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Academy Vs Audience
Ever since 1928, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has handed out trophies to what it considered the best in film. Sometimes they were absolutely right, sometimes they were entirely wrong, sometimes they were so, so basic. But in all that time, audiences have had their own opinions, sometimes better, sometimes much worse. And sometimes, when the stars align or the fates allow, they even agree. Academy Vs Audience is a deep dive into Oscar history, revisiting film history from the…
Episodes
- Academy Vs Audience
1931 Revisited: Yancey and the Tramp and Some 80s
While Erin and Claire are bringing a fresh new work to what lucky audiences are able to catch it, we turn back the clock to one of our earliest episodes, in…
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1982: Gandh-E.T.
It's 1982, and the rift between Academy and Audience grows ever farther. The (many) Oscars go to Richard Attenborough's lengthy biopic Gandhi, bringing you the…
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1981: Chariots of the Lost Ark
It’s 1981, and one of the most iconic adventure movies ever takes on a movie with one iconic piece of music that they use a little. The Academy goes with…
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1980: The Ordinary Empire
Welcome to Academy Vs Audiences All 80s Summer! The hits get bigger and the Oscar winners get smaller, and nothing spells that out quite like 1980. The Oscars…
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1979: Kramer V Kramer: Dawn of Just Us
It's 1979, nearing the end of the era of serious dramas for adults ruling the box office, and Dustin Hoffman's divorce and custody drama becomes one of our…
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1978: The Grease Hunter (feat. Kevin Weir)
It's 1978 and the tonal gulf between Oscar winner and people's champ has, if anything, widened, as has the gap in host reactions. The Academy goes for Michael…
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1977: Hall Wars (w/ Munsi Parker-Munroe)
In 1977, a long time ago, you might say Academy and Audience's tastes were far, far away. Claire, Erin, Dan, and returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe strap in…
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Oscars 2024: Year in Review (w/ Olav Rokne)
The Oscars have happened, Award Season is done for now, and we take a look at the ten candidates for Best Picture of 2023, with returning guest Oscar…
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1976: Yo, Rocky!
It's 1976, and audiences and the Academy are united in loving one man: Rocky Balboa. A nine film franchise spanning six decades has a small and simple…
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1975: One Flew Over the SHARK! SHARK! RUN!
It's 1995, and we have cuckoos and sharks coming your way! The Oscar went to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, second film ever to achieve the Oscar Grand Slam…
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1974: Godfather 2 Electric Boogaloo (feat. Gina Stewart)
Two years after The Godfather dominated the box office and snagged the top Oscar, Francis and the Corleones are back for one of the most lauded sequels ever…
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1973: Heists and Horror (feat. Keith Kollee)
It's 1973, and we take a break from Coppola's mafia movies for... more crimes, of legal and spiritual nature! First up, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are back…
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1972: You've NEVER Seen The GODFATHER!? (feat. Gina Stewart)
It's 1972 and Francis Ford Coppola had an offer neither Academy nor Audience could refuse, with all-time-classic mob movie The Godfather. Erin, Claire, and Dan…
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2023 in Review
It's the holiday season, so while taking a brief break, Erin, Claire, and Dan look back at the hits, possible nominees, and other random movies they've seen…
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1971: The Fiddler Connection
1971 brings us another year where you have to ask if someone wrote the winners down wrong, as the Academy goes with the cop thrillers and audiences decide…
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1970: Love and War
Welcome to the 70s, New Hollywood! And as Erin, Claire, and Dan enter this new decade, all is fair in love and war... and if it isn't, love means never having…
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1969: Oops All Cowboys
Grab your hat, your boots, your portable radio, and all the chewing gum you can carry, as New Hollywood hits hard in 1969. The Academy goes for the bleak…
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1968: Last Stand of the Hollywood MegaMusical (feat. Kevin Weir)
It's 1968, the dying days of Hollywood's "Golden Age," and while grosses have been down and the market's oversaturated, the big-budget Hollywood musical is…
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1967: The Heat of the Graduate
Welcome to New Hollywood, listeners! The Academy goes for tense, racially charged In The Heat of the Night, where Sidney Poitier announces "They call me Mr…
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1966: Old Testament Centrism (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
It's 1966, and as the so-called "Golden Age" of Hollywood collapses, nobody's having a good year. The Oscars favour A Man For All Seasons, the story of Thomas…
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1965: The Hills are Alive! RUN!
