Blank Check — Patreon: The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free)

Published 2020-02-02; 1:46:28 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Joe Reid, Ben Hosley (producer, present throughout).

Subject films: Parasite (2019), Little Women (2019), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Uncut Gems (2019), The Irishman (2019), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Marriage Story (2019), Knives Out (2019), Us (2019), Hustlers (2019).

On the transcript: Readable but with a lot of garbled proper names and unattributed overlapping speech; list-reading sections are hard to assign to a speaker, so speaker_confidence is often low. About 1h41m of audio despite the longer brief estimate.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Normalized titles/spellings (e.g., 'Florence Pugh', 'Ana de Armas', 'Doctor Sleep') are corrections of transcript mangling.
Years given for 2019 films are release-year labels assigned by the awards context, not stated in the transcript.
Year on Wild Rose, Ashes Is Purest White, Under the Silver Lake, The Nightingale, Peterloo, Diane, Her Smell, Transit, Climax, Widows, Disobedience, Mr. Holmes, 20th Century Women, Bridge of Spies, The Florida Project, Magnolia, Talented Mr. Ripley, The Fighter, The Shining, Alfie, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Little Women (1994) added from memory.
'A Hidden Life' is my guess for what the speaker called 'the Malik'.
'Joker' guess not recorded; the clown film is unnamed in the transcript (Todd Phillips named).

Films that came up

Claims (132)

programming (programming): Taron Egerton → Little Shop of Horrors. Rumor: Warner Bros. wants Taron Egerton for Little Shop of Horrors; Griffin joked he can sing.
“Warner Brothers wants to hire Taron Egerton to do a little shop of horrors.”
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contrast (contrast): Chris Gethard → Shane Gillis. Recurring joke: Gethard doesn't like Shane Gillis; the original Blankies host plan fell through when Gillis got in trouble.
“Chris Catcher does not like Shane Kilson.”
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industry (industry): Jennifer Lopez → Hustlers. Lopez's Oscar non-nomination: 'a weird non-overlap'.
“Jennifer Lopez Hustlers should have been an overlap.”
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contrast (contrast): Florence Pugh → Candice Bergen. Griffin dubs Pugh the new Candice Bergen, who is the new LeBron James, because all three 'get buckets' and are great on Instagram.
“Because Florence Pugh is the new Candace Bergen, who is the new LeBron James because she gets fucking buckets.”
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verdict (verdict): Florence Pugh → Little Women. Griffin nominates Pugh for Best Supporting Actress and calls it the best comedic performance of 2019.
“Best comedic performance of 2019, Little Women.”
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verdict (verdict): Rebecca Ferguson → Doctor Sleep. Chaos pick for Best Supporting Actress: Ferguson as the Hat.
“My 4th nominee for best supporting actress is Rebecca Ferguson as the hat in Dr. Sleep.”
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industry (industry): Doctor Sleep → Doctor Sleep. The three-hour director's cut just dropped and could be amazing.
“You know, the 3 hour director's cut just dropped.”
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contrast (contrast): Doctor Sleep → Roman J. Israel, Esq.. A film Griffin half-liked whose director's cut may turn out to be amazing, like Roman J. Israel (named as a past analog).
“That's the Roman J Israel this year where I'm like, that movie that I kind of liked but had problems with might be amazing.”
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contrast (contrast): Rebecca Ferguson → Jane Krakowski. Ferguson's Hat performance reminds the speaker of Jane Krakowski in 30 Rock (character name garbled in transcript).
“Rebecca Ferguson and Dr. Sleep is the most I've ever liked a performance that also made me think so much of Jane Krakowski”
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verdict (verdict): Judi Dench → Cats. Fifth supporting-actress nominee: Dench's pure presence and commitment to something ridiculous is the hardest, most impressive performance of the year.
“that is the hardest and most impressive performance of the year.”
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contrast (contrast): Judi Dench → Ian McKellen. Everyone praises McKellen in Cats, but Dench's performance is mostly others talking about how important she is while it cuts back to her.
“And so much of Judy's performance is literally just other people talking about how she's the most important creature in the world and them cutting back to her.”
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industry (industry): Margot Robbie → Bombshell. Robbie got nominated for the wrong movie (Bombshell not OUATIH).
“She got nominated for the wrong movie.”
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industry (industry): Parasite → Parasite. Parasite's ensemble made it hard for Oscars; Song Kang-ho was the most recognizable face.
“I mean, Song Kang Ho is maybe the most recognizable face.”
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contrast (contrast): Parasite → Knives Out. Both are true ensembles, so neither could campaign a single acting nominee.
