Clayton Davis of AwardsCircuit.com - MMO Interviews - Putting on Bow on Oscars 2019 - Ep 170

Clayton Davis is the Godfather of Our Show, & so many others. ***This is a Non-Spoiler Episode*** Introduction/Did He Survive Oscar Week - 3:26 Biggest Cheer of the Night - 7:13 The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association - 8:47 (Along with the Creation of Awards Circuit - 13:06) What Made This Awards Season So Unknown? - 18:36 Which Unknown Did He Solve Early? - 22:50 (And The History Made By Best Picture - 26:17) The Best Actress Shock - 28:18 And What Glenn Close Does Next - 31:32 Spike Lee’s Big Night - 34:43 (And His Reaction to Green Book - 35:31) Release the Voting?! - 37:45 Previewing His Year in Advance Column/Picks - 39:37 Circuit Hub + Circuit Center - 42:21 THEN Clayton Pitches Us the Worst Movie Ever - 43:52 Thank YOU/Social Media/Words of Wisdom - 48:25 Clayton Davis is the Editor & Owner of Awards Circuit, and we’ve often referenced his picks & projections at The Circuit Hub during our OSPs & Oscar Race Updates throughout the year. He’s certainly one of our Go-To experts to read at AC and listen to at his Circuit Breaker Podcast. We recommend all our MMO’ers join the wonderful community of film lovers at Awards Circuit. You’ll be happy you did. Clayton is also the Founder & President of the newly formed Latino Entertainment Journalists Association, and we were lucky enough to ask him about both of these terrific groups of movie people atop our show. He’s truly one of the pioneers in this business, & in our opinion, one of the most knowledgeable and entertaining interviews we could possibly get. A sincere thanks, once again to Clayton and Awards Circuit for chatting with us. Of course, we asked Clayton to analyze some of the bigger moments at Sunday’s Academy Awards. We also made sure to talk to him about his career & origins int he business. Here, he told some of his story about the formations of both Awards Circuit and LEJA, as well as some fun tidbits about how he spends his Oscar Night and some of his favorite traditions. Then prepare to have your minds blown because Clayton lays out some analysis on the new academy, and he breaks down the history of our favorite awards show like only he could. His knowledge & recall for stats, trends, and as we call it, inside baseball is second to none, and we were thrilled to give our listeners some time with as we said, one of the best minds in the business. If you’re just joining us at MMO, we thank you for listening & encourage you to click on more episodes in our catalog. Clayton Davis is the latest in our new series of MMO Interviews that also includes Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter, Headgum’s Reilly Anspaugh & Geoffrey James, and Brennan Lee Mulligan of CollegeHumor. We also have literally hundreds of movie reviews of current & past film favorites with our Oscar Sprint Profile, Movie Event, & Retrospective series. This is also our 10th episode in as many days covering the Oscars, and we could think of no better way to close out our 2018 film year coverage than by talking with Clayton Davis. So please follow him on Twitter & Instagram at AwardsCircuit & seek out his work as mentioned above. As always, let us know what you think. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!