Podcasts about best director oscar

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the earlier works of this year's Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with Sean Baker's porn-industry buddy comedy Starlet (2012) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Apology/Goo 05:03 Kinda Pregnant (2025) 10:19 The Vietnam War (2017) 14:17 The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) 18:35 Rats! (2025) 23:39 Starlet (2012) 41:48 The Childhood of a Leader (2015) 58:30 A Prophet (2009) 1:13:22 Revenge (2017) 1:28:36 Cop Land (1997)

Born in the 19th century, his career forged in the silent era, John Ford helped to invent the genre of the Western and still holds the record for the most Best Director Oscar wins of all time. Though he made films in all genres, and sometimes even tackled the same historical territory from different angles in different films, Ford had by the 1960s become synonymous with depictions of American history that honored maverick white men, while often villainizing, distorting or erasing Native Americans. In this episode, we will talk about the influence of Ford's last masterpiece, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and will look at Ford's last two films, which to some extent feel like “mea culpas” for the offenses of his earlier career: the revisionist Western Cheyenne Autumn, and the female-centric adventure film 7 Women. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oscars are like Pringles: you can't stop at just one. And that's why Steven Spielberg spent several years chasing the high of winning all those Academy Awards for Schindler's List - a journey that culminated in a Best Director Oscar for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. The price? Sucking the fun out of the war movie genre forever. Listen to Alex & Julio - joined by SPR Superfan Paul from The Countdown Podcast - question if the man was worth the mission!TIMELINE00:01:24 Saving Private Ryan00:15:42 Contrarians Corner- Wanna know how we really feel about SAVING PRIVATE RYAN? Check out the Real Talk (RT) episode, on your feed RIGHT NOW! (or pretty soon — Spotify can be a pain when it comes to refreshing the feed)- Interested in more Contrarians goodness? Join THE CONTRARIANS SUPPLEMENTS on our Patreon Page! Deleted clips, extended plugs, bonus episodes free from the Tomatometer shackles… It's everything a Contrarians devotee would want!- Our YouTube page is live! Get some visual Contrarians delight with our Contrarians Warm-Ups and other fun videos!- Contrarians Merch is finally here! Check out our RED BUBBLE MERCH PAGE and buy yourself something nice that's emblazoned with one of our four different designs!- THE FESTIVE YEARS have been letting us use their music for years now and they are amazing. You can check out their work on Spotify, on Facebook or on their very own website.- Our buddy Cory Ahre is being kind enough to lend a hand with the editing of some of our videos. If you like his style, wait until you see what he does over on his YouTube Channel.- THE LATE NIGHT GRIN isn't just a show about wrestling: it's a brand, a lifestyle. And they're very supportive of our Contrarian endeavors, so we'd like to return the favor. Check out their YouTube Channel! You might even spot Alex there from time to time.- Hans Rothgiesser, the man behind our logo, can be reached at @mildemonios on Twitter or you can email him at mildemonios@hotmail.com in case you ever need a logo (or comics) produced. And you can listen to him talk about economy on his new TV show, VALOR AGREGADO. Aaaaand you can also check out all the stuff he's written on his own website. He has a new book: a sort of Economics For Dummies called MARGINAL. Ask him about it!

This week on DC Movie Mondays with Kelsey Kilpatrick & Dylan Randazzo, we are finally covering one of the most epic and popular trilogies of all time, THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY, in honor of Christopher Nolan's recent Best Director Oscar win! Find out our thoughts on the origins, peaks, effects, twists, villains, gender dynamics, and all. Thank you for all the support, and we hope you continue spreading the word if you enjoy this podcast. As always, if you would like to see the video version of this podcast, head to "The Dyl Pickle Movie Network" on YouTube! Twitter: @dylan_randazzo @kelseyakilp Instagram: @thedylanrandazzo @kelseyakilpatrick --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dylan-randazzo/support

Welcome back to Season 3 of Oscars Playback. On this special episode, experts and editors Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen head back to 1981 to talk about the 53rd annual Academy Awards, where "Ordinary People" beat "Raging Bull" for Best Picture and Martin Scorsese lost his first Best Director Oscar of many. Stay tuned this season for more '80s Oscar episodes and email us at slugfests@goldderby.com to talk about the decade in film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On episode 235 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello and AwardsWatch contributors Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, and Josh Parham conclude their tier ranking of the 97 Best Director winners from the Academy Awards. In the second part of the Best Picture tier rankings (listen to Part 1 here), the AW team start in the 1980s and go all the way to the most recent winners of Best Director. This is where our hosts and audience are able to talk about the films they have most likely seen the most, and see the expansion of the limited “S tier,” where compromise and sacrifices of some member's favorites are placed lower than you would be expected. But there are plenty of surprises amongst the team, leading to a fascinating final ranking of these 97 winners, including Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Sam Mendes, Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan and Chloé Zhao. This was another fun exercise getting to talk about some of the best (and not so great) winners of all time and the team really hopes you enjoy this part as much as part one. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 3h06m. We will be back next week to review Richard Linklater's latest film Hitman and participate in a fun draft to determine who are the greatest movie stars of all time. Till then, let's get into it. Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

On episode 234 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello and AwardsWatch contributors Dan Bayer, Cody Dericks, and Josh Parham to tier rank the 97 winners for Best Director from the Academy Awards. While everyone is breakdown the summer box office and the state of movies from the month of May, the AW team turn to the month of June by going back to a favorite exercise from last year, an extensive tier of an Oscar category. After doing Best Picture last year, the team moves onto the next most prestigious category at the Oscars; Best Director and its 97 winners. In trying to place these winners in the correct spot, the team had to come together and decide on whether to place the films in the S (all-time winner), A, B, C, D, or F tier and explain the ranking. The episode was so much fun that it had to be split into two parts, with this episode covering all the films up to 1980, placing a couple of classics making their way into the S tier early on. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 2h46m. We will be back next week with Part 2 of the Best Director tier rankings. Till then, let's get into it. Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Today's episode has us discussing the other movie Steven Soderbergh released in the year 2000.  We are talking about TRAFFIC, which he won the Best Director Oscar for that year.  Please send any and all feedback to anotherlookpod@gmail.com.  Please follow us on Instagram @anotherlookpod, and check us out on Facebook.  Rate/review/subscribe where ever you get your podcasts.

Cultists, long before Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar, she cut her teeth in the world of Cult Cinema. This episode your Horror Hosts will be putting her solo directorial debut 1987's Near Dark on the Exam Table. This Revisionist Western Vampire Thriller is a little hard to find these days but is well worth tracking down, so please join us for the dissection.   Dissection Topic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/?ref_=ext_shr Dark Tidings https://deadline.com/2024/03/anthony-hopkins-to-star-in-eyes-in-the-trees-hg-wells-reimagining-1235847426 https://deadline.com/2024/03/little-shop-of-halloween-horrors-joe-dante-roger-corman-1235859850/ https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/03/choose-your-side-in-a-civil-war-with-house-of-the-dragons-dueling-s2-trailers/ https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/heres-our-comprehensive-in-depth-guide-to-viewing-the-total-solar-eclipse/ Unholy Sacrament https://untp.beer/74waz Vault Of Darkness https://www.balzac.jp/ https://www.balzac308.com https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G649DPXQY/hellsing https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYWEQ4Q3Y/hellsing-ultimate #neardark, #kathrybigelow, #AdrianPasdar, #JennyWright, #LanceHenriksen, #BillPaxton, #Severen, #JenetteGoldstein, #Diamondback, #JoshuaJohnMiller, #Homer, #MarcieLeeds, #TimThomerson, #tangerinedream, #vampire, #vampires, #vampiremovies, #vampirelife, #vampiremakeup, #vampirecore,

