MMO Weekly 12/17/2018 - 'Twas the Week Before Christmas - SAG/Critics Choice Noms Analysis

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 5:02 a.m.

A Hugh Oscar Race Update in this Episode. ***This is a spoiler FREE episode*** Intro / What is MMO Weekly? - Top of the Show What We’re Watching - 1:19 Smallfoot, Assassination Nation, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, A Simple Favor, Anna and the Apocalypse, The Favourite, Free Solo, Shoplifters, Roma, and The Innocent Man. Fun & Games With Our Audience: SixDegreesOfMMO Push for Toni Collette w/ Bette Davis - 16:27 Twitter Question Responses to All Time Oscar Snub Question - 18:01 Box Office Update - 28:00 Spider-Verse, The Mule, The Grinch, Ralph, Mortal Engines, & The Favourite. Do You Care? Next Week’s Theatrical Releases feat. Mary Poppins Returning - 34:05 Pitbull covers Toto’s “Africa” - 36:22 Aquaman crushing it at the Worldwide Box Office - 38:04 Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer Pushed Again - 39:12 What if the Oscars Have No Host? - 40:45 Oscar Race Update: 45:01 Featuring our Reactions to the SAG & Critics Choice Nominations + more critic associations. Best Picture & What If Roma Wins? - 45:48 Director & The All Male Nominees - 51:38 Lead Actor Starts a War Between Critics & Thespians - 55:38 Actress & our Toni Collette Campaign - 59:09 Supporting Actor & the Chalk of it all - 1:02:15 Supp. Actress Rekindles the Great War Btw Critics & Thesps - 1:04:55 Screenplay Categories & How Beale St, First Reformed, & 8th Grade NEED this - 1:07:11 The Technical Category Lightning Round - 1:09:41 Cinematography, Costumes, Hair & Makeup, Editing, Score, Song, Production Design, & VFX. Outro / Next Week’s Schedule / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 1:15:31 It’s that time again. MMO Weekly dishes out all kinds of piping hot takes on recent home video releases, the present & future box office, hollywood news, and of course, the Oscar race in this Monday’s episode. We also continue our hashtag ToniColletteDeservesAnOscar campaign and as always, we shout out some recent fun audience interactions with our Oscar Snubs Twitter Question. Another week, and you get another loaded MMOW. We have another massive Oscar race update featuring our reactions to the Critics Choice and Screen Actors Guild nominations. The Mortal Engines city vs city, critics vs critics scoreboard offers up a bunch of strong recommendations to the Academy, and we have money talking at the box office to factor into our category by category analysis. We also offer some more statistics regarding how recent Oscar nominees relate to the SAG awards. Our December programming continues to offer podcasts for both the Oscar and all around movie enthusiasts. The Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Review series jingles onward with our recent releases of The Muppet Christmas Carol and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. We also released Oscar Sprint Profiled on contenders like Green Book, Ralph Breaks The Internet, and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, and we will continue that trend with our upcoming week. We’ll have Roma, Mary Poppins Returns, & Home Alone 2: Lost in New York coming soon. So let us help you plan that next movie night! Chat with us on social media and play some fun trivia games along the way with SixDegreesOfMMO. Send us your responses on social media as we’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, & Gmail. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, where we’re most active, and we’re just about everywhere you listen to podcasts: iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, and now Spotify. So when reality sucks, keep watching those movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar!