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Oscars Outsider
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Oscars Outsider is a podcast where Craig Midwinter and Dylan Ferguson break down the Oscars the way most people break down sports. We follow the awards race week by week — the narratives, the precursors, the surprises, the discourse, and the strategy behind every contender’s campaign.We treat awards season like a competitive ecosystem, tracking momentum, analyzing the politics of voting bodies, and running our own Oscars Fantasy Draft to score nominations, wins, snubs, and everything in between.If you care about movies and the game behind the movies, you’re in the right place.
Episodes
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Who Will Be the Villain of the 2027 Oscars?
Craig and Dylan ask one of the juiciest questions of awards season: who is going to become this year’s Oscar villain?What actually makes a movie the villain of an awards race? We look back at some notorious examples — The Greatest Show on Earth, Crash, La La Land, and Green Book — and examine how...
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Will Digger even get drafted? It's our 2027 Oscars Fantasy Draft!
It's DRAFT DAY on Oscars Outsider! Craig and Dylan go head-to-head in our second annual Oscars Fantasy Draft, selecting 26 films they think will dominate the 2027 Academy Awards and the awards season leading up to them. With *The Odyssey* looking like the obvious first overall pick, is there any...
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Oscar News, NYFF Buzz & Best Documentary Predictions
The Oscar race keeps getting messier. We break down the first reactions to Digger, the New York Film Festival relaunch of Paper Tiger, the growing momentum behind I Play Rocky, and the latest category-placement news around The Odyssey. Then we dive into what may be the most controversial Oscar...
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Does Digger Have A Tom Cruise Problem? + NYFF Preview
Is Digger already in trouble before it even opens?With the film’s release approaching, we look at the warning signs around Warner Bros.’ campaign, the strange press tour built around Tom Cruise’s “Mr. Movies” persona, and whether Cruise can still sell an original movie the way his reputation...
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Venice Shocks the Oscar Race! Is Fjord Starting to Fall?
The fall festival season is starting to reshape the Oscar race.We break down the surprising end of the Venice Film Festival, where Woman Unknown pulled off an unexpected Golden Lion win, before turning to one of the biggest questions coming out of Telluride and TIFF: is Fjord suddenly in trouble?...
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The Oscar Category Where Countries Regularly Commit Fraud (A Brief History)
The Best International Feature Film Oscar is the most chaotic, politically charged, and scandal-ridden category in Academy history — and Dylan, Craig, and Sean are here to prove it. In this episode: a full history of the award from its 1948 origins to today, including the infamous 1993 Uruguay...
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These Venice Films Could Take Over the 2027 Oscars? Venice Film Festival Preview!
Venice 2025 is days away — and awards season is officially on. Dylan and Craig break down the full in-competition lineup, make their Golden Lion predictions, and identify the Oscar sleepers you need to know before the first screenings drop. On the table: Is Wild Horse Nine the safest Golden Lion...
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The Odyssey's Secret Weakness? And Who Actually Wins the Writing Oscars
Is The Odyssey actually WEAK on screenplay? Dylan and Craig make the bold case that Christopher Nolan's writing could be the one category his ancient-Greece epic trips up on — and back it up with a full slate of way-too-early predictions for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay at...
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The consensus is.... there is no consensus?
The Oscar race just reshuffled — and we've got receipts. Dylan and Craig dig into the latest Best Picture prediction lists from Variety's Clayton Davis and the full Next Best Picture team, then argue about which hyped contenders are going to quietly vanish by November.On the docket: Project Hail...
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Nolan Gets Roasted by His Own Scholar (Plus: Our Way-Too-Early Best Cinematography Predictions)
Emily Wilson — the scholar whose Odyssey translation Christopher Nolan called his primary source — just published a scathing review in the London Review of Books, and the hosts dig into whether she's right. Then Dylan and Craig go way too early on their Best Cinematography predictions: who makes...
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The Odyssey Could BREAK the All-Time Oscar Record?
