forever's cinematography. I thought it was dark, real dark in areas. And it just, the lighting was off to me. The boy, she made up for it here. This was rightfully earned and so monumental on so many levels. uh being the first woman to win in this category congratulations to autumn uh i wish her all the success in the world and she's gonna be amazing going forward she has an eye the way she shot this movie was amazing amazing it brought back the love and the envy dare i say that i have to make movies this is why i always wanted to make movies looking at this on the big screen and so congratulations on winning in that category best sound the best sound the nominees are frankenstein one battle after another sinners uh surat and f1 which was your winner for best sound that was a no-brainer as well f1 you felt like you was on that track you you heard every streak every burnout every you pill out every the the the other f1 car formula one cars whizzing by you heard it every step of the way and i i was just locked in and it was so oh it was so good it helped make this movie better than what it should be because this not this should not have been as good as the movie as it turned down, but it did it and it was phenomenal i love f1 uh and it rightfully deserved to win best sound now let's go to our brand new category best casting and this was a tough category as well and i would imagine going forward every year is going to be tough because these are some phenomenal casts that that you have to put together, especially for these. awards heavy films you know these are some big casts you have to put together and the casting director is the lichpin to all of that and trying to narrow it down to one there's really no winner or loser here in my humble opinion now it's good that we had a winner but you know i i think that they all won in my humble opinion the nominees were one battle after another hamnet marty supreme The Secret Agent and Sinners. Of course, I was banking on Sinners. But, one battle after another, that was a tough one. That was a tough one. It was between those two, as it was throughout the night. But, at the end of the day, the first ever winner of the best casting goes to, one battle after another, Cassandra. Oh Lord, help me with a last name. Kalou Kondis, I believe. I'm going to stop there. It sounds about right, so I'm just going to rock with that. If I butchered it, I apologize. But congratulations on winning Best Casting. I can't argue it. Can't fight you on it because that was a phenomenal cast. The mere fact that she found Chase Infinity to be the lead, this was her first movie. you know, found her and she fit so well. And she, she actually, worked, she worked, man. She went toe to toe with Leo, Leonardo DiCaprio in, in worked with Sean Penn and it worked, you know, so she, she is solely responsible for finding this young talent. You know, it is awesome, man. I mean, Tiana Teller, Regina Hall, Benicio Del. the tall rule. Oh, what a cast. How can you get mad at it? How can you get mad? Yes, I was pulling for centers, but you know, that was my heart, but my head told me it was one battle after another. And yes, it did win. Let's move over to the, to the music category here, beginning with original song, best original song. And this calls great debate in my house with me and my wife. I had a song that I felt should have won. She had a song that she felt should have won. And it was like, neither of us were wrong, but I had a reason. Of course, she had a reason for hers, but I had a legitimate reason for mine, I felt. But that's besides the point. Our first nominee, Dear Me from Relentless, I Lie to You from Sinners, Sweet Dreams of Joy from Viva Veta, and Train Dreams from Train Dreams, as well as Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters. Let me tell you what songs I have. picked i picked i lied to you from sinners she picked golden by k well for k-pop demon hunters well needless to say my wife won k-pop demon hunters uh golden wins best original song this is why this is why i picked i lied to you that song was the was the core of that film that song was the the whole motivation of that movie now golden yeah gold you can make the same argument for golden but the reason the reason i didn't pick golden which i love i love the song it was a good song love the movie but golden felt so pop it felt so billboard top 100 which it is it didn't feel like a song from a movie you know it just felt like a song that is a k-pop song you know it didn't it just didn't fit it i don't know i can't explain it it could be the bias in me that it could be the bias in me but i just felt that i lied to you was that one song and it's that one scene where that song is in centers that just opens the movie up and it turns it turns that movie on his head and from that moment on it becomes more than what what we were initially introduced to up to that point and it was it was just poignant and that's why i felt it was best song but i'm not mad i was just i was just uh uh expressing to her that i felt i lied to you should have won you know but it is what it is golden yeah good good on him and i like i think k-pop demon hunter was one of the better films of the year i think it should have been properly nominated for best picture that's how much i love that movie i loved k-pop demon hunters i love golden how could you not it was on the radio non-stop for like four to five months man I think it's still on the radio. But, yeah, man, congratulations to them on a win. Best original score, Begonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, one battle after another, and Sinners. Your winner, once again, is Luke Wick Garrison for Sinners. And, man, what's this, his third Academy Award? He won for Black Panther. I think he won. for Oppenheimer and Danny Warren for Sinner. So he didn't got two with Ryan Coogler. That's awesome within itself. But man, Luke Rick Gorson is quickly becoming my favorite composer in film. I love all of his scores. I even love, because just randomly, I was listening to Tenet, the score for Tenet. The Mike Nolan, Mike Nolan, Jesus. The Christopher Nolan film. that is universally known as his worst movie but i don't hate it but it's not his best but it is an awesome score that fits that movie and every he did the score for the mandalorian he does the he did the score for uh uh i think also for bubble fat the book of bubble fat as well but he he does a lot of scores and i've enjoyed them all I enjoyed Oppenheimer's score, and I can't wait to hear the full Odyssey score, which he'll probably be back up there next year to win his fourth. But the little snippet that you heard from the trailer, it sounds amazing. But he is a phenomenal composer, and that score for Sinners was just, I mean. Amazing. There's nothing else you can really say about it other than the fact it was amazing. Luke Wick Gorson wins Best Original Score for Sinners. Let's move on to Best Animated Feature Film. And your nominees were Ilio, Arco, Little Amelia, Zootopia 2, and K-Pop Demon Hunters. Your winner for Best Animated... feature film k-pop demon hunters and rightfully so i still haven't seen uh zootopia 2 and i saw that it just released on uh apple not apple uh disney plus and so i gotta watch it you know because i love the first one but i never got around to watching too but uh even if i watch it i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna go i'm gonna take a leap and say i don't think it would have been better than k-pop demon i just loved that that movie was so good man so good i i can't believe that it just dropped on netflix that sony pictures did not want to release that movie in theaters they they felt it was going to lose money and it turned into a phenomenon for uh netflix with a number one song and it won academy awards and all this sony pictures must feel like idiots right now it's they gotta feel dumb that they lost uh lost out on all of that but that's neither here nor there uh congratulations to k-pop demon hunters let's move over to the writing category we have best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay and this tells you how the night goes those the two winners in these different categories tells you that i wasn't just whistling dixie here and this was a real thing Let's begin. with the uh adapted screenplay your nominees were begonia frankenstein one battle after another hamnet and train dreams the winner for best adapted screenplay goes to paul thomas anderson for one battle after another and finally he went he finally wanted to this was his first academy award mind you this is the man who made Boogie Night uh uh uh magnolia it the list goes on and the dude is phenomenal and the fact that he just now won and this was a righteous win this wasn't a okay it's finally time to give him one type of deal this was a real deal this this film deserved all of the accolades that it received tonight but uh to continue on with my point let's go let's go over to the best original screenplay where your nominees were blue moon Blue Moon, Sinners, It Was Just an Accident, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value. The winner for Best Original Screenplay, Ryan Coogler for Sinners. You see what I'm saying? You see how these two, Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, were just going neck and neck throughout this entire evening with their projects. This was this was so cool to watch, bro. For me personally, because I'm a big fan of both of them. And so to see them both winning tonight was like just I was just overjoyed. And especially for Ryan Coogler, he's the second black filmmaker to win in this category. The first being way for it. Way for it. Jordan Peele is for Get Out. So... We finally got two black writers to win this award. That's awesome, man. But I will say this. When Ryan Coogler won this, I knew then. I was locked in at that point. I knew that the evening was not going to end like I thought. I knew it. But, hey, stranger things have happened. Let's move over into the acting category. Let's start. with uh ladies go first let's start with actress uh supporting role where your nominees were amy madigan l fanning the actress that released the other actress from sentimental value who name i'm not even gonna butcher because i'm not even gonna attempt to butcher her name but she's from norway uh she was nominated uh when when my musaku for sinners and Tiana Taylor for one battle after another. Let me say this. let me say this let me put this out there i never understood the love that tiana taylor was getting for this movie no disrespect to her no disrespect to the film at all i'm not saying she's horrible in the movie she's not horrible in the movie i just didn't understand all of this award consideration for her portrayal in this movie i just never it it just didn't dawn on me in my humble opinion there were two two actresses who were winging it out for this uh award in this category that was amy madigan and wimba musaku i had picked amy madigan uh in my goodie awards uh a couple of months ago and i felt that When I first saw Weapons, that that was the, that was just the performance to beat. There was no other performance that could beat that performance from Amy Madigan. I'm sorry, it was just nothing I saw that was better than that. And apparently the Academy felt the same way because Amy Madigan wins for Weapons. Best actress in a supporting role, rightfully so. I'm told that That was just a phenomenal performance from an actress I haven't seen on screen in a very long time. You know, I can't think of the last movie I've seen Amy Madigan in. And the only thing I can think of is Field of Dreams. But I know she was in other stuff between that. But that just goes to show you how sporadic her appearances are. At least in my purview, she probably. shells out a movie a year i just haven't seen it but man to just hit the main screen in this film in this little horror film that weird that's weird and told in a uncronological state and all this other stuff and to put it in perspective if her character of gladys if that role wasn't cast correctly, wasn't acted correctly. the whole movie falls apart they needed to nail that role that move that role is the role in the movie yeah you had you had uh uh julia garner you had uh josh brolin in this movie all of them were great but man if they didn't