Dune: Part Two 2024
$182.5M worldwide and counting; Wesley hadn't seen it and calls Villeneuve a 'fraud filmmaker.'
The Big Picture · Discussion · Awards
The 2024 Alternative Oscars, a.k.a. the Big Picks!
March 6, 2024/ 133 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Wesley Morris
Sean, Amanda, and Wesley Morris hand out their own awards to the 2023 films the real Oscars left off the ballot.
93 films across 3 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Before the ballotsDune, Oppenheimer, and this year's Oscars
Dune 2021
Wesley watched the first one on a laptop.
Arrival 2016
Dunkirk 2017
Wesley's example of Nolan being honest about his priorities.
Oppenheimer 2023
The presumed steamroller; Wesley says he'd rather see David Lean's version.
Barbie 2023
Poor Things 2023
The Zone of Interest 2023
Past Lives 2023
The made-up categoriesthe awards the Academy should add
Best First Feature
- The Artifice Girl
- Rye Lane Raine Allen-Miller
- Talk to Me
- They Cloned Tyrone
- A Thousand and One A.V. Rockwell Winner
Breakthrough Performance
- No Hard Feelings Andrew Barth Feldman Winner
- May December Charles Melton
- Earth Mama Tia Nomore
- The Holdovers Dominic Sessa
- Priscilla Cailee Spaeny
- The Marvels Iman Vellani
Best Cameo
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Bradley Cooper
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Donald Glover
- Beau Is Afraid Parker Posey
- Asteroid City Margot Robbie & Jeff Goldblum
- Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese Winner
Best Kid Performance
- M3GAN Amie Donald Winner
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Abby Ryder Fortson
- Barbie Ariana Greenblatt
- Anatomy of a Fall Milo Machado-Graner
- You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah Sunny Sandler
Best Performance by a Dog
- Anatomy of a Fall Messi Winner
Best Casting
- American Fiction Jennifer Euston Winner
- Bottoms
- May December
- Saltburn
- The Zone of Interest
Best Stunt / Action Sequence
- Ferrari The Mille Miglia race
- John Wick: Chapter 4 The Sacré-Cœur stairs Winner
- The Killer The brute fight
- Napoleon The Battle of Austerlitz
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One The motorcycle jump
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The Spider-Man chase
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem The No Diggity sequence
Best Ending
The big categoriestheir alternatives to the real Oscar races
Best Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor
- All of Us Strangers Jamie Bell
- Knock at the Cabin Dave Bautista
- Blue Beetle George Lopez
- The Iron Claw Holt McCallany Winner
- Air Chris Messina
- Guy Ritchie's The Covenant Dar Salim
- Past Lives Teo Yoo
Best Supporting Actress
- Air Viola Davis Winner
- Poor Things Kathryn Hunter
- All of Us Strangers Claire Foy
- Eileen Anne Hathaway
- Napoleon Vanessa Kirby
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Rachel McAdams
Best Actor
- Dream Scenario Nicolas Cage
- Beau Is Afraid Joaquin Phoenix
- Passages Franz Rogowski Winner
- All of Us Strangers Andrew Scott
- Perfect Days Koji Yakusho
Best Actress
- Origin Aunjanue Ellis
- No Hard Feelings Jennifer Lawrence
- Past Lives Greta Lee
- You Hurt My Feelings Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- May December Julianne Moore & Natalie Portman Winner
- A Thousand and One Teyana Taylor
Best Director
- Barbie Greta Gerwig Winner
- Fallen Leaves Aki Kaurismäki
- Godland Hlynur Pálmason
- Showing Up Kelly Reichardt
- Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros Frederick Wiseman
Also mentioned raised along the way
In passing MaestroCivil WarFour Weddings and a FuneralNotting HillThe Craft: LegacyBlack PantherFlamin' HotThe Tragedy of Macbeth
Casting-director filmographies ParenthoodApollo 13The American PresidentA Beautiful MindPoseidon
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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