Welcome to Editing the Academy! This week Darryl and Laura discuss the Best Picture nominees of 1985 (released in 1984):

Major spoilers for all the movies!

Oh, and the list Darryl reads of other movies released this year, was actually a list of movies released in the next year, so you can kind of ignore that part. He’ll be listing off the same ones again next week!

Listen in as Laura and Darryl gush about Laura's #14 movie of all time, Wonder Boys!

It's an amazing example of why certain movies are just so much better than others, and one of the few book adaptations that translates into a great movie. Comment if you agree (or don't). Either way, go read the phenomenal Michael Chabon novel. #wonderboys

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE AND BOOK 

Listen in as Darryl and Laura discuss the Best Picture nominees of 1984 that were released in 1983, and how they both watched Terms of Endearment, but apparently saw two different movies. As always, major spoilers for:

And yes, Laura would still happily watch Robert Duvall read a telephone book for two hours.

Listen in as Darryl shares one of his favorite movies - a dark romantic comedy starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell and Tim Roth. This was Laura's first time watching it, but she agreed that if you haven't already seen this gem, you should rush to do so!

Major Spoilers! 

Listen in as Darryl and Laura discuss the best picture nominees of 1983:

This was a strange year, and we will debate not only whether the right movie won, but whether the right movies were even nominated.  Major spoilers for all!

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Laura loves a good gangster movie and explains why this Scorsese classic is one of her favorites.  Darryl agrees, and discussion of tracking shots, guns in your face, crazy fast pacing and Another World's Joey Perrini ensues.

Welcome to Laura and Darryl's discussion of the movies of 1981 (nominated for Best Picture in 1982). This year it was difficult to compare the films as we had historical epics v. popcorn films v. Oscar bait.

Major Spoilers for all the films!

Join in the discussion of "The Legend of 1900", a modern fable about a baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 who grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

Never heard of it? It is one of Darryl's favorites and just might become one of yours too!

MAJOR SPOILERS!

Welcome to our conversation about the movies nominated for the 1981 best picture that were released in 1980. It was a time when men were pretty awful, suburban mothers were cold, and it was rough to be a poor woman from the country or disfigured. 

The movies were:

• The Elephant Man

Major Spoilers for all movies! Please join us as we discuss whether the academy got it right or not! 

Darryl discusses why Monty Python is so important to comedy, this movie in particular, and Laura chimes in, a lot, she just can't help herself as she is such a fan as well. So we'll forgive her. This time.