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Every Thursday on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish explores the animating forces of this extraordinary American political moment. It’s not about the horse race, it’s about the larger cultural ideas driving the conversation: the role of online influencers on the electorate, the intersection of pop culture and politics, and discussions with primary voices and thinkers who are shaping the political conversation.

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Oscars 2026: Chalamet, Sinners ... and Our Predictions
The Assignment with Audie Cornish
Mar 12, 2026

This year’s Oscars race has been great for film and weird for discourse. There’s the friendly Best Picture duel between two crowd-pleasing films from the same studio. The acting categories are stacked with talent. And yet the final week of campaigning has been dominated by talk about Timothée Chalamet’s apparent disrespect to opera and ballet. Audie sits down with film critic and influencer Megan Cruz (aka @j.stoobs) to talk about the biggest night in movies at a moment when Hollywood is worried about its future.

This episode was produced by Lori Galarreta and Jesse Remedios

Senior Producer: Matt Martinez

Technical Director: Dan Dzula

Episode Transcript
Audie Cornish
00:00:00
'I'm Audie Cornish, this is The Assignment, and today we're talking about the Oscars. My guest is Megan Cruz, a TikTok movie critic who is part of the up-and-coming world of parasocial critique. She's the perfect person to talk about this year's Oscars because it's been great for films and weird for discourse. Like how Timothée Chalamet went from frontrunner to the whole back and forth and discourse about what he had to say about opera and ballet in the last week of his Oscar campaign. Then there's the Best Picture duel between the crowd pleasers from the same studio. Warner Brothers' "Sinners" and "One Battle After Another." And why, just as we're all going to the theater, Hollywood is worried about its future. This is a fun one, so stick with us.
Audie Cornish
00:00:49
So, first of all, thank you so much for being on the show. I'm so excited. I love movies. I love talking about movies. I'm like a 90s baby. I wanna talk directors. I love the whole thing. So, thank you for being an enthusiastic booster for film online.
Megan Cruz
00:01:04
Oh yeah, no, it's truly my pleasure. I kind of fell into this industry, I feel like.
Audie Cornish
00:01:10
Yeah, what was your day job?
Megan Cruz
00:01:12
I went to film school. I just graduated at like the peak of the Great Recession. And, you know, life kind of took a few turns along the way, but the internet, I don't know. It was weird kind of how it happened, but I'm happy!
Audie Cornish
00:01:25
#TheInternet. Yeah, no, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. It's funny because of the sort of decimation of newspapers, and things like theater critics, and restaurant critics, and movie critics are sort of, you know, disappearing, frankly. I think that people have looked with joy, frustration. It's like a mixed bag looking at the community of critics that have evolved online.
Megan Cruz
00:01:50
'I've kind of tried to create a path of embracing the title of critic, which not everyone does in this space. There's a niche for everything, and some people like to do more historical content. Some people do like quick lists or like, "this is what came out this week," which really prioritizes the short form format, but that's not - I don't really focus so much on that. Mainly because I can't stop talking, but also because I -
Audie Cornish
00:02:16
'I don't know what that's like! You know, you are by nature of the format and where you do your work in dialog with your audience in a way that like a newspaper-type might not have been 25 years ago.
Megan Cruz
00:02:31
That's an incredible way to put it, honestly, because that is what it is. It's a lot of back and forth. I feel like Siskel and Ebert definitely laid a groundwork of what modern film discourse and criticism is now. But because of the internet, it is incredibly interactive, and the audience definitely feels like they are a part of it. And they do in a lot of ways drive the conversation, which is interesting. And I do think that the internet has created a space that has become a lot more diverse. And I don't wanna say like fully egalitarian, but that was one of the reasons why I was drawn to TikTok initially is because even on YouTube, a lot of the space was dominated by a typical like film critical kind of stereotype. It's a lot of like straight white men leading the conversation.
Audie Cornish
00:03:19
I was about to say, are you trying to say dudes? Just say dudes.
Megan Cruz
00:03:21
Yeah, just dudes. Just dudes.
Audie Cornish
00:03:24
Yeah, and Ebert, God rest his soul, he never heard my takes, you know what I mean?
Megan Cruz
00:03:28
Exactly!
