In this week’s episode of The Screen Podcast, the team breaks down the Oscars ceremony and we chat to two of the filmmakers who found themselves in a rare tie for an Academy Award.
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Host Wendy Mitchell is joined by Screen’s Americas editor Jeremy Kay, who attended the ceremony, and box office and awards editor Charles Gant. They discuss what worked at the Oscars ceremony and what fell flat, which winners got the biggest cheers, and the food that was served at the afterparty.
“It’s interesting for me to note that every time Sinners or anybody associated with Sinners was mentioned, there was a huge roar. And I think that film definitely had the most vocal and loudest support in the room,” says Kay.
Gant picked out the first ever casting award as one of his highlights. “I think the way that they did the casting award was brilliant. To have Paul Mescal, Gwyneth Paltrow, Delroy Lindo, Chase Infiniti and Wagner Moura walk out onto the stage and do those individual tributes to the five nominated casting directors, four of which are women, and to have the cameras trained on their faces while they were listening to these tributes. That was a brilliant piece of theatre.”
Then, Mitchell talks to Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh who directed Two People Exchanging Saliva - one of the two films that tied to win the Oscar for best live-action short this year. It was just the seventh tied award ever in Oscars history.
They explain how it felt to experience the strange situation in real time, and having a “moment with Jay-Z” at his afterparty.
The Screen Podcast is produced and hosted by Wendy Mitchell and edited by Ellie Calnan. New episodes every other Thursday.
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