OSCAR SUNDAY: An Event!

It’s that time of year again. The time when I start pacing around the house muttering about snubs. The time when I rewatch acceptance speeches from 1974. The time when I yell at nominations, cheer surprises, and prepare myself emotionally for the inevitable moment when the Academy gets something spectacularly wrong.

Oscar Sunday is coming.

And this year, we’re doing it live. In Chicago. The right way.

Before the 98th Annual Academy Awards air on March 15th, I’ll be on stage at one of the coolest media institutions in the city talking movies, my book 40 Years, 40 Films, Oscar predictions, history, outrage, and celebration with one of the great broadcasters in Chicago history.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• Oscar Sunday at the Museum with Nick Digilio and Rick Kogan

• Sunday, March 15, 2026

• 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM

• Museum of Broadcast Communications - 440 W. Randolph, Chicago

• Live on-stage conversation, audience Q&A, book signing & meet and greet.

• Tickets available now HERE!

We’re kicking off Oscar Sunday at the Museum of Broadcast Communications — which, if you love radio, television, and Chicago broadcasting history the way I do, is the perfect place to talk about my book, movies and media, and the spectacle that is the Academy Awards.

It’ll be hosted live by Rick Kogan — Tribune columnist, WGN Radio mainstay, Chicago cultural icon, and one of the sharpest interviewers around. Rick and I are going to dig into 40 Years 40 Films, this year’s Oscar nominations, my predictions, the snubs that made me insane, the surprises that made me cheer, and the long history of the Academy occasionally getting it right… but mostly not.

I’ve been reviewing movies for over forty years. Thirty-five of those were at WGN Radio, where I got to talk about films on every daypart imaginable, including more than twenty years hosting the number-one rated overnight show in Chicago.

These days I’m still talking movies on The Nick D Podcast and That Show Hasn’t Been Funny in Years: An SNL Podcast, and the Oscars remain the Super Bowl of movie lovers everywhere — messy, political, ridiculous, glorious.

We’ll talk predictions. We’ll talk history. We’ll talk about which performances actually deserve to win and which ones are riding a wave of narrative and campaigning.

We’ll laugh. We’ll argue. And then we’ll open it up to you. There will be audience Q&A, so bring your opinions. If you think the Academy has lost its mind, you’ll fit right in.

And of course, this event also celebrates my new book, 40 Years, 40 Films. This deeply personal collection features one favorite film from each year of my career as a professional critic, starting in 1985.

It includes essays, top ten lists, behind-the-scenes stories, and reflections on how movies shape our lives.

I’ll be signing copies before and after the event, so come say hello, grab a book, and let’s talk movies face-to-face.

If you’ve ever listened to me break down an Oscar race on the radio at 2:30 in the morning… if you’ve ever screamed at your television because the wrong film won Best Picture… if you still argue about what should have beaten what in 1998… this is your kind of Sunday afternoon.

We’ll set the stage for the big show later that night, and then you can go home fully armed and ready to yell at your TV with renewed confidence.

Tickets are available now through the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Seats will fill up, so grab yours early, bring your movie-loving friends, and start Oscar Sunday the right way — with a lively conversation about movies, my book, and the Academy Awards!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW, HERE: Oscar Day Event TIX

I cannot wait.

More movies. More opinions. More book talk. More fun.

See you on March 15th.

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