“The same thing happened to knives out, actually.”
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verdict (verdict): Parasite → Parasite. Honorary ensemble award: the cast works as a company and the speaker could not single one out.
“I give it my honorary ensemble award, especially seeing it a 2nd time about a week ago.”
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contrast (contrast): Kathy Bates → Richard Jewell. Oscars nominated Bates instead of Bening, which felt like 'flip a coin to the veteran'.
“But that kind of felt like them being like, yeah, let's flip a coin to the veteran.”
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career (career): Annette Bening → 20th Century Women. The 20th Century Women snub was 'about as bad as the election of Donald Trump'; Bening snubbed twice running.
“Well, the 20th century woman snub is about as bad as like the election of Donald Trump.”
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verdict (verdict): Annette Bening → The Report. Bening is a supporting-actress nominee and incredible; the movie needs movie stars.
“that movie doesn't work if it doesn't have movie stars.”
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contrast (contrast): Little Women → Little Women. Gerwig/Pugh play young and older Amy with one actress, unlike the 94 version with Kirsten Dunst and Samantha Mathis.
“you think back to like the 94 version, and they cast 2 different actresses, Kirsten Dunst is the young Amy, and then Samantha Mathis as the older Amy.”
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lineage (lineage): Florence Pugh → Kathleen Turner. Pugh's deep husky voice makes her 'the new Kathleen Turner'.
“she's the new Kathleen Turner.”
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verdict (verdict): Jennifer Lopez → Hustlers. Hustlers' Lopez wins one host's Best Supporting Actress as the quintessential movie-star performance.
“it is the quintessential movie star performance, and I think those things don't get valued as well as they should.”
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contrast (contrast): Florence Pugh → Jude Law. Pugh's arrival as a star is the Talented Mr. Ripley-era Jude Law analog; Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia, a star channeling her legacy into her best acting.
“then Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia.”
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contrast (contrast): Jennifer Lopez → Tom Cruise. Lopez in Hustlers compared to Tom Cruise in Magnolia: a star pouring their entire legacy into the best acting they have done.
“someone finding the performance that channels their entire legacy as a star into the best piece of acting they've ever done.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:24:50 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Laura Dern → Marriage Story. Dern is on Joe's ballot but none of the three would pick her to win; she's the Oscar frontrunner as a career-recognition win.
“But none of us would pick her to win.”
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contrast (contrast): Laura Dern → Little Women. Speaker prefers Dern in Little Women for her wild, sparkly, overflowing-with-passion mom energy.
“I kind, I kind of prefer her in Little Women, which is a scorching take”
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verdict (verdict): Tom Burke → The Souvenir. Burke is a supporting winner; calling him lead would be almost sexist given the film's design as a duet.
“it is almost sexist for me to call him the lead in that movie.”
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career (career): Willem Dafoe → The Florida Project. The win makes up for snubbing him for The Florida Project.
“I didn't give him the Florida project one.”
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verdict (verdict): Willem Dafoe → The Lighthouse. Flipped into Best Supporting Actor in a year of two-handers and given the win as the 'Dafoe of the decade pick'.
“I feel like this is this is the Defoe of the decade pick for me.”
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contrast (contrast): Alessandro Nivola → Disobedience. Nivola is often hired for one thing (stillness/seriousness, as in Disobedience), while Art of Self-Defense shows several instruments at once.
“I think very often people hire him just to do one thing because he is good at stillness.”
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verdict (verdict): Alessandro Nivola → The Art of Self-Defense. Nivola's firecracker performance in a movie 'like an American Yorgos'.
“That movie is sort of like an American Yorgos, the most movie, like it has that sort of weird unreality where you're like, people don't talk like this.”
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verdict (verdict): Timothee Chalamet → Little Women. Chalamet wins Best Supporting Actor for fully committing to the young heartthrob while giving the character real depth.
“I think it's Timothy Chalamet for little women.”
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contrast (contrast): Timothee Chalamet → The King. After The King, the speaker wanted to dethrone Timmy; Little Women brought him back in.
“after Little Women going, I'm back in.”
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people (people): The King → Robert Pattinson. Speaker sat through two hours waiting for Pattinson's late fireworks in The King.
“spent 2 hours being like, when are they going to get the fireworks back there?”
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people (people): Greta Gerwig → Timothee Chalamet. Gerwig 'just knows how to use him'; they have great working chemistry.
“She just knows how to use him”
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verdict (verdict): Jamie Bell → Rocketman. Bell is the heart of Rocketman; his David Oyelowo award for the hardest job, playing a decent, uncomplicated person.