nail gladys it was going to be a problem for that movie and she came in and just turned herself over and just I mean, I wasn't expecting this performance from her. I didn't even know she was in that movie when I watched it. I'm like, oh, isn't that, wait, isn't that the woman from Field of Dreams? That's all I can think of. And sure enough, man, she was amazing in that role. Finally, finally, after 40 years, she gets her flowers. Amy Madigan, winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Best actress in a leading role. You had Rose Burns. Rose Burns for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Kate Hudson for Song, Song Blue. Jessie Buckley for Hamnet. Another actress from Sentimental Value who name I Don't Want to Butcher. And Emma Stone for Bougonia. And the winner of this... esteemed category was jesse buckley a winning for best actors in a lead role i i can't really speak on this because i didn't watch hamlet i watched 10 minutes of it and i fell asleep and it wasn't because i was bored i was tired and i don't know why i picked late at night to start watching this movie because it's on peacock now And I waited till late at night to watch it. And I fell asleep and I never went back to watch it. So I can't give a fair assessment of her performance here. But I can tell you that Jessie Buckley is phenomenal in everything that she's in. I just recently saw The Bride. Even though The Bride, the film, didn't 100% deliver, she did. And so I can't knock her for that. in option. wholeheartedly believe that she gave an amazing performance the other performance uh actress actresses in this category I did see Emma Stone. It was fine. It was a good performance. I don't think it was great by any scratch. It wasn't her best, but it was good. It was a good performance. I didn't see the other two. I didn't see Song Song Blue, Kate Hudson. Everything I hear about it, she was awful in that movie. So I'm kind of thrown off. You know, that's... part of the reason why i haven't watched it because i heard it was bad i heard her performance was bad so i don't know what happened there but i i'm not gonna judge because i haven't seen the movie and i didn't watch sentimental value so all i would say is oh in roseburn i i watched a few minutes of it my wife watched it one night she was watching it and i caught a couple of scenes i didn't watch the whole movie but she was great i'm gonna tell you roseburn is a is very underrated as an actress. And according to my wife, who watched the whole movie, unlike me, she said she did great in it. So I trust her judgment there. But, yeah, congratulations to all the ladies in this category. Jessie Buckley, I'm glad that she won. You know, I can't go off of this particular performance in Hamnet, but I can go off of everything I've seen her in prior and even after. And I can honestly say that, yeah, she deserves an award for something. So that's it for the ladies. Let's move over to the men. And let's start with best supporting actor Benicio Del Toro in One Battle After Another. Jacob Elori in Frankenstein. Daryl Alindo in Sinners. Stalin Skarsgård in Sentimental Value. And Sean Penn in One Battle After Another. another in my humble opinion last year after watching these films i've seen all of these movies and all of these performances there was only one only one that was phenomenally great you know that that stood out amongst all of them i secretly was cheering for delroy lindo to win you know because i i think he's well deserved i think he was snubbed a few years back for uh oh my god it was that spike lee film that came on netflix why am i blanking on the name but anyways uh he was snubbed in that movie uh in that role he was just awesome in that role but i knew better i knew better sean penn as Colonel Lockjaw in one battle after another was so good because I know Colonel Lockjaw I know a few Colonel Lockjaws and he was them I mean it's like he manifested these dudes that I know you know racist and you may ask yourself how do you know racist that good like that well you welcome to Louisiana but anyways you you know him you know those secret the closeted races that's that's that's that's besides the point that's a whole nother show but anyway he was so good in his role and he deserved to win for best supporting actor uh unfortunately he didn't show up to the ceremony. uh which which apparently pissed a lot of people off he he did that come i think this is third academy award he won for what mystic uh river there's another one that he won besides this one but that's it doesn't matter he obviously he doesn't care so why am i beating my head against the wall to try to figure it out but uh sean penn best actor in a supporting role for one battle another we move on to best actor in a lead role and once again this I'm telling you it's sinners or or one battle after another for almost every category or every category adjacent they were neck and neck supporting went to one battle after another leading went to Michael B Jordan for sinners the other nominees were Timothee Chalamet Beep. leonardo dicaprio uh ethan hawke and warner murata murata i'm pretty sure i butchered his name too but anyways uh Michael B. Jordan was hands down the best performance last year in centers. The dude seamlessly, seamlessly, if I could get the word out, played two different characters and they were distinct. They were distinctly two different characters and they were great. Both of them were great performances and Michael B. Jordan is not. Look. As much as I love sinners, as much as I like Michael B. Jordan, you can listen to past episodes here on the KB Radio Network. I have repeatedly said Michael B. Jordan plays the same character in every single movie. It drives me insane. The only different character that I saw come out of him was Killmonger. Other than that, everything else was basically the same. Until we got to Sinners. And he took it to another level. And this was so deserved. Congratulations to Michael B. Best actor in a lead role. And it's still blowing my mind. How evenly matched Sinners in one battle after another are. At this point in the night. It's like one threw a punch. The other one threw a punch. It was all night like this. So we get to the final two, and it comes down to best director and best pitcher. Let's go to best director, Chloe Zhao for Hamnet, Josh Shalfie for Marty Supreme, the director, Joaquin Thierry for Sentimental Value, Ryan Coogler for Sinners, and Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another. It came down to... Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler. We all knew this. But there can only be one. And it was Paul Thomas Anderson. Winning Best Director for one battle after another. Rightfully so. Rightfully so. You know, once again, I'm cheering for sinners for a number of reasons. But logically, you know, I sit back and I... think about uh you know what truly was the best what you know in all of these categories who was the best what was the best and paul thomas anderson that was a tall task as much as a tall task sinners were uh one battle after another was just as difficult man you just watch that movie that was a tough tough movie to pull off because that could have came off so bad It could have went left very easily, but it didn't. And Paul Thomas Anderson, he should have been won one, but I'm glad he won it for this. Congratulations, best director for one battle after another. All right, ladies and gentlemen, our final award of the night, best pitcher, the one we all been waiting for, your nominees, Begonia, F1. Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams. Tough category. Well, let's narrow it down. F1. F1 had the longest shot out of all of these movies. F1 had no business being as good as it was, but it was phenomenally good. and it deserved to be nominated but that's as far as it was it was going to go it was this was this was the ride you know you went around the track and this is it you ran out of gas here this movie was the best popcorn movie of 2025 but not the best picture in my humble opinion begonia was really good uh unexpectedly good and That's about it. I'm not going to say that it should have won Best Picture. Frankenstein. Frankenstein was also good. It was beautiful to look at, but I just didn't get the vibe that I was expecting to get from it. Even though I do acknowledge that it is truly a phenomenal film, but at the end of the day, it wasn't going to win. Hamnet, I explained earlier, I did not finish watching it. Marty Supreme. fine uh the secret agent another movie that i didn't uh watch yet i plan to watch it soon now that is on uh uh screaming service i forgot which one but i saw it pop up sentimental value is another film i didn't watch sinners you know how i feel about sinners train dreams uh beautiful movie the kind of slow burn didn't think it would win but it came down to sinners and one battle after another as the night dictated one battle after another your best pitcher in the 98th annual academy awards i'm of two minds of this i think because we got kind of a precursor earlier in the night i didn't go over it on this show but you had a tie which is epic i think it only happened like two or three times in the 95 98 years that this show has been in existence in the live action short film category you had a tie and i felt they wasted that tie they should have tied with these two films for best picture that's how i feel at least that's kevin reed's opinion i felt that These two movies were the two best movies of the year, and I really can't have one pull in front of the other. Now, I have a bias, but I'm taking all of that out the way. You know, I'm taking that out of the equation. You know, I would love to have Sinners win, but I can't look past the fact that one battle after another was a great movie and timely, you know. And also had elements of black sportation in it you know it is just everything was there for me uh when it came to one battle after another so i'm not mad at the whim you know i was hoping wishing and praying for sinners but you know at the end of the day i i gotta tip my hat to paul thomas anderson and the cast leonardo dicaprio chase infinity tiana teller even uh regina hall and all All involved Benicio Del Toro All who was involved in this film congratulations to you all so those were your winners of the 98 academy awards just to recap uh the the winner of the night of course was one battle after another it won six academy awards this year sinners hey you can walk out of that theater with your head tail high they won four academy awards shockingly uh frankenstein walked away with three And K-Pop Demon Hunters walked away with two. And so it wasn't a bad night for these films. I mean, you still say that these are an Academy Award winning film. Demon Hunters is an Academy Award winning film. Sinners is an Academy Award winning film. Frankenstein is an Academy Award winning film. And definitely one battle after another. But this battle tonight. Between them and sinners, they won it. So my hat goes off to you. But I would like to know what were your thoughts on the night. Did you enjoy the show? Did you watch it? Did you even watch it? Because I know a lot of people don't even watch it anymore. But I would love to know if you watched it, you were hoping for a certain film to win and it didn't, or did you have a little bingo card or a little... pool going on and how did you do on that pool i would love to know how it all turned out and are you happy with the results email the show kbradiopodcast at gmail.com you can also search for the show on all social media platforms just search for the kb radio network also don't forget about youtube ladies and gentlemen subscribe to the kb radio network channel and like this video if you don't mind don't forget about the five stars the reviews and sharing this show if you're listening on apple podcast spotify our heart radio wherever you are currently listening to movie goodness here on the kb radio network everybody thank you for joining me for this recap and reaction to the 98th academy awards everybody i hope you have a blessed day blessed week blessed night whenever you're listening to this show. Want you all to know that I love you. Continue to love everyone. And until we speak again, you all be blessed.

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