On episode 223 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello and AwardsWatch contributor Josh Parham and Dan Bayer to do a look back twenty years at the 77th Academy Awards, celebrating the films of 2004. As the 2023 Oscar season and the 2024 SXSW Film Festival is behind us, the AW team are refreshed after a week off and ready to go back in time twenty years to discuss the Oscar ceremony where Million Dollar Baby took home the top prize, giving director Clint Eastwood his second Best Director Oscar of his career, and rewards Jamie Fox, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, and Cate Blanchett the acting awards for their work in Ray, Million Dollar Baby, and The Aviator. Hosted by comedian Chris Rock (his first time hosting), the ceremony represented a pretty good year in cinema, with movies like The Incredibles, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, Vera Drake, Shrek 2, Closer, Finding Neverland, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and more making up the winners and nominees. On this episode, the team talk about where they were in 2004, their thoughts on the overall film year as well as the Oscar ceremony, what they think of Million Dollar Baby as a Best Picture winner, do a little Oscar trivia as it relates to this year, and then they play a new version of the AW Shoulda Woulda Coulda game, where instead of individual replacements, they must decide as a team who the nominees and winners should be in the eight categories. Only catch is, they can only replace two of the previous nominees from each category. It made for a lively, fun show that we all hope you enjoy. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 3h12m. On our next episode, we will be covering a retrospective review of The Matrix for its 25th anniversary and talk about their favorite 90s action movies. Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Join Ashley and Dylan as they discuss everything they've been watching including Invincible, The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping, Can I Tell You a Secret? & Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda. They also discuss the 96th Academy Awards and share their top 3 Directors who still need to win a Best Director Oscar. Thumbs for Trailers - Ripley: https://youtu.be/0ri2biYLeaI  - Inside Out 2: https://youtu.be/LEjhY15eCx0   - Sing Sing: https://youtu.be/j3dXc6P3zH8   - The Wild Robot: https://youtu.be/67vbA5ZJdKQ  - Fallout: https://youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg  Episode Timecodes 0:00 - Intro 1:11 - What's In Our Watch History? 4:58 - The Mandatory Netflix Segment 17:43 - 96th Academy Awards 44:34 - Top 3: Directors who still need to win a Best Director Oscar 49:12  - Thumbs For Trailers 1:03:33 - This Week, What Do You Wanna Watch? What's In Our Watch History? Invincible: Season 2 - Part 2 The Mandatory Netflix Segment The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping Can I Tell You a Secret? Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda Hosts: Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobley Dylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladil Follow our Trakt: Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobley Dylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladil Music: Dylan Blight Art by: Cherie Henriques Support Us: http://www.ko-fi.com/explosion What Do You Wanna Watch is the Explosion Network's premier media podcast. Join Ashley and Dylan every week to discuss all the current news in TV, film and online media. #WDYWW

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the earlier works of this year's Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with Christopher Nolan's backwards-explosions sci-fi action thriller Tenet (2020) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 01:33 Harakiri (1962) 06:50 King of the Gypsies (1978) 10:24 Obsessed (2009) 15:35 New Orleans French Film Fest 2024 19:00 Our Body (2024) 24:06 Tenet (2020) 44:47 The Lobster (2015) 1:02:15 Birth (2004) 1:22:49 After Hours (1984) 1:39:47 Sibyl (2019)

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Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star in the spy-comedy series Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, Bryan Cranston, and more star in the spy-comedy movie Argylle. Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, SZA, and more are nominated for top honors at this weekend's Grammy Awards. The final season of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres. The animated movie The Tiger's Apprentice debuts on streaming. Plus, Hollywood Trivia, our Sound Bite of the Week from the season 3 trailer for Abbott Elementary, and entertainment headlines including news about a Suits series set in L.A., Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfadyen to star in a series about President Garfield and his assassination, and Margot Robbie comments on Greta Gerwig's Best Director Oscar nomination snub. More at ew.com, ew.com/wtw, and @EW on X (formerly Twitter) and @EntertainmentWeekly everywhere else. Host/Writer/Producer Gerrad Hall (@gerradhall); Editor: Samee Junio (@it_your_sam); Writer: Dustin Nelson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The year is 2000. The world is terrified of the Y2K bug, but not as terrified as Hollywood Directors were of Steven Soderbergh, who felt that his best chance of a Best Director Oscar was to be nominated twice, which paid off with a win for Traffic. Traffic tells the story, well, three stories actually, of the war on drugs from the viewpoint of a drug lord and his wife, a drug czar and his kid, and a drug cop and his Mexico. An ensemble cast stars in this multi-filtered flick, whose last names include Douglas, Cheadle, del Toro, Quaid, Zeta-Jones, Guzman, and Grace to name a few, and this drew in the crowds as this movie made $207M from a $50M budget and drew critical acclaim in the form of four Academy Awards, which is a feat considering the competition from 2000. But does it hold up? Listen as Jon, Colin, and Brent discuss the beauty of Mexico, consistent colour palates and how much hand-held camera is enough as we try to figure out if this one is getting stopped at the border or if we have green lights all the way to Tijuana and back again.

POPEYE'S HERE!!!!! In celebration of the life and work of the recently departed William Friedkin, we dig into the movie that netted him a Best Director Oscar and also took home the grand prize of Best Picture: 1971's THE FRENCH CONNECTION! We discuss the character of Popeye Doyle, Friedkin's clever ways of subverting copaganda, and examine the impact that his filmmaking style has on modern day cinema. After our discussion we count down some of our favorite Best Picture winners (I left ROCKY and THE GODFATHER off my list because what more can be said??). Like, subscribe, share, and leave a review or you'll be picking your toes in Poughkeepsie! Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter at @moviemoviecast and stay tuned to ScullyVision.com for more updates! We have merch: tinyurl.com/hotpropshop --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviemoviecast/support

On episode 195 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributors Nicole Ackman, Dan Bayer, Sophia Ciminello, Zach Laws, and Josh Parham conduct a classic Academy Awards retrospective for the 66th Oscars, covering the films of the year 1993. Right now, while the world is still in the middle of the phenomenon that is Barbenheimer, the AW team go back thirty years to when director Steven Spielberg was the king of Hollywood. In 1993, Spielberg made two of what many people believe to be his best films in Jurassic Park and Schindler's List, the latter being the film that would win the director his first Best Director Oscar and win Best Picture of the year. Alongside this success for one of cinema's best artists, the year was a banner year for cinema all around, with a great variety of films celebrated at the Oscars that had massive cultural and critical success like The Fugitive, Philadelphia, The Piano, In the Name of the Father, The Remains of the Day, In the Line of Fire, The Firm, The Age of Innocence, and many more. In this retrospective, the AW team take a look at the year as a whole, talk about the Oscar ceremony, any trends they see in the year, and the legacy of Schindler's List and its Oscar wins. Throw in some Oscar trivia and an extensive version of “Should've, Could've, Would've”, where the team highlight what they think the real winners and nominees should be, and you've got a fun look back as the gang cover dozens of titles, filled with plenty of juicy hot takes. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 2h47m. It is a big episode but worth the time to talk about this milestone year in cinema. We will be back next week talking about our Top 5 Modern Film Directors. Till then, let's get into it. Music: “Modern Fashion” from AShamaleuvmusic (intro), “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Throughout his illustrious career as a director, Steven Spielberg has never been afraid to tackle big subject matter and when this World War II epic was first released to theaters twenty five years ago this July, it was a BIG deal.  Not only was he returning to the time period and broad category of subject matter (World War II) which had last earned him an Oscar and widespread acclaim with Schindler's List less than five years prior but he was collaborating with who was at the time our most beloved movie star Tom Hanks....who was coming off of two recent Oscar wins himself for Philadelphia and Forest Gump.  It also comprised a stacked cast of talented actors, many of whom were on their way towards becoming stars including Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Sizemore.  All of the stars were aligned for what many expected to be a masterpiece....And in the eyes of most audiences and critics, it WAS.   The film was a massive hit at the box office, received universal acclaim and also ended up winning several Oscars as well....including a second Best Director Oscar for Spielberg.  It also had a sizeable cultural impact, not only having an effect on most war film moving forward but also the overall perception of World War II including those who fought it who were nicknamed "The Greatest Generation."  But how does it hold up as an actual movie?  It's time to revisit this story of eight man on a mission to save ONE. Host: Geoff Gershon  Editors: Geoff and Ella GershonProducer: Marlene Gershonhttps://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/ 

