Oscarwatch Podcast

In honor of Dia de los Muertos, Amy and Steve look back on last year's Best Animated Feature winner, Coco. While we normally ask how the film has aged, we instead ask how we think the film will be received in the future. Steve once again vents his annoyance (however unfounded) at this song winning over a different, more Hugh Jackman-y number. He also has some righteous anger over the makeup of how the underworld is basically just a sillier version of the real world. But he does love a good absurd bureaucracy! Most of all, we talk of family and how you're stuck with them, both here and there and how maybe we two hosts cannot fully understand it, but again, that is precisely the power of Coco: that it tells a universal truth with a very different cultural lens. All that and more, this week on the podcast. Send in your requests for our December lineup! There's plenty of time get your picks in to oscarwatchpodcast@gmail.com; and find us on social media @oscarwatchpod Next week, we remind ourselves what actually