Latest Best picture Podcast Episodes
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Rewatching Oscar - April 19, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat an incredible year in cinema! There were so many great films to close out the decade. It was a time when Hollywood turned a new page and began making deeper, darker, and more rich films. And one of those films was this classic starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman ... Midnight Cowboy. T...
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rewatching Oscar - April 05, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere have only been three films that have swept the "big five" Oscars. And this one, the ONLY so-called horror film to win, is the last to win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. The Silence of the Lambs scared us all when we first saw it in the theatres in 1991 ... and we...
Bonus Episode 6: Oscars 2024 Recap
Rewatching Oscar - March 17, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAnother Oscar broadcast for the history books! Download and listen to Jack's take on the 96th Annual Academy Awards that took place on Sunday, March 10th. Oppenheimer rocked the night with 7 awards including the big prize. Jimmy Kimmel did a great job in his fourth time hosting, but who will c...
Ordinary People (1980) Including 2024 Oscar Predictions
Rewatching Oscar - March 08, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn 1980, legendary actor Robert Redford made his directorial debut with a film that moved so many and gave us great dramatic performances from Donald Sutherland, newcomer Timothy Hutton, and even comedy sitcom star Mary Tyler Moore. The film is of course the moving Ordinary People. It took home...
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Rewatching Oscar - March 01, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMany directors fit certain categories of filmmaking ... when you think of films that focus on the little guy overcoming obstacles and beating corporations or banks or the rich ... well, you think of Frank Capra. Capra won three Academy Awards in 5 years and the last win is likely his least-know...
Unforgiven (1992)
Rewatching Oscar - February 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWesterns are not as popular amongst movie-goers over the past 40 years ... but there is one that changed the way we look at the Wild West. Clint Eastwood gave us Unforgiven. It's a film that turns the Western tropes of the past on its head. It's a wonderfully written, acted, and directed film ...
The French Connection (1971)
Rewatching Oscar - February 02, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe 1970s were the dawn of a new generation of filmmakers. The era between 1967 and 1979 is known as New Hollywood cinema. Directors and screenwriters began making films with fewer reigns on them and trying new riskier stories, with styles used predominately in European films. The French Conn...
Bonus Episode 5: Oscar Nominations 2024
Rewatching Oscar - January 24, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWell ... another year has passed and we finally are here.: The announcement of the Academy Award nominations for the best films of 2023. Yes, there weren't many shockers ... but there are always a couple that stir the pot. Fans lose their minds and they complain and complain about their favouri...
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Rewatching Oscar - January 19, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere were a lot of films that were released after WWII from all different perspectives of what went on during that time. However, during the early 1940s, many films did the same DURING wartime. There were several that were extraordinary. Mrs. Miniver (1942) was one of those special films. A...
Titanic (1997)
Rewatching Oscar - January 05, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWell ... season 4 starts off with a bang! One of the BIG Oscar winners of all-time. It's epic in size, and was loved by so many when it came out. Is this romance/disaster film still all as great as it was all those years ago? Was it ever that great? Are the effects by Director James Cameron r...
An American in Paris (1951)
Rewatching Oscar - December 22, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJack loves being a film critic ... analyzing both the good and the bad of everything that is cinema. The Best Picture Oscar winner of 1951, An American in Paris, covers both ends of that spectrum. The music of George Gershwin, the dance sequences, and many of the scenes really project this film...
Schindler's List (1993)
Rewatching Oscar - December 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSometimes films go above and beyond just being a source of entertainment. Some movies are not just pieces of art put on celluloid for all film lovers to watch, but they are important ... educational, and even a piece of historical reference. Schindler's List is not a documentary, but it feels ...
Cinema Cemetery: Episode 82: The Hurt Locker (2009)
Cinema Cemetery - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn today's episode, we don our bomb disposal suits and venture into the intense and gritty terrain of Kathryn Bigelow's masterful war drama – "The Hurt Locker." Released in 2008, "The Hurt Locker" takes us deep into the heart of the Iraq War, following the harrowing experiences of an elite U.S...
The Shape of Water (2017)
Rewatching Oscar - November 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere are films that seem strange when you read the plot outline. You think to yourself, why would this be made? Then you find out that the perfect guy for this story is the director, so you think it could work. Well, Guillermo del Toro made this fantasy about a mute woman in 1962 who falls in ...
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Rewatching Oscar - November 10, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt has been 25 years, but there are still many who believe that the 1998 winner for Best Picture should NOT have been Shakespeare in Love. Jack revisits this controversial winner and tells us how good it is after all these years, and if it deserves the terrible reputation it gets from those who...
