For this Bonus episode, we take a look at the films nominated by the Academy for Best Picture of 2022. Part one was recorded a few days before the announcement, and part two was recorded after the announcement.

Yeah . . . this is a long episode--but hey it's less than half as long as the movie we're discussing. This episode is all about 1990 and its Best Picture winner, Kevin Costner's Western epic Dances With Wolves. It's ranked number 61 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown we're using, check out our Description or give a listen to our Trailer.

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This week we talk about The King's Speech, Tom Hooper's biographical film that beat out a stacked 2010 line-up. It's ranked number 62 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown we're using, check out our Description or give a listen to our Trailer.

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This week Bonnie and Dennis discuss Fred Zinneman's 1966 film A Man for All Seasons. It's ranked number 63 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners. For more information on the countdown, see our Description or check out our Trailer. 

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This week's movie is Chicago, Rob Marshall's 2002 film version of the Kander and Ebb musical. It's ranked number 64 on our countdown of the best Best Picture Academy Award winners.

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We covered Shakespeare in Love in our early bonus episode, "Worst of the Best, Part 2." It was part of our survey of the bottom 25 movies on our countdown of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. It was ranked number 77. Since then, Bonnie has finally seen the film, so we decided to record a special bonus episode to discuss our thoughts on it.

Bonnie and Dennis discuss Mrs. Miniver, 1942's Best Picture winner, ranked 67 of 94 on our unofficial ranking of Best Picture winners.

Bonnie and Dennis dive into the first-ever Best Picture winner, Wings. It's ranked 69 of 94 on our unofficial ranking list with 31.645 points.

The second part of our Introductory episode is an overview of the Best Picture winners ranked number 70 to 82 on our rankings list.

What is this list?

We explain it in more detail in our Trailer and Description, but as a high-level answer: we aggregated several different lists that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.

Why group these together rather than giving each its own episode?

We deal with this in our Trailer and Description as well, but in short: Dennis had already started this as a personal project, and was already 25 films deep before we decided to do it as a podcast. We talked about starting over, but ultimately decided to do an overview of numbers 70 through 94, and then do an episode a week for each of the remaining films. We may cover some or maybe even all of these films on future bonus episodes.