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'The Irishman' Is NOT Too Long. Plus: Predicting the Golden Globe Nominations. | The Oscars Show

December 3, 2019/ 103 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins

Sean and Amanda predict every Golden Globe nomination in one sitting, launch a new segment called Hark to declare The Irishman's runtime correct, bring in resident dad Jason Gallagher to relitigate Frozen II, and Sean sits down with Todd Haynes to talk Dark Waters.

76 films across 6 segments.

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Predicting the Golden Globe Nominationsahead of the December 9 announcement

Best Motion Picture — Drama

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Best Director

The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
Little Women Greta Gerwig
Joker Todd Phillips
Jojo Rabbit Taika Waititi

Best Actress — Drama

Bombshell Charlize Theron
Little Women Saoirse Ronan
Judy Renée Zellweger
Marriage Story Scarlett Johansson
Us Lupita Nyong'o

Best Actor — Drama

Marriage Story Adam Driver
Joker Joaquin Phoenix
The Lighthouse Robert Pattinson
Pain and Glory Antonio Banderas
The Irishman Robert De Niro

Best Actress — Musical or Comedy

The Farewell Awkwafina
Booksmart Beanie Feldstein
Knives Out Ana de Armas
Hustlers Constance Wu
Late Night Emma Thompson

Best Actor — Musical or Comedy

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Leonardo DiCaprio
Rocketman Taron Egerton
Dolemite Is My Name Eddie Murphy
Uncut Gems Adam Sandler
Yesterday Himesh Patel

Best Supporting Actress

Hustlers Jennifer Lopez
Marriage Story Laura Dern
Bombshell Margot Robbie
Little Women Florence Pugh
The Farewell Zhao Shuzhen

Best Supporting Actor

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Brad Pitt
The Irishman Al Pacino
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Tom Hanks
The Two Popes Anthony Hopkins
Waves Sterling K. Brown

Harka new segment: one quick opinion about movies

The Irishman 2019

Sean's take: it is not too long. The runtime is purposeful, and Scorsese doesn't need Twitter's edit notes.

Stock Up, Stock Down

Knives Out 2019

$40 million over the holiday weekend, a big number for an original film.

Ford v Ferrari 2019

One of several 2019 studio originals cited as proof that 'movies are good' right now.

1917 2019

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood poster

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 2019

Dark Waters 2019

Waves 2019

Marriage Story 2019

The Irishman 2019

The Two Popes 2019

Frozen II 2019

Amanda took her husband's family's kids to see it over Thanksgiving. The showtimes for Knives Out didn't work out.

Jason Gallagher on 'Frozen II'

Jason Gallagher on

Frozen II 2019

Josh Gad's recap song and Jonathan Groff's Kristoff power ballad are singled out as the sharpest parts of it.

Jason Gallagher on

Frozen 2013

The original: the 'kid narcotic' comparison point, and the one whose music actually holds up.

Best Original Screenplay"the cool kids category": where the movies they actually like get honored

Best Original Screenplay

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Parasite Bong Joon Ho
The Farewell Lulu Wang
Dolemite Is My Name Larry Karaszewski & Scott Alexander

Todd Haynes on 'Dark Waters'

Todd Haynes on

Dark Waters 2019

Came together fast for Haynes: Mark Ruffalo brought him the script in 2017, less than two years after the first New York Times exposé on DuPont. Shot on location at Taft Law in Cincinnati; Rob Bilott was on set to answer questions.