Wings (1927/28)
Rewatching Oscar - October 27, 2023 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt all started with this one. The first Best Picture winner was also a silent film ... the only completely non-talkie to ever win the top award. Yes, even The Artist (2011) had some words at the film's end. But more importantly, Wings is a great film, from its direction, its incredible combat s...
Bonus Episode 4: Top 20 Jack Nicholson Performances
Rewatching Oscar - October 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRewatching Oscar with Jack Ferdman Here is another Bonus Episode, and this time it's all about ... JACK!! No, not the host of this show (although he may want you to think it is), but about the one ... the only ... Jack Nicholson!! What a career he has had. 64 films, tons of accolades, and u...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Rewatching Oscar - October 13, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is one of the great films of the last 50 years. Jack analyzes this film in depth, talking about how it came about, as well as themes of authoritarianism. This movie not only has an incredible screenplay and great direction, but the acting is second to none. The question is, did the Academ...
The Apartment (1960)
Rewatching Oscar - September 29, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBilly Wilder is one of the greatest directors in cinematic history. Here Jack talks about one of his gems, The Apartment. The screenplay, the direction, the acting, and the cinematography are all remarkable and truly make this film timeless, despite being over 60 years old. Will it be good en...
Chicago (2002)
Rewatching Oscar - September 15, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWell ... it took the Academy a while, but finally, 34 years after the last musical to win Best Picture, the Rob Marshall blockbuster Chicago took home Oscar's biggest prize in 2002. What makes this film special? It all starts with the director's vision. However, the cast, the editing, and of c...
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Rewatching Oscar - September 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSEVENTY years ago this movie dominated Hollywood and the Academy Awards. It is a drama disguised as a war film. From Here to Eternity is a movie that took home a boatload of Oscars back in 1953. All the performances are incredible and the direction, editing, and cinematography is first rate. ...
The Artist (2011)
Rewatching Oscar - August 18, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences loves to talk and pay respects to actors and films from a bygone era. They had a huge opportunity to do so by honouring The Artist, a film that pays homage to the silent film era. It won Best Picture beating out many greats of 2011. The question...
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Rewatching Oscar - August 04, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere are films that deserve the Best Picture award and there are films that are just movies that shocked us that they even got nominated ... and then there are films like Driving Miss Daisy. Wow! How could this small, cute, Hallmark-type film, be regarded as the best movie of 1989 by the Acade...
Grand Hotel (1931/32)
Rewatching Oscar - July 21, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis film started the mega-ensemble cast craze. But Grand Hotel is more than just 5 huge stars, led by the incomparable Greta Garbo It not only won the Oscar for Best Picture of that year over nine decades ago, but it was also cinema's biggest box office draw. The fans loved it, and the Academ...
The Sound of Music (1965)
Rewatching Oscar - July 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's one of the big years and films in Academy Awards history ... 1965. Jack Ferdman dives into this big year and the legendary film that won the big prize, The Sound of Music. This classic stayed in theatres upon its initial release for almost 4 years!! It was the biggest box office winner o...
Rain Man (1988)
Rewatching Oscar - June 30, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWell, it's time for film critic, Jack Ferdman, to go back 35 years and dive head-first into the movies that rocked us in 1988. Ok, not every movie was great that year. However, most of us saw and loved the Academy Award winner from that year, Rain Man. Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise definitely ...
Marty (1955)
Rewatching Oscar - June 09, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWho says low-budget smaller films can't win the big one? Well, this film proved all those naysayers wrong! Marty, this tiny engine of a film, with tons of heart, won the Best Picture Oscar way back in 1955. It's a special film that Jack delves into in this episode. It won the big prize back th...
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Rewatching Oscar - May 26, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJack is back!! After a long nine-month hiatus dealing with the highs and lows of life (don't worry, he will share with all of you what happened), Rewatching Oscar returns! And wow ... what a film to return with. One of the best films to win Best Picture in recent memory. No Country For Old Men...
Chapter 9 - The Enemy Within
According to Oscar - May 04, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutesThis episode was written using the following references: Gerber, D. A. (1994). Heroes and Misfits: The Troubled Social Reintegration of Disabled Veterans in “The Best Years of Our Lives.” American Quarterly, 46(4), 545–574. Harris, M. (2014). Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second...
2023 Oscars Pre-Show - 95th Academy Awards
Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast - March 10, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutesWelcome to the 2nd Annual Snubs & Dubs Oscars Pre-Show! We're going over most of the categories at the 95th Academy Awards and providing you with what we think should and will win for each category at this Sunday's ceremony! Please note: This was recorded the SAME DAY as we recorded our Season ...
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