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a genuine cultural moment — but could it become the most-nominated film in Oscar history? Dylan and Craig break down the full awards race case for The Odyssey, including whether it can beat Sinners' all-time record of 16 nominations, how the Anne Hathaway...
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The Digger Trailer Is a Disaster (And Our Full Best Director Predictions)
The Digger trailer finally dropped — and we are NOT impressed. Dylan and Craig break down why Tom Cruise's long-awaited political satire from Alejandro González Iñárritu feels more like Scary Movie than Dr. Strangelove, and what it means for the Oscar race. Then: our way-too-early Best Director...
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Our Way-Too-Early 2027 Best Actor/Actress Oscar Predictions
Who is the most overdue actor in Hollywood? According to a Nate Silver model from 2012, it isn't Leonardo DiCaprio — it's Matt Damon. And he still hasn't won. Now Damon (The Odyssey) and Tom Cruise (Digger) are both heading into the 2027 Oscar race with massive 'he's finally due' narratives — and...
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Our First 2026 Oscar Predictions Are Already a Mess
It’s way too early… so naturally we’re making our first Oscar predictions. This week on Oscars Outsider, we start building the 2026 Best Picture race from scratch: what already feels like a lock, what feels wildly overhyped, and which movies we’re reluctantly admitting might be stronger than we...
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The Oscars Have No Idea What a Score Is
This week on Oscars Outsider, we dive into one of the Academy’s strangest and most confusing categories: Best Original Score.From the early days of studio music departments to decades of split categories, reunited categories, musical exceptions, adaptations, and shifting definitions of what...
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Can Spielberg’s Alien Movie Actually Win Oscars?
Spielberg is back with aliens — but is that enough to make Disclosure Day a real Oscar contender? This week on Oscars Outsider, we close the book on Cannes, revisit whether the Palme d’Or winner Fjord is now a serious awards player, and dig into the strange politics already forming around its…
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Cannes Winners Reaction: Did the Palme d’Or Just Break the Oscar Race?
The Cannes awards are here, and somehow the Oscar race feels less clear than it did before. In this episode of The Oscars Outsider Podcast, we react to the major winners from the Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d’Or win for Fjord, and try to figure out what any of it means for the Oscar...
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Who Wins Cannes? Our Palme d’Or Predictions
Cannes is almost over, which means it is time to make our Palme d’Or predictions. In this episode, we break down the Cannes competition, make our picks for who we think could win the Palme d’Or, and talk through which films might carry momentum into the Oscar race. We get into the strange energy…
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Which Cannes Movies Could Crash the Oscars?
This week on Oscars Outsider, Cannes is open, but Hollywood might have left the group chat. We dig into a strange Cannes lineup where the big American studio titles mostly stayed home, while European, East Asian, and international festival heavyweights take center stage. What does that mean for…
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Oscar rule changes: Is Sandra Hüller UNSTOPPABLE?
The Academy just killed a rule that's been in place since 1931 — and Sandra Hüller might be the first actor in nearly a century to benefit. We get into all three big Oscar rule changes for the 99th Academy Awards: the double-nomination rule, the new path to International Feature, and the AI ban....
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Buddy 2 Backstabber | Summer House, The Valley, Cannes + RHORI
Scamanda is getting messy — and the more you look at it, the harder it is to pin down what’s actually going on. We get into the shifting dynamics at the center of that story, how quickly perceptions can flip, and why this one feels different from the usual Bravo drama. From there, we move into…
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Final Oscar Nomination Predictions (Plus a Wild Oscar Fantasy Trade)
With Oscar nominations just a day away, we lock in our final predictions for who will be nominated, not who will win. This clip comes from our sister show, The Oscars Outsider Podcast, where we go deep on the Best Picture race, debating locks, vulnerable contenders, international wildcards, and...
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Our WAY TOO EARLY Oscars Fantasy Draft: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Welcome to Oscars Outsider, a limited-run awards-season spinoff from the team behind Bravo Outsider. Each year we obsess over the Oscars, the gossip, the precursors, and the chaos — so this season we’re making it official.In this episode, Craig and Dylan kick things off with our WAY-too-early...
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Is the Vanderpump Rules Reboot Actually Going to be Good? | S12 Premiere Recap
In this episode of Bravo Outsider, we dive deep into the Season 12 reboot of Vanderpump Rules — the return of SUR, the total cast overhaul, and the big question: Can a brand-new crew deliver the chaos, drama, and magnitude the show was built on? We compare the legacy cast with the new SUR-vers…
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Specimen Stains (feat. Tim Gray) | RHOSLC S06E11 | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap/Analysis
We want to hear your takes! Give our hotline a call and leave a message with your thoughts on what's going on in the Bravo universe at 1-833-927-0178.Join us on the Bravo Outsider Podcast as we embark on a thrilling exploration of the latest episodes of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City🥂 About...
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Mary built the house, we're just living in it | RHOSLC S06E10 Recap/Analysis
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Did Lisa go from Bullied to Bully? | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E09 Recap/Analysis
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When do pile-on seasons get boring? | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E07 S06E08 Recap/Analysis
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Does Angie Have A Receipt? | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E06 Recap/Analysis
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8 Angry Women (feat. David Arnold) | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E05 Recap/Analysis
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Will Angie Flip Meredith? | Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E04 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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"This is a disaster!" - Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E03 Recap/Analysis
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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E02 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City S06E01 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Bravo Outsider Podcast Episode 100! (The Valley S2E11 Recap/Analysis)
We want to hear your takes! Give our hotline a call and leave a message with your thoughts on what's going on in the Bravo universe at 1-833-927-0178.Join us for Episode 100 of the Bravo Outsider Podcast. We're diving into the latest episode of The Valley and then we're talking a walk down memory...
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Real Housewives of Miami S07E02 & The Valley S2E10 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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The Valley S2E09 Recap/Analysis
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The Valley S2E07 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Summer House S9E15 & The Valley S2E06 Recap/Analysis (Feat. The Real Houseguest of North Hollywood) )
This week we're excited to be joined by The Real Houseguest of North Hollywood host Carson Frae and Producer Ezra Balcha @ezrabalcha1800 ! We want to hear your takes! Give our hotline a call and leave a message with your thoughts on what's going on in the Bravo universe at 1-833-927-0178.Join us…
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Summer House S9E15 & The Valley S2E05 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Summer House S9E13 & The Valley S2E03 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Elbows Up! Summer House S9E12 & The Valley S2E02 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Summer House S9E11 & The Valley S2E01 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Chekov's Lemon - Summer House S9E10 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Summer House S9E09 Recap/Analysis | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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RHOBH S14E17 & Summer House S9E08 Finale | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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RHOBH S14E16 & Southern S10 Charm Finale | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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2025 Oscar Preview
We're back and covering a different kind of mess-- that's right, the 2025 Oscar campaign season! It's our annual Oscar Preview show!!
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Explosive Allegations in the RHOSLC Finale | RHOSLC S05E16 | Bravo Outsider Podcast
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Fear and Loathing in Puerto Vallarta | Salt Lake City S05E15 & Southern Charm S10E05
We want to hear your takes! Give our hotline a call and leave a message with your thoughts on what's going on in the Bravo universe at 1-833-927-0178. In this episode, we unravel the drama from the latest "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" escapades, where Brittany's secret recording scandal has...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Oscars Outsider is a podcast where Craig Midwinter and Dylan Ferguson break down the Oscars the way most people break down sports. We follow the awards race week by week — the narratives, the precursors, the surprises, the discourse, and the strategy behind every contender’s campaign.We treat awards season like a competitive ecosystem, tracking momentum, analyzing the politics of voting bodies, and running our own Oscars Fantasy Draft to score nominations, wins, snubs, and everything in between.If you care about movies and the game behind the movies, you’re in the right place.
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Oscars Outsider is a podcast where Craig Midwinter and Dylan Ferguson break down the Oscars the way most people break down sports. We follow the awards race week by week — the narratives, the precursors, the surprises, the discourse, and the strategy behind every contender’s campaign.We treat...
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