The 2025 Oscars are over, and what better way to process the night than by time-traveling between pre-show confidence and post-show regret?
In our latest episode of The Kids Are In Bed, we attempted to predict the winners, only to be mocked by reality in real-time. Along the way, Tim recorded alone with a life-sized Marilyn Monroe cutout, which—honestly—was no less engaged than Jenni during the Best Sound Editing category.
This wasn’t just about the Oscars ceremony itself, though. It was about the eternal battle between what we love and what the Academy actually rewards, and whether the difference between those things will ever stop hurting our feelings.
Oscars Chaos: Did We Nail It or Faceplant?
🎬 Kieran Culkin’s win? A slam dunk. Never in doubt. We threw a mini party.
🎬 Zoe Saldaña taking Best Supporting Actress? A deserved win, though we still think Ariana Grande deserved a little more love.
🎬 Mikey Madison wins Best Actress! YES. ABSOLUTELY. NO NOTES.
🎬 Best Picture goes to Anora… and we suddenly felt like we knew what we were doing all along.
🎬 Sing Sing… stop bringing it up, I said.
Between questionable fashion choices, Tim’s late-stage Oscars fatigue, and the brutal realization that our favorite films were never actually in the running, this episode captures the joy, the heartbreak, and the existential confusion that is awards season.
A Time-Traveling Oscars Experience
This episode is structured like a psychological experiment on prediction regret:
🔄 First, pre-Oscars Tim & Jenni make their confident, well-reasoned picks.
🔄 Then, post-Oscars Tim (with Marilyn Monroe by his side) processes the reality of what happened.
🔄 Finally, we reflect on how every Oscars season is a cycle of hope, betrayal, and just enough satisfaction to make us do it all again next year.
It’s a bizarre hybrid of a pre-show, post-show, and deep dive into the universe’s sense of humor.
The Films That Defined Oscars 2025: Hits, Misses & Fever Dreams
🏆 Best Picture Winner: Anora
Sean Baker delivered an unflinching, electric, and painfully real portrait of survival that hit us like a truck. Anora is a film that lives in the gut—beautiful, brutal, and impossible to shake. Mikey Madison’s Best Actress win was the cherry on top of a film that refused to look away.
👷♂️ The Brutalist: What if a film about architecture made you rethink your entire life?
This film is long, complex, and artistically stunning, held together by Adrien Brody’s career-defining performance. If you’re in the mood for a slow-burn meditation on art, power, and sacrifice, The Brutalist delivers. If you’re looking for something breezy… maybe move along.
🎸 A Complete Unknown: Timothée Chalamet’s Best Bob Dylan Impression
This one has all the makings of a great music biopic, but if you’ve seen Walk the Line, you’ve basically seen this before. That’s not to say it’s bad—Chalamet is fantastic, and Edward Norton is having an absolute blast—but the film sometimes assumes you already know Bob Dylan’s backstory instead of telling you.
😔 A Real Pain: The Film That Should Have Won
Kieran Culkin took home Best Supporting Actor (because of course he did), but A Real Pain was more than just his performance. This movie balanced heartbreak and humor in a way that made it feel effortlessly human, and yet the Academy refused to give it the top prize. We’re still bitter.
🐍 The Substance: A Hallucinogenic Nightmare That Somehow Won an Award
Tim watched The Substance at 7 AM, and it forever changed him. The movie features a monstrous, skin-shedding Demi Moore, boobs that double as eyeballs, and a final act that feels like the fever dream of someone who just took NyQuil and fell asleep watching The Fly. It’s not good, but it is… something.
Final Takeaways: Watch These First
🥂 Anora deserved Best Picture, but Nickel Boys will stick with us longer.
🧑⚖️ Kieran Culkin was so much of a lock they should’ve mailed him the trophy in advance.
👗 Zoe Saldaña’s dress was the true controversy of the night.
🎭 Demi Moore’s win… we’re still working through our feelings about it.
📢 The Substance was exactly as unhinged as we feared.
Listen Now & Let’s Argue About the Oscars
🎧 Stream the episode now and tell us—did the Academy get it right?
