tschmitty's review
informative
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I enjoyed this overall. I am not familiar with the podcast that this book is a result of, but I have been enjoying the Oscars since I was a kid, and it was fun to revisit some Oscar history and learn something new as well. I also enjoyed their choices of whom they would chose among the nominees even if I did not always agree. Finally, this perhaps will inspire me to get back to my bucket list of watching the Best Picture winners as I have been ignoring Ben Hur for a few years now.
ludirik's review against another edition
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I loved how this book was structured. Each decade has a separate overview for the oscars ceremony of that decade (and any drama), an overview of the movies themselves providing important context and highlighting trends , an in-depth ‘making of’, ‘best of the best’ and ‘worst of the best’ section for three different movie, as well as a ‘did the academy get it right’ section for each of the authors to give their own opinion about the best picture winner of that year and offer alternative winners. Learned a lot and have added a lot of movies to my watch list. Will have to listen to their podcast for more content for the 2020s and to check out their backlog
cardinalgirl75's review
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
If you're an Oscar nut like me, this is a terrific book. I had no idea that the authors actually had a podcast where they talk about each Oscar-winning Best Picture in depth, but you better believe that I plan to check it out! I may not always have agreed when they said something was or wasn't worthy, but they made excellent cases for their reasoning.
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