Better Picture
by Paige Magid and Alexi Knight
TV & FilmE · Explicit
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Steven Spielberg's First Oscar Win! (1993)
Steven Spielberg's First Oscar Win! (1993)
About this podcast
Paige and Alexi break down the Best Picture nominees for every year's Academy Awards, and decide which one the Academy should have picked instead.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 78 episodes
- Steven Spielberg's First Oscar Win! (1993) · 1 h 46 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: In the Name of the Father - Jim Sheridan The Fugitive - Andrew Davis The Remains of the Day - James Ivory The Piano - Jane Campion Schindler's List…
- A Few Good Movies!!! (1992) · 1 h 7 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: The Crying Game - Neil Jordan Howard's End - James Ivory Scent of a Woman - Martin Brest A Few Good Men - Rob Reiner Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
- Kevin Costner Redeemed! (1991) · 1 h 0 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Bugsy - Barry Levinson The Prince of Tides - Barbra Streisand Beauty and the Beast - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise JFK - Oliver Stone The Silence of the…
- Kevin Costner's Beautiful Romance (With Himself) · 1 h 4 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Awakenings - Penny Marshall The Godfather Part III - Francis Ford Coppola Ghost - Jerry Zucker Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese Dances with Wolves - Kevin…
- The End of an Era / More of the Same (1989) · 1 h 24 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone Dead Poets Society - Peter Weir Driving Miss…
- An Apology to Rain Man · 1 h 6 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: The Accidental Tourist - Lawrence Kasdan Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker Dangerous Liaisons - Stephen Frears Working Girl - Mike Nichols Rain Man…
- Holly Hunter Appreciation Episode (1987) · 46 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Hope and Glory - John Boorman Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne Moonstruck - Norman Jewison Broadcast News - James L. Brooks The Last Emperor - Bernardo…
- The Mission, Which is Convincing You Not to Watch The Movie of the Same Name (1986) · 48 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: The Mission - Roland Joffé Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen Children of a Lesser God - Randa Haines A Room with a View - James Ivory Platoon - Oliver…
- Jack Nicholson's Worst Performance (1985) · 1 h 0 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Prizzi's Honor - John Huston Kiss of the Spider Woman - Hector Babenco The Color Purple - Steven Spielberg Witness - Peter Weir Out of Africa - Sydney…
- One Win After Another!!!! (2025) · 1 h 18 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: F1 - Joseph Kosinski Frankenstein - Guillermo del Toro Hamnet - Chloe Zhao Train Dreams - Clint Bentley Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier The Secret…
- White Lotus Star Wins an Oscar · 49 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: A Passage to India - David Lean A Soldier's Story - Norman Jewison Places in the Heart - Robert Benton The Killing Fields - Roland Joffé Amadeus - Miloš…
- The Right Stuff...Somewhat · 52 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: The Dresser - Peter Yates Tender Mercies - Bruce Beresford The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan The Right Stuff - Philip Kaufman Terms of Endearment - James…
- Childhood Classics and Political Controversies · 53 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Tootsie - Sydney Pollack Missing - Costa-Gavras The Verdict - Sidney Lumet E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg
- Our Top 50 of 2025! · 3 h 11 minSend us Fan Mail This was recorded a while ago, we know the Oscar nominations have since been announced!
- The WORST movies of 2025. · 2 h 10 minSend us Fan Mail Our least favorite movies of 2025, and what on earth was wrong with them.
- Reagan's America Gets Awkward About Communism · 53 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Atlantic City - Louis Malle On Golden Pond - Mark Rydell Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg Reds - Warren Beatty Chariots of Fire - Hugh Hudson
- It's the 80s! · 1 h 3 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Tess - Roman Polanski Coal Miner's Daughter - Michael Apted Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese The Elephant Man - David Lynch Ordinary People - Robert Redford
- Breaking Away from the 70s · 1 h 2 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Breaking Away - Peter Yates Norma Rae - Martin Ritt Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola All That Jazz - Bob Fosse Robert Benton - Kramer vs Kramer
- A Reconvening of the DeNiro Fan Club · 59 minSend us Fan Mail Movies: Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky Coming Home - Hal Ashby Midnight Express - Alan Parker Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
- Star Wars Changes The Movies · 1 h 12 minSend us Fan Mail Movies Discussed: Julia - Fred Zinnemann The Turning Point - Herbert Ross The Goodbye Girl - Herbert Ross Star Wars - George Lucas Annie Hall - Woody Allen
