40: Post Oscars Recap 2017

After all the craziness of the Oscars Dakota Arsenault and Mehek Seyid needed to talk about what transpired. – La La Land was accidentally named Best Picture because of an envelope mixup – Jimmy Kimmel making fun of non-white names isn’t cool – John Legend performed both La La Land songs – Mahershala Ali was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar – Damien Chazelle is the youngest Best Director winner ever – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won the first Oscar for a Potter-verse film – All five directors of the Best Foreign Language Film signed a note deriding Trump’s Travel Ban Based on the guesses Dakota, Rachel Gordon and Mehek made during the two part predictions episode Dakota ended up with 16 right, Rachel with 9 and Mehek with 14. Follow Dakota @Dgapa and follow the show @ContraZoomPod on Twitter. Episode was originally posted on March 1, 2017