The Best Pictures Podcast

Join Maggie and Ian for the 78th winner, American crime drama Crash. Shallow characters, surface-level commentary, and several excruciatingly gratuitous scenes didn't impress either of our hosts.

Join our hosts for the 77th Best Picture winner, Million Dollar Baby. Despite some knockout performances (wink wink) both Maggie and Ian had some conflicted feelings about the last round of this winner.

Ian and Maggie are back with a winner episode covering the 75th winner, Chicago. They loved the musical numbers and ambition of production, but were left wanting more from the character development.

Join us as we celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Best Pictures Podcast by tackling another cult classic!

Ian and Maggie cover the 74th Best Picture inner, A Beautiful mind. All around the hosts appreciated a solid film with great acting.

We're back with another canon episode, and we're kicking off a new decade of winners! This time we're talking about the sword and sandal epic Gladiator (2000s).

Having found themselves boxed in a ranking corner, Maggie and Ian decided the needed a fresh start 2024: a re-ordered winner ranking. In addition to talking about the shuffles, Ian and Maggie each revisited a past winner to reevaluate their thoughts, talk about where the 1990s falls in the overall quality of films, and look forward (maybe not positively) to the 2000s.

For our final episode of 2023 we cover the classic 1964 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special. Maggie makes a case for Santa being the villain of the story, and she and Ian debate the physics of abominable snowmen.