3.16-1st Oscars Recap
02/21/25 • 15 min
Today's episode is my recap of everything from the very first Academy Awards back in 1929. Listen as I walk through the nominees and winners of every category and give a final ranking of all 17 films I was able to watch from this first year of the Oscars. If you missed any of the episodes discussing specific films, you can go back in this feed or just tap on the links below.
- 1.3 The Circus: Chaplin's Sad Take on His Place in Cinema
- 1.4 Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
- 1.6 The Jazz Singer: The Dawn of the Talkie
- 1.7 A Ship Comes In: An Immigrant Story
- 1.8 Speedy: Try Not to Laugh
- 1.9 The Patent Leather Kid: A Boxer goes to War
- 1.17 The Racket: Cops vs. Robbers
- 2.13-The Crowd-Love, Happiness, and Family Struggles
- 2.15 Sadie Thompson-When it Rains, it Pours
- 3.1 Street Angel with Beth Lisogorsky
- 3.4 Tempest with Amanda Kusek
- 3.5 Two Arabian Knights with Shawna Carroll
- 3.7 Underworld with Jeff Kramer
- 3.10 The Last Command with Vicki Lesley
- 3.12-Sunrise with Joe Cruz
- 3.14-7th Heaven with Maria Banson
- 3.15-Wings with Kevin Pettit
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get my 97th Academy Awards preview episodes covering all 23 categories at this year's Oscars in the lead up to the ceremony on March 2nd.
And if you want to be a guest on this very podcast for the 2nd Academy Awards, send me a message replying to this episode and let me know you're interested. I would love to have your voice join the podcast to share your insights on films from 1928 and 1929.
Today's episode is my recap of everything from the very first Academy Awards back in 1929. Listen as I walk through the nominees and winners of every category and give a final ranking of all 17 films I was able to watch from this first year of the Oscars. If you missed any of the episodes discussing specific films, you can go back in this feed or just tap on the links below.
- 1.3 The Circus: Chaplin's Sad Take on His Place in Cinema
- 1.4 Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
- 1.6 The Jazz Singer: The Dawn of the Talkie
- 1.7 A Ship Comes In: An Immigrant Story
- 1.8 Speedy: Try Not to Laugh
- 1.9 The Patent Leather Kid: A Boxer goes to War
- 1.17 The Racket: Cops vs. Robbers
- 2.13-The Crowd-Love, Happiness, and Family Struggles
- 2.15 Sadie Thompson-When it Rains, it Pours
- 3.1 Street Angel with Beth Lisogorsky
- 3.4 Tempest with Amanda Kusek
- 3.5 Two Arabian Knights with Shawna Carroll
- 3.7 Underworld with Jeff Kramer
- 3.10 The Last Command with Vicki Lesley
- 3.12-Sunrise with Joe Cruz
- 3.14-7th Heaven with Maria Banson
- 3.15-Wings with Kevin Pettit
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get my 97th Academy Awards preview episodes covering all 23 categories at this year's Oscars in the lead up to the ceremony on March 2nd.
And if you want to be a guest on this very podcast for the 2nd Academy Awards, send me a message replying to this episode and let me know you're interested. I would love to have your voice join the podcast to share your insights on films from 1928 and 1929.
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3.15-Wings with Kevin Pettit
Today's episode is my conversation about the 1927 film Wings. My friend Kevin Pettit from the See You At The Movies newsletter joins me to discuss the film and we talk about some of the most impressive special effects in early films, the various aspects of love between many of the characters in the film, and someone who has way too much fun with bubbles!
You can watch Wings on YouTube and be sure to check out Kevin's newsletter.
Other films mentioned in this episode include:
- The Kid directed by Charlie Chaplin
- The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin
- City Lights directed by Charlie Chaplin
- Paths of Glory directed by Stanley Kubrick
- All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Lewis Milestone
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith directed by Doug Liman
- Petticoat Junction (series)
- Return to Babylon directed by Alex Monty Canawati
- Babylon directed by Damien Chazelle
- Top Gun: Maverick directed by Joseph Kosinski
- Top Gun directed by Tony Scott
- Pearl Harbor directed by Michael Bay
- Dunkirk directed by Christopher Nolan
- Rocky directed by John G. Avildsen
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans directed by F. W. Murnau
- Behind Enemy Lines directed by John Moore
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3.17-97th Academy Awards Preview-Part 1
Today's is the first of a five episode preview of the 97th Academy Awards where I will be breaking down each and every category throughout the week. Today I am joined by Joanne Thornborough from the Pop! Goes My Brain newsletter to break down all of the technical categories. I've listed the nominees below along with a few other films mentioned throughout the episode.
Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get all the preview episodes this week, and head over to my Substack to submit your guesses for my annual Oscar prediction contest.
The nominees for each category are listed below.
Best Sound:
- A Complete Unknown
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best Production Design:
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best Cinematography:
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria
- Nosferatu
Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best Costume Design:
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best Film Editing:
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
Best Visual Effects:
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Dune: Part Two
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
Other films mentioned in this episode include:
- The Sound of Music directed by Robert Wise
- Ben-Hur directed by William Wyler
- Gone With the Wind directed by Victor Fleming
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