It's 1965, and Academy Vs Audience hits Film History's Second Juggernaut: Dame Julie Andrews and the late, great, Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music…
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1964: POPPINS. VS. DOOLITTLE!
It's 1964 and it's all singing, all dancing, all grudge match for Julie Andrews! The Oscar goes to Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady, with Audrey Hepburn taking…
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1963: SEX BOMBS (feat. John Tebbutt)
It's 1963, and both Hollywood and the UK were starting to poke at the boundaries of film censors. First off, the best picture winner, England's Tom Jones, in…
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1962: Larry Arabia and the Long Day
War! Huh. Good god, y'all, what is it good for? In 1962, the answer is two surprisingly good movies. First, the Academy Award goes to Lawrence of Arabia…
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1961: DANCE FIGHT (feat. Keith Kollee)
Welcome, listeners, to the Academy Vs Audience/Recovered crossover! Dan, Erin, and Claire welcome Dan's Recovered co-host Keith Kollee to dig into 1961's Joint…
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1960: The Spartacus Apartment
Welcome to the 60s, the decade that most changed Hollywood! But not quite yet. In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is doing a sex farce while Shirley Maclaine is in…
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1959: Ben of the Hurs (feat. Gina Stewart)
Here at the end of another decade, Dan, Claire, and Erin ask a question: can a movie have too much Jesus but also way too little Jesus at the same time? It's…
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1958: Singing, Dancing, Soldiers, Sex Workers?
In our first all-musical episode (don't look at us like that, Broadway Melody doesn't count), Claire, Erin, and Dan dissect two musical movies from famous…
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1957: Bridge Over Troubled Kwai Waters
And we are back! It's 1957, and one film towers over some tough Oscar competition and... a lean year, box office-wise: The Bridge on the River Kwai. Claire…
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1952 Revisited
Our Best of Munsi Triptych wraps up in 1952, as Erin, Claire, Dan, and Munsi dig into two films with questionable romance content. First, An American in Paris…
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1943 Revisited
Our hosts' various breaks continue, and we return to 1943, a year where the Academy couldn't have been more right and the Audience couldn't have been more…
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1933 Revisited
We've hit a perfect storm of host conflicts, so while we recharge in our various ways, enjoy a trip down memory lane, beginning with 1933, in which eventual…
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1956: 80 Days in Ten Commandments (feat. Kevin Weir)
In 1956, two movies take their sweet time with two famous stories. Our Best Picture takes us Around the World in 80 Days (and 200 cameos) as this first film…
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Bonus: 95th Oscars Recap (feat. Olav Rokne)
Erin and Dan are joined by returning guest and Hugo Book Club co-runner Olav Rokne to dissect the latest crop of Best Picture nominees, in the wake of learning…
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1955: Love, War, and Tonal Clashes
It's 1955, and the films get simple in both a pleasant and insulting way. The Academy chooses Paddy Chayefsky's quiet romance of two people deemed unlovable…
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1954: Waterfronts and White Christmases
Erin, Claire, and Dan get a break from feature-length Sunday School sermons to talk about two possible Good Actually movies! Thanks, 1950s! First, young Marlon…
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1953: Sexy Beach Times, Also Jesus
It's 1953, time for what many consider a beloved classic in From Here to Eternity, and certainly some of our hosts agree. Romance, tragedy, and one heavily…
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1952: The Greatest Show Sarcastic Air Quotes
It's our first joint champion of the 1950s! Good news, no bible stories. Less good news, Cecil B. DeMille really wanted people to know how neat he thinks the…
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1951: Dancing, Disciples, Doofuses (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
Erin, Claire, Dan, and returning guest Munsi Parker-Munroe unpack some terrible leading men as the Oscars get musical while the audience goes to Sunday School…
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1950: Eve and Delilah
It's the 1950s, and we kick off the decade with two very different movies. First, legit classic All About Eve brings us into the backstabbing world of being a…
