Category: Oscars
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Little Gold Man Watch — My 2026 Oscars Heart and Mind Picks
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Welcome back to Little Gold Man Watch! I’m so excited that the Oscars are tonight, and having just seen the Live-Action and Animated Short Film nominees yesterday, I’m ready to submit my Heart and Mind picks for this year’s ceremony. For the uninitiated, my ❤️ Heart picks are the nominees who I think should win, while my 🧠 Mind picks are the nominees that I think…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Animated Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. With a final push yesterday, my 2025 Oscars Death Race is complete! I got to see both the Live Action and Animated Short Film nominees in theaters yesterday afternoon, and with just a few hours until the Oscars start tonight, I’m pressed for time to get my thoughts on these short films out to you. In the order that I watched them, let’s move on to…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Live Action Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. With a final push yesterday, my 2025 Oscars Death Race is complete! I got to see both the Live Action and Animated Short Film nominees in theaters yesterday afternoon, and with just a few hours until the Oscars start tonight, I’m pressed for time to get my thoughts on these short films out to you. In the order that I watched them, let’s start with the…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Documentary Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you’re a frequent reader of Nate at the Movies, you know that I’ve been on my second-ever Oscars Death Race over the last month-plus. That race is coming to a close pretty quickly here, with just a few weeks until the Oscars, and now with all five Documentary Short Film nominees in the rearview, I can finally share my thoughts on them with you! I…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My 2026 Oscars Nomination Predictions
With nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards being announced this Thursday, I wanted to preempt them by a few days and get my predictions out to the world. I’m not clairvoyant or anything, but wouldn’t it be cool if a bunch of my predictions—heck, maybe even all of them—were right? Honestly, there are a few categories where I think my guesses wouldn’t be terribly educated, so rather than submitting to…
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Oscars 2025: Heart and Mind Picks
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. With the 97th Academy Awards just a few hours away, I submit to you my Heart Picks (who I want to win) and Mind Picks (who I believe will win) for each award. I have both lists submitted to ESPN’s Oscars Pick’em already, so let’s hope that all of my training and research leads me to victory against my friends and family. How embarrassing would that…
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Oscars Shorts 2025: Animated
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. For much of my film-watching life, my short film experience had been limited to the Pixar shorts that played before their feature films in theaters. Stories like Bao and Piper stood on their own for me, but I hadn’t really dived into the vast sea of short films until this year, when Morgan and I got our tickets to see all five Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, and…
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Oscars Shorts 2025: Live Action
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. For much of my film-watching life, my short film experience had been limited to the Pixar shorts that played before their feature films in theaters. Stories like Bao and Piper stood on their own for me, but I hadn’t really dived into the vast sea of short films until this year, when Morgan and I got our tickets to see all five Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts,…
