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Life After the Slap: A Post-Oscars Mailbag

March 29, 2022/ 90 min/ Sean Fennessey · Bobby Wagner

Thirty-six hours after the slap, Sean Fennessey and Bobby Wagner open the mailbag on a strange Oscars, then Sean talks to the Daniels about Everything Everywhere All at Once.

15 films across 2 segments.

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Post-Oscars mailbagwith Bobby Wagner

King Richard 2021

Will Smith's Best Actor win; he apologized to Chris Rock, the Academy and his King Richard collaborators the next day.

The Power of the Dog 2021

Netflix's 12-nomination Best Picture play and the favorite from September to late February; an art-house movie that made under $10M without the platform.

CODA 2021

Won Best Picture. Sean argues it wouldn't have won on a Feb 2 date: the SAG ensemble win and a White House visit turned it late.

Dune 2021

Six below-the-line wins; Sean calls Villeneuve's directing snub borderline offensive.

The Irishman 2019

Netflix, 10 nominations. One of Sean's earlier auteur bets that lost: seen four times, 'one of the deepest films about mortality.'

Mank 2020

Netflix, 10 nominations, Sean's No. 1 of 2020: the other 'blank check to an auteur' play that didn't convert.

Belfast 2021

Branagh's Original Screenplay win over Licorice Pizza, which Sean can't accept.

Licorice Pizza 2021

January's Original Screenplay favorite before the consensus 'wilted'; PTA's tenth-place-to-nowhere Best Picture nominee.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye 2021

Chastain's transformation win; the show did an actor-transformation episode on it in September.

West Side Story 2021

Ariana DeBose's supporting win, 'undeniably incredible.'

The Lost City 2022

$32M opening cited as evidence theaters are back: an original Bullock/Tatum vehicle Sean calls basically Romancing the Stone.

Parasite 2019

Neon and Tom Quinn's campaign held up as the good version of the smaller-distributor upset.

The Daniels on their new movie

Everything Everywhere All at Once poster

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert on

Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

Spoiler-free chat before the wide April 8 release. On casting Yeoh, Quan and the everything bagel as a nihilism symbol, and building an 'Impossible Burger' of blockbuster and indie.