JOHN FORD: THE INFORMER & GRAPES OF WRATH W/RICK PATT!Our two-part John Ford series begins with Ford fan and podcast pal Rick Patt joining us and curating the films!For part one we watched two Oscar winning award-winning Ford films made before he and John Wayne became entwined in their classic western collaborations (that's next week). THE INFORMER (1935) won Ford a Best Director Oscar! It features an Oscar-winning performance by Victor McLagen as a large, dim brute "Gypo" Nolan in the latter days of the Irish civil war in 1925. When the opportunity comes to turn in an old chum with a reward on his head, Gypo does the unthinkable and does just that. With the money he can now sail to America with his sweetheart! Sweet, right? However, a  night of drunkenness leads Gypo into the unthinkable as the money spills away in drink and debauchery.  A claustrophobic, smokey nightmare that, not surprisingly, ends poorly for our lad.  McLagen gives a brilliant old-school performance of big gestures and confused morals and Ford shoots in an unsparing bravura style GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)  won Ford another Best Director Oscar and is one of his best remembered  for good reason. A dynamite script and a cast to die for brings John Steinbeck's Pulitzer and National Book Award winning depression-era road trip classic about the Joads making their way from Oklahoma to California into a stirring reminder of both resilience and how crappy some folks can be.  Top five all-time cinematographer Gregg Toland shoots the living hell out of this in one of the best-looking black and white films in the era known for the best-looking black and white  films. We go into the adaptation, and some controversy about the novel itself on. Two of the earliest films we have ever dived into.  THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.comFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodthepoda1YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!):Ken: Ken KoralJack: jackk1096

Brandon, James, and Hanna discuss the earlier works of this year's Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with the Daniels' gallows-humor flatulence comedy Swiss Army Man (2016) https://swampflix.com/ 00:00 Welcome 04:33 Son of the White Mare (1981) 08:11 Take Out (2004) 13:16 U-Turn (1997) 16:00 A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018) 23:25 Swiss Army Man (2016) 41:44 War of the Worlds (2005) 59:58 Little Children (2006) 1:16:50 In Bruges (2008) 1:34:55 The Square (2017)

About six months ago, I did a pod on Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese's 1990 magnum opus on the wise guys of New York, which to me was sweeping, magnetic and a triumph. And as I said then, it's a young man's film --- it had all the adrenaline, obstinance, the hubris, and the self-belief that young men often possess. A lot of water under that bridge since 1990, with Scorsese directing a slew of incredible films to follow: the remake of Cape Fear, a huge change of pace in The Age Of Innocence, back to wise guys with Casino, Gangs Of New York for a take on the Protestant-Catholic and Nativist battles of the 1860s, The Aviator, a terrific film on Howard Hughes that didn't get its due, then winning the Best Director Oscar in 2006 for The Departed. You've heard me rant about that late, late recognition before, so I'll let it lie. Then through the latter part of the 2010s with amazing films like Hugo, The Wolf Of Wall Street and Silence. Where am I going with this laundry list? Here, you have the protagonist, but where's the antagonist, huh? Where's the drama?  Like De Sica and his Italian Neorealism series of Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, and Umberto D, tracing the ages of man in post-WWII Rome, you can conveniently stick a square peg in a square hole and assert that Scorsese is following a similar arc with his gang and wise guy films. Early work with young, promising actors in Mean Streets, followed by the crazy adults of Goodfellas, middle-aged and calculating in Casino. And what's at the end of the arc? The wise guys in old age, looking back. What we find is the film, The Irishman. email: David@thosewonderfulpeople.comWebsite and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comIG: @thosewonderfulpeopleTwitter: @FilmsInTheDark

EW sr. writers Joey Nolfi and Maureen Lee Lenker join Awardist host Gerrad Hall to discuss Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans and his chances of winning the Best Director Oscar, who they think should've been in the category but was shut out, and nominated actors Michelle Williams and Judd Hirsch, who both speak with The Awardist about their memorable performances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As a flurry of guild nominations land, Mia, Brian and Gemma discuss their fave noms and gongs from the directors', art directors' and cinematographers' unions. A quick look at the Golden Globes leads to a discussion on which awards Letterboxd would love to live-stream. EE BAFTA Rising Star award public voting is open! And it's animation time: Turning Red director Domee Shi has a message for the Letterboxd community, and we go deep on Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and Sergio Leone with Puss in Boots: The Last Wish director Joel Crawford. Then, we re-evaluate the 1976 Best Director Oscar lineup according to how the Letterboxd community distributes their hearts, and find out why Brian has put forward Marcel the Shell director-star Dean Fleischer Camp as this week's Player of the Season nominee. Bienvenido, mi casa es su casa, as our amigo Puss would say! Credits: Recorded in Los Angeles, Auckland and Philadelphia. Edited by Slim. Facts by Jack. Red carpet interviews by Flynn. Transcript by Sophie. Theme: ‘Hyperlight' by Letterboxd member Trent Walton (AKA Echo Wolf). Best in Show is a TAPEDECK production. Title courtesy of Christopher Guest. Thanks to all the studios and publicists! Lists & Links: The Letterboxd list of films mentioned; Selome Hailu on Jerrod Carmichael's Golden Globes monologue; Puss in Boots: The Last Wish reviews by Joel Haver & Nick; Little Dear's list of “Himbo thrillers”; vote for the EE BAFTA Rising Star award.

Kenny and Mike open the 5th season of Faithspotting by discussing the film and faith issues spotted in the latest film version of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The 1930 film won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscar for Lewis Milestone.  the 2022 film, directed by Edward Berger and staring Felix Kammerer as Paul Baumer and Albrecht Schuch as veteran Stanislaus Katczinsky. All Quiet on the Western Front follows the 17 year old German student Paul, and his classmates who, whipped into a war frenzy by their school master, volunteer to serve in the German army in the last year of the war. Told they would be marching into Paris in a matter of weeks, the boys are driven to the stalemate that is the trench warfare of the first world war. The film also depicts the contrasts between those who fight in the trenches and the Generals who make decisions with little to no regard for the lives and welfare of the soldiers in the trenches. Kenny and Mike compare the film favorably with some of the great films depicting war, Saving Private Ryan, 1917, and Paths of Glory. All Quiet on the Western Front is German submission for the Best International Film Oscar for the 2023 Academy Awards. Faith Issues Spotted: The purpose and need for the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and Plain in Matthew and Luke 6, and Paul's teaching in Romans 12. Disciples of Jesus are called to love enemies and return hate and persecution with love and forgiveness.  Followers of Christ are called to seek and live for the Kingdom of God by living by Righteousness rather than the ways and expectations of the ways of the world.  The film also echoes the need for the teaching of Galatians 3:28, that disciples of Jesus are all one, united in Christ, and no longer Jew or Gentile, male or female, slave or gree. Christians, as the Israelites are residents and aliens of the worldly nations and citizens of the Kingdom of God. All Quiet on the Western Front is rated R for Violence.      

