The Oscars Got It Wrong

We’re continuing our discussion of the most recent Academy Awards in this episode! As usual for the years where there are more than 5 nominees, will be taking the 10 films, pitting them against one another, and deciding on winners and losers. The winners are discussed in this episode.

The nominees were: All Quiet on the Western Front; Avatar: The Way of Water; The Banshees of Inisherin; Elvis; Everything Everywhere All At Once; The Fabelmans; Tár; Top Gun: Maverick; Triangle of Sadness; and Women Talking . 

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

1:00 - Round 1 Match-Up Recap

2:30 - Elvis

13:55 - The Banshees of Inisherin

26:55 - All Quiet on the Western Front

40:50 - The Fabelmans

56:45 - Everything Everywhere All at Once

1:12:30 - Conclusions

• 1:13:15 - Did the Oscars Get it Wrong?
• 1:14:30 - Top 5 Films
• 1:15:45 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner
• 1:18:25 - Patterns

1:21:45 - Next Time

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We’re covering the most recent Academy Awards in this episode! As usual for the years where there are more than 5 nominees, will be taking the 10 films, pitting them against one another, and deciding on winners and losers. The losers are discussed in this episode.

The nominees were: All Quiet on the Western Front; Avatar: The Way of Water; The Banshees of Inisherin; Elvis; Everything Everywhere All At Once; The Fabelmans; Tár; Top Gun: Maverick; Triangle of Sadness; and Women Talking . 

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

7:00 - Bracket Set-Up

7:40 - Round 1 Match-Ups and Deciding Winners and Losers

Losers Discussion

• 14:55 - Triangle of Sadness
• 23:55 - Top Gun: Maverick
• 33:40 - Avatar: The Way of Water
• 57:30 - Women Talking
• 1:07:45 - Tár

1:25:05 - Best of the Worst & Worst of the Worst

1:26:10 - Next Time

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We've got something a little different this week! In this episode we're crunching the numbers and summarizing the stats from Season 1 of the podcast - how many films we've watched, how many times the Oscars got it wrong, which years have been the best, and much, much more! Finally we'll see if we've learned enough to predict what will win Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards.

NOTE: This episode contains spoilers for some previously discussed films. All time stamps are approximate.

SUMMARY STATS

1:40 - Season 1 Summary Stats

3:35 - How often do the Oscars get it wrong?

• 4:35 - The wrongest winners
• 6:45 - Worst Best Picture nominee misses

9:30 - What we've been tracking

• 9:35 - Angry white guys (Travis Bickles)
• 10:30 - Biopics
• 11:45 - Original Ideas
• 13:35 - How popular was the Best Picture winner?
• 15:25 - Steven Spielberg Oscar Count
• 16:40 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner
• 17:45 - HORSE DEATHS (deaths inflicted by horses)

OUR RATINGS (NOMINEES ONLY)

20:00 - Our Overall Ratings

• 20:15 - The Best Year
• 23:30 - The Most Average Year
• 25:00 - The Worst Year
• 26:45 - Best Picture Highest and Lowest Rated Film of the Nominees

28:35 - When We Disagree on Ratings

• 29:05 - Films with a >.5 Star Rating Difference
• 32:25 - Difference in Average Ratings

32:50 - Best Best Picture and Worst Best Picture Winner

A QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT (ALL FILMS)

34:45 - Top Movies We've Watched because of the Podcast

40:00 - We Keep Watching Extra Westerns and Maybe We Should Stop?

45:30 - Biggest Surprises

50:30 - Worst Movies We've Watched

53:20 - Reevaluations

95TH ACADEMY AWARDS PREDICTIONS

57:20 - The Nominees

1:01:35 - Next Time

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It's another year with more than 5 nominees so we're doing another bracket! In this episode will be taking the 9 nominees (plus one of our favorite films) we'll be discussing the winners that made it out of the first round.

The nominees were: Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

0:50 - Round 1 Match-Up Recap

2:25 - Life of Pi

11:45 - Amour

21:00 - Beasts of the Southern Wild

31:10 - Django Unchained

43:25 - Argo

55:05 - Conclusions

• 55:05 - Did the Oscars Get it Wrong?
• 55:45 - Top 5 Films
• 56:25 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner
• 1:00:15 - Patterns

1:05:50 - Next Time

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It's another year with more than 5 nominees so we're doing another bracket! In this episode will be taking the 9 nominees (plus one of our favorite films), deciding on the winners and losers from Round 1, and discussing the films that were eliminated.

