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Oscar Loves Film Club

Oscar Loves Film Club

Two Best Pictures, one link, many thoughts. Join Mark, Chris, Amelia and Izzy as they watch their way through the entire history of Academy Award Best Picture winners, and discuss the Oscar Loves link between them.

tv & film

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01:02:23

Oscar Loves... Sequels

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2023/02/20

Sometimes the Academy just can't get enough. This month, your friendly Oscarologists look at those Best Pictures whose successors also picked up the grand prize. The films we explore in this episode are: The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). This episode was recorded remotely. Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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53:55

Oscar Loves... American Gothic

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2023/01/17

For our first deep dive of 2023, Mark and Izzy delve into what exactly defines American Gothic and how this relates to our two Best Pictures. The films we explore in this episode are: Rebecca (1940) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). This episode was recorded remotely. Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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01:00:23

Oscar Loves... The Theatre

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/09/22

This month, your friendly Oscarologists delve into the films that connect the magic of the theatre to the joy of film, winning Best Picture in the process. The films we explore in this episode are: All About Eve (1950) and Birdman (2014). Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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01:04:57

Oscar Loves... The 'Luck' of the Irish

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/08/16

This month, Mark and Izzy look into the films that walked away with Best Picture, which highlight their connection to Ireland. The films we explore in this episode are: Going My Way (1945) and Titanic (1998). Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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01:01:39

Oscar Loves... Hyperlink Cinema

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/07/16

This month, your friendly Oscarologists dive into those rare films with multiple perspectives and narrative tributaries which have walked away with the Best Picture award. The films we explore in this episode are: Cavalcade (1933) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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01:07:40

Oscar Loves... Biographical Fiction

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/06/16

This month, Mark and Izzy discuss the Best Picture winners that seem like biopics and yet their protagonists are completely fictional. The films we dive into in this edition are: Tom Jones (1963) and Forrest Gump (1994). Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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57:06

Oscar Loves... Noir

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/05/16

In this edition, Mark and Izzy discuss the Academy's continued interest in film noir and neo noir. And just what is noir anyway? To answer that, we discuss best picture winners All The Kings Men (1950) and No Country For Old Men (2008). Thank you to Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork and Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music.

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01:02:14

Oscar Loves... Making History

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/04/16

This month, Mark and Izzy divert from their planned double feature to discuss this year's Best Picture winner CODA and the ceremony itself. In a year that will no doubt go down in history for one specific moment, there were many others that were also groundbreaking. DIrected and adapted by Sian Heder, CODA tells the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones) - the only hearing child of deaf adults, Jackie (Oscar winner Marlee Matlin), and Frank (Oscar winner Troy Kotsur) - who must balance the needs of her

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01:02:25

Oscar Loves... Sports

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/02/16

This month, your friendly Oscarologists rally to discuss the most athletic of Best Picture winners. Written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, Rocky (1976) charts the sudden rise to fame of Rocky Balboa, a down on his luck southpaw boxer from Philadelphia. The film also began one of the most successful film franchises in cinema history, with eight sequels. In Chariots of Fire (1982), we follow the competition and shared experiences between fellow 1924 Olympic athletes Harold Abrahams and Eric

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01:01:25

Oscar Loves... Adaptations

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2022/01/16

This month, we delve into the archives for a previously recorded but unreleased episode where the original OLFC gang discuss those Best Picture winners that also have an adapted screenplay. Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel is based on Vicki Baum's 1929 novel of the same name. The star-studded ensemble includes Greta Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and a very young Joan Crawford. Produced by Irving Thalberg, this MGM extravaganza is the only Best Picture winner not to be nominated in any

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01:01:11

Oscar Loves... A Western

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/12/16

This month, the OLFC gang delve into the Oscars' relationship with the wild west and great frontier. Wesley Ruggles' Cimarron depicts the vast change that took place in the west of America between the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 and 1931, through the eyes of Yancey and Sabra Cravat, played by Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. In Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, notorious outlaw William Munney, now living out his final years in obscurity as a farmer, is persuaded to take one last job