Audie Cornish
00:03:28
'He never had to deal with my thoughts, and it's an interesting thing because you're the perfect person to talk this year. I feel like last year I talked to someone at like the New Yorker or something, right? We were talking about Oscar campaigns and people were talking, you know, the whole idea of the campaign, which in the post-Weinstein era - the person who really fired that up for better and mostly worse - we are now living in that time. And each year there is a horse race aspect to the awards circuit. Far more the average people are like tuned into kind of who's up, who's down, of that horse race. When you look at this year, what are the films leading that pack?
Megan Cruz
00:04:18
You know, this year has been interesting because there isn't one clear frontrunner in a lot of the categories. I feel like we have the juggernaut that is "One Battle After Another" that a lot of mainstream critics and pundits very much favor. And it is a powerhouse. Obviously Paul Thomas Anderson is right in the sweet spot of the age and career place that the Academy just loves.
Audie Cornish
00:04:43
'Yes, an auteur who gave us "Punch-Drunk Love", I think, maybe might have been my favorite. "Magnolia" people love, otherwise known as -
Megan Cruz
00:04:51
People love "Magnolia."
Audie Cornish
00:04:53
'The good Tom Cruise movie is what I call it in my mind. But people like, yeah, they like him. He's like a director's director, and he hasn't gotten it before, so the campaign and the narrative around it - let's just use that word - is like, isn't it time to give this guy for this original...? So that's the conversation there. And people also like Leonardo DiCaprio, and all the people involved in it are sort of liked figures.
Megan Cruz
00:05:21
For sure.
Audie Cornish
00:05:23
'And that makes a difference. And that leads us to the Warner Brothers - we should say, parent company asterisks - their other favorite, which is "Sinners," which is now the most awarded in terms of nominations in history.
Megan Cruz
00:05:38
'Yeah, it was really incredible to see all of those nominations rolling in. Um, I think "Sinners"... It is at a disadvantage for a couple of reasons, which is really unfortunate. "Sinners" is such an incredible film... being a horror film, especially, and to break through -
Audie Cornish
00:05:56
'1930s vampire southern-gothic with a lot of music. There's a lot of elements against it that, in the past, people would not check the box next to any of those things and call them prestige.
Megan Cruz
00:06:10
Exactly. Horror films in particular have just been so generally ignored. There are countless performances, like Toni Collette in "Hereditary," is an incredible performance that was just completely ignored. It's debatable what you classify as a horror film, but less than 10 horror films in history have ever been nominated, even just nominated, for Best Picture. The earliest is "The Exorcist" by William Friedkin, which incredible, incredible film, very deserving. Um, so like being in the horror genre, it already is like fighting an uphill battle, but being the like cultural juggernaut that it was when it came out, like literally just permeating not just the critical space, but having such a massive impact on mainstream audiences and like consuming the entire cultural conversation for such a long time, despite the fact that it clearly wasn't primed to be an awards runner coming out. I think it was in March.
Audie Cornish
00:07:05
'How much more does Ryan Coogler have to do for Hollywood to prove... He's given you a boxing movie, he revived a franchise, he gave you a Marvel film. All these things are clearing the billion-dollar mark... What more is there to give? And even then, the questioning about his deal even was amazing. People coming out of the woodwork to kind of imply he didn't deserve to negotiate from a position of power.
Megan Cruz
00:07:35
'Especially for a director who is the only director whose Marvel film has been nominated for Best Picture. Like, despite all of the accolades, like all of money, let's be honest, that the MCU has made, no one has come close to bringing it to critical acclaim as Ryan Coogler. And his career is astounding. This film is astounding. The way he spoke about the filmmaking and his dedication to technique is, I think, on the same level as Christopher Nolan, and these huge campaigns talking about, like, the way they filmed for IMAX cameras and all of the specific technology used in the film, which again, like, is great... We need as many advocates in this industry as we can for people championing the technique and the artistry that is required to make these incredible movies, and is not being preserved or valued at the same rate that it used to be. But Ryan Coogler did all of that the same, and he equally prioritized emphasis on cutting-edge technology, as well as, like, the artistic integrity of his vision and -
Audie Cornish
00:08:37
'And getting performances out of his cast that are remarkable. And the reason why I talk all this is because these awards, in a way, they're about artistic merit, that is true. But they're also in a way about how Hollywood wants to be seen in any given moment. This is one of the rare years where it feels like what they think about themselves and what they like is also what we like, like what the movie-going public likes. People went to the theater and saw "Sinners" on purpose. They went and saw "One Battle After Another." They went, and it wasn't like a bunch of films that people were like, 'I don't know. I didn't see it. Did you see it? I'll get around to it.' It wasn't that kind of year.