“It is my David Oyello award for the thing that's toughest to do, which is just to play a decent on complicated person.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:34:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jeremy Bobb → Under the Silver Lake. His single scene is maybe the scene of the year, though the young-actor-in-old-age-makeup device helps.
“I think it's maybe the best scene of the year, but I also, I think that performance is doing a lot of work.”
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verdict (verdict): Under the Silver Lake → Under the Silver Lake. Griffin watched it on a train from Buffalo and half-believes it was a dream; it played better in a theater than on a plane.
“I watched Under the Silver Lake on a train back to New York from Buffalo.”
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contrast (contrast): Sophie Okonedo → Ricky and the Flash. Like the Audra McDonald scene in Ricky and the Flash, Okonedo's role has layers from racial dynamics that make it unclear whether script or casting supplied them.
“That the Audra McDonald scene, where there are all these interesting layers added because of the racial dynamics of it”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Sophie Okonedo → Wild Rose. Late shout-out: Okonedo plays the nuance of a 'white savior'-sounding story with flipped dynamics in every moment.
“Sophie Akinado plays the sort of nuance of that in every moment, is incredibly compelling and impressive to me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:37:03 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Brad Pitt → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Pitt is supporting (never lead) in OUATIH, 'the picture of being a good supporter'.
“He was always supporting and I just caught him because he's getting he's getting his moment.”
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contrast (contrast): Richard Schiff → Alfre Woodard. Schiff is a mirror to Woodard: both strained by the same weight from opposite ends.
“they're both sort of meeting at the middle from like opposite ends of the spectrum.”
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verdict (verdict): Richard Schiff → Clemency. Schiff's Clemency performance is the benchmark of what a speaker wants to age into as an actor, alongside Joe Pantoliano in Bad Boys for Life.
“Those are the 2 benchmarks I'm setting for the next 30 years of my career.”
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theme (theme): Knives Out → Knives Out. The twist is that Ana de Armas's Ana de Armas's character probably will give them the money because she is a good person.
“I think the twist at the end of knives out is that she probably is going to give them the money”
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verdict (verdict): Daniel Craig → Knives Out. Craig is nominated as a lead (the Blankies put him in the supporting ranking, which the speaker questions); speaker also wants him to grow a mustache.
“I want a little bit of distance from Daniel Craig in that performance visually.”
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craft (craft): Little Women → Little Women. Adapted-screenplay winner: the best argument for the art of adaptation.
“Little women is just like, it's, it's, uh, the best argument for the art of adaptation.”
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lineage (lineage): Doctor Sleep → The Shining. Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
“It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
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contrast (contrast): Stephen King → Stanley Kubrick. King felt Kubrick's film ripped the guts out of his story; the speaker doesn't blame him though Kubrick's film is its own great thing.
“that like King sort of like it sort of ripped the guts out of the story that he was telling, which he's not wrong.”
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contrast (contrast): Toy Story 4 → Frozen 2. Toy Story 4 is lumped with Frozen 2 and Rise of Skywalker as films that threw out the entire screenplay and started over.
“Toy Story 4 falls into this weird thing of like Frozen 2 and Rise of Skywalker”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:47:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Frozen 2 → Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. Both feel like their screenplays were thrown out 9 months before release.
“which are movies that feel like 9 months before they came out, they threw out the entire screenplay and started out from scratch”
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industry (industry): Stephanie Folsom → Toy Story 4. Final credit is Folsom and Stanton; earlier drafts from other writers over many failed attempts were 'insulting and disastrous'.
“The final credit is Stephanie Folsom and Andrew Stanton.”
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theme (theme): Frozen 2 → Frozen 2. Defended: Elsa subtext as queer storytelling within Disney's constraints, the ice tunnel scene.
“Frozen 2 got no credit for being as like perfectly calibrated, queer storytelling as it is”
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unmapped (dismissed): Frozen 2 → Frozen 2. Counter: only 15% works; the rest is like watching someone play a bad game of Dungeons and Dragons.
“And the remaining 85% is like watching someone else play a really bad game of Dungeons and Dragons.”
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craft (craft): High Flying Bird → High Flying Bird. Most fun dialogue of the year: a literate, wordy 'spoken musical'.
“It's just a beautifully literate, very wordy.”
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industry (industry): Parasite → Parasite. Bong's planned HBO show based on Parasite worries the speaker, because the film is great for being lean, implying mysteries it never explains.
“I'm terrified of the idea of him doing this HBO show”
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contrast (contrast): Parasite → Watchmen (HBO series). Hope the Parasite series becomes something like what Watchmen was for Watchmen: an extension, not an anthology.
