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THB #678:1 Week To Oscar - Dang, SAG It!

THB #678:1 Week To Oscar - Dang, SAG It!

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Feb 24, 2025
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THB #678:1 Week To Oscar - Dang, SAG It!
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Well, thank you SAG. You have made a monkey out of everyone who claimed to know what the results are going to be next Sunday at The Oscars.

This was the same group that insisted The Chiefs were unbeatable in the Super Bowl.

Yes, Kieran Culkin’s journey continues as expected, as does Zoe Saldaña’s.

But some had given up on Demi Moore… and Timothée Chalamet… and decided that Conclave was the Oscar frontrunner because of BAFTA.

Have you got whiplash yet?

It is what it has been from pretty early on… The Season of the Freak™.

Whoever and whatever wins the Oscars will be honored as historic winners no matter what the course of this season. But aside from Culkin and probably Saldaña, it’s all up in the air… not 100%… at least half the nominees in each category are highly unlikely to win. But all kinds of combinations of winners are possible. And to deny that is just silly.

Conclave won SAG Ensemble… but aside from that, the group only nominated Ralph Fiennes and no one else. Was SAG just the ca…

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