Oscars Outsider is a podcast where Craig Midwinter and Dylan Ferguson break down the Oscars the way most people break down sports. We follow the awards race week by week — the narratives, the precursors, the surprises, the discourse, and the strategy behind every contender’s campaign. We treat awards season like a competitive ecosystem, tracking momentum, analyzing the politics of voting bodies, and running our own Oscars Fantasy Draft to score nominations, wins, snubs, and everything in between. If you care about movies and the game behind the movies, you’re in the right place.
128 episodes transcribedCraig and Dylan ask one of the juiciest questions of awards season: who is going to become this year’s Oscar villain?What actually makes a movie the v...
It's DRAFT DAY on Oscars Outsider!Craig and Dylan go head-to-head in our second annual Oscars Fantasy Draft, selecting 26 films they think will do...
The Oscar race keeps getting messier. We break down the first reactions to Digger, the New York Film Festival relaunch of Paper Tiger, the growing mom...
The fall festival season is starting to reshape the Oscar race.We break down the surprising end of the Venice Film Festival, where Woman Unknown pulle...
The Best International Feature Film Oscar is the most chaotic, politically charged, and scandal-ridden category in Academy history — and Dylan, Craig,...
Is The Odyssey actually WEAK on screenplay? Dylan and Craig make the bold case that Christopher Nolan's writing could be the one category his anci...
The Oscar race just reshuffled — and we've got receipts. Dylan and Craig dig into the latest Best Picture prediction lists from Variety's Clay...
Emily Wilson — the scholar whose Odyssey translation Christopher Nolan called his primary source — just published a scathing review in the London Revi...
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a genuine cultural moment — but could it become the most-nominated film in Oscar history? Dylan and Craig break...
Who is the most overdue actor in Hollywood? According to a Nate Silver model from 2012, it isn't Leonardo DiCaprio — it's Matt Damon. And he s...
It’s way too early… so naturally we’re making our first Oscar predictions.This week on Oscars Outsider, we start building the 2026 Best Picture race f...
This week on Oscars Outsider, we dive into one of the Academy’s strangest and most confusing categories: Best Original Score.From the early days of st...
Spielberg is back with aliens — but is that enough to make Disclosure Day a real Oscar contender?This week on Oscars Outsider, we close the book on Ca...
The Cannes awards are here, and somehow the Oscar race feels less clear than it did before.In this episode of The Oscars Outsider Podcast, we react to...
Cannes is almost over, which means it is time to make our Palme d’Or predictions.In this episode, we break down the Cannes competition, make our picks...
This week on Oscars Outsider, Cannes is open, but Hollywood might have left the group chat.We dig into a strange Cannes lineup where the big American...
The Academy just killed a rule that's been in place since 1931 — and Sandra Hüller might be the first actor in nearly a century to benefit. We get int...
Scamanda is getting messy — and the more you look at it, the harder it is to pin down what’s actually going on.We get into the shifting dynamics at th...
With Oscar nominations just a day away, we lock in our final predictions for who will be nominated, not who will win.This clip comes from our sister s...
Welcome to Oscars Outsider, a limited-run awards-season spinoff from the team behind Bravo Outsider. Each year we obsess over the Oscars, the gossip,...
