In Contention columnist Gerard Kennedy and I gabbed all things Oscar last night online, and while we don't do the podcast thing around these parts, the transcript is below for your perusal regardless. We talked reactions to the various precursor awards so far, projected some thoughts on tomorrow's Golden Globes announcement as well as the usual Oscar pondering. Interspersed throughout are both Gerard's and my predictions for the Hollywood Foreign Press nominations. We'll try this again next week with Oscarwatch editor Sasha Stone, once we've all had a chance to digest the HFPA announcement and what it means in the grand scheme of things. It's lengthy, but I think it turned out well. Enjoy!

KRISTOPHER TAPLEY: So I’m sorry we didn’t get to this earlier this morning, but I needed to catch up on some sleep…badly. And then I woke up to a boring BFCA announcement.

GERARD KENNEDY: Yeah, the BFCA was so...BFCA-ish.

KT: So what’ve we got? We have a boat load of critics announcements in the span of, like, four days. The Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Broadcast Film Critics have all weighed in, following the National Board of Review’s announcement last week.

GK: It certainly has been a total immersion, though it’s starting out more varied than last year or the year before that.