Megan Cruz
00:09:18
'No, I genuinely think that this is one of the best lineups for Best Picture that we've had in a while. There are favorites that I wish would have made it in, but I feel like as someone who pays attention to these things. What you're speaking to is something I've talked about countless times, about the fact that, I think the Oscars in general, people view them as Best Picture must be some kind of objective metric for the best movie of the year, which is completely impossible. But I think the more important issue is that it's more of like an anthropological record and speaks to, like, the cultural moment of where we're at at any given time. And so I think that it's -
Audie Cornish
00:09:53
And some years that's "Driving Miss Daisy" against "Do the Right Thing."
Megan Cruz
00:09:58
Oh, yes. Exactly.
Audie Cornish
00:10:00
Some years that's "Crash".
Megan Cruz
00:10:02
Yes! Exactly.
Audie Cornish
00:10:02
'You're just like what? Why is this happening? Is this the bad place? And then some years it's this, where even my friends who want to sort of fight about like "Marty Supreme," which we'll talk about "One Battle"... "Sinners" is the great - I'm like, I'm just glad you all are all talking about this. I'm glad you actually saw these films and that I can, with pride, kind of suggest them. But that gets at a point that is percolating the clouds, let's say, rumbling around. This was the year that Hollywood got to say, 'Look at us streaming!' Like, 'We're back.' People went back to physical theaters. We were nice to our auteur directors. We gave them money. We gave them independence, and look what we hath wrought. And in the meantime, they were also terrified that Netflix might buy our parent company, WBD. Some people might look at Warner Brothers this year having two in the Best Picture running and just leading, and see a last hurrah. I think that there's a meta dialog going on about Hollywood itself, which is like, is this version of us, the version we feel most proud of? Up-and-coming stars, well-known favorites, like, fantastic auteurs coming out of studios over?
Megan Cruz
00:11:19
'It's not only a valid question, I think it's an important one because... I think that the streaming industry has been disruptive in a lot of ways that I don't particularly love, but I do think that it has also acted as, kind of, humbling for a lot of people to realize that it is few-and-far-between. Like the people that will show up for someone just based on like a name when you're on streaming. And it is way more actually about a film like "K-pop Demon Hunters" that breaks through kind of at random because audiences find them and love them. I mean, this is kind of what happened a couple of years ago with "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Again, another movie that - not at all predicted to be by the studio that distributed it or anyone else - to be relevant. But the word of mouth campaign, the way that audiences loved this movie so much... It was like one of the most organic Oscar wins I feel like I've ever seen. And I feel we're definitely in that age right now. And it is thanks to streaming. Streaming is a double-edged sword in a lot of ways, but I do think it definitely gives the audience a little bit more control in terms of guiding the conversation.
Audie Cornish
00:12:21
'And as a person who for a time was like, 'Leave my house, why?' Like I was - I'm not gonna lie - I was on board because I had little kids, I had a baby. I was like, 'What do you want me to do?' Yeah, like I'm sitting at home and watching Dune 45 or whatever, it's fine. And then I watched "Frankenstein," the Guillermo del Toro film with Jacob Elordi, who's now in "Wuthering Heights." And I was like, 'Oh, this is underwhelming.' Like this is a director who I've interviewed, I love his films, and they are so dynamic with the set design and all of these things. And on my television, it didn't really feel great. It didn't quite work. And it was a good little reminder to me, somebody who's been a little reluctant, that the fact that these directors are leaning into the IMAX and the multiple film formats, and they're trying to bring me back. It's working. They're doing stuff that is bringing me back.
Megan Cruz
00:13:23
'I do think that audiences are illustrating that they are definitely ready for a new era of specific film appreciation. I do think that it's like, especially young audiences, we're seeing a resurgence of Gen Z being interested. And I do think it's like - it's an important pushback because again, the double-edged sort of streamers, you have CEOs like Netflix's Ted Sarandos having conversations about how second screen viewings, I think what they call it, where... They engineer their programming with the understanding that a lot of their audience is distracted while watching it. And they create shows where they have to say out loud the plot point and what's happening multiple times.
