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Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars

Adam Sadiq, Sarah Sax, Drew Vollmer

Best Picture Brainrot is a 100-week countdown to the 100th Academy Awards, where your hosts Adam, Alexis, and Sarah watch every Best Picture Oscar winner in order, starting with 1927"s Wings to... whatever the Academy picks for their 100th winner. Learn about Oscar history, film history, even some world history while your hosts discuss every winner in detail and continuously suffer from ever-worsening brainrot. New episodes every Thursday.Follow along onInstagram:

tv & film film history

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72 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Around the World in...

Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars ·

2026/10/08

We are 72 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today, we're sponsored by Kalshi because we're talking about a bet. A certain bet, a specific bet about if it is possible to go around the world in less than 3 months. Yes, Around the World in 80 Days is the winner of these 29th Academy Awards.You may be familiar with Jules Verne's novel - but this movie brings the story to the big screen in vibrant color and scale that has rarely been matched in these first three decades of the Oscars. It's

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73 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Marty (1955)

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2026/10/01

We are 73 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today, we've got the meats. Marty tells the story of a sweet New York butcher who finds love after 34 years of trying, which is a crazy long amount of time, apparently. Maybe when you're Italian!Marty Piletti and Clara Snyder are both old, busted individuals for the 1950s - or at least that's what all of their friends and family tell them! They've internalized the fact that they'll never find love and instead spend all their nights hanging

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74 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | On the Waterfront...

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2026/09/24

We are 74 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we go back to a city we've been in a few times before, New York. But this time, we're bound for a more working class lifestyle by hitting the docks. On the Waterfront is Elia Kazan's story about a man who has to make the hard choices when faced with his work versus his morals.Terry Malloy works, appropriately, on the waterfront as a longshoreman. He lives what he thinks is a good life until a traumatic event shakes him to his core and

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75 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | From Here to...

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2026/09/17

We are 75 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we welcome a colorful cast of characters all clad in aloha shirts. Yes, Fred Zinneman's From Here to Eternity is the story of the crew of a Hawaiian military outpost in the looming days of World War II, and our 26th Best Picture Winner.An ex-boxer with the suspicious name of Robert E. Lee Prewitt arrives at the Schofield Military Barracks; he's pressured to join the boxing team but refuses and most of the rest of the men make his life

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76 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Greatest Show...

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2026/09/10

We are 76 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we go to the big top - that bastion of family fun, dazzling feats of human agility and... criminal clowns? These are all part of The Greatest Show on Earth - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic (for lack of a better word) and the winner of the 25th Academy Awards.A movie about the circus should have a commensurately wacky plot, and this movie delivers in spades. We get another back-to-back love triangle that features a young Charlton Heston

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77 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | An American in...

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2026/09/03

We are 77 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we travel to the iconic city of love as tourists for An American in Paris, the Gene Kelly-led MGM musical that brough color back to the Oscars with a nonsensical love triangle that runs on good vibes and dance numbers.In this movie, Jerry Mulligan is a starving artist and American ex-GI living in, of course, Paris. He falls in love with a girl who happens to be dating his best friend all while being courted by a much wealthier woman who

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78 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | All About Eve (1950)

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2026/08/27

We are 78 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we talk all about All About Eve, 1950's Best Picture winner that brings one of the most feminine stories to the podcast yet - about a woman who seeks to worm her way into the social circle of an aging Broadway star, with plans to usurp her.Bette Davis' Margo Channing is iconic in this movie as the aging star who is threatened by a talented newcomer named Eve. In Joseph L. Mankwiecz's classic, we get the story from all angles; every

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79 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | All the King's Men...

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2026/08/20

We are 79 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we discuss the rise and fall of a somewhat fake but mostly real (but still fake) American politician named Willie Stark in 1949's All the King's Men.Willie Stark is the governor of a fictional and unnamed American state that is stealthily set in Stockton, California. He is a stand-in for the very real politician Huey Long - the polarizing social Democrat from 1920s Louisiana. Known for his commitment to wealth redistribution and helping

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80 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Hamlet (1948)

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2026/08/13

We are 80 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and this week we ask: To Brainrot? Or not to Brainrot? That is the question. 'Tis better to have Brainrotted and lost than... wait. Wrong one. This is 1948's Hamlet, the winner of the 21st Academy Awards.We welcome back our friend from Rebecca, Laurence Olivier; he has redefined himself as a Shakespearean thespian, perhaps THE Shakespearean thespian at least until Kenneth Branagh and Baz Luhrmann come around. This is one of many of his

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81 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Gentleman's...

