The Awards Girlies

Marisa and Matt haven't been able to podcast in a while, so while they're mainly focused on the 2026 Tony nominations, stick around for their thoughts on: albums over an hour long, erotic fan fiction about unlikely TV shows, and what limited series Matt's parents are obsessed with. Also, because of who they are, they spend some time stanning Mother Mary.

Matt and Marisa wrap up the Oscar season with their fresh reactions to the big night. In the episode, they talk about the best speeches, the surprise (double) wins and the few bits that didn't work.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their category breakdowns with the big one: Best Picture. In the episode, they rehash one last time which films they think may not be their directors' best work, praise their non-nominated favorites of the year and make their final prediction for Sunday's winner.

Matt and Marisa tackle their penultimate category breakdown of the season with the two writing categories. In Adapted, they reveal which of the films' source material they've read or seen and in Original, they try not to keep dunking on Sentimental Value.

Matt and Marisa race toward Sunday's Academy Awards with another triple-stacked episode. While they deem this year's batch of Animated films a bit weak overall, Documentary proves to be one of the most stacked in recent memory and they hope for surprise wins despite a clear frontrunner in International.

Matt and Marisa race to finish the final Oscar categories before the Academy Awards this Sunday with a super-sized triple episode. In the episode, they defend F1's nominations, the villainous turn in Timothée Chalamet's Oscar campaign and talk about the loin cloth cinema of Avatar: Fire and Ash's costumes.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the news category: Best Casting. In the episode, they praise the wild and expansive casting of Marty Supreme, the brilliance of including two Jupe brothers in Hamnet and wonder if Sinners will take the first ever award in a sweep.

Matt and Marisa hit the home stretch with their category breakdowns with the trio of Shorts categories. In the episode, they agree on a clear front-runner for Animated Short, dig into a tight race for Documentary Short and realize this is the strongest group of Live Action Shorts they've ever covered.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Lead and Supporting Actor. In the episode, they admit that this year the boys may be more unpredictable than the girls, discuss which Supporting Actor they like more in One Battle After Another and discuss the surprise win for Michael B. Jordan at the Actor Awards.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the two they usually care about most: Lead and Supporting Actresses. In the episode, Marisa still can't quite understand the love for Sentimental Value, Matt gets to praise his girlie Rose Byrne and Matt is shocked when Marisa doesn't bring up a certain alternate for Supporting.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technicals. In Best Sound, they agree on a clear best in the category if not a clear winner. In Best Visual Effects, they wonder how some of these movies made it in, talk about how Matt's body rejected Jurassic World: Rebirth and express their love for the "gay whales" in Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Matt and Marisa continue the category breakdowns with some of their favorite and most unhinged: Best Song and Best Score. In the episode, they once again discuss Diane Warren's crimes against Oscar completionists, how essential music is to Sinners and how much the Academy did not want to nominate Wicked: For Good.

Matt and Marisa continue their annual category breakdown with two technicals. In the episode, they discuss their love of Train Dreams' visuals, Marisa defends Frankenstein and they both suggest the same movie for alternate nominations—but in different categories.

Matt and Marisa kick off their annual breakdown of all the Oscar categories with a big one: Best Directing. In the episode, they talk about how PTA may be unstoppable, Ryan Coogler finally getting a nomination and suggest a few alternate nominees.

This episode, Marisa replaces usual co-host Matt Taylor with ThePopBreak.com staff writer, Sam Niles, who attended this year's Sundance Film Festival. In the episode, Sam talks about what it was like to attend the festival's last installment in Park City, gives us a rundown of new films at the fest and talks about the rewarding experience of seeing a few older films there too.

Marisa and Matt finally have a name for their EGOT-focused podcast! And they also watched the Grammys! In this episode, listen to their thoughts on the big four Grammy winners, learn how they would fix this VERY long award show, and find out which pop star made them both scream with delight even though they sounded quite bad! Plus, beloved sound engineer/Matt's husband Ben makes an appearance. Check it out!

