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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:50:16 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen discuss whether or not The Invite will land in the major categories. We also talk about ideal Oscar pairings for presenting awards, wading into the JK Rowling debate, and what happened at the most recent Oscar meeting. Discussion about this episode AwardsDaily.com is a site dedicated to tracking the Oscar race and exposing its rich underbelly.

All This and the Oscars Too Podcast AwardsDaily.com is a site dedicated to tracking the Oscar race and exposing its rich underbelly. With Founder and Editor Sasha Stone, who is joined by writers Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen. AwardsDaily.com is a site dedicated to tracking the Oscar race and exposing its rich underbelly. With Founder and Editor Sasha Stone, who is joined by writers Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen.

Universal is having a hell of a year. They will likely have the most profitable Best Picture contender come Oscar time, as well as one of the most profitable films of all time when factoring in budget. And those two movies are The Odyssey and Obsession(which is Focus Features, but that’s under Universal). They have become the first studio to cross the $4 billion mark for 2026, which means this is one of their best years ever.

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the HFPA’s $150 million lawsuit against Penske Corp. in an attempt to take back the Golden Globes. Can they break up the unethical Penske monopoly on the trades and the Globes? Also Behemoth! Starring Pedro Pascal. We talk Best Actor and Best Actress. We talk The Odyssey. We talk Ryan Gosling and his chances for Project Hail Mary. And we read from Joseph Kahn’s brilliant piece in the Hollywood Reporter: Bring Back the Hollywood Asshole.

Don’t let the mirage of The Odyssey’s wild success fool you. The industry is as unhealthy this year as it was the last time a Christopher Nolan movie was heralded as saving Hollywood. That was 2023 with the Barbenheimer phenom. We were all so excited to see everyone excited to line up and see both movies because they kind of had to. Even my nieces and my daughter wanted to buckle in for a movie about the guy who helped win WWII by inventing the A-Bomb.

The #BlockTheMerger campaign has brought together an unprecedented number of power players to stop David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance from buying Warner Bros. They don’t care about a monopoly--they are the monopoly. This merger would break it up and maybe, just maybe, give the rest of us a chance to see Hollywood come back. Maybe they can do it, maybe they can’t, but there is no question that what has happened to Hollywood has been a tragedy.

[If you don’t want these drops, you can deselect “Frontrunners and Challengers” in your preferences] Sasha Stone talks with Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen about The Odyssey, how they liked it, and how many Oscars it will win. We also talk about the new Little House and whether it’s “woke” or not. We also talk about the Venice and Toronto announcements of upcoming films.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:53:38 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Sasha Stone, Jeremy Jentzen, and Scott Kernen talk about the “woke” casting choices in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and how that has turned it into yet another battle in our ongoing culture war. The film is on track to make close a billion worldwide but it is also becoming a target by the Right and a virtue signal by the Left. How will it do in the Oscars?

Taylor Sheridan’s Landman and The Madison proved too successful with Emmy voters--both were completely shut out of this year’s nominations. We probably don’t have to think too hard to figure out why. The “Stop the Merger” crowd decided to cancel Paramount+, and that was that. If nothing else, they are the most predictable people on the planet. The problem is that Landman’s success should not be ignored by an industry that supposedly cares about success.

Supergirl is on track to lose Warner Bros. $100 million. That’s the bad news. The good news—for some—is that social justice activists are happy with it because it “speaks to them.” And isn’t that the biggest problem? Hollywood started speaking primarily to them. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and no one can fault Hollywood for having them. I was part of the movement that pushed Hollywood in this direction.