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01:01:43

Oscar Loves... Semi-Autobiography

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/11/21

This month, your friendly Oscarologists examine how those writer-directors who brought a flavour of their real life into their work secured the highest accolade at the Academy Awards. Annie Hall was seen as departure for actor, director and writer Woody Allen, turning his hand to something 'serious'. With an Oscar-winning performance from Diane Keaton, this comedy-drama delves into the hows and whys of a failed relationship. In Platoon, Oliver Stone brought many of his experiences from serving in

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01:02:58

Oscar Loves... Fantasy Films

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/10/16

This month, Mark and Izzy look at the Academy's relationship with all things fantasy and explore those in the genre that have won Best Picture. The Return of the King was the final instalment of Peter Jackson's Tolkein magnum opus The Lord of the Rings. With a star ensemble, epic battles and the stunning backdrop of New Zealand, viewers flocked to the cinema to see if Sam and Frodo would make it to Mordor and save Middle Earth. Fourteen years later, Guillermo Del Toro gave us his dark aquatic

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01:07:51

Oscar Loves... the Inevitable Remake

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/09/17

This month, Izzy, Vincent and Mark discuss the films that have been made... and then made again, this time with Oscar-winning success. Mutiny on the Bounty stars Clark Gable and Charles Laughton as mutineer Christian Fletcher and the infamous, harsh Captain Bligh as they set sail to Tahiti on HMS Bounty. William Wyler's Ben Hur is a true epic that contains one of the most famous action sequences of all time - the chariot race in the grand circus. The plot follows Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur as he is

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58:57

Oscar Loves... Musicals

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/08/18

This month, the team discuss the musicals that have won Best Picture: the good, the bad, and the never agains. Gigi, directed by Vincente Minelli, and starring Leslie Caron, tells the story of 16 year-old Gigi, who begins her training as a courtesan and, in the process, tames the heart of Paris' most eligible bachelor Gaston - played by Louis Jordan. Rob Marshall's Chicago is a razzle dazzle screen adaptation of the broadway musical by Kander and Ebb, starring Renee Zellwegger and Catherine

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59:59

Oscar Loves... Swords and Sandals

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/07/17

This month, your friendly Oscarologists, Mark, Izzy and Vincent, discuss the Academy's penchant for historical epics. Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, tells the story of hero and warrior William Wallace, who leads the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against wily King Edward I played by Patrick McGoohan. Director Ridley Scott - one of modern Hollywood's main purveyors of sword and sandal movies - gained a Best Director nomination for Gladiator, winning Best Picture

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58:53

Oscar Loves... Shakespeare

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/06/18

This month, Mark and Izzy discuss The Bard and Best Picture - those Oscar winners who capture Shakespeare's work on screen or use it as the basis for inventive adaptations. Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Lawrence Olivier as the Danish prince, won both Best Picture and Best Actor at the 1948 ceremony. Also starring Jean Simmons as Ophelia, the film features a powerful score from Sir William Walton. Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story tells the tragic love story of Tony (Richard Beymer)

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58:44

Oscar Loves... Leading Ladies

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/05/16

This month, terrific trio, Mark, Izzy and Vincent, discuss those Best Pictures that shared Oscar glory with the leading ladies who won Best Actress too. Mrs Miniver, directed by William Wyler, stars Greer Garson in the titular role and tells the story of how a quiet family's and community's life is upended by World War II. In Terms of Endearment, we follow the life and tempestuous relationship between Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Thank you to Thomas

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57:52

Oscar Loves... East Asia

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/04/17

This month, Team OLFC gather to discuss the Academy's fascination with East Asia, and the landmark moment in which the first film not in the English language took home Best Picture. The Bridge on the River Kwai is directed by Sir David Lean and stars Sir Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson, the senior British officer held with his troops in a Japanese POW camp tasked to build a bridge over the River Kwai in Burma, as Majors Warden (Jack Hawkins) and Shears (William Holden) attempt to prevent it. In

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01:06:20

Oscar Loves... Black History

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/03/16

This month, our Oscarologists gather to discuss how the Academy loves Black History. Or do they? The team also discuss this year's freshly announced nominations for Best Picture. Gone With the Wind remains the highest grossing Best Picture of all time, with Hattie Mc Daniel becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award. An epic of the American South set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between

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