Dune: Part Three 2026
Trailer dropped 36 hours after the Oscars; Warner has the opening-weekend IMAX screens and isn't moving off Dec 18. Robert Pattinson and Anya Taylor-Joy join.
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The Oscar Hangover Mailbag. Plus: ‘Dune: Part Three’ Is Coming!
March 17, 2026/ 108 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Thirty-six hours after the Oscars: the ‘Dune: Part Three’ trailer, a December standoff with ‘Avengers: Doomsday,’ a movie-news catch-up, and a mailbag that detours into every year's Best Picture winner.
148 films across 6 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.
‘Dune: Part 3’ Is Comingthe trailer and the December standoff
Dune 2021
Dune: Part Two 2024
Avengers: Doomsday 2026
Shares that Dec 18 date — the game of chicken Sean dubs 'Dunes Day.'
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
The genre-can-win-Best-Picture precedent they keep invoking.
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
The desert-war scale the trailer reminded them of.
The Movie News We Missedroundup
Ocean's Eleven 2001
Bradley Cooper to write, direct, and star in a prequel about Danny Ocean's father, opposite Margot Robbie.
Ocean's Twelve 2004
Maestro 2023
One of the big swings the prequel reads as a retrenchment from.
Is This Thing On? 2025
Minari 2020
Lee Isaac Chung, whom Cooper replaces on the prequel, directed it.
Twisters 2024
A Quiet Place: Day One 2024
The third Quiet Place film but not 'Quiet Place 3' — Krasinski's new one is the fourth movie, titled part three.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 2014
Chris Pine's; a 'shadow recruit' they both enjoy.
The Sum of All Fears 2002
Wonka 2023
Marty Supreme 2025
Ella Enchanted 2004
Enchanted 2007
The Housemaid 2025
Clawed to hundreds of millions over a long run — the case for Universal's new five-week theatrical window.
The Northman 2022
The PVOD-success talking point Sean is skeptical of.
Hoppers 2026
$164M in 10 days; the original-storytelling bounce-back.
Elemental 2023
The Oscar Hangoverthe telecast, the winners, and genre at the Academy
One Battle After Another 2025
Best Picture; Sean likens PTA's win to Demme's for Silence of the Lambs — the revered veteran who finally gets the moment.
Sinners 2025
Crossed $400M; Coogler's self-driven marketing is the case study for how to sell a movie.
Frankenstein 2025
Won production, costume, and makeup — old-school craft, not really 'horror wins.'
Weapons 2025
Amy Madigan's supporting win, its only nomination.
Rosemary's Baby 1968
Ruth Gordon's 1969 win — proof the Academy has rewarded horror before.
Nosferatu 2024
Eggers' $182M hit that still hasn't crossed the Oscars threshold.
Braveheart 1995
The war-epic comp for whether Chalamet lands a Dune 3 nom — Gibson's film won, but he wasn't nominated for acting.
The Theory of Everything 2014
Redmayne's kiss-every-baby humility campaign, the opposite of Chalamet's.
Phantom Thread 2017
PTA's other 'big Academy movie'; the rest is Licorice Pizza and Inherent Vice.
Licorice Pizza 2021
Inherent Vice 2014
Philadelphia 1993
Demme made it back-to-back with Silence of the Lambs.
Mailbag: Around the Ceremonyhosting, YouTube, and the botched speeches
KPop Demon Hunters 2025
The 'Golden' win, held to hour three and played off — the production's biggest misread of its own audience.
Field of Dreams 1989
John Mulaney's Oscars bit; Amanda still wants him to host.
Mailbag: Has Your Favorite Ever Won Best Picture?a 20-minute walk through the winners — favorite vs. what actually won
It Happened One Night 1934
A rare year the winner is the favorite — one of three films to sweep the five majors.
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
Sean's other '30s pick; Charles Laughton's line reading is his favorite in movies. (The 1962 remake gets a passing nod.)
Casablanca 1942
Sunset Boulevard 1950
Sean's pick over the co-nominated All About Eve.