It's Mia's 5th pick: The Grapes of Wrath, the 1940 film directed by John Ford. The film is based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, which was also the best-selling novel of that year and was cited as a major part of the basis on which Steinbeck was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. The politics and story of the book were potentially thorny enough that Daryl F. Zanuck, the famed producer at 20th Century Fox, sent investigators to witness just how bad the situation in Oklahoma actually was so he'd know whether he'd feel equipped to defend the film against any criticism for being potentially pro-Communist. That said, the aforementioned politics and story were still softened somewhat as compared to the book. Ford was coming off a banner year, having directed 3 films in 1939: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Mohawk – the latter two both with Henry Fonda, who himself had additionally been in 3 other movies in 1939. The film received plenty of rave reviews and accolades including this incredibly laudatory one from Frank Nugent for the New York Times: In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema's masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry, seem destined to be recalled not merely at the end of their particular year but whenever great motion pictures are mentioned. To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath… John Ford won a Best Director Oscar for the film, while Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Outstanding Production (or what is today called Best Picture), Best Actor (Henry Fonda), Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Recording. In more recent years, The Grapes of Wrath was on AFI's 100 Years… 100 Movies list, ranked at #21 in 1998 and then at #23 in 2007. As for our purposes, the movie has never actually appeared in the top 10 of Sight & Sound's critics or directors surveys, but it was a runner up on the very first list back in 1952. In the 2012 polling, it was ranked #183 by critics and #174 by directors – and among the filmmakers who had it on their top 10 lists that year was Lawrence Kasdan. Produced by Stereoactive Media

Gun Control: SOLVED! It took us 2 episodes and just over 2 hours, but we've come up with the perfect solution. Not only did we take care of yet another stupid Human problem, but we managed to have fun and a few laughs while doing it. Again, #yourewelcome Other topics include: Top Gun & Tim Gunn, Erin Marie Bette Davis Jr – First Woman to win Best Director Oscar, Portland Film Festival, BOXES BOXES BOXES, Facebook Jail, Christianity, Aggressively ignorant, AR-15, Uvalde, Buffalo, Mass shootings, Kids, Black people, media, GOP, conservatives, liberals, and Lesbians, but nothing about Roe v Wade and all that human mishegoss. (Hey Humans, f*ck off, please.) So sit back, relax, and enjoy the most downloaded podcast in the world! The Unimaginary Friendcast! The Unimaginary Friendcast is hosted by David Monster, Erin Marie Bette Davis Jr. and Nathan Von Edmondson. https://unimaginaryfriend.com/podcast/ And find us on Facebook

Episode 39 finds your intrepid Team Vintage Sand doing a deep dive into the work of one of our most promising young filmmakers, 2020 Best Director Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao. Although she has only done four feature films to this point, she has already established a distinctive painterly and brilliant visual style, and, as no less an authority than Frances McDormand put it, has shown herself able to successfully walk the line between sentiment and sentimentality. We take an auteurist approach to Zhao's work by dividing her young career into two distinct parts. She began with two very low-budget films, Songs My Brother Taught Me and The Rider, using non-actors essentially playing themselves. Notably, both were set in the unique and wonderful landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a location that is becoming to Zhao what Monument Valley was to John Ford. Her Oscar winner, Nomadland, was a transitional work, featuring old pros McDormand and David Strathairn mixed in with non-actors. This unexpected success then led to her chance to be part of the MCU with Eternals, a huge-budget film that many connoisseurs of the genre consider to be the worst of the Marvel films. So our fundamental question is simple: how do the visual and thematic elements that made her first two films so uniquely personal and intimate carry over into the second pair of films, done on a much different scale? As frequently happens, there is some dissent within Team Vintage Sand. Michael, and to a lesser extent John argue, as do many, that Zhao's films suffer from her insistence on non-actors, and that Songs and The Rider would have been better had Zhao populated her film with professional actors. I'm not bothered as much by it, but I see where they're coming from, especially since they are both trained actors. That being said, there is no doubt that Zhao has a phenomenal eye and that she is an artist to be closely watched; for us, she is one of the few young directors who has earned a lifetime ticket, which simply means that if she's directing a film, we'll be there opening weekend. So sit back, enjoy, and we'll see you all down the road.

Chloé Zhao, who won the 2021 Best Director Oscar for “Nomadland,” talks to Tig about what that means for her personally and professionally. She and Tig discover a surprising secret weapon they share to stay sane and successful. They also advise a listener on whether to try writing a novel or a screenplay, and give some perspective to a mother bothered by snide comments that her kid obviously behaves like an only child. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (go to Betterhelp.com/TIG for 10% off the first month of online therapy), Shopify (go to Shopify.com/TIG for a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's suite of features), Netsuite (go to Netsuite.com/TIG for a one-of-a-kind financing offer), and Netflix's The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand Up | Accompanying Podcast.  Need advice? Submit your question for Tig at dontasktig.org/contact.

An egg is of course the fertilized ovum of an animal that grows and develops as an embryo inside some kind of organic vessel. And as delicious as that sounds, they are only to be consumed when they are hot, never cold as everyone in their right mind truly understands. Last week you may recall Sidey snorting with derision at the thought of compiling a Top 5 Eggs but it turns out Howie was some kind of egg savant, listing numerous egg or egg related scenes and movies in a matter of seconds. Sadly our favourite ginger insult magnet isn't joining us this week and neither is Bad Dad Dan, still journeying in far flung places, which is a shame because the pun potential as far as eggs are concerned is cracking. Should I make a few of my own? Maybe I'll whisk it. Jane Campion won the Best Director Oscar at the 94th Academy Awards, which was a sterile affair with very few incidents to note of any kind, for the THE POWER OF THE DOG, which is definitely NOT a western. In 1925 Montana, wealthy cattle farm owner George Burbank (Jesse Plemons) marries widower Rose Gordon (Kirsten Dunst), much to the anger of George's brother Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch), a macho, vicious bully who prefers spending his days working the ranch and his evenings tormenting Rose. As Rose's son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) begins to spend more time with Phil, a more complicated picture emerges. Is Phil a desperately repressed and lonely individual pining for his former lover? Or are we watching the grooming process of a sexual predator?  A fascinating and often very beautiful movie with stunning cinematography, this was liked or loved by all of us to some degree or another. Like an arthouse period drama slash revenge thriller, with a straightforward narrative that was more a triumph of mood and tone for my money. Well worth checking out. But not a western. Peter's refusal to honour the central conceit of the show and instead focus on his childhood favourites continues as we look back at BANANAMAN. Essentially the DC superhero Shazam! but for Bananas, when schoolboy Eric eats a Banana he becomes the potassium filled superhero. We review season 2 episode 3's "Trouble At The Mill" in which our hero runs afoul of his villainous counterpart Appleman. This British animation classic features The Goodies who were less than impressed by the final product apparently and even back in the day I wasn't all that keen on this beyond the theme tune. But what a theme tune it was!We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. Try us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review or on our website baddadsfilm.com. Until next time, we remain... Bad Dads

Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of genre films from this year's Best Director Oscar nominees, starting with Jane Campion's 2003 erotic thriller In the Cut. Enjoy! https://swampflix.com/2022/03/23/quick-takes-2022-oscars-catch-up/ 00:00 Welcome 00:38 Oliver Twist (2005) 04:10 Radhe Shyam (2022) 07:00 Turning Red (2022) 10:45 Master (2022) 15:10 Deep Water (2022) 21:00 Parallel Mothers (2022) 28:25 In the Cut (2003) 46:25 Duel (1971) 1:02:30 Dead Again (1991) 1:14:45 Asako I & II (2018) 1:29:00 Hard Eight (1996)

After months of anticipation, an endless press tour, countless think pieces and far too many pictures of Jared Leto in a fat suit, The Boys have finally seen "House of Gucci" and, boy, do they have thoughts. From Adam Driver's questionable performance to Lady Gaga's accent, from Al Pacino's ham sandwich to A VERY HEATED DEBATE ABOUT THE AFOREMENTIONED JARED LETO, tensions are running high. These aren't easy conversations, but they are important ones. Plus, a dissection of the current state of the Best Director race and who Steven Spielberg might be bumping out! Pop, pop!

There's a new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by the reigning Best Director Oscar winner, Chloe Zhao! Ashley & Matt review Eternals in this week's episode.

The great Alfred Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar, and only received the prestige of winning Best Picture once in his career. Join co-hosts Dave and Andrew as they return to Manderlay and revisit the gothic romance that is Rebecca. Featuring stellar performances from Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, this is a mystery you'll want to dive into. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow the hosts on social media at the links below: Andrew F Peirce – @TheCurbAU David Giannini – @Darnthatdave Awards Don't Matter – @AwardsDontPodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The great Alfred Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar, and only received the prestige of winning Best Picture once in his career. Join co-hosts Dave and Andrew as they return to Manderlay and revisit the gothic romance that is Rebecca. Featuring stellar performances from Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, this is a mystery you'll want to dive into. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow the hosts on social media at the links below: Andrew F Peirce – @TheCurbAU David Giannini – @Darnthatdave Awards Don't Matter – @AwardsDontPod

The great Alfred Hitchcock never won a Best Director Oscar, and only received the prestige of winning Best Picture once in his career. Join co-hosts Dave and Andrew as they return to Manderlay and revisit the gothic romance that is Rebecca. Featuring stellar performances from Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, this is a mystery you'll want to dive into. Subscribe via RSS Feed, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Follow the hosts on social media at the links below: Andrew F Peirce – @TheCurbAU David Giannini – @Darnthatdave Awards Don't Matter – @AwardsDontPod

WE HAVE A SPONSOR! Check them out here: www.GrowGeneration.com "Where the pros go to grow." Listen And Subscribe On: Apple Podcasts |Spotify |SoundCloud | Stitcher | Google Play & More! Welcome to The Genreverse's BattleWorld Podcast, where we discuss our favorite war movies. Every month, for now, Kyle, Cam, and Shockey will take turns picking movies to discuss. The three hosts are all dedicated film buffs but each brings a unique point of view to the War Movie genre. Kyle served 17 years in the United States Army with three tours in the Middle East, Shockey is a History Teacher, and Cam has worked within productions in addition to being a top-tier Armchair-Historian. Don't laugh at that, they're usually the smartest ones as they've not be "tainted" by having to do things the academia way. Regardless of who you are or why you are here, welcome to BattleWorld. To start, we decided to honor the American, British, and Canadian forces that stormed the beaches of Normandy, France 77 years ago. Saving Private Ryan is one of the most famous war movies ever made. Steven Speilberg won his second Best Director Oscar for it, and it left a lasting impression on what cinema could still do to teach us history. The film is notorious for its opening, much like Full Metal Jacket, but it's the time long after the beaches that the movie's real story begins to shine. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/PyrzzmrceY Support: We have SO MANY podcasts! Anime-Versal Reviews Podcast covers anime (duh!), LRM's No Mercy covers Cobra Kai, and the Marvel craze continues with WandaVision reviews on Marvel Multiverse Mondays. Also, classics like BGRtP, The Cantina Podcast, and The Daily COG (Formerly LRMornings) are still going! Please like, share, and SUBSCRIBE to the podcast. This will help us help you! Also, by getting more visibility, with more feedback, and a bigger audience, we can provide more content for YOU! Question(s): What is your favorite moment in Saving Private Ryan. What War Movies would you like The BattleWorld Podcast to discuss? Website: www.LRMOnline.com Kyle Twitter: twitter.com/ThatKyleMalone Cam Twitter: twitter.com/LRM_Cam Mike Twitter: twitter.com/LRM_Michael Subscribe to our podcast channel where ever you get podcasts: Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4h1ngeRAmfYxWdzeblFmNe Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/@los-fanboys

Chloe Zhao made history at the 93rd Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of color to win best director and just the second woman to win the award. At the in-person event in Los Angeles' Union Station on April 25, Zhao won the directing Oscar for Nomadland, joining Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2009 for The Hurt Locker. “I'm extremely lucky to be able to do what I love for a living,” she said backstage. “This win means more people get to live their dreams. I'm extremely grateful.” This was the only year in the awards' 93-year history with two female nominees: Zhao and Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell. Zhao's film, starring Frances McDormand, tells the story of a woman in her 60s and other transient workers in the American West. The film won best picture and McDormand took home the award for best actress. Wearing braids and sporting white tennis shoes, Zhao thanked her entire cast and crew. She also paid homage to those who inspired her to “keep going.” “This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold onto the goodness in themselves and hold onto the goodness in each other, no matter how difficult it is to do that,” she said during her acceptance speech. “This is for you. You inspire me to keep going.” (AP) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.

What happens when you get Aaron, Celeste, JP and Xenia talking about a Russian man stuck in a Chinese idol show, National Bubble Tea Day and Chloe Zhao winning the Best Director Oscar? You get Episode 3 of Asian Pop Nation for 2021! Please note that SYN does not have the rights to podcast the music it plays on 90.7FM. That means you'll have listen live on SYN 90.7FM | DAB+ syn.org.au every Tuesday from 8pm to 11pm for all the wonderful tunes. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - @asianpopnation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's your morning news: "Nomadland's'' Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win a Best Director Oscar last night at the 93rd Academy Awards. The L.A. Unified School Board has chosen an interim superintendent to replace Austin Beutner after he steps down this summer.  The board offered the temporary job to Deputy Superintendent Megan Reilly, and more. This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. Support the show: https://support.laist.com/laistnav

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! The fantastic Frank Capra is back in discussion on the main show this week as Morgan is joined by Jeannine to talk a movie that won Mr. Capra the Best Director Oscar, MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936) starring Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur!! DejaView also makes a return this week as they discuss this movie's 2002 Adam Sandler remake. How does Jeannine feel after seeing a Gary Cooper movie for the first time?? Why does Morgan want to bring the name "Longfellow" back into common use?? And who decided it was a good idea to put Sandler's comedy on top of a Capra classic?? The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1 IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST SHIRTS: https://www.teepublic.com/user/g9design Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

Dana and Tom discuss the movie that won John Ford his record 4th Best Director Oscar starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, the Quiet Man. Plot Summary: Sean Thornton (John Wayne) has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Soon his eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful, fiery red-head who is the younger sister of an ill-tempered "Red Will" Danaher. The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate soon leads to their engagement and marriage only to have continued problems over Mary Kate's dowry. For more on the episode, go to: https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/the-quiet-man-1952 For the entire list so far, go to: https://tj3duncan.wixsite.com/ronnyduncanstudios/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The record-breaking randomness continues with the challenges of growing a 14-ft-wide moustache, fighting with paper (but not rocks or scissors), richest man Jeff Bezos, female filmmakers at the Oscars, a big beaver collection, insuring your body parts and surfing with dogs!