Matt and Marisa watched the Golden Globes and they are... sleepy! But they still hopped on a microphone to record their thoughts. Find out where they think the major Oscar races are standing, who they thought were the hotties on the red carpet, and what they thought of the chaos the Golden Globes always bring to award season.

Matt and Marisa haven't seen each other in a while so catch-up with them as they gab about the latest movies, music, TV, and Broadway. Topics include: the return of Gwyneth to the Oscar season, how we're both ready to die for Lily Allen, which buzzy Broadway show Marisa hated, and whether or not Heated Rivalry is dumb (but we love it and you should watch it anyway).

Marisa and Matt have a wide-ranging discussion through all 4 of the EGOT Award Show races. Find out what movies (and celebrities) Matt and Marisa saw at the Toronto and New York film festivals this year, hear their thoughts on some of the fall's early plays, and listen to them chat about recent albums because they aren't really sure what the Grammy race is looking like right now. Tangents include: the wives in musical biopics, the way pop stars should be cringe sometimes, and how Matt has a big crush on a House of the Dragon actor but can't tell you the plot of the show.

In this episode, Matt and Marisa talk about this year's Emmy awards! Come to find out which of the night's big winners Matt has a hot take about, stay to find out which shows from 10-30 years ago Marisa is watching instead of this year's nominees. Other topics/tangents include: if IP will ever be as good as Andor again, our favorite awkward audience interactions, and how we're not ready to quit Ryan Murphy.

In this episode, Marisa and Matt take the EGOT award shows one letter at a time, walking through the state of the races (and also going on tangents about what they're obsessed with at the moment). Topics include: Taylor Swift's big new album, sad girl summer pop, getting Amy Madigan an Oscar, and the latest Broadway gossip about a bunch of silly boys.

In the latest episode of their "transitional period," Matt and Marisa talk about the Grammy race. Listen to find out their... complicated... feelings for this award show, and what they think of the current front-runners. And more importantly: stay tuned for a lot of Lady Gaga talk.

Matt and Marisa continue their "pilot program" of turning this into an EGOT podcast with their reactions to this year's Tony Awards. In the episode, they discuss their favorite speech of the night, the constant sound issues and completely forget to mention the incredible Hamilton 10th anniversary performance.

Marisa and Matt pivot into a whole new awards season: The 2025 Tony Awards! The duo talk about all the buzzy shows this season like Oh Mary!, Maybe Happy Ending, and the controversial Othello revival. Find out what show this season is one of the worst they've ever seen. And which Broadway star inspired them to take the show in a new direction?

Well, that's all folks... Matt and Marisa are joined by Alex Marcus to talk about the 2025 Academy Awards! Were they charmed by Conan? Were they surprised by the Anora sweep? What did they think of Timmy's yellow suit? Find out!

Surprise! Matt and Marisa are back because they forgot to do a category: Best Sound. In the episode, they discuss why Wicked is superior to other recent live-sung musicals and marvel at the work it must take to create all the sound from scratch in something like The Wild Robot.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their individual category breakdowns with two of the biggest. In the episode, they discuss how The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez went from front runners to also-rans, how Sean Baker's recognition feels like it's been a long time coming and once again encourage you to see The Count of Monte Cristo.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with their favorite categories: Actresses. In the episode, Marisa confesses to being a longtime Ariana Grande fan, Matt speaks for both of them on how great Isabella Rossellini and they talk about how exciting the Lead race is.

Matt and Marisa tackle their first set of major categories with the boys. In the episode, they wonder how a Sing Sing actor failed to make the list, discuss Succession brain and disagree on the Timothée of it all.

Matt and Marisa finish off the technical categories. In the episode, the marvel at the visual in Dune: Part Two,and talk about their love for two ape-centric movies.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with Cinematography and Editing. In the episode, they discuss whether The Brutalist was the visual marvel it promised to be, highlight the subtle comedy of Conclave and Marisa continues her hate campaign against Nosferatu.