“something that is sort of like what Watchman was for Watchman”
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verdict (verdict): Mark Ruffalo → Dark Waters. Late cut for David's Best Actor: 'Hunchback of West Virginia'.
“Hunchback of West Virginia.”
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verdict (verdict): Dark Waters → Dark Waters. Predicted on an earlier Philadelphia episode that it would vanish and get re-evaluated; people now ask why they didn't pay attention.
“already people have this sort of like, wait, why didn't we pay attention to this movie?”
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industry (industry): Dark Waters → Anne Hathaway. Joke: Hathaway took the thankless wife role because Dark Waters acting is 'tax deductible'.
“And I think Anne Hathaway took that role because, of course, it was tax deductible.”
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verdict (verdict): Eddie Murphy → Dolomite Is My Name. On Joe's best-actor ballot alongside Reeves, Burke, Sandler.
“Eddie Murphy in Dolomite is my name.”
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verdict (verdict): Keanu Reeves → John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Joe's nominee for best actor, defended impassionedly on an earlier episode.
“Keanu Reeves and John Wick chapter 3, Parabellum.”
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verdict (verdict): Paul Walter Hauser → Richard Jewell. Hauser wins one host's Best Actor: he plays a simple person without judgment, transforming an uneven Eastwood film.
“The amount of nuance that Paul Walter Hauser brings to the film.”
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craft (craft): Clint Eastwood → Richard Jewell. Eastwood condemns the railroading of Jewell but also 'get a load of this guy'; Hauser threads both.
“And then Eastwood seems to be like, but also get a load of this fucking guy.”
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what-if (what-if): Richard Jewell → Jonah Hill. The part was originally going to be Jonah Hill; speakers think it only works with Hauser.
“Because it was originally going to be Jonah Hill.”
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verdict (verdict): Leonardo DiCaprio → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Possibly his favorite DiCaprio performance, near career-best.
“Maybe my favorite Leonardo DiCaprio performance.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:56:54 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Pain and Glory. Banderas is Griffin's best actor winner; he saw an early screening and cats trailer dropped the same day.
“Banderas, I will always have close to my heart because I saw pain and glory.”
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unmapped (anecdote): Pain and Glory → Cats. Griffin first saw the Cats trailer on his phone in the hallway outside the Pain and Glory screening, so the two are wrapped together in his head.
“And so like that and pain and glory have been like wrapped up in my head.”
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verdict (verdict): Adam Driver → Marriage Story. Driver's performance tilts audience sympathy to him; Johansson good but not on his level.
“I think she's good, but she's not on his level.”
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verdict (verdict): Jessie Buckley → Wild Rose. Buckley is the Best Actress winner for one host; 'a goddamn star'.
“She's a goddamn star.”
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verdict (verdict): Elisabeth Moss → Her Smell. Joe's winner: a high-wire act that dares you to look away and delivers.
“I'm going to dare you to look away.”
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verdict (verdict): Adele Haenel → Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Runner-up to Lupita, only edged out by a split vote with costar Merlant.
“Adele Hennel, who is maybe a little bit cut by a split vote within the sections of my brain with a costar.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:00:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Lupita Nyong'o → Us. Griffin's winner in a squeaker for technical skill; both performances equally riveting though one is showier.
“Lapita is just, I got to give her the edge on just a technical level.”
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verdict (verdict): Adam Sandler → Uncut Gems. Number one on the Blankies' (gender-neutral) leading-performance list.
“Number one, Adam Sandler Uncut Gems.”
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verdict (verdict): Lupita Nyong'o → Us. Blankies listeners' list had Lupita number 2 and Sandler number 1, so ostensibly they are the winners.
“Lapida and Adam Sandler are the winners.”
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verdict (verdict): Alfre Woodard → Clemency. Great performance with a long-shot showstopper; the drunk scenes are among the best drunk acting the speaker has seen.
“some of the best drunk acting I've ever seen.”
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industry (industry): Clemency → Parasite. Neon had one best-picture horse, Parasite, and put its money there, so it could not also push Clemency.
“Neon had their best picture horse.”
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industry (industry): Portrait of a Lady on Fire → Clemency. Neon punted Portrait to February; Clemency should have been released in October, not January.
“I do think they should have released clemency in like October.”
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verdict (verdict): Celine Sciamma → Portrait of a Lady on Fire. One host's Best Director winner.
“My winner is Celine.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:06:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Bong Joon-ho → Parasite. Best Director winner for Blankie voters and one host.
“But Bomb was their winner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Parasite → Parasite. Joe's and Griffin's number one film of 2019.