Manoj Nelliyattu, "M. Night" Shyamalan has had one of Hollywood's most interesting stories that could well have come from one of his scripts. After two independent movies which amounted to little success, Shyamalan set the world afire with 1999's The Sixth Sense, which took critics off guard, gathering six Academy Award nominations and rolling to an almost $700 million box office take, making it the most successful horror film all the way until 2017, when It finally knocked it off. But after a financial and critical success such as that, where do you go from there? Join myself, Matt, and the returning Michael Guarnieri as we take the journey to answering that question, which we begin with The Sixth Sense and will eventually lead to Shyamalan's new film Old, scheduled for release this July. In 2002, Shyamalan was in a good place. He had two certified hits, and Newsweek made him a cover boy for their magazine, complete with the headline 'The Next Spielberg'. The media was rooting for this guy to make movies that define a generation. To kickstart this leg of his career, Shyamalan decided to do his version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, called Signs. With a different actor in the lead, Shyamalan nonetheless had to deal with directing Mel Gibson, who had won the Best Director Oscar. He also once again had Tak Fujimoto as his DP, and Joaquin Phoenix and Kieran Culkin in his cast. With all this at his disposal, how did Shyamalan do? Join myself and Matt as we lead Mike, who is once again coming to a viewing of a Shyamalan movie for the very first time, through a story about aliens, faith, and water. Signs (2002) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10) CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW! Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes

Murtada and Nathaniel talk Gary Oldman as Mank. Plus supporting performances from Amanda Seyfried and Charles Dance. But what of the wide open Best Director race?

Emily (the new mommy!!) returns to round out "The Quickie Trilogy". This time, the old friends discuss the Best Director Oscar of 2002, an award shamelessly given to a man who couldn't attend the ceremony to accept as he is wanted for rape in the United States. That man's name is Roman Polanski.  

Donna returns from S Dakota with stories of prairie dogs and a donkey named Jack, Steve started watching a movie and realized it was a series, Bradley Cooper was embarrassed by not being nominated for a Best Director Oscar, a salon discriminates against unhappy people

Multi award-winning director Oliver Stone is a controversial figure in American filmmaking. The Vietnam veteran's portrayals of war and violence have proved contentious, as have his political views and frequent criticism of US foreign policy. His new memoir Chasing The Light focuses on the first 40 years of his career, and ends with him receiving a Best Director Oscar for Platoon in 1987. In it he shares stories from inside the making of classic films like Midnight Express, Scarface, and Salvador, and about some of the larger-than-life characters he's met along the way.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 60: How Green Was My Valley (1941) Released 6 May 2020 For this episode, we watched How Green Was My Valley, written by Philip Dunne, from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by John Ford who won his third Best Director Oscar for it. It starred Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Donald Crisp (won Best Supporting Actor), Roddy McDowall and Sara Allgood (nominated). It also won Best Black-and-White Cinematography and Best Black-and-White Art Direction and it was nominated for its screenplay, its editing, its score and its sound. Faye Dunaway’s post-Oscar breakfast. https://tinyurl.com/bpdunaway Next time we will be discussing The Deer Hunter. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to help us to continue to make it, you can now support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month. Thanks go to all of the following lovely people who have already done that. James Murray, Andreas Marquart Frellesen, Jonquil Coy, Ann Blake, Lee Ingleby, Michael Walker, Ms Rebecca K O'Dwyer, Anna Joerschke, Anne Dellamaria, Annmarie Gray, Ben Squires, Claire Creighton, Dave Kloc, Eloise Lowe, Helle Rasmussen, Joy Wilkinson, Kate Butler, Katy Espie, Kirsten Marie Oeveraas, Lisa Gillespie, Michael Wilson, Nick Hetherington, Olivia, Peter , Robert Orzalli, Sally Grant, Sam Elliott, Anna Jackson, Anna Smith, Catherine Murphy, Darren Williams, David Hanneford, Eamonn Clarke, Emma Colvill, Emmet Jackson, Judi Cox, Kath , Lucinda Baron von Parker, Martin Korshoj Petersen, Sian Thomas, Stuart Shepherd.

This week we take a look at two more Best Picture Oscar Nominees. Parasite, also up for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director for Bong Joon Ho, and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood which has garnered director Quentin Tarantino another Best Director Oscar nomination. It's another episode of interesting and thought provoking conversation!

This week on End Credits, we're getting politically romantic. Our review this week is Long Shot, a movie about finding love in all the wrong places, like the campaign trail, and it might offer some refreshing laughs from American politics. We're also going to be talking about spoilers, new trailers, the best of the decade, and the loss of a major voice in modern cinema. This Wednesday, May 8, at 2 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss: Singleton in Time. John Singleton passed away last week due to complications after having a stroke in April. It was a blow for the film business for Singleton, as you may know, is the youngest person to ever be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, and the first Black person to ever get the nod. We'll talk about the life and career of Singleton, and the films and legacy he leaves behind. Spoilers of War. The sky high expectations of Avengers: Endgame, and the fan excitement about it, has made people extremely prickly about seeing or hearing spoilers in advance of seeing the film. Disney even had a spoilers expiring date for Endgame. But is it possible that we're too spoiler-phobic? Where is the fine line between wanting to experience a movie fresh and just being obsessive? Decade to Rest. It's only May, but we've already gotten our first list of the Best Movies of the 2010. The website World of the Reel surveyed 250 film critics, and collated the results to a Top 20 list of movies released so far since January 2010. There are some interesting picks in there, and some questionable ones, so we'll look at the list and talk about how it might compare to our lists (if we make one, and we might make one. You know, later). Sonic Spoof. You shouldn't judge a film by the trailer, but here come a couple of projects that you can't help being judgey about. One is Sonic the Hedgehog, a live-action movie based on the 16-bit video game character, and the other is Gemini Man, where Will Smith fights Will Smith who's been de-aged 30 years thanks to digital technology. Is there any hope for these movies? REVIEW: Long Shot (2019). Politics is a tough game, but not as tough as the game of love! In Long Shot, presidential candidate Charlize Theron tries to become the Leader of the Free World while her new speechwriter Seth Rogen makes a play to become the first First Gentleman. American politics aren't exactly a great, life-affirming basis to build a film on, so you can at least enjoy a funny movie and the surprisingly wonderful Theron/Rogen chemistry. End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 2 pm.

This week’s Podcast has that award season feeling, as Paweł Pawlikowski — nominated this week for the Best Director Oscar — speaks to director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything, Man on Wire)about his Academy Award-nominated film, Cold War. This audio comes from our Winter 2018 member event, and discusses Paweł’s use of aspect ratio, lighting, black and white, music and so much more. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave us a review. Music: Loyalty Freak

Director/Academy Awards Magnet Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) picked up his second Best Picture and third (!) Best Director Oscar at the 11th Academy Awards back in 1939 for 1938’s You Can’t Take It With You. Starring a young Jimmy Stewart (Vertigo) and an impressive cast of misfits and anarchists this screwball comedy is full of energy for about two thirds of its running time. Check out the episode and hear what the guys thought of this classic film.

