We review the hell out of Best Picture with Erick Weber of Awards Ace! He’s Emmy winning for a reason, folks, and gives us the insider perspective on each of the nominees, how he power ranks their chances, why & when the race broke to 1917, & we talk some snubs. What Is This Show/Introducing Our Guest - Top of Show Erick Weber of AwardsAce.com! Where You Can Find His Work + His Socials Listed In This Section! BEST PICTURE REVIEW W/ ERICK WEBER: A Long Online Courtship - 2:34 Reviewing Preferential Balloting - 3:10 Has Any Movie Hit The Magic Number? - 5:25 “Big 3” Gaining Most Votes From Which Other Noms? - 6:36 Academy Power Ranking The Bottom 6 - 9:09 (And What Happened To Marriage Story’s Momentum?) Release Dates + BP Chances - 11:29 Oscar Night Hopes For Marriage Story - 16:15 Jojo’s Chances As a Sleeping Giant - 18:50 Erick’s Favorite of the “Lower 6” - 21:00 Previewing BAFTA Possibilities - 22:18 (What Needs the Win? What Gets Hurt By Not?) Best Picture Snubs - 27:25 (What Happened To Ad Astra/Endgame?) A24 + Awards Season Struggles - 32:30 Once’s… Biggest Academy Problem - 35:25 (And Original Screenplay Category Talk) Which Early Categories Could Signify BP Results? - 38:28 Leo + Brad Door-to-Door Salesman - 41:08 Erick’s Official Predictions for BAFTA + Oscars Best Picture - 43:10 TRADITIONAL MMO CATEGORY REVIEW FORMAT: BEST PICTURE: Category Review Format - 44:44 Best Picture Winners By Movie Rating - 45:53 1917: Why It Will Win - 49:02 Why It Won’t - 54:30 Once…in Hollywood: Why It Will Win - 59:00 Why He Won’t - 1:06:03 Parasite: Why It Will Win - 1:10:48 Why It Won’t - 1:13:56 PERFECTING PERFECTION: RE-RANKING THE NOMS: What is Perfecting Perfection? - 1:20:04 The Re-Rank - 1:20:27 Erick Weber’s Socials, Where to Find His Work, + All Other Relevant Info - 1:21:45 Your Homework/Our Socials - 1:22:36 Words of Wisdom/What’s Next From MMO - 1:23:20Erick Weber of Awards Ace joins us on this final category overview of Best Picture. Make sure you bookmark his tremendous website as one of your go-to’s for this & every awards season, and then do enjoy Awards Ace the rest of the year as well. Erick drops some serious knowledge on us from the start by explaining once & for all, how the heck preferential balloting works for the voting in this category. Then Erick dives into which movies might be eliminated first and where their votes might go. He breaks down why the race has all but eliminated some of the nominees & keeps hope alive for a few other sneaky contenders. We also do a bunch of if / then scenarios regarding the upcoming BAFTA & WGA Awards before Erick lays out his snubs for the category, why they didn’t gain enough traction this awards season, & he makes his pick. Mike & I enjoy our normal format for the rest of the episode, but with a few caveats. We’re gonna save our Best Picture snubs for an unveiling on the Mike, Mike, and Oscars, which’ll drop early next week. So for this episode, we focus on the 3 top contenders & make the case for & against each of these nominees before ranking them in our final segment. If you liked this episode, do please click on all our 2019/20 Oscar Category Overviews playlist on our soundcloud. Also please rate our show 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. Then make sure you follow at ErickWeber on Twitter & erickweber on Instagram. Finally, and as always, let us know your thoughts on this or any episode of MMO. Do continue those submissions for the upcoming MMO’s. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.