“number two, little women, number one, parasites.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:07:34 · Joe Reid (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Parasite → Parasite. Blankies listeners' number one film of 2019, with Little Women number two.
“number two, little women, number one parasite.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:09:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Portrait of a Lady on Fire → Portrait of a Lady on Fire. David's number one film of 2019, 'the movie for me all year'.
“That has been the movie for me all year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:09:50 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jennifer Kent → The Nightingale. Kent's film is 'the best movie of the year that I would never recommend to anybody' for how punishing it is; she's a discovery of the decade.
“I think that's the best movie of the year that I would never recommend to anybody.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:10:30 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Josh Cooley → Toy Story 4. Cooley did a very good job, but with so many hands on it a director nomination is hard.
“there were so many hands at different points on that movie to give him a director nomination.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Toy Story 4 → Toy Story 4. David's pleasant surprise; he had it 45th, right above The Two Popes and below Richard Jewell.
“And then right below it, the 2 popes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:12:15 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Ad Astra → Ad Astra. Brad Pitt's accessible performance made David give him his single Ad Astra nomination over OUATIH.
“I really love Brad in it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:12:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Ashes Is Purest White → Ashes Is Purest White. Has only grown with each viewing; seen three times.
“Ashes Purest White, if no one's seen it, has only grown for me.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:12:44 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Peterloo → Dark Waters. Peterloo will be in the 'Dark Waters zone': a get-around-to-it movie people will come around on.
“It will be that Dark Waters zone where people...”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:13:03 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): A Hidden Life (said only as 'the Malik') → Terrence Malick. Speaker is a huge Malick fan hoping for a full comeback; liked a lot but never crossed over into love since The New World.
“I just kind of wanted to be knocked back in a way I haven't been since New World.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:13:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Triple Frontier → Triple Frontier. Shout-out as 'the cable rewatchable movie of the century' that nobody remembers.
“Triple Frontier, the fucking like cable rewatchable movie of the century is absolutely fantastic.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:13:59 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jonathan Majors → The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Majors is probably the next big dude; nominated at the Gothams.
“Jonathan Majors is like probably the next big dude.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:14:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Bill Camp → Dark Waters. Putters and Murmurs winner: absolutely underrated.
“One, Bill Camp in Darkwater.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:15:49 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): K Callan → Knives Out. Putters and Murmurs shout-out; who played 'Mock Kent' on Lewis and Clark: the Adventures of Superman (as transcribed).
“But K. Callan, who played Mock Kent on Lewis and Clark the Adventures of Superman.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:16:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Midsommar → Midsommar. The old man who gets his face bashed in wins the 'Toots and Poots' award.
“He wins the Toots and Poots Award this year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:17:17 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Robert De Niro → The Irishman. De Niro wins the 'Mark Wahlberg Award': will a movie into existence, produce it, play the lead well, and let everyone else get nominated.
“De Niro wins the Mark Wahlberg Award for the year”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:17:28 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Robert De Niro → Mark Wahlberg. De Niro wins the 'Mark Wahlberg Award' of the year, like Wahlberg's The Fighter: a quiet-hero producer-star who gets only a picture nomination.
“Wahlberg and the fighter.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:17:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jordan Peele → Us. Wins 'existential carnival-based horror film of the year', tied with Toy Story 4.
“Jordan Peele existential carnival-based horror film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:18:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Us → Toy Story 4. Tie for existential carnival-based film of the year.
“It's a tie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:18:15 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Little Women → Little Women. Joe praises De Plot's work as very locked in for Little Women.
“I do think De Plot was very locked in for little women.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:18:44 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Mica Levi → Monos. Levi remains a must-hear composer; Monos work is incredible.
“Mika Levi, remains, you know, sort of a must hear composer, and her work on Monos is incredible.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:18:48 · Joe Reid (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Randy Newman → Marriage Story. Joe likes Newman's dueling scores in Marriage Story.
“And I liked the Duelan scores in marriage story.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:18:56 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (dismissed): Olivia Wilde → Richard Jewell. Joke 'Gnarliest Supervillain' award; and the character is a 'complete catastrophe'.
“the winner is Olivia Wilde and Richard Jewell.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:19:36 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Ian McKellen → Cats. McKellen putters in almost anything these days, including cats; he was original winner for Mr. Holmes.
“I mean, McKellen in almost anything these days.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Two Popes → Cats. The film's cut Cat of the Railway Train material makes a parallel joke to Cats.
“I mean, Anthony Hopkins is trying really hard in the 2 posts, but I heard they cut out all of his cat of the railway train material.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:26 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Anthony Hopkins → The Two Popes. Best actor playing a pope who says 'that's my pizza'; Best orange soda in a film also goes to The Two Popes.
“Best actor playing a pope who says, hey, that's my pizza is Anthony Hopkins.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:20:37 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (dismissed): Meryl Streep → The Laundromat. Worst Putters and Murmurs: dislikes her slightly haunted older lady mode and the brown-face.
“Meryl Streep in the laundromat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:21:00 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Rob Morgan → Just Mercy. Extremely good performance, big putters and murmurs; he outshines everything.
“Rob Morgan in just mercy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:21:44 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Tommy Lee Jones → Ad Astra. A 'sweater and a fretter': in space fretting while wearing a good sweater.
“He's a sweater and a fretter.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Last Black Man in San Francisco → The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Score of the year, best music year; also the best cinematography winner for one host.
“would also be my best cinematography winner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:35 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Last Black Man in San Francisco → Adam Newport-Bruce. A host picks Last Black Man in San Francisco as best cinematography winner and names the cinematographer in the same breath.
“I think Lost Black Man, San Francisco would also be my best cinematography winner.”
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craft (craft): Uncut Gems → Uncut Gems. Cinematography winner: the most incredible-looking movie; score also great.
“The cinematography winner is uncut Jones.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Ad Astra → Ad Astra. Named alongside Uncut Gems as a cinematography standout.
“Ad Astra is great.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:48 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Edward Lachman → Dark Waters. Lachman's Dark Waters cinematography is very underrated.
“Ed Lockman's Dark Waters.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Irishman → The Irishman. Ben: remake with babies as tiny gangsters; De Niro could crush moving like a baby.
“How about the baby Irish man?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:24:57 · Ben Hosley (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Lion King → The Lion King. Ben: remake with actual animals, full roar.
“Yeah, actual animals. With real animals.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:25:24 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Souvenir → The Souvenir. Ben: remake with puppets, marionettes, commedia dell'arte feel.
“I feel like marionettes rather than...”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:26:10 · Ben Hosley (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Maleficent: Mistress of Evil → Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Ben: remake with fruit; Maleficent as 'dark bruised fruit'.
“She's dark bruised fruit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:27:02 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Todd Phillips' clown film (not named) → Todd Phillips' clown film (not named). Ben's clown pitch: everyone in the city is a clown. Name redacted in the transcript; Todd Phillips is named.
“Everyone was clowns.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:27:41 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Knives Out → Knives Out. Ben: 'Chains Out': same cast, but the murder method is a chain.
“chains out.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:28:30 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Lighthouse → Dark Waters. Golden Mops (Ben's movies-that-made-him-cry/wet): traditional pick is The Lighthouse, 'drenched in farts'; Dark Waters a dark horse.
“Dark water should also be a dark horse pick.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:10 · Ben Hosley (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Farewell → The Farewell. Ben's Golden Mop: devastating and beautiful.
“So the farewell, just because it's so devastating and beautiful.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:29 · Ben Hosley (0.55 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Cats → Cats. Ben cried at Memory; the table calls Cats 'simultaneously the best and worst film of the year', an A slash F.
“And can we all acknowledge that cats is simultaneously the best and worst film of the year?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Mulan (2020 trailer) → Mulan (2020 trailer). Ben's third Golden Mop: the Mulan trailer made him cry.
“And then, finally, the Mulan trailer.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:32:22 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fast & Furious 9 (F9) → Widows. Joke: Michelle Rodriguez could take over F9 and announce Widows 2, with Viola Davis parachuting in.
“What if Fast 9 is a widow's Fast and Furious?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:33:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Two Popes → The Two Popes. Ben's 'no thank you': enough popes, zero popes.
“Absolute 0 Popes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:33:46 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (dismissed): Motherless Brooklyn → Motherless Brooklyn. Ben's No Thank You for Motherless Brooklyn: a friend who is a stuttering advocate found it offensive.
“My good friend is a stuttering advocate and was very offended by the movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:34:03 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Portrait of a Lady on Fire → Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Ben's No Thank You: it needs more fire; just call it Fire.
“Need more fire.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:34:14 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Valeria Golino → Hot Shots! Part Deux. Golino from Portrait is a cast member of Hot Shots Part 2 and has won Venice Best Actress twice.
“One of the only people to ever win best actress at the Venice Film Festival twice.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:34:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (dismissed): Toy Story 4 → Toy Story 4. Ben: 'No thank you' to Toy Story 4; hasn't watched those movies in years.
“I haven't watched those movies in years.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:35:14 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Uncut Gems → Climax. Ben's honorable mentions: Safdies for Uncut Gems for scum-bummery; Climax for best voguing scene of all time.
“Climax for the best voguing scene of all time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:35:45 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Alfie → Alfie. This Had Oscar Buzz episode: Charles Shyer's 2004 Alfie remake misread what it was and its star.
“It's just one of those movies that just a total misread of what it's supposed to be and its star.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:39:35 · Joe Reid (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Jude Law → Alfie. Producers saw Jude Law and wanted him cockier, a misread of Law's strengths.
“Where they like see you law and they're like, they want this guy to be cockier, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:39:40 · Joe Reid (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): David Lowery → The Truth About Charlie. Next week's episode is The Truth About Charlie with David Lowery.
“Next week, I believe, is the truth about Charlie with David Lowry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:40:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

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fun, about Blankies host: No one wants to host the Blankies; the planned host was Shane Gillis until he 'pushed too many boundaries'; the 'metaphor doesn't track' because you don't miss a boundary when pushing.
“You don't miss a boundary when you're pushing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:06:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ma: The 'best surprise penis in a movie' bit: the table gets diverted into Ma (a scene with Luke Evans's towel) and one host's notes app is 'transfused' with Ma.
“Best surprise penis in a movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:08:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Florence Pugh: Her official nickname from here on is 'Florence Candice LeBron Bergen Pugh'.
“So once again, her official nickname from here on out is Florence, Candace, LeBron Bergen Pugh.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:12:50 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep: Plays the most evil force in the world like a middle-aged woman at the Litchfield Jazz Fest, Tanglewooding out of control.
“Her decision to play the most evil force in the world, like a middle-aged woman at the Litchfield Jazz Fest.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:13:59 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Judi Dench in Cats: Judi Dench's Cats performance: pure presence and commitment to something ridiculous; looks the most ridiculous of anyone.
“It is pure presence and pure commitment to something that is ridiculous.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:15:11 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jennifer Lopez vs. Florence Pugh: Pugh is Jude Law in Talented Mr. Ripley arriving; Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia channeling a legacy.
“Lopez, if Pugh is Jude Law and talented Mr. Ripley to come with a 1999 analog, then Lopez is Tom Cruise in Magnolia.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:24:41 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Best Supporting Actor: Tough year because of two-handers: Defoe in The Lighthouse, Pitt, Hopkins, Burke all got dealt supporting.
“this was a tough year for supporting actor because there were so many 2 handers”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Jeremy Bobb's scene is perhaps the scene of the year; the film feels like a dream.
“I sometimes feel like it was an experience that I may have like dreamed.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:35:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Richard Schiff and Joe Pantoliano: 'The 2 benchmarks I'm setting for the next 30 years of my career': Schiff in Clemency and Pantoliano in Bad Boys for Life; Pantoliano has a 'guess the horse' scene.
“Those are the 2 benchmarks I'm setting for the next 30 years of my career.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:38:48 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Blankies and gender categories: Hosts discuss whether gendered categories will survive; fear is men taking over every category if eliminated.
“the real problem is winners, not nominees.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:40:04 · Joe Reid (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Daniel Craig in Knives Out: Performance 'most in need of facial hair': he can feel him playing the mustache.
“I can feel him playing the mustache.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:42:04 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Frozen 2: The ice-tunnel Elsa scene with 'phalluses made of ice' defended as queer storytelling.
“tossing aside like these phallus is made of ice.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:48:47 · Joe Reid (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Paul Walter Hauser: One of Hauser's strengths is never playing the character with judgment; the speaker's pet peeve is actors playing dumb people.
“My biggest pet peeve is actors playing dumb people, quote unquote”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:54:07 · Joe Reid (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Pain and Glory and the Cats trailer: Griffin walked out of Pain and Glory and watched the Cats trailer on his phone in the hallway, then found a sandwich.
“walked out of that screaming and the cats trailer had dropped.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:57:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Alfre Woodard in Clemency: The drunk-scene acting: drunkenness as the only thing that opens her up to process emotions.
“She's the only time I've seen someone play drunkenness as this is the only thing that opens me up to being able to actually process my emotions.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:03:20 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Neon's awards strategy: Neon put all its money on Parasite and punted Portrait to February; it did the right thing.
“Neon did the right thing.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:03:52 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about David's list: Toy Story 4 at 45, Richard Jewell at 44, The Two Popes at 46; Griffin asks Joe to guess, Joe can't.
“I have it 45th, and would you like to guess what's above it and what's below it?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ludacris at the F9 livestream: While recording, the hosts watch the F9 trailer livestream concert; Ludacris performs, wearing a 'fake moon landing' shirt.
“Ludacris is wearing a shirt that says fake moon landing, no stars in the sky.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:23:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ben Awards: remakes: Films to remake with babies, animals, puppets, fruit, clowns (Ben's annual awards): baby Irishman, real-animal Lion King, puppet Souvenir.
“It's films that should be remade with either babies, animals, or puppets.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:24:41 · Ben Hosley (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about The Lion King: Ben says the biggest complaint is that no one got scalped; 'you can feel the lack of scalpings'.
“You can feel the lack of scalpings while watching it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:25:49 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Golden Mops: Ben gives his 'weddies' and Golden Mops to movies that made him cry: The Farewell, Cats (Memory), Mulan trailer.
“I decided that I would then pick all the movies this year that really made me cry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:31:16 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Bad David 2020: Ben presents David with a sleeveless flannel (R13) and rebrands him Bad David 2020.
“you are now being rebranded as bad David 2020.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:37:26 · Ben Hosley (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about This Had Oscar Buzz: Joe's podcast with a co-host: this week covers Charles Shyer's 2004 Alfie remake; he believes the protagonist calls his penis Big Ben.
“I believe he calls his penis Big Ben in that movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Joe Reid (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Fast & Furious 9 livestream: While recording, Griffin keeps checking the F9 trailer livestream; he is 'genuinely having a panic attack waiting for this trailer'.
“I'm genuinely having a panic attack waiting for this trailer, so I'm ending this episode right now.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:41:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves chaos picks and big swings (Judi Dench in Cats, Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep), cats and Pain and Glory are tangled up in his head, and he champions Portrait/Parasite/Us. Skeptical of Toy Story 4 going in. A sucker for movie-star arrival performances and the Fast & Furious franchise.
David Sims (host): Critic-ish and enthusiastic: Portrait of a Lady on Fire is his movie of the year; loves Ashes Is Purest White, Dark Waters, Ad Astra, Knives Out. Values movie-star performances and gets visibly fond of overlooked films like Peterloo and Triple Frontier.
Joe Reid (guest): Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose.
Ben Hosley (guest): Producer in the room who presents his own joke awards. Cries at The Farewell, Cats (Memory) and the Mulan trailer; wants remakes with babies, animals, puppets, fruit, clowns and chains.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Black Jack' = Blank Check
'Sophie Alcanedo/Akinado' = Sophie Okonedo (Wild Rose)
'Candace/LeBron Bergen Pew' = Florence Pugh, Candice Bergen
'Joseph Heschi' = Joe Pesci
'Song King Home/Son King Ho' = Song Kang-ho
'Cho Yo Zhong' = Cho Yeo-jeong
'Park Sodam' = Park So-dam
'Chao Xu Xen' = Zhao Shuzhen
'Alessandro Nivola/Novola' = Alessandro Nivola
'Alfred/Alfrey Woodard' = Alfre Woodard
'Lapita/Lapida Neongo' = Lupita Nyong'o
'Adele Hennel/Hainel' = Adele Haenel
'Naomi Merlin' = Noemie Merlant
'Celine Shama/Shyama' = Celine Sciamma
'Safty Brothers' = Safdie Brothers
'Jeremy Bob / Jerry and Bob' = Jeremy Bobb
'Jao Tao' = Zhao Tao
'the 2 post/2 pups/T-Pups' = The Two Popes
'Kathy Bates and Jewel' = Kathy Bates in Richard Jewell
'Ed Lockman' = Ed Lachman
'De Plot' probably Desplat
'Mika Levi' = Mica Levi
'Marielle Heller' ok
'Ryan Johnson' = Rian Johnson
'Mock Kent' = Martha Kent (Lewis & Clark: Adventures of Superman)
'Jackie Jorm Job' = likely Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
'Loose' likely Luce
'Ricky T. in retired bit' unclear (possibly an It Chapter Two/other supervillain; could not decode)
'Maria de Menudo/Menunos' = Maria Menounos
'Anadar Mas' = Armas / Ana de Armas
'Dolomite' ok
'Chris Catcher / Gethard' = Chris Gethard
'Shane Kilson/Gillis' = Shane Gillis
'Anne Forgudo' probably a social media credit (unclear)
'Show Bonapet rounds' = artwork credit (garbled)
'Lima covering' = theme song credit (garbled)
'Dark Water/Darkwater' = Dark Waters
'Midsummer' = Midsommar
'Ed Astra / Add Astris' = Ad Astra
'art of racing in the rain' mentioned as a joke confusion
'Peter Loo' = Peterloo
'Tara' (Rocketman) = Taron Egerton

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