Tag: oscars 2026
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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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Sirāt: Stress in the Key of EDM
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Sirāt (2025) Oliver Laxe There was good news and bad news as I headed into my showing of Sirāt today. The good: I’m almost done with my Oscars Death Race, and after Sirāt, there would only be one more loose end for me to find. The bad: I had to drive to north Dallas to see this, meaning I spent just as much time driving to and from the…
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Kokuho: In Pursuit of Greatness, for the Umpteenth Time
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Kokuho (2025) Sang-il Lee Another Saturday, another extended drive to catch a film showing nowhere near me. Last week it was Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, and today it was Kokuho, which I knew literally nothing about going in. Just before the movie started, I saw that it had a 3-hour runtime, which made me only a little nervous, and while I definitely felt that runtime,…
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Diane Warren: Relentless: Chasing the Oscar At All Costs
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Bess Kargman After a weekend of new releases, I got back on the Oscars Death Race grind, and I’m actually pretty close to the end already. Before tonight, I only had five feature films left, and now that number is just four! I wasn’t exactly looking forward to Diane Warren: Relentless, but of the three films that I could watch from home, it was the shortest, so…
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The Secret Agent: Style, Substance, and Struggling to Synthesize
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Secret Agent (2025) Kleber Mendonça Filho After seeing Arco at the Cinépolis in Euless yesterday, I guess I could’ve just stayed there overnight, because my next movie started 17 hours later in the auditorium across the hall! No one joined me this time for The Secret Agent, but I am proud to say that, even with little fanfare, I have now seen all of the 2026 Best Picture…
