Lights Camera Accolade
by Lights Camera Accolade
Latest episode
Spooky Month #3: The Uninvited Cat People (2026 Preview)
Spooky Month #3: The Uninvited Cat People (2026 Preview)
About this podcast
Lights Camera Accolade takes listeners on a journey through a century of cinema by way of the Academy Awards’ Best Picture nominees and winners (as told by complete amateurs).
Episodes
The newest 20 of 44 episodes
- Spooky Month #3: The Uninvited Cat People (2026 Preview) · 24 min · Episode 57This episode spoils Cat People (1942) and The Uninvited (1944). It's spooky season once again, meaning another horror double feature! This October we continue our horror journey…
- Spooky Month #2 - The Birth of Monster Movies (2025 Full Release) · 53 min · Episode 56This is the full release of 2025’s October bonus and spoils 1931’s Dracula and Frankenstein. It's alive! Or, technically, undead. This episode we spoiled the movies that launched…
- Hispanic Heritage Month #2 - Identity Theft (2026 Preview) · 21 min · Episode 55Abby and Sarah spoil 1945’s La Otra for Hispanic Heritage Month. Deeper into Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema, this film noir drama has some interesting ideas about what to do when…
- 18th Academy Awards - The Lost Episode · 1 h 59 min · Episode 54Sarah and Abby spoil the best picture nominees from the 18th Academy Awards, celebrating movies released in 1945 including: Anchors Aweigh, Mildred Pierce, Spellbound, The Bells…
- Hispanic Heritage Month #1: Just Another Normal Movie (2025 Full Release) · 34 min · Episode 53Full release of 2025’s September bonus and spoils 1933’s La mujer del puerto (The Woman of the Port). The Hays Code would never have approved of the film picked for our first…
- Abby's Choice - Keep Calm and Carry On An Affair (2026 Preview) · 31 min · Episode 52Spoils 1946’s Brief Encounter for the preview of our August 2026 bonus episode. Abby was merciful for her special Host Choice month episode this year and didn’t force a dusty…
- Abby's Choice - For Jay Cavendish (2025 Full Release) · 51 min · Episode 51The full release of 2025’s August bonus spoils the movie Slow West (2015). For Abby’s (not) birthday month, she decided to abuse her power and force us all to make an impossible…
- Summer Blockbuster #1 - Lust in the Dust (Preview) · 27 min · Episode 50This is a preview of our July bonus episode and spoils 1946’s Lust in the Dust. (And technically the smallest of spoilers for parts of Skinamarink (2022), The Exorcist (1973)…
- 17th Academy Awards - Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss · 1 h 49 min · Episode 49This episode spoils 1944's Best Picture nominees: Gaslight, Double Indemnity, Since You Went Away, Wilson, and winner Going My Way. Yes, that's right. A shorter list than usual…
- Jake’s Choice - Can't Believe It Wasn't Cloud Atlas (2025 Full Release) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 48This is the full release of 2025’s July bonus and spoils Paul Schrader’s First Reformed (2017). If you don't want to wait an entire year before listening to our full bonus…
- Pride Month #2 - You'll Get Used to It (Preview) · 29 min · Episode 47This is a preview of our June 2026 bonus episode. Celebrate Pride Month with us as we watch and discuss/spoil 1931's Madchen in Uniform, a(nother) German milestone in early queer…
- 16th Academy Awards - We'll Always Have Casablanca · 2 h 34 min · Episode 46This episode spoils 1943’s best picture nominees: In Which We Serve, The Human Comedy, The Ox-Bow Incident, The More the Merrier, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Heaven Can Wait, Watch…
- Pride Month #1 - Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes Over and Over? (Full) · 47 min · Episode 45This is the full release of 2025’s June bonus episode for Pride Month and spoils the German movie Anders als die Andern ("Different from the Others", 1919), a film that…
- AAPI Heritage Month #2 - It’s Still Spring Somewhere (Preview) · 28 min · Episode 44For our second celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month we watched China’s 1948 film Spring in a Small Town -- an intimate movie about the…
- AAPI Heritage Month #1 - What Made Us Watch It? (Full) · 55 min · Episode 43This is the full release of 2025’s May bonus celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, where we watched the 1930 Japanese film What Made Her Do It?…
- Animation History #1 - The Fairest of All Time (Preview) · 19 min · Episode 42This episode spoils 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Join us alongside a special guest as we discuss the movie that birthed a dynasty (of princesses). Snow White convinced…
- 15th Academy Awards - The Stiffest of Upper Lips · 2 h 25 min · Episode 41This episode spoils 1942’s nominees 49th Parallel, King's Row, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Pride of the Yankees, The Talk of the Town, The Pied Piper…
- Chrysantha’s Choice - Misery Loves Company (Full) · 41 min · Episode 40This is the full release of 2025’s April bonus and spoils the movie Misery (1990). For our April bonus, we let Chrysantha pick a birthday movie. What better than a feel good…
- Women’s History Month #2 - The Bar is in Hell (Preview) · 21 min · Episode 39This episode spoils Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 film Merrily We Go to Hell starring Frederic March and Sylvia Sidney. We’re back to pre-Code movies as we celebrate Women's History…
- 14th Academy Awards - Pre-War Moral Panic · 2 h 38 min · Episode 38This episode spoils 1941’s nominees Sergeant York, Blossoms in the Dust, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Little Foxes, Citizen Kane, Hold Back the Dawn, One Foot in Heaven, The…