Audie Cornish
00:14:02
It's written in the dialogue.
Megan Cruz
00:14:03
Just banking on audiences not paying attention and not retaining that. And I think that as we're kind of inundated with more content, content, content all the time, audiences are definitely like, 'Hey, whoa, like I need a breather.' And the cinema, ironically, like my parents back in the 90s would shudder to think that the cinema is actually almost like a meditative, like ritual for a lot of people now where you're able to put your phone down. You're able to just go and absorb a piece of art. It's weird to talk about it as though it's like the same thing as walking through a museum, but I do think it's a comparable artistic endeavor.
Audie Cornish
00:14:41
After the break, Megan and I are going to give you our Oscar predictions. We'll be right back.
Audie Cornish
00:14:49
Let's get into the "Marty Supreme" of it all because Timothée Chalamet has become this year's campaign narrative discourse lightning rod.
Megan Cruz
00:15:00
Oh, so succinctly, and what I would put yet again.
Audie Cornish
00:15:02
'I don't know if that's how you say it. So for people who don't know, "Marty Supreme" is about - he plays Marty Mauser, who is this like ping pong prodigy, and it is basically... If anyone's seen "Uncut Gems" because it's a Safdie film, it's like that with Timothée Chalamet. It's like a person who is frantic, and intense, and self-sabotaging, moving their way through a community. In this case, I think it's sort of like a Jewish community in New York. It's all about his performance. That is the film. There's other things great about the film - the casting is good, the costumes are good - but you're really there to see Timothée Chalamet act in an enjoyable, intense way, frenetically for many minutes.
Megan Cruz
00:15:49
Yeah, it's very character driven.
Audie Cornish
00:15:51
Work outside of that... It's his performance, air quotes, outside of that promoting the film that has become a problem. So give me a description of some of the viral stunts he's done that even got us to this point.
Megan Cruz
00:16:07
They spent so much money on this marketing campaign. I mean, justifiably so, turns out. I mean, they had a blimp flying throughout LA that said "Marty Supreme" on it. They had that initial viral marketing campaign where they faked a Zoom call of Timothée Chalamet on a Zoom Call with a bunch of marketers talking about these outlandish things that he wanted to do, as a joke.
Timothée Chalamet
00:16:26
'Imagine Marty Mauser - SCHWAP - cover of a Wheaties box. I think I should be on thousands of Wheaties boxes. To me, it's marketing 101. Oh, I think I'm going to get Wheaties to get my kids cereal in the morning, right? No, I'm getting inceptioned to go see "Marty Supreme."
Megan Cruz
00:16:50
It was very planned ahead of time. But then as it went on and he gave more interviews, I mean, even a couple of years ago, I believe, when he was doing "A Complete Unknown press," he was very outspoken about... He wants to be great. He wants to be one of the greatest, admitting out loud that he wants an Oscar.
Audie Cornish
00:17:08
'So when he won his SAG Award, he just said, 'Hey everybody, I know this is not a cool thing to say -'
Timothée Chalamet
00:17:13
'I want to be one of the greats. I'm inspired by the greats, I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. I'm as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there.
Audie Cornish
00:17:24
'And, you know, it's interesting. There is a thing with Hollywood and young men. They love an ingenue all day. You know what I mean? They're like, Hatha-Lawrence, Emma, like, love it. You acting older than you are in a thing. Cause I've seen some of these women won things that I'm like, 'You were miscast. I don't even know why you're in this.' But they love it. With the young men, unless you're British, it's a tough road. And, or you have to be older. And there's something about what he's trying to do right now as a young, American, male actor saying, 'I'm on a path - come with me.' He's doing like a parasocial version of growth, and being okay with how dumb and theater kid it looks, you know? Like Anne Hathaway could never. No woman could get away with what Timothée Chalamet is doing in his thirst.
Megan Cruz
00:18:25
Absolutely, I completely agree. Like everything you're saying. The Academy loves young women who accept their accolades in a quiet, understated fashion. They love a very young girl who played a disenfranchised young girl in a film, who plays the part exceptionally well. They love an esteemed actor who probably should have won an Academy Award 15 years ago.
Audie Cornish
00:18:47
Exactly.
Megan Cruz
00:18:48
They love to give somebody like that an Oscar.
Audie Cornish
00:18:49
Delroy Lindo, it's your time! Exactly.
