The Awards Girlies

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Hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor discuss the current Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony races from the surprises and snubs to the unrewarded gems.

  1. 5D AGO

    2026 Oscars Categories: Best Sound and Best Visual Effects

    Matt and Marisa continue their category breakdowns with more technicals. In Best Sound, they agree on a clear best in the category if not a clear winner. In Best Visual Effects, they wonder how some of these movies made it in, talk about how Matt's body rejected Jurassic World: Rebirth and express their love for the "gay whales" in Avatar: Fire and Ash.

    35 min

  2. 6D AGO

    2026 Oscars Categories: Best Song and Score

    Matt and Marisa continue the category breakdowns with some of their favorite and most unhinged: Best Song and Best Score. In the episode, they once again discuss Diane Warren's crimes against Oscar completionists, how essential music is to Sinners and how much the Academy did not want to nominate Wicked: For Good.

    55 min

  3. FEB 11

    2026 Oscars Categories: Cinematography and Production Design

    Matt and Marisa continue their annual category breakdown with two technicals. In the episode, they discuss their love of Train Dreams' visuals, Marisa defends Frankenstein and they both suggest the same movie for alternate nominations—but in different categories.

    35 min

  4. FEB 10

    2026 Oscars Categories: Best Directing

    Matt and Marisa kick off their annual breakdown of all the Oscar categories with a big one: Best Directing. In the episode, they talk about how PTA may be unstoppable, Ryan Coogler finally getting a nomination and suggest a few alternate nominees.

    30 min

  5. FEB 5

    Sundance 2026 Recap

    This episode, Marisa replaces usual co-host Matt Taylor with ThePopBreak.com staff writer, Sam Niles, who attended this year's Sundance Film Festival. In the episode, Sam talks about what it was like to attend the festival's last installment in Park City, gives us a rundown of new films at the fest and talks about the rewarding experience of seeing a few older films there too.

    38 min

  6. FEB 2

    The Awards Girlies: The 2026 Grammy Awards!

    Marisa and Matt finally have a name for their EGOT-focused podcast! And they also watched the Grammys! In this episode, listen to their thoughts on the big four Grammy winners, learn how they would fix this VERY long award show, and find out which pop star made them both scream with delight even though they sounded quite bad! Plus, beloved sound engineer/Matt's husband Ben makes an appearance. Check it out!

    32 min

  7. JAN 13

    Golden Globes 2026

    Matt and Marisa watched the Golden Globes and they are... sleepy! But they still hopped on a microphone to record their thoughts. Find out where they think the major Oscar races are standing, who they thought were the hotties on the red carpet, and what they thought of the chaos the Golden Globes always bring to award season.

    28 min

  8. JAN 5

    EGOT End of Year Catch-Up

    Matt and Marisa haven't seen each other in a while so catch-up with them as they gab about the latest movies, music, TV, and Broadway. Topics include: the return of Gwyneth to the Oscar season, how we're both ready to die for Lily Allen, which buzzy Broadway show Marisa hated, and whether or not Heated Rivalry is dumb (but we love it and you should watch it anyway).

    1h 12m
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Hosts Marisa Carpico and Matt Taylor discuss the current Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony races from the surprises and snubs to the unrewarded gems.

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  • Creator
    ThePopBreak.com
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    144
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © ThePopBreak.com
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    The Awards Girlies