Oscar Nominees Ranked By How Much I Want To Hear Matt Berry Pronounce Their Name

Important context:

— The Oscars are this weekend and I have nothing to say about them that hasn't been beaten into the ground during the endless award season

— Matt Berry will be the announcer who takes the broadcast into and out of breaks, after the show had great success letting Nick Offerman do it last year 

— I have been saying the nominees’ names in my head in Matt Berry’s distinctive, theatrical, British voice all afternoon, and when something gets stuck in my head that long, I usually end up blogging it

Okay, here we go. Say all of these in your head in Matt Berry's voice, too.

• Sean Penn, "One Battle After Another"
• Ethan Hawke, "Blue Moon"
• Rose Byrne, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You"
• Kate Hudson, "Song Sung Blue"
• Paul Thomas Anderson, "One Battle After Another"
• Elle Fanning, "Sentimental Value"
• Amy Madigan, "Weapons"
• Michael B. Jordan, "Sinners"
• Joachim Trier, "Sentimental Value"
• Jessie Buckley, "Hamnet"
• Chloé Zhao, "Hamnet"
• Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent"
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, "Sentimental Value"
• Ryan Coogler, "Sinners"
• Wunmi Mosaku, "Sinners"
• Josh Safdie, "Marty Supreme"
• Renate Reinsve, "Sentimental Value"
• Stellan Skarsgård, "Sentimental Value"
• Teyana Taylor, "One Battle After Another"
• Timothée Chalamet, "Marty Supreme"
• Emma Stone, "Bugonia" (tbh I just really want to hear him say "Bugonia")
• Jacob Elordi, "Frankenstein"
• Delroy Lindo, "Sinners"
• Benicio Del Toro, "One Battle After Another"
• Leonardo DiCaprio, "One Battle After Another"

Please do not yell at me. 

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STUFF I CLICKED ON

— Daryl Hannah is fed up

— incredible takedown of the British royals, just savage from beginning to end but also a pleasure to read 

— Phillies rookie pitcher Andrew Painter once ate a whole pumpkin pie

— the Swifties are mad at Jack White, apparently 

— The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins has aired like three episodes and already created a great bit

— the Super Mario movie is turning into a Community reunion

— the new Jake Johnson private eye comedy from the creator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine just added Keith David, which was done for me, presumably 

— Better Call Saul showrunner has a new show coming

— Heated Rivalry showrunner has a new show coming

— Lamorne Morris is Garfield now

— I appreciate r/billiards weighing in on Dakota Johnson’s new Calvin Klein commercial

— “Pokémon condemns White House for using its imagery”

— “Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea”

— “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

— Rotta the Hutt got jacked

— I must have the boat nachos

— I shouted

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