Megan Cruz
00:18:52
But they really don't, and it's interesting because it seems to be reflected back in the general audience right now. Timothée Chalamet is increasingly... I literally, it's interesting. My last video that I made was, not a defense of Timothée Chalamet, but really trying to contextualize the conversation around the recent discourse, is a polite way of putting it, around his comments around ballet and opera. And by his comments, I mean like a throwaway comment that he made at the end of a larger conversation about actually how the film industry is in danger, not any of those industries.
Audie Cornish
00:19:22
'This was at a CNN town hall with him and Matthew McConaughey, another person sort of known for speaking his mind. And he, Chalamet, the son of an arts family, mom, sister did ballet - I think he lived in like artist subsidized housing in New York and went to the Fame High School, was doing his spiel. Something he's actually said multiple times when he said, 'Look, I want to be in an art form that people really care about, unlike ballet, opera.' That's how he laid it out to the audience, and it's something that he has said before. Why is it turning into a thing now? Because my producer, Jesse Remedios says, this is a conspiracy and this is slander that they are trying to torpedo him and his campaign.
Megan Cruz
00:20:11
'I think it's intense backlash. Like, it's interesting you bring up Anne Hathaway. I feel that there are a lot of parallels. I feel Timothée Chalamet, I mean, obviously, the way that women have been treated in Hollywood - their looks being scrutinized -has been really intense for a long time. I think that the way the world is evolving, those expectations are kind of beginning to be put on young men in a lot of cases, especially a young man like Timothée Chalamet, who came up as kind of like, you know, for his boyish good looks. And over in recent years, you've seen people saying like very not-so-nice things about the way he's aging and growing up and whether or not he's-.
Audie Cornish
00:20:49
Wait, they are?
Megan Cruz
00:20:50
'Yes. I mean, like there's been a lot of like, there's like a lot viral. He looks the same! Like I don't get it, but people, and I don't want to like, I don't want to say that it's just people being like dismissive because of the way he looks. But I do think that it's a snowball effect of like fame itself, where people love you, they wanna prop you up, especially in this internet age where you are exposed to a person, and someone like Timothée Chalamet, who is, like you said, an unabashed theater kid and always has been, has kind of had this perception put onto him by people who want him to be their dream celebrity - this little darling French boy who is beautiful and cultured.
Audie Cornish
00:21:26
All right, we're going to do the last thing before I let you go because I can't, not have you do predictions. And this is where we're gonna nerd out. And I'll offer mine as well. We'll check them off later, and you can do a TikTok that's like, 'Audie was super wrong. Ding ding ding!'
Megan Cruz
00:21:44
Oh, no, I'm always wrong. Don't even worry.
Audie Cornish
00:21:46
'Oh really? Yeah, 'cause we're not the weird Academy that thinks "F1" was Best Picture, like -
Megan Cruz
00:21:51
No exactly.
Audie Cornish
00:21:52
Settle down, settle down. Okay. So, Actor in a Leading Role. I have now gone to, I went from being like, oh, this is impossible, to Michael B. Jordan for "Sinners" because of him winning a SAG. And my backup is Wagner Moura for "The Secret Agent" because I just wonder if all these other performances will split their vote.
Megan Cruz
00:22:14
'I do think that's a... that's not a bad guess. 'Cause honestly, the Actor in a Leading Role category is truly insane this year. Like I - I look at it, and I'm just like, any one of these people could walk away with it.
Audie Cornish
00:22:24
Yes, Ethan Hawke for "Blue Moon", Leonardo DiCaprio for "One Battle After Another." I don't think anybody would be upset with any of these wins.
Megan Cruz
00:22:32
No, yeah. I mean, I think that Michael B. Jordan definitely has a really strong push. I do think it's very much about telling a story, telling a narrative, and I think "Sinners" has a great narrative this year.
Audie Cornish
00:22:45
But he looked surprised. I think people really were thinking that the "Marty Supreme" train had left the station, and even he, in receiving the award, looked shocked.
Megan Cruz
00:22:56
Yeah. Well, I think that that was such a beautiful moment to see because just seeing the entire room celebrate because it was so unexpected and such a, I don't want to say relief, but like just such a joyous moment to be like, wow, like this, this could really happen. It's not set in stone, which is my favorite thing about... Yeah. And I do think that it's like, again, it's like, I kind of fall into the category where I'm not great at predictions. I'm very bad.