Spielberg won his second Best Director Oscar for this week's film "Saving Private Ryan"...War film aficionado & Comedian Tracy Barkley joins us to talk about why this is among the best. Plus Andy Beningo calls in to say it's one of the best films period! Why do so many war films feel like two films in one? Was this film another victim of Weinstein? How did co-host Denise get so tough? Did Spielberg get too sappy again? Was Tom Hanks a jerk in his final breath? All  these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. Comedian Tracy Barkley on Facebook Home of the Mazan Movie Club Steve on Facebook Steve's Comedy Website  

It's not been a good 24 hours for liberals, both in the media and out. On the Friday video edition of The Daily Daily Caller Podcast, we take a look at the NBC News story that stopped all the presses Thursday: President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen had his phones tapped by federal investigators. It was a huge story that was ... not true. It went from the "BREAKING NEWS" pile to a big, steaming pile. NBC News is in desperate need of new sheets after what they did to the bed. Is there no fact-checking or editorial process in media anymore? Of course, the attorney for Stormy Daniels was on MSNBC just moments after the fake story broke and claimed he'd known about it, and that he knew more about it --- saying Cohen's phone calls were listened to, and that his text messages and emails were being monitored. Once the correction was announced, the whole thing was dropped because the narrative could no longer be fed. Speaking of fed, egos were fed Thursday on CNN as journalist April Ryan issued fighting words after an exchange with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Apparently saying "You don't know me" has replaced removing your glove and slapping someone across the face as you challenge them to a duel, at least according to Ryan. The entire exchange was hilariously stupid, so Ryan will likely win many journalism awards for it. The award for sexiest candidate with the most energy in his campaign commercial goes to West Virginia GOP candidate Don Blankenship. In his ad, Blankenship repeatedly refers to "Chinapeople" and "Cocaine Mitch" with all the energy and passion you'd expect ... from someone high on heroin who just took two sleeping pills. It's impossible to parody because it is a parody. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the people who give out the Oscars every year, announced Thursday that they have expelled Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski over their treatment of women. Cosby was recently convicted of three counts of sexual assault and is facing spending the rest of his life in prison, and Polanski drugged and raped an underage girl, then fled the country to avoid being sent to prison. While Cosby was convicted last week, Polanski's crime occurred in 1977 --- 41 years ago. So why is the Academy expelling him now, especially considering it had awarded him with the Best Director Oscar in 2002, where he received a standing ovation? Because the liberals that make up the Academy didn't want to be seen expelling a black guy like Cosby while still having Polanski as a member. They don't really care about either, but considering the perversions that have been exposed in Hollywood since the Harvey Weinstein story broke, they likely thought it would be much better to do both, from a PR perspective. And finally, CNN has a new ad declaring itself the keeper of truth. The ad features a pile of bananas and is, like all the others, beyond parody. But we managed to parody it anyway by adding some truth to their advertising. The Daily Daily Caller Podcast is a daily look and mocking of the news from a conservative perspective. Hosted by Derek Hunter, it is available in audio form Monday-Thursday and will have a video option on Fridays. Derek Hunter is a columnist and contributing editor for The Daily Caller and author of “Outrage, INC: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood” from HarperCollins, available June 19. Send compliments and complaints to derek@dailycaller.com or follow him on Twitter at @derekahunter.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 60: How Green Was My Valley (1941) Released 6 May 2020 For this episode, we watched How Green Was My Valley, written by Philip Dunne, from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by John Ford who won his third Best Director Oscar for it. It starred Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp (won Best Supporting Actor), Roddy McDowall and Sara Allgood (nominated). It also won Best Black-and-White Cinematography and Best Black-and-White Art Direction and it was nominated for its screenplay, its editing, its score and its sound. Faye Dunaway's post-Oscar breakfast. https://tinyurl.com/bpdunaway Next time we will be discussing The Deer Hunter. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to help us to continue to make it, you can now support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month. Thanks go to all of the following lovely people who have already done that. James Murray, Andreas Marquart Frellesen, Jonquil Coy, Ann Blake, Lee Ingleby, Michael Walker, Ms Rebecca K O'Dwyer, Anna Joerschke, Anne Dellamaria, Annmarie Gray, Ben Squires, Claire Creighton, Dave Kloc, Eloise Lowe, Helle Rasmussen, Joy Wilkinson, Kate Butler, Katy Espie, Kirsten Marie Oeveraas, Lisa Gillespie, Michael Wilson, Nick Hetherington, Olivia, Peter , Robert Orzalli, Sally Grant, Sam Elliott, Anna Jackson, Anna Smith, Catherine Murphy, Darren Williams, David Hanneford, Eamonn Clarke, Emma Colvill, Emmet Jackson, Judi Cox, Kath , Lucinda Baron von Parker, Martin Korshoj Petersen, Sian Thomas, Stuart Shepherd.

For Jennifer Lawrence's latest RED SPARROW we decide to be social with guest JD Duran of Insession Film. He joins the podcast to discuss the problems the characters of REDS and RED HEAT have navigating personal relationships when they conflict with their political beliefs. So on the one hand we have the film that won Warren Beatty his Best Director Oscar and the film that SHOULD have won Arnold Schwarzenegger one of many Oscars. All of that and we implore our guest to stop going on social media. Follow us at the links below: Support what we do with bonus content and early episodes on Patreon   Facebook/Instagram/Twitter: @warmachinehorse   Closing music is Travelogue by Overlake (hope you enjoy it, Joe!)

***This Episode is Spoiler FREE*** Best Director Oscar Category Review Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread - 3:41 Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water - 8:45 Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird - 14:40 Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk - 22:19 Jordan Peele, Get Out - 31:01 Perfecting Perfection (Category Re-Rank) - 34:41 Here’s our overview of this year’s category of Best Director. The format for these episodes is simple. We argue against and for each nominee, and then we rank them how we see fit. Our category reviews are nearly coming to a close. We hope they’ve been helpful as you prepare for the Oscars, but we also feel they’ll be relevant after the award show due to our format. It’s a category overview that breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of each directorial performance, and therefore could be something you consider listening to after the show as well. In any case, these episodes answer some of the most pressing comparative questions regarding this loaded category, and the takes, per usual, are piping hot. What is it about PTA that brings out career defining performances by some of our best thespians? How did he make Phantom Thread one of the most cinematic moviegoing experiences of the year? We’ve been harsh about how many folks have been overrating Guillermo Del Toro for his film The Shape of Water. But we also discuss some of the things we loved about this academy favorite. Did Greta Gerwig strike the perfect balance with Lady Bird? But will her age allow Hollywood to put off this award for another season or ten? Christopher Nolan might have made his best film at the worst time with Dunkirk. Should the work remind us why he was the early favorite going into the season? Finally, the more we re-watch Get Out, the more we marvel over his skill and tact in pulling off this genre bender. But is there a hidden backlash throughout Hollywood that could keep him from the podium? We’ll be recording, editing, and releasing these episodes this week at a record pace leading into the Oscars. Hopefully, you’re enjoying them as preview episodes for Hollywood’s big night, but again, we also believe they’ll play well after the Oscar trophies find owners. Do stay tuned for our Best Picture and Oscar Prediction episodes. Then we’ll take you to and through the award show with our own take on the best films and performances of the year with The Mike Mike & Oscars, and of course, we’ll have several reaction episodes to the night itself. Do please plan to stick with us after the award shows as we’ll soon be recording a 2018 Year in Preview, where we’ll discuss our most anticipated films coming soon to theaters and streaming services near you. We’ll have a Netflix Quarterly Review episode by the End of March, more movie event pods for films like the mind bender from Alex Garland, Annihilation, Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time, and Wes Anderson’s upcoming Isle of Dogs. Then we’ll also spend some time mining Oscar history for our retrospectives, which you can get a feel for by searching our backlog of episodes. Please reach out and chat with us on social media. We’re on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail, & Reddit. If you have a few moments, please like, review, and share our show with family and friends. We so appreciate all your help spreading the word about our little show here, and we’re thrilled to watch our loyal audience members stick with us and grow. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening. The show does mean a lot to us, and we hope you all get that sense when you listen. Enjoy this final countdown to the Oscars. As always - when reality sucks, watch movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar!

