The Noscars 2026

The 98th Academy Awards were Sunday night. KPop Demon Hunters swept its two nominations. Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein cleaned up in the craft categories and won three awards.

But the big question going into the night was what would win the big awards. Would it be Sinners, with its record-setting 16 nominations, or the seemingly inevitable One Battle After Another?

Inevitability won out. One Battle After Another won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson.

This hour, The Nose reacts to the Oscars — the awards themselves, the ceremony as television, the fashion, the memes, Conan O’Brien’s turn as host — the whole thing.

GUESTS:

• Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the Nobody Asked Shawn podcast
• Vivian Nabeta: Director of digital marketing for Connecticut State Community College
• Gene Seymour: A “writer, professional spectator, pop-culture maven, and jazz geek

Music featured (in order):

• There’s No Business Like Show Business – The Original Movie Orchestra
• Peg – Steely Dan
• Everything’s Come Up Roses – The Replacements
• I Lied to You (Live at the Oscars) – Miles Canton, Shaboozey, Brittany Howard, Eric Gales, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
• Golden (Live at the Oscars) – EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami
• The Way We Were – Barbra Streisand (but the original proper version)

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