Eye On The Prize

You thought you heard all of the very best in movies, TV and overall entertainment on The Gathering? Oh, my friend…you barely scratched the surface. There was so much good entertainment this year that we had to do another podcast to shine a spotlight on anything you may have missed. So for this podcast, we… Read More »Eye on the Prize SPECIAL: ‘Best of the Rest’ – 2018 Edition

The Academy has surprised everyone by announcing preliminary shortlists for nine of the categories all at once rather than doling them out gradually. Justin and Bradly responded quickly to tackle these lists to let you good people know who is eligible, who got snubbed and what might end up on the final five lists for… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep. 21 – Not So Shortlists

The Prizefighters return to catch up on the mountains of critic group awards, the Screen Actors Guild nominations and a last-minute opinion on Kevin Hart stepping down as Oscar host. Who is leading the early prizes? How is the race shaping up? Will there actually be a host this year? Check it out here! Also,… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep. 20 – Catching Up With the Critics

The Prizefighters are breaking away from tradition and themed this episode around a live-viewing of the Golden Globe nomination announcements (due to some technical issues, we’re late to the party posting this. We did actually record this as the awards were announced live). Who made it onto the shortlist for this important precursor? We also… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep. 19 – Golden Globe Nominations Live Reaction

The Prizefighters have gathered once again to prepare for the onslaught of precursor award shows in the coming weeks. With one of the original co-hosts J.C. DeLeon returning for this episode, Justin and Bradly discuss the Producers Guild of America Documentary nominees and the Independent Spirit Award nominees. And because they discovered that the Gotham… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep. 18 – We Got Spirit

The Prizefighters return for another round of Big 8 predictions from Bradly Martin and Shakyl Lambert, but first Justin will take them through the nominations announced by the Gotham Awards along with some other awards season news.

The Prizefighters return to discuss another Best Picture winner! This time, they are going deep into the vault to discuss one of Hollywood’s most beloved films made during the studio system era: Michael Curtiz’s 1942 masterpiece Casablanca. We’re sure you know the story here. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) runs a cafe in Casablanca, Morocco in… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep 16 – Best Picture Review – Casablanca

October is here and a number of major Oscar contenders are finally getting their wide releases. So it’s time once again to start making predictions for who will make it onto this year’s shortlists. Follow Davey and Justin as they go over some awards season news, have a lengthy discussion about the major foreign film… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Ep 15 – Let the 2018-19 Predictions Begin!

The Prizefighters are starting a new subsection of Eye on the Prize! Every now and then, they will review prior Best Picture winners to not only judge their own merits but to see what kind of legacy they have left on film. How have they held up over time? What performers or crew went on… Read More »Eye On The Prize Ep 14- Best Picture Review – Driving Miss Daisy

The Academy just made an announcement to make radical changes to the 2020 ceremony. Along with shortening the ceremony, the biggest, and most controversial, change is adding a new category recognizing ‘outstanding achievement in popular film.’ What does this category mean? What qualifies something as a ‘best popular film?’ The Academy gave no answers on… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep 13 – Best Popular Film?

The Prizefighters are back for a preview episode as the award season comes closer and closer. Justin Zarian and Shakyl Lambert take a look at the Los Angeles Online Film Critics list of their nominees for best movies from the first half of the year to see if anything has a chance of making it… Read More »Eye on the Prize Ep 12 – Season 1.5 – Halfway Through 2018 Preview

The Prizefighters bring season one to a close by discussing the Oscar winners, best moments from Sunday’s ceremony and anything else that comes to mind. We also wish to express our sincerest gratitude to everyone who has listened to our coverage of the 2017 season and we cannot wait to return as this year’s Oscar… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Ep. 11: Season One Victory Lap

March 4th is upon us! We will soon find out who will take home statues at this year’s Oscars, so it’s time to make predictions and place bets. Justin, Shakyl, and J.C. make educated guesses on who they think will win (with Ian’s to follow in a comment post), along with doing one more retrospective… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Ep. 10: Predicting the Nominees

The Prizefighters return after a week hiatus with an extra length episode and the return of J.C. DeLeon. Listen as he teams up with Justin and Shakyl to discuss their week, analyze the nominated music from this year’s Oscars (scores and songs) and discuss their picks for the best screenplays of the last decade.

The Prizefighters have gathered to cover the event they’ve been eagerly anticipating: the Academy Awards nominations. There will be a thorough discussion of that, detours into their favorite best actor and actress winners, a dissing on the Razzies and other bits of sleep deprived silliness we won’t spoil. Comment on the page to talk about… Read More »Eye on the Prize- Ep 8: And the Nominees Are…

The Oscar nominations are coming tomorrow and it’s time to lock in our final predictions. Shak and Justin hold the fort as they share their picks (along with picks sent by Ian and J.C.), discuss recent films they saw and generally get prepared for “Oscar Bowl 2018,” as Shak puts it.

The prizefighters are back with a truckload of awards talk. Justin Zarian, Ian Butcher and Shakyl Lambert take a deep dive to talk about the Golden Globe winners, major guild nominees and their favorites from the Oscars’ music categories (with bite-size pieces from the mentioned tracks). There’s also a notable amount of talk over The… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Ep. 6: The Sound of Winning

The team is reunited and it feels so good. Justin Zarian, Ian Butcher and Shakyl Lambert battle sleepiness and a cold to give you predictions for this Sunday’s Golden Globe ceremony, some of the guild nominations, some news and their picks for the best of cinematography, production design and visual effect winners from the last… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Ep. 5: All Around the Globes

Justin Zarian and Shakyl Lambert hold down the fort this week while Ian is busy being a responsible adult with a job. The two of them discuss films Justin has actually watched this week (I know, a first), a straggler from the critic group awards and official Academy shortlists for several categories. Much nerd talk… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Episode 4: The Big Shortlist

The Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild have announced their nominees, helping to give this largely formless competition some shape as front runners start emerging. Justin Zarian, Ian Butcher and Shakyl Lambert return once again to discuss how these and other major contenders affect the race. They also discuss the recent Oscar shortlists, recent activities… Read More »Eye on the Prize – Episode 3: The Golden Sag