(Recorded February 12th, 2018) Welcome back to another Movie Review episode! First, Dan and Spoiler Steve give their thoughts on Infinity Chamber (02:16). Kova joins in and the three review What We Do In The Shadows (16:02) and The Cloverfield Paradox (26:28). Then, Kova and Spoiler Steve review Peter Rabbit (46:00) and chat about the Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nominees (1:01:05).For feedback, email us sceneitcast@gmail.com. Like us on facebook.com/sceneitcast and on twitter and instagram @sceneitcast. Find kova on twitter @kovanova10 and find steve @TheSpoilerSteve and on facebook.com/spoilersteve. 

The second season of The Good Place wrapped up this week, so Matt and Ed talk about why it's one of the most exciting, adventurous and moving sitcoms of all time (not to mention super funny). Be warned: there's plenty of spoilers, so best wait until you're fully up to date with The Good Place. They also discuss the New York Times article on Uma Thurman, whether Guillermo del Toro has the Best Director Oscar in the bag this year, and the surprising way in which Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is like Titanic. 00:00:00 - 00:29:07 - Intro & News 00:29:08 - 01:08:12 - Matt & Ed discuss The Good Place. Again: SPOILERS. 01:08:13 - 01:13:31 - SRS Recommends & Outro

A two part Seriously following actor Tim Robbins and Rajesh Mirchandani and the theatre programme the Actors' Gang in Norco prison. Part 1: The Actors' Gang Just outside of LA in the Californian desert, presenter Rajesh Mirchandani joins 'Shawshank Redemption' star Tim Robbins as he leads acting classes with the segrgated inmates from Norco prison. Rajesh witnesses the transformation of inmates, from tough gangsters into respectable men and gains a unique insight into some of America's toughest social challenges. Rajesh recorded inside the prison with Tim Robbins over a two month period, gaining unique access not only to Tim but also to the inmates. Tim visibly enjoys cult status among the inmates and quickly gains their trust. He is no stranger to prisons, having played an innocent man convicted of murder in "The Shawshank Redemption" and was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for "Dead Man Walking" - a film about a death row inmate. He formed The Actor's Gang, an acting troupe, which runs prison theatre workshop for inmates having spent time in some of LA's toughest prisons whilst researching both films. With re-offending a more likely scenario once they are out of prison, Robbins believes that more should be done whilst they are inside to help them change their ways. Robbins' Hollywood master class ranges from Shakespeare to Commedia dell' arte, a style that originated in 16th-Century Italy and involves actors in masks playing basic character types. Robbins explains that inmates learn to portray four different emotions: happiness, sadness, fear and anger. One of the inmates who Rajesh follows over the course is Mike who is serving a lengthy prison sentence. Mike says, "In the yard, gangs stick to their patch but these classes have helped to make guys see that we don't need to be violent.". Part 2: The Actors' Gang on the Outside We followed actor Tim Robbins' work with prisoners on the inside of LA's tough prison system in the acclaimed Radio 4 documentary The Actor's Gang. Three of the actors who we heard in the first documentary have now been released. In the Actor's Gang on the Outside, Rajesh Mirchandani catches up with them to hear their stories. Has taking part in the The Actor's Gang Prison Project helped them turn their lives around and has the acting course had any long term effects on helping with their rehabilitation and adapting to life outside prison? This promises to be a compellingly gritty portrait of crime, second chances and the power of drama.

Kathryn Bigelow made a big change in her career direction as a film director when she made 2009's "The Hurt Locker." While it still had the adrenaline action sensibilities she displayed in her prior films, this film was less of a Hollywood action movie and more of an honest portrayal of soldiers in a war. This week on The Next Reel, join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we delve into Bigelow's independent war film that made her the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. We talk about how Mark Boal discovered the story while embedded as a journalist in the war and how well it works as a film, yet also is a script not structured in typical Hollywood fashion. We discuss the actors and what they bring to the table in what is ostensibly a psychological study of these characters. We chat about how the film was shot and what it does for the feel of the film. And we talk about the reception of the film and how disappointing it is that more people haven't seen it. Truly one of our favorites, we have a fantastic time talking about this film. Listen in!

Kathryn Bigelow made a big change in her career direction as a film director when she made 2009's "The Hurt Locker." While it still had the adrenaline action sensibilities she displayed in her prior films, this film was less of a Hollywood action movie and more of an honest portrayal of soldiers in a war. This week on The Next Reel, join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we delve into Bigelow's independent war film that made her the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. We talk about how Mark Boal discovered the story while embedded as a journalist in the war and how well it works as a film, yet also is a script not structured in typical Hollywood fashion. We discuss the actors and what they bring to the table in what is ostensibly a psychological study of these characters. We chat about how the film was shot and what it does for the feel of the film. And we talk about the reception of the film and how disappointing it is that more people haven't seen it. Truly one of our favorites, we have a fantastic time talking about this film. Listen in!

Kathryn Bigelow made a big change in her career direction as a film director when she made 2009's "The Hurt Locker." While it still had the adrenaline action sensibilities she displayed in her prior films, this film was less of a Hollywood action movie and more of an honest portrayal of soldiers in a war. This week on The Next Reel, join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we delve into Bigelow's independent war film that made her the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. We talk about how Mark Boal discovered the story while embedded as a journalist in the war and how well it works as a film, yet also is a script not structured in typical Hollywood fashion. We discuss the actors and what they bring to the table in what is ostensibly a psychological study of these characters. We chat about how the film was shot and what it does for the feel of the film. And we talk about the reception of the film and how disappointing it is that more people haven't seen it. Truly one of our favorites, we have a fantastic time talking about this film. Listen in!

Kathryn Bigelow made a big change in her career direction as a film director when she made 2009's "The Hurt Locker." While it still had the adrenaline action sensibilities she displayed in her prior films, this film was less of a Hollywood action movie and more of an honest portrayal of soldiers in a war. This week on The Next Reel, join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we delve into Bigelow's independent war film that made her the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. We talk about how Mark Boal discovered the story while embedded as a journalist in the war and how well it works as a film, yet also is a script not structured in typical Hollywood fashion. We discuss the actors and what they bring to the table in what is ostensibly a psychological study of these characters. We chat about how the film was shot and what it does for the feel of the film. And we talk about the reception of the film and how disappointing it is that more people haven't seen it. Truly one of our favorites, we have a fantastic time talking about this film. Listen in!

Grab your climbing gear and don’t forget to grab your Swiss Army knife-you know in case you need to cut off your arm-and join us as we discuss Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. Then we take time to honor Sally Menke, an individual who will be sorely missed in the film community, and we discuss just how important the editor is. Then we tackle the 1940’s with Get Your Film History with Get Your Film Fix! We wrap it all up by discussing our top 5 films that follow up a director’s Best Director Oscar.