In the fifth and final AA Meeting, David Schmader wrestles with the two giants of this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Best Director and Best Picture, obsessing on the vague ickiness of a Scorsese win, the hierarchy of the dead and famous, and reality TV’s culpability in the impending Oscar triumph of Little Miss Sunshine.

In the fourth AA Meeting, David Schmader and Annie Wagner discuss this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress, from Penelope Cruz’s stealth camp to Meryl Streep’s intellectual vanity to Forest Whitaker’s undeniable ass-kickery.

In the third AA Meeting, David Schmader delves into the mysterious stank pit that is the Academy Award for Best Original Song, which this year features offerings from Dreamgirls, Disney/Pixar’s Cars, and An Inconvenient Truth.

If music be the food of love, love eats shit.

In the second AA Meeting, host David Schmader frets over this year’s nominees for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, discusses “Marisa Tomei Syndrome,” and explains why all Oscar-watching parties suck.

(For a helpful list of this year’s nominees, go here.)

Attention Oscar obsessives: This is David Schmader. After years of tirelessly suffering in private, I finally have an outlet for aggressive obsession I’m required to devote to each year’s Academy Awards.

AA Meeting is a weekly podcast devoted to all things Oscar, from nominees’ odds to winner predictions to all the rest of that meaningless award-show bullshit I’m physically incapable of ignoring. Plus, I’ll have guests—in the premiere episode, it’s Stranger film editor Annie Wagner, with whom I discuss the basics of this year’s nominations, including the triumph of James Longley, the mystery of Borat’s “screenwriters,” and the dashing of Beyonce’s Oscar dreams. Enjoy.

(To see this year’s nominees, go here.)