The Best Picture Podcast

Director: Sidney Franklin

Producers: Albert Lewin, Irving Thalberg

Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart, James B. Fagan, John L. Balderston, Frances Marion, John Meehan

Photography: Lee Garmes

Music: William Axt

Cast: Norma Shearer, Frederic March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 80%/Audience: 69%

Director: Lowell Sherman

Producer: William LeBaron

Screenplay: Mae West, Harvey F. Thew, John Bright

Photography: Charles Lang

Music: John Leipold

Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 93%/Audience: 53%

Director: Alexander Korda

Producers: Alexander Korda, Ludovico Toeplitz

Screenplay: Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis

Photography: Georges Perinal

Music: Kurt Schroder

Cast: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 94%/Audience: 74%

Director: George Cukor

Producer: Merian C. Cooper, Kenneth Macgowan

Screenplay: Sarah J. Mason, Victor Heerman, Del Andrews, Alfred Block, Charles Brackett, Salisbury Field, David Hempstead, Jane Murfin, G.B. Stern, Wanda Tuchock, John Twist

Photography: Henry W. Gerrard

Music: Max Steiner

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver, Jean Parker

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 89%/Audience: 78%

Director: Frank Capra

Producer: Harry Cohn

Screenplay: Robert Riskin

Photography: Joseph Walker

Music: Howard Jackson

Cast: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 100%/Audience: 79%

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Screenplay: Howard J. Green, Brown Holmes, Sheridan Gibney

Photography: Sol Polito

Music: Bernhard Kaun

Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis, Preston Foster

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 96%/Audience: 91%

Director: Frank Borzage

Producer: Frank Borzage

Screenplay: Benjamin Glazer, Oliver H.P. Garrett

Photography: Charles Lang

Cast: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adlophe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack La Rue

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 88%/Audience: 53%

Director: Frank Lloyd

Producer: Frank Lloyd

Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley

Photography: John F. Seitz

Music: Peter Brunelli, Louise De Francesco, Arthur Lange, J.S. Kamecnik

Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 62%/Audience: 26%

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Screenplay: Rian James, James Seymour

Photography: Sol Polito

Music: Al Dubin, Harry Warren

Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 93%/Audience: 74%

Eric, Ike, and Sean rank and discuss the five nominees for Best Picture of 2021. Once again, the nominees are Belfast, CODA, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story.