Nominated scene: the greeting-card Pocketful of Sunshine montage over the weekend, which builds the character so you root for her; it is just her alone in a room carrying the movie with an annoying song. — Shea Serrano
The montage has a winning goofiness that never feels like look-how-zany-I-am; it feels like she was caught unaware, playing with the dog.
Nominated scene: the Knock on Wood performance near the end, where Stone becomes a capital-M-S movie star; a teen comedy needs a musical number with a crowd reacting. — Amanda Dobbins
Whether she was lip-syncing is wondered, since she can sing per La La Land; the scene arrives like a deus ex machina but is delightful.
Not a pick, but the confessional scene is where she weaponizes her eyes and pulls emotion out of you; it signals she will win an Oscar someday, before Fred Armisen's appearance takes the speaker out of it.
Another pick, declared a final answer: telling her parents she used the word twat and got sent to the principal, with the spell-it guessing game.
Supportive parents like those in Booksmart (Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow) are appreciated; these may be the most underrated movie parents.
Wanting to be in the family versus finding their constant quips exhausting after two days; the film acknowledges their quippiness, and few other actors could pull off the trio.
The parents are sneakily essential to Olive seeming in control despite choices the podcast would not recommend.
In the final-answer round the twat kitchen scene is loved, but Pocketful of Sunshine is chosen as the iconic Oscar reel and another voice says "I think you're right"; she should have been nominated for an Oscar for this, a point to be repeated five times.
