Welcome back to an abbreviated post-Oscars edition of What I’m Hearing. Congrats to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is now, thanks to its historic near-sweep of the Big 6 categories, one of the greatest movies of all time (?), and to A24, which did sweep the Big 6 and is officially 1990s Miramax, without the criminal behavior but with the condescension.

Contest update: Fast national viewership for the show came in at 18.7 million, but several readers guessed in that ballpark, so I’m gonna wait until the final numbers come in to award the coveted Puck hat on Thursday.

Programming note: Today on The Town, Justin Kroll and I looked at how the Oscar nominees have leveraged their buzz, and who actually won the season. (It’s not anyone who took home a trophy last night.) Listen here.

First, let’s get a couple non-Oscars items out of the way…

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If there’s something personal or serious that caused these guys to bail, then I apologize for this rant. But if not—and at least with Cruise, it appears not—this was a pretty massive middle finger to the...