The Best Picture Podcast

Director: Clint Eastwood

Producer: Clint Eastwood

Screenplay: David Webb Peoples

Photography: Jack N. Green

Music: Lennie Niehaus

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 96%/Audience: 93%

Director: Martin Brest

Producer: Martin Brest

Screenplay: Bo Goldman

Photography: Donald E. Thorin

Music: Thomas Newman

Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bradley Whitford

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 82%/Audience: 92%

Director: James Ivory

Producer: Ismail Merchant

Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Photography: Tony Pierce-Roberts

Music: Richard Robbins

Cast: Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham-Carter, Prunella Scales

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 94%/Audience: 81%

Director: Rob Reiner

Producers: David Brown, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman

Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin

Photography: Robert Richardson

Music: Marc Shaiman

Cast: Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Pollak, J.T. Walsh

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 84%/Audience: 89%

Director: Neil Jordan

Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley

Screenplay: Neil Jordan

Photography: Ian Wilson

Music: Anne Dudley

Cast: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 95%/Audience: 78%

Eric, Isaac, and Sean rank and discuss the five nominees for Best Picture of 1931-32. Once again, the nominees are Arrowsmith, Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, Grand Hotel, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, and The Smiling Lieutenant.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Producer: Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay: Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Ernst Lubitsch

Photography: George J. Folsey

Music: Clifford Grey, Oscar Straus

Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 88%/Audience: 66%

Director:  Ernst Lubitsch

Producer:  Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay:  Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Ernst Lubitsch

Photography:  George J. Folsey

Music:  Clifford Grey, Oscar Straus

Cast:  Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 88%/Audience: 66%

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Producer: Adolph Zukor

Screenplay: Jules Furthman

Photography: Lee Garmes, James Wong Howe

Music: Karl Hajos, W. Franke Harling, Rudolph G. Kopp, John Leipold

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 96%/Audience: 79%

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Producer: Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay: Samson Raphaelson

Photography: Victor Milner

Music: W. Franke Harling, Oscar Straus

Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lili Damita, Genevieve Tobin, Pierre Etchepare

Rotten Tomatoes: Critics: 86%/Audience: 74%