In today's episode, I am joined by Kyle, the winner of the 2024 Oscar prediction contest on The Oscar Project. We talk about a little of everything including what we liked from the 96th Academy Awards, other movies from 2023 we enjoyed, and things we're looking forward to in 2024.

Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
• Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
• Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

The list of films we mentioned is too long to include in the show notes, but check out the full Letterboxd list for this episode. A few films mentioned in this episode include:

• Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan
• Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Creator directed by Gareth Edwards
• Godzilla Minus One directed by Takashi Yamazaki
• The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer
• The Killer directed by David Fincher
• The Boy of the Heron directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
• Maestro directed by Bradley Cooper
• Killers of the Flower Moon directed by Martin Scorsese
• 20 Days in Mariupol directed by Mstyslav Chernov
• The Holdovers directed by Alexander Payne
• "The Last Repair Shop" directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
• May December directed by Todd Haynes
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline directed by Daniel Goldhaber
• Godland directed by Hlynur Pálmason
• Anatomy of a Fall directed by Justine Triet
• Society of the Snow directed by J. A. Bayona
• Asteroid City directed by Wes Anderson
• "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" directed by Wes Anderson
• Origin directed by Ava DuVernay
• The Iron Claw directed by Sean Durkin

Check out Kyle on the Picture Box Cinema Hour Podcast with Gavin.