Matt and Marisa continue their individual category breakdowns with the writing nominations. In the episode, they discuss how cool The Substance is, marvel that September 5 didn't get more nominations and once again bring up The Count of Monte Cristo.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with the music categories. In the episode, Matt wonders how Wicked's score earned a nomination but Dune 2 didn't, Marisa names some wild alternate nominees for Song and they both lament a major snub for Score.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technical categories. In the episode, Marisa begrudgingly compliments Nosferatu, Matt jokes about dressing his bridesmaids as the Bene Gesserit from Dune and they both wonder what Gladiator II is doing anywhere near the Oscars.

Marisa and Matt break down three more 2024 Oscar categories: Best International Film, Best Animated Film, and Best Original Score.

Matt and Marisa launch their annual breakdown of all the Oscar nominees with the Live Action, Documentary and Animated Short Film categories. Thanks again to ShortsTV for providing us with viewing links for all the films. The showcases hit theaters 2/14.

In this episode, Matt and Marisa reflect on this year's Golden Globes (Demi is running! They ate pasta and gossiped while watching together!). They also react to the SAG and DGA nominations and the current status of the big six Oscar races. Tangents include: Marisa's dad's love for Maria, our enthusiasm for The Fall Guy, and the random Amazon Prime Original Series that Matt's fiancé loves.

Marisa and Matt sound off on the silliest award show: the Golden Globes, which just announced their nominations this week. Tune in to hear them debate what counts as a "comedy" these days, try to predict whether The Substance is a serious Oscar contender, and speculate on whether or not an icon of 1970s cinema will make an appearance on the red carpet (which icon? the answer will surprise you).

Marisa and Matt are joined by Tom Moore to discuss some of the highlights from this year's New York Film Festival including Anora, Emilia Perez, Queer, Maria, and The Brutalist.

Staff writer Sean Cordy joins co-host Marisa Carpico to talk TIFF. In the episode, we discuss the films he saw and reviewed, the overall experience and how the festival shifted the Oscar conversation.

In the kick off to our season, PopBreak podcaster and writer Sam Niles joins Marisa to recap his second year at the Venice Film Festival. He gives a rundown of all the films he saw as well as an overview of what it's like to attend the Fest.

Matt and Marisa are joined by the winners of The Pop Break's annual Oscar pool, Kat Manos and Chris Diggins to chat surprises, highs, lows and Kimmel's hosting performance.

Matt and Marisa wrap up their annual category breakdowns with their weirdest grouping yet: Animated Feature, Directing and Picture. In the episode, they discuss the movie that had them recording down to the wire, Christopher Nolan's momentum and whether anything can beat Oppenheimer at this point.

Matt and Marisa start to wrap up their category breakdowns with some of the favorites each year, Best Lead and Supporting Acting. On the Actress side, they discuss the dead heat between Emma Stone in Poor Things and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon. For the Actors, they wonder if Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers might pull a win out from under Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with one of their perennial favorite episodes of the season, the Animated, Live Action and Documentary shorts.

Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with some of the harder films to watch this year, Documentary and International Feature. In the episode, they rave about seeing Perfect Days together at NYFF and Marisa tries to hide her bias in the Doc category.

Matt and Marisa return for another supersized episode with 3 technical categories: Cinematography, Sound Effects and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Matt and Marisa deliver another supersized and super rushed episode of their category breakdowns for this year's Oscar nominees. This time, they rave about the costumes and sets in Barbie and Poor Things, talk editing and wonder why Napoleon keeps popping up.

Matt and Marisa kick of this year's category breakdowns with a supersized episode. They cover both Screenplay categories, both Adapted and Original, Best Score and the category that haunts them every year, Best Original Song.

Matt and Marisa record live and in-person mere minutes after this year's SAG Awards to talk high, lows and Anne Hathaway crying during Barbra Streisand's speech.