The Shawkshank Redemption might be the best film that never won Best Picture, or very nearly that. But nothing was...
Read moreFor this week's episode we went down into 1993, when Spielberg made Schindler's List. We talk about Jonathan Demme's...
Read moreThere are very few Oscar years like 1993, when Schindler's List won Best Picture. Inevitability took hold in the decades...
Read moreFor today's podcast we look at the year Unforgiven won Best Picture, though two of the year's most important...
Read moreUnforgiven won the Oscar for Clint Eastwood in 1992. The best picture nominees that year did not include the year's...
Read moreWhat's your favorite Silence of the Lambs quote? I have too many to count but here are a few: All...
Read moreOscar Podcast is split up into two parts for this week. Part One is about the current state of the...
Read moreIt was the year Do the Right Thing was almost completely ignored by the Academy, which chose Driving Miss Daisy,...
Read more1989 is one of the years we continually refer back to as it was both one of the only Oscar...
Read moreOur Oscar Podcast for this week (with a lot of long film clips) is two hours. It's unreasonable to expect...
Read moreIn case you are interested, Craig Kennedy, Ryan Adams and I have been going through the Oscar years starting with...
Read moreAnd that's a tough call. But there really wasn't any other film that was going to beat The Last Emperor...
Read more1986 was a decent year, with the Oscars splitting up three ways between A Room with a View, Hannah and...
Read moreIt was one of the more dramatic Oscar years, 1985, despite it having a very dull conclusion: Out of Africa...
Read more1984 is not the best Oscar year to talk about. But we muddle through - first, with a bit about...
Read moreFor this week's podcast we talk about 1983 when Terms of Endearment had no problem winning Best Picture. We talk...
Read moreWhat a great year for movies 1982 was - Blade Runner, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Thing, The Verdict,...
Read moreThe beginning is spent a bit on Man of Steel but we eventually get to the year 1982 when Chariots...
Read moreIt was a strange year, 1980, when the Academy chose Robert Redford's crowing achievement over Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. But...
Read moreIt was the year Kramer vs. Kramer went head to head with Breaking Away, Apocalypse Now, All that Jazz and...
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