So many Oscar-nominated films are two or three hours long. Our Notscar for Vine of the year goes to a clip of a shopping cart filled with hundreds of rubber, noise-making toy ducks. The video, entitled "Duck Army," was originally shot by a Norwegian named Kevin Synnes and he delivers a six-second NOTscar acceptance speech.
We're giving the very first NOTscar to actor Mya Taylor, who debuted this year in a film that isn't the kind of thing we typically see on screens. The actor explains how she drew from her own life experiences for the film and what's missing from mainstream conversations on transgender issues.
For our NOTscars we'd thought we'd honor one of the most watched forms of visual media in the world: airplane pre-flight safety videos! They're viewed by some 600 million people last year - yet they don't have an Oscar category. Learn all about how the wildly entertaining Virgin America safety video came to be and how the low budget helped Chu to become creatively resourceful.
Steve Smith tells a cinematic icebreaker perfect for your next Oscar party. He joined us to talk about his Airwall, an invention for which he won a Technical Achievement Academy Award earlier this year.
Legacy and prestige are just some of the reasons awards are given out each year, but as Gallus explains, there's often a lot of backlash beyond #OscarsSoWhite.
The chief film critic at the New York Times, who recently published his first book, shines a light on the performances and movies that were overlooked by The Academy last year.
The hosts of "Another Round" tell Brendan and Rico why they're the wrong people to ask about #OscarsSoWhite and why Hollywood needs to get a little more creative.
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All the music from episode 337.
Brittany Luse, host of "Sampler" and co-host of "For Colored Nerds," fills us in on how a computer glitch sparked an epic competitive price war between two gas stations in Toledo, Ohio.