About this Episode
Welcome to our second annual Oscar episode! In honor of this weekend's Oscar ceremony, Matt and Tony picked a random year to see if any of that year's Best Picture nominees were blindspots. The result? 1949. The nominess: Hamlet, The Red Shoes, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Johnny Belinda, and The Snake Pit. They briefly touch upon Johnny Belinda and The Snake Pit before focusing on the three influential films that are still loved and discussed to this day: Hamlet, The Red Shoes, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Before getting to the 1949 Oscar nominees, they talk about the 2021 Oscars and how the pandemic affected the nominees releases and viewing expierence. Then they touch on what they did and didn't like about the movies from 1949, trends and themes that tend to pop up every year in the Best Picture nominees, expectations and biases of older movies, and how good it feels to still be able to find art that moves and surprises you.