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Mini-episode: 2022 in Review
Before jumping into the 1950s, Erin, Claire, and Dan take a moment to reflect on 2022 in film. What could/should win Best Picture? What's the probable Box…
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There Now Follows a Brief Intermission
With the 1940s wrapped up, Dan, Claire, and Erin take some time to recharge before diving into 1950s Bible Epics, and while they do so, enjoy an outtake from…
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1949: Creepy Old Men (feat. Kevin Weir)
Kevin Weir is back to dig into weirder corners of Oscar history as Academy Vs Audience wraps up the 1940s with two stories of creepy old white dudes having…
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1948: A Year For the Theatre Kids
It's 1948, and our movies are catnip for theatre kids. First up, Sir Laurence Olivier takes on what's clearly a dream project in Hamlet, and while the Oscars…
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1947 Part 2: Return of the Bing
1947's box office champ is weirdly hard to track down, but we found it, so it's time to talk Welcome Stranger! Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald reunite in a…
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1947 Part 1: Underrated Peck Action
It's 1947, and the Academy thinks it's time America had a frank talk about how many Nazis are running around two years after World War II ended. Human avatar…
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1946: The Best Years [citation needed] Of Our Lives
It's our third joint champion in five episodes! In the wake of WWII ending, both audiences and the Academy turned out for what might be the…
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1945: Chuck and the Drunk
It's 1945, and with the war wrapping up, the Academy is done with comfort viewings, and hands the top prize to Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend. Audiences…
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1944: Comfort Flicks With Bing
It's our second Joint Champion of the 1940s, and what Dan calls "The Yancey Cravat of the 40s," as Claire, Erin, and Dan dive into Going My Way with Bing…
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1943: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
1943... the world's at war, and the film world is reacting, but in ways good and bad. For you see, inside all of us are two wolves: Rick's Café American, and…
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1942: One Miniver To Rule Them All
It's 1942, America has joined the war in Europe, and so both Academy and Audience flock to the sweet, pastoral, hard-hitting propaganda picture Mrs. Miniver…
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1941: Valleys, Green? (feat. Olav Rokne)
It's 1941: the valleys are green, the accent work is shoddy, and nobody's cast age-appropriate. Erin, Claire, Dan, and special guest Olav Rokne (co-runner of…
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1940: Gloom and Boom
Academy Vs Audience enters a new decade, and celebrates with improved audio quality over last episode (albeit some internet issues from a host). It's Alfred…
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1939: Blown Away
The time has come; Erin, Claire, and Dan take on the most successful movie ever made. As we reach the end of the 1930s, it's time for the big show, the…
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1938: No Thoughts, Just Vibes (feat. Kevin Weir)
1938: fascism is on the march, Europe is on the brink of a devastating global conflict, and Hollywood says "Let's just chill, okay?" Frank Capra takes his…
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1937: Fools and Horses
In 1937, The Life of Emile Zola takes on real French scandal the Dreyfuss Affair... eventually... and by winning Best Picture sets the unfortunate precedent of…
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1936: Greats and Disasters
1936 sees the first Great Man Biopic take Best Picture in a highly, HIGHLY sanitized biography of Broadway legend Florenz Ziegfeld. Clare and Erin get swept up…
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1935: Gable on a Boat
Our second Joint Champion, and our Clark Gable renaissance continues! The third attempt at Mutiny on the Bounty both snags the big trophy and the hearts of the…
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1934: The Reign of Claudette Colbert
Laughs and love from Frank Capra, DeMille style overindulgence, and learn about a cinematic queen as Academy Vs Audience hits 1934. The team bounces back from…
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1933: [Fail Trumpet] (feat. Munsi Parker-Munroe)
Is 1933 the worst year in cinema? Dan certainly thinks so, and Erin, Claire, and special guest Munsi Parker-Munroe don't have compelling arguments to the…