Monday Digest-June 30, 2025
Racing to the midpoint of the year!
Happy last day of June! If you have kids (or are a student or teacher), congratulations on making it through another school year. Hopefully temperatures where you are have been bearable lately and you’re not too hot as we head fully into summer.
Weekly Preview
F1: The Movie took over the top spot at the box office this weekend, but there is a really wide variety of films to choose from and more to come as we head into the month of July.
Weekend Releases-6/27/25
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Podcast
After much too long of an absence, I brought back an author interview last week with the wonderful John DiLeo where we chatted about his latest book Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances. Pick up the book here and take a listen to the conversation below. Then last Friday was my conversation with
from about the 1929 film The Letter.3.51-Author Interview with John DiLeo
In today's episode, I interview John DiLeo, a film writer whose most recent book Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances, was published in 2024.
3.52-The Letter with Lewis Beer
Today's episode is my conversation about the 1929 film The Letter. I'm joined by Lewis Beer from the Slow Moving Pictures newsletter and we talk about the importance of sound right from the beginning of the film, the structural differences between the play and the film versions of the story, and the force that was Jeanne Eagles in this film that was sadly lost not long after its rel…
Awards Coverage
There’s not much in the way of “official” awards right now (no slight to the Location Managers Guild offering up nominations at some point today) so why not make sure you’ve voted for The Oscar Project Mid-Year Awards before the voting closes later today?
It's time to vote for your favorite films of 2025!
Last year, the winners of the mid-year awards here on The Oscar Project leaned heavily toward Dune: Part II. Ultimately, the film only won two of the awards at the 97th Academy Awards, but most of the rest of the films nominated weren’t even out at the mid-point of the year. Now it’s time to vote for the winners based on your nominations submitted over …
June
30: LMGI Awards nominations (Location Managers Guild International)
July
15: Primetime Emmy Awards nominations
Movie Challenges
It’s week three of round 2 of the Best Picture Bracket Challenge and there is just two days left to vote in that. Get your votes in as things are starting to heat up a bit with a couple matchups that are quite close last I checked.
2025 Best Picture Bracket Challenge-Round 2-Week 3
Week 1 of round 2 is in the books and it’s time to get some votes for the second set of matchups.
Writer Highlight
This week’s highlight is truly a new discovery where
dives deep on Alex Garland’s filmography in the wake of the recent release of 28 Years Later.