In today's episode, I am joined by Kyle, the winner of the 2024 Oscar prediction contest on The Oscar Project. We talk about a little of everything including what we liked from the 96th Academy Awards, other movies from 2023 we enjoyed, and things we're looking forward to in 2024.
Books mentioned in this episode include:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Erasure by Percival Everett
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
The list of films we mentioned is too long to include in the show notes, but check out the full Letterboxd list for this episode. A few films mentioned in this episode include:
Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan
Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
The Creator directed by Gareth Edwards
Godzilla Minus One directed by Takashi Yamazaki
The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer
The Killer directed by David Fincher
The Boy of the Heron directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
Maestro directed by Bradley Cooper
Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorsese
20 Days in Mariupol directed by Mstyslav Chernov
The Holdovers directed by Alexander Payne
"The Last Repair Shop" directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
May December directed by Todd Haynes
How to Blow Up a Pipeline directed by Daniel Goldhaber
Godland directed by Hlynur Pálmason
Anatomy of a Fall directed by Justine Triet
Society of the Snow directed by J. A. Bayona
Asteroid City directed by Wes Anderson
"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" directed by Wes Anderson
Origin directed by Ava DuVernay
The Iron Claw directed by Sean Durkin
Check out Kyle on the Picture Box Cinema Hour Podcast with Gavin.
2.16 Movie Chat with Kyle, winner of the 2024 Oscars Prediction Contest