Audie Cornish
00:23:24
Oh no, we're forcing you still. Actor in a Leading Role. Just give me a name!
Megan Cruz
00:23:29
I mean, I guess. I guess, you know, if I had to say who I thought was most likely to win, I would still probably say Timothée Chalamet. I don't know how likely that is, but it just has been... You know, it wouldn't be my pick, but if I have to guess who is most likely, that's what I would maybe say. But I do think that this year, I mean, that is barely even a lead, though, because this year it could be Michael B. Jordan, it could be Leonardo DiCaprio, or Ethan Hawke, or Wagner Moura.
Audie Cornish
00:23:59
'All right, I'm cutting you off. You're drunk. I'm cuttin' you off. So the the last one I want to get to, or the last two that I'm in a couple is Best Film and Best Director, and the reason why I'm separating these out - even I would add screenplay to this - sometimes when people don't wanna give an award to best the director of something they give them something else like screenplay or some other thing like that. I think the best version of this I saw was like "Barbie," right? It's like "Barbie" versus "Oppenheimer," and you have the director getting like a kind of Adapted Screenplay or some other kind of award that is still great, but is not the award. Yeah. And I think it will be weird if everybody wins all the things for "Sinners" and Ryan Coogler does not win Best Director, which is I think eluded a lot of black filmmakers for sure. What do you think the Academy is gonna do when it comes to Best Director and Best Film?
Megan Cruz
00:25:05
I think, from what I understand, I think that the Best Director Oscar is one of the most coveted in the entire industry. And I think that a lot of directors want it even more than they want their film to win Best Picture. I also think that it's so much more competitive because, since they expanded the category of Best Picture to have 10 films instead of five, they now nominate 10 films for Best Picture, but only five directors get nominated for Best Director. So it's like a lot more competitive and a lot more difficult. I worry that this year, despite all of the high nominations, "Sinners" won't take as many home, and that will be disappointing to some people. It'll be disappointing to a lot of people. But I do think that there's been a general trend in recent years of films getting more nominations in general because, despite the fact that there are 10 films nominated instead of five and it feels like there's a bigger scope, I feel like the Academy actually focuses in on more individual films instead of spreading the love out to more films. So we have a concentration of films that get like, an increased amount of awards per film.
Audie Cornish
00:26:05
Or a reality check, as I like to call it.
Megan Cruz
00:26:07
Yeah, exactly.
Audie Cornish
00:26:09
'But the 10 to me still feels like a lot, but -
Megan Cruz
00:26:10
It's a lot! Like films get nominated for so many.
00:26:13
Hilariously, Ryan Coomer is part of the reason, right? It was like you've gotta expand what you think of as Best Picture. But here he is again coming to them with something that was both commercial and critically respected. And yet, we talked about like, we haven't even mentioned "Hamnet," Chloe Zhao, and there's many directors here that people respect and have good stories and campaigns, so to speak, going into it.
Megan Cruz
00:26:39
Yeah, Chloe Zhao, obviously, one of the very few women to win a Best Director Oscar, which incredible. I love that she has that already. I don't think this year she's really likely to get another. I really think that they're going to give it to Paul Thomas Anderson. I really think "One Battle Another" is going to take the Best Director Oscar this year. But I do think that Ryan Coogler is the next in line should there be a shakeup. I think the Best Picture is probably gonna go to "One Battle," but I also would not be surprised at all if "Sinners" ended up being the surprise winner of the night.
Audie Cornish
00:27:13
Tell people where they can find you in case they want to follow up on your predictions.
Megan Cruz
00:27:17
'You can find me on TikTok, on Instagram, on YouTube. My handle is j.stoobs. I do film and media commentary and criticism there. I also have a podcast. Actually, my podcast recently just did an entire series on Oscar upsets. We talked about the year that "Shakespeare in Love" won, Harvey Weinstein of it all, "Brokeback Mountain" over "Crash", or the vice-versa, unfortunately. Wishful, that was a Freudian slip. But yeah, all of that stuff. And my podcast is called "The Broad Perspective." So those are the places you can find me, and this has been a blast. Thank you so much for having me.
Audie Cornish
00:27:48
This has been great. I'm a broad. Get me on there. Okay! I'm available, needless to say. All right, Megan Cruz. Thank you so much for being with us. This was amazing.