Best Picture Cast

Thanks to all the people of Twitter who voted in our BPC Sub 50 Cup, ROAD HOUSE has been selected as our very first inductee into the BPC Hall of Honors! We are taking a little break from our regularly scheduled program of Best Picture Winners to bring you our very first Honorary Episode. Kieran B is joined by tournament winner Grant Z and BPC frequents, Artie B and Joey R, as the team makes a lit...

This week we head back to to 1940s to follow Gregory Peck’s covert assignment against antisemitism in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT. Jay Dowski rejoins BPC along with Grant Z as the gang reenters the BPC social minefield to tackle the worldly issues this film confronts in 1947, and how they carry through to today. To lighten the mood we go through Arnold Schwarzenegger’s entire filmography which includes...

For the month of October we will be hosting our first BPC HORRORFEST Tournament on our Twitter account @bestpicturecast !! 24 horror movies have been selected by each member of our team and we are pitting them up against each other in a World Cup style Tournament! It's up to you to select which movie we will do a full episode on the week of Halloween! This episode previews the 24 movies selected a...

Prepare to set sail for the high seas with BPC... Whether you like it or not! This Press Gang takes you on a hostile trip from your local pub to the West Indies. Joey R (Cuckoos Nest, Lambs, Sound of Music) and Brendan B (Shakespeare, Rocky, Man for All Seasons) rejoin the BPC Navy in for search for everything that makes a deep dive podcast worth it... and bread fruit? Brendan B gives his three ho...

In our Season Two premiere we are back with some more BPC deep dive action as we suit up and tackle the most recent film we have covered so far in 2012's ARGO! Artie B (Departed, Slumdog, Sound of Music) and Grant Z (Crash, Rebecca, A Man For All Seasons/JAWS) rejoin the fray. We give everyone plenty of airtime as we welcome this movie's ensemble cast to the BPC main stage. If you ever wondered if...

The BPC Sub 50 Cup is complete and we rundown the results in this bonus episode! Find out who took home the crown! Also Grant Z and Artie B exchange their experiences watching two each other's choices... Macgruber and Battleship! Season 2 kicks off next week with ARGO! Follow us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook- @bestpicturecast

After completing the coverage of our first 15 Best Picture Winners, a group of BPC All Star cohosts assemble in an attempt to rank the movies that we have covered so far! This is a spoiler free episode, so whether you've seen any of these movies or not, listen along as we do our best to come up with a definitive ranking of each film. We have a blast comparing our lists, and add a few goofy segment...

The Pod is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC! Artie B and Joey R, cohosts of the very first BPC episodes, team up for the first time and join Kieran B to discuss the Best Picture of 1965. We tune up the band and deep dive this family classic, along with Julie Andrew's other Best Picture Nominee in MARY POPPINS. We talk about the movies legacy, it's relevancy today and all of the Family Guy spoofs that...

Join the Cast of BPC as we discuss the movies that made our Sub 50 Cup Quarterfinals and the Head to Head matchups between all of these movies that have the distinction of being under 50% critic on Rotten Tomatoes! Winner gets it's