The People vs. Oscar

What's better than one Spielberg movie? Two Spielberg Movies!

1993 pits two classic, but very different, Steven Spielberg movies against each other. The highest grossing movie of the year was "Jurassic Park," a classic tale of adventure that also tackles questions around our God's complex. Meanwhile, Spielberg won Best Director and Best Picture for his Holocaust epic, "Schindler's List." Which wins out in the end? Listen to find out.

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Dirty, dusty and dangerous

Welcome back to the People vs. Oscar! It's the year of our birth... 1992! Disney's animated classic (soon to have a live action remake) Aladdin was the highest grossing movie of the year. This goes up against Best Picture winner "Unforgiven," our first Clint Eastwood of the podcast. Will the western take down the genie? Listen to find out.

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We've got 2 very different thrillers on our hands for 1991. The people turned out in droves to James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," which sent Arnold Schwarzeneggar back to the 90s, but with a very different mission. Meanwhile, the Oscars went with the February sleeper hit "The Silence of the Lambs" for its top 5 prizes - Best Picture, Director, Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Actress (Jodie Foster) and Screenplay. Did the iconic horror film deserve them all? Tune in to find out!

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We're back with a new season of People vs Oscar!

We've finally made it to the 90s. And 1990 sure gave us quite a quintessential match up. The romance/drama/thriller/comedy "Ghost" may have won the hearts (and box office) of the public. However, the three hour Kevin Costner vanity play "Dances with Wolves" won the Oscar. Perhaps they loved his butt shots almost as much as he did. Listen to find out whether we side with the People or Oscar!

We're here to wrap up the 80s with a not-so-mini minisode. Listen to which movies win our top prizes, as well as the other 80s movies we didn't get to review that we'd recommend you watch.

Two irascible elders face off against each other as we round out the 1980s.

"Driving Miss Daisy" puts Morgan Freeman in the driver's seat as he carts around Jessica Tandy's high maintenance Daisy Wertham. Similarly, Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones carts around his father, Henry Jones (Sean Connery) in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Which pairing made for a better viewing experience? Tune in to find out.

We've reached another year where the Best Picture winner was also the highest grossing film of the year.

"Rain Man" marks one of the odder films with this distinction (compared to "All Quiet on the Western Front" or "The Godfather"). However, we take a journey as we uncover what made the film so popular and acclaimed in 1988. In addition, does the film hold up today? How does it rank in terms of Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman's careers? How many toothpicks really were on the ground? Tune in to find out.

We are not going to be ignored!

Two very different movies go head to head on this week's episode of the podcast. Audiences turned out in droves to see "Fatal Attraction," an erotic thriller with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close which went on to 5 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. How does the film hold up under modern scrutiny and does it still rank among Glenn Close's best performances? The Oscars, meanwhile, fell in love with Bernardo Bertolucci's epic "The Last Emperor," which swept all nine Oscar categories it was up for. Were we as enamored with the 60 year spanning epic? Tune in to find out.

Not all war movies are created equally.

1986 brought together two very different films about war. Vietnam War Veteran Oliver Stone brought a new, raw and horrifying depiction of war in the film "Platoon," which won Best Picture. Still, audiences had their breath taken away by ace fighter pilot Tom Cruise in "Top Gun."

Which war film gets our vote? Listen to find out.

Two romances of the past face off in this 1985 battle.

Sydney Pollack's epic romance "Out of Africa" goes up against Robert Zemeckis' blockbuster "Back to the Future."

"Out of Africa" marks our last Meryl Streep performance of the podcast and finds our favorite actress fall in love with both Africa and Robert Redford. Meanwhile, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) finds himself in quite an odd love triangle when he travels back to the 50s when his parents first met in the crowdpleaser "Back to the Future." Which won over our hearts? Listen to find out.