Who Will Win the Oscars? A Special BFG Podcast

Neal Pollack and Stephen Garrett run the rule over this year’s contenders and also savage ‘The Bride!’

March 12, 2026March 13, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Ana de Armas, Benicio del Toro, Bugonia, First Man, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, One Battle After Another, Oscars, Sinners, The Oscars

In the most stunning return since MacArthur landed at Inchon, former Book and Film Globe editor Neal Pollack has come back with a new episode of the beloved Book and Film Globe podcast. Pollack welcomes back the Sancho Panza to his Don Quixote, chief film critic Stephen Garrett, so they can preview this weekend’s Oscars together.

In surgical fashion, they whittle the list of 10 Best Picture nominees down to five that really matter: One Battle After Another, Sinners, Bugonia, Hamnet, and Marty Supreme, analyze the good and bad of each, and, as they’re wont to do, solve all the world’s problems in a mere 25 minutes. No one loves movies more than Stephen and Neal do, which is why we love them.

They did not, however, love The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bizarre reinterpretation of the Frankenstein mythos. Jessie Buckley may win the Oscar this year. But she’s going to win a Razzie next year. The Bride! is an all-time turkey. BFG likes to be on the right side of history.

Enjoy the show! Hopefully there will be more.

[ED’S NOTE: The Holocaust story from Marty Supreme is actually based in fact]