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2026/08/06

We are 81 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and this week it's time for a very special episode. Like the Oscars in the late 40s, we are here to talk about antisemitism, and will do so through the lens of the well-meaning Gentleman's Agreement.There's something to be said about earnest tackling of social issues by movies; they can uncover real rifts within society, attemping to diagnose and even heal them where possible. However, in this movie we have a non-Jewish character pretending to be

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82 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Best Years of...

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2026/07/30

We are 82 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and for a second time, the gang is Wylin' out. William Wyler returns to the World War II well with another homefront war drama - but this one focuses on American veterans coming home. This is 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives.In the vaguely Midwestern town of Boone City, three veterans return home from World War II, each one bringing new outlooks on life, insecurities, and in some cases, physical disabilities. They have to quickly adapt to being

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83 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Lost Weekend...

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2026/07/23

We are 83 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and it's... 5 'o clock somewhere! Join hic Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they wash down last year's feel-good comedy with an unrelenting alcoholic drama; 1945's The Lost Weekend.Don Birnam is a man with a problem - a post-Prohibition alcohol addiction that comes to a head on one specific weekend. Instead of going on a rehabilitative retreat with his brother, Don goes on a bender; with a saga that twists in his backstory with his current downfall. It

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84 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Going My Way (1944)

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2026/07/16

We are 84 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and it's time Adam, Drew, and Sarah got a little bit... Catholic. We're not following the standard path today, no, we're Going My Way - 1944's intergenerational comedy of a Best Picture Winner.There's a war going on? Is what the good folk of 1944 probably asked as they laughed their way through this story of a young priest who shows up to a failing church and has to take over. Father O'Malley and Father Fitzgibbon have nothing in common besides

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85 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Casablanca (1943)

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2026/07/09

We are 85 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they travel to unoccupied France to escape the Nazi takeover of mainland Europe. Of course to get out they need to go through... Casablanca, 1943's iconic Best Picture Winner.Back to back World War II movies isn't a surprise - though Casablanca bucks a bit of the optimistic patriotism of Mrs. Miniver for the cynical worldview of Rick, the owner of the American Cantina (I mean, Cafe) in French Morocco's most

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86 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Mrs. Miniver (1942)

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2026/07/02

We are 86 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they hang out with a particular British housewife by the name of Mrs. Miniver, the winner of 1942's Best Picture Oscar.Step aside World War I - your time is up. There's a new World War in town and this one has villains with killer fashion sense. We appreciate your contributions but frankly my dear (wrong reference) you're old news. On it's surface, Mrs.Miniver appears to be a WWII-version of pod-villain Cavalcade,

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87 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | How Green Was My...

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2026/06/25

We are 87 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as the answer the question all of us have been thinking: How Green Was My Valley? Of course that is the name of 1941's Best Picture winner.Wale, Wale, Wale, what do we have here? A valley huh? How green is it? Oh, not that green? Covered with coal soot actually? Oh Wale... That's it. That's the movie. It's a pretty even-keeled coming-of-age story for a young lad named Huw who comes from a coal mining family.

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88 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Rebecca (1940)

Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars ·

2026/06/18

We are 88 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they get a little Hitchcockian and meet the winner of 1940's Best Picture - Rebecca.We find ourselves in the hangover year from Gone With the Wind with Rebecca, another dark love story - but one where we trade American aesthetic for European sensibility, large scale for intimacy, and sweeping color for black and white cinematography at its best. Rebecca tells the tale of a whirlwind romance across class barriers

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89 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Gone With the Wind...

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2026/06/11

We are 89 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they, frankly, give a damn about the 12th Best Picture winner - 1939's Gone With the Wind.1939 was a banner year for a lot of reasons. The New York Yankees swept the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series, Hitler invaded Poland, and a scrappy little cinematic novel adaptation named Gone With the Wind released to unprecedented financial success and Oscars recognition. It's the epic Southern romance that set the world

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90 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | You Can't Take it...

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2026/06/04

We are 90 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they consume more Capraganda with the 11th Best Picture winner - 1938's You Can't Take it With You.Like we said, there are 90 weeks until Oscars 100. Or should we say... 90 "twee"ks for the most millennial-core Best Picture which is somehow also from the 1930s. This movie stars Jimmy Stewart as the son of a business magnate who falls in love with a *gasp* poor girl from a *gasp* quirky family. Hijinks ensue but

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91 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Life of Emile...

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2026/05/28

Can you believe this is our 10th epsiode? We are 91 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as "They Accuse!" (that will make sense later) one of the most French Best Picture winners - 1937's The Life of Emile Zola.We're back in the biopic trenches (regardless of how you pronounce it) with the story of Emile Zola, a French journalist and author whose career spanned the late 1800s. Specifically, this movie covers his early career to death while also taking time to

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