The nominees were: Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

5:25 - Bracket Set-Up

9:25 - Round 1 Match-Ups and Deciding Winners and Losers

Losers Discussion

• 16:00 - Les Misérables
• 24:50 - Silver Linings Playbook
• 33:40 - Zero Dark Thirty
• 45:00 - Lincoln
• 57:30 - Red Dawn*

1:43:40 - Best of the Worst & Worst of the Worst

1:45:10 - Next Time

*Yes, the 2012 Red Dawn remake.

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In this episode we cover the 42nd Academy Awards, which honored the films of 1969. The nominees were: Anne of the Thousand Days; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Hello, Dolly!; Midnight Cowboy; and Z. We also discuss The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Easy Rider; and Midnight Cowboy.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

10:10 - Anne of the Thousand Days

17:11 - Hello, Dolly!

22:30 - Midnight Cowboy

32:00 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

42:55 - Z

55:40 - Should something else have been nominated?

• 56:45 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• 1:03:15 - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• 1:11:50 - Easy Rider
• 1:21:00 - The Wild Bunch

1:32:20 - Did the Oscars get it wrong?

1:34:10 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner

1:35:35 - Conclusions

1:39:10 - Next Time

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We've got more than 5 nominees again, so we're doing another bracket! In this episode we discuss the winners from Round 1 and decide if the Oscars got it wrong.

The nominees were: 42nd Street; A Farewell to Arms; Cavalcade; I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; Lady for a Day; Little Women; She Done Him Wrong; Smilin' Through; State Fair; and The Private Life of Henry VIII. We also included two films for cultural relevance: King Kong and Duck Soup.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

1:35 - Round 1 Match-Up Recap

4:00 - King Kong

14:20 - The Private Life of Henry VIII

25:40 - State Fair

38:00 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

50:10 - 42nd Street

59:40 - Lady for a Day

1:09:40 - Conclusions

• 1:11:35 - Did the Oscars Get it Wrong?
• 1:12:35 - Top 5 Films
• 1:13:10 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner
• 1:14:15 - Patterns

1:17:40 - Next Time

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We've got more than 5 nominees again, so we're doing another bracket! In this episode will be taking the 10 nominees (plus 2 films we've added into the competition for cultural relevance - Duck Soup and King Kong) deciding on the winners and losers from Round 1 and discussing the films that were eliminated.

The nominees were: 42nd Street; A Farewell to Arms; Cavalcade; I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang; Lady for a Day; Little Women; She Done Him Wrong; Smilin' Through; State Fair; and The Private Life of Henry VIII.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

8:40 - Nominees Overview

10:25 - Bracket Set-Up

11:15 - Round 1 Match-Ups and Deciding Winners and Losers

Losers Discussion:

• 20:05 - Smilin' Through
• 30:50 - Little Women
• 36:00 - She Done Him Wrong
• 41:40 - Duck Soup
• 50:05 - A Farewell to Arms
• 56:30 - Cavalcade

1:05:10 - Best of the Worst & Worst of the Worst

1:08:10 - Next Time

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In this episode we cover the 67th Academy Awards, which honored the films of 1994. The nominees were: Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, and The Shawshank Redemption. We also discuss The Lion King, Ed Wood, and Heavenly Creatures.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

10:30 - Four Weddings and a Funeral

17:50 - Forrest Gump

• Resource: James Amos Burton's (2008) PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. " Film, history and cultural memory: cinematic representations of Vietnam-era America during the culture wars, 1987-1995"

35:05 - Quiz Show

49:45 - Pulp Fiction

57:50 - The Shawshank Redemption

1:07:20 - Should something else have been nominated?

• 1:07:30 - The Lion King
• 1:10:20 - Ed Wood
• 1:17:45 - Heavenly Creatures

1:33:40 - Did the Oscars get it wrong?

1:34:40 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner

1:36:20 - Conclusions

1:41:10 - Next Time

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In this episode we cover the 17th Academy Awards, which honored the films of 1944. The nominees were: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Going My Way, Since You Went Away, and Wilson.

Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.

Timestamps are approximate:

11:05 - Going My Way

17:50 - Wilson

28:30 - Since You Went Away

39:10 - Double Indemnity

47:35 - Gaslight

1:02:00 - Did the Oscars get it wrong?

1:02:40 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner

1:05:05 - Conclusions

1:08:50 - Next Time

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