All About Eve 1950
The Apartment 1960
Psycho 1960
The favorite over the winner, The Apartment.
West Side Story 1961
The Hustler 1961
The Godfather 1972
Sean's last time his favorite of the year actually won — 'perfect,' full stop.
Chinatown 1974
Jaws 1975
Nashville 1975
Barry Lyndon 1975
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Rocky 1976
Annie Hall 1977
Star Wars 1977
The Deer Hunter 1978
Coming Home 1978
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
Apocalypse Now 1979
All That Jazz 1979
Amadeus 1984
Ghostbusters 1984
JFK 1991
Unforgiven 1992
A Few Good Men 1992
Schindler's List 1993
The Fugitive 1993
Jurassic Park 1993
L.A. Confidential 1997
Titanic 1997
Good Will Hunting 1997
Shakespeare in Love 1998
A winner neither would ever take.
American Beauty 1999
Gladiator 2000
Traffic 2000
Erin Brockovich 2000
A Beautiful Mind 2001
Chicago 2002
Lost in Translation 2003
Million Dollar Baby 2004
Crash 2004
The Departed 2006
Scorsese wins, but their 2006 favorites run to Children of Men and The Devil Wears Prada.
Children of Men 2006
The Da Vinci Code 2006
Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Casino Royale 2006
Skyfall 2012
There Will Be Blood 2007
Michael Clayton 2007
Zodiac 2007
Slumdog Millionaire 2008
The Dark Knight 2008
WALL·E 2008
The Hurt Locker 2009
A Serious Man 2009
Inglourious Basterds 2009
The King's Speech 2010
The Artist 2011
Argo 2012
Lincoln 2012
12 Years a Slave 2013
Birdman 2014
Whiplash 2014
Spotlight 2015
The Martian 2015
A Bigger Splash 2015
Amanda's actual No. 1 of its year — 'still a real one.'
Moonlight 2016
Arrival 2016
La La Land 2016
The Handmaiden 2016
20th Century Women 2016
Hell or High Water 2016
The Nice Guys 2016
The Shape of Water 2017
Green Book 2018
Parasite 2019
Amanda's No. 1 that also won — the rare overlap.
The Irishman 2019
Little Women 2019
Marriage Story 2019
Nomadland 2020
CODA 2021
Oppenheimer 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Both their No. 1 of 2023.
Anora 2024
The Brutalist 2024
Sean's No. 1 of 2024.
Mailbag: Winners, Long Shots, and What's Nextthree-time winners, never-nominated, DiCaprio's pantheon, and the road to 2027
Gone with the Wind 1939
Clark Gable — 'Leo before Leo' — led three Best Picture winners in six years.
The Father 2020
Anthony Hopkins' second; hard to see a third after it.
Nyad 2023
Jodie Foster — bold-but-poor choices, but she's wonderful in it.
The Mauritanian 2021
The Secret Agent 2025
The kind of small film a screens-mandate for Best Picture would punish.
Black Panther 2018
One of the 'announcements' of Coogler before Sinners crystallized him.
Creed 2015
Project Hail Mary 2026
'Three days away' — Sean's model for 'familiar but different,' the future of studio movies.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Coming up (announced or in the works) The Mandalorian and GroguThe Devil Wears Prada 2Toy Story 5Star Wars: StarfighterWerewolfOcean's 14The OdysseyAvengers: Secret WarsThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's NephewSpider-Man: Brand New DayThe Fantastic Four: First StepsThe Social ReckoningMichaelJack of SpadesWild Horse NineDiggerFjordJosephineMegadoc
The 2027 slate The Beekeeper 2Frozen 3The Batman Part IIBeyond the Spider-VerseShrek 5Superman: Man of TomorrowThe Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
In passing The Thomas Crown AffairThe Princess DiariesThe Princess Diaries 2: Royal EngagementMarch of the PenguinsMr. Popper's PenguinsEuroTripMoanaEncantoZootopia 2The Naked Gun
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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