If you talk to any awards nerd for long enough, they’re eventually going to compare the whole thing to sports. Full of head-to-head matchups, big personalities and an entire season’s worth of ups and downs — the period between the beginning of the fall festivals and the Oscars six months later is full of endless off-screen drama. As a subscriber to Prestige Junkie After Party, you surely already agree: The Oscars are bigger than the Super Bowl, and deserve to be treated as such.
And that means that today’s episode, kicking off our Fall Festival Draft, is absolutely for you. Paid subscribers to the After Party can now hear this exclusive podcast, in which Christopher Rosen and I are joined by This Had Oscar Buzz’s Chris Feil to draft our rosters of the most promising films of the fall festival season. There are points for everything from winning an award at Venice to causing a traffic jam in Toronto, and some serious bragging rights are at stake. Here’s how the draft will work:
