3.24 Movie Chat with Luis Mendez, winner of the 2025 Oscars Prediction Contest

In today's episode, I am joined by Luis Mendez, the winner of the 2025 Oscar prediction contest on The Oscar Project. We talk about our reactions to the 97th Academy Awards, some movies from 2025 so far, and what we're looking forward to in the rest of 2025.
 
Books mentioned in this episode include:

• Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
• Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer
• Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman

Films mentioned in this episode include:

• Wicked directed by Jon M. Chu
• Anora directed by Sean Baker
• Conclave directed by Edward Berger
• The Substance directed by Coralie Fargeat
• Paddington in Peru directed by Dougal Wilson
• Heart Eyes directed by Josh Ruben
• Companion directed by Drew Hancock
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy directed by Michael Morris
• Mickey 17 directed by Bong Joon-Ho
• Inside Out 2 directed by Kelsey Mann
• High and Low directed by Akira Kurosawa
• Maleficent directed by Robert Stromberg
• Beauty and the Beast directed by Bill Condon
• Cinderella directed by Kenneth Branagh
• Sonic the Hedgehog directed by Jeff Fowler
• My Man Godfrey directed by Gregory La Cava
• The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• You've Got Mail directed by Nora Ephron
• Sleeping Beauty directed by Clyde Geronimi
• House on Haunted Hill directed by William Malone
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington directed by Frank Capra
• The Thin Man directed by W.S. Van Dyke

We talked about way more than this so check out the full list of films mentioned on Letterboxd.

Check out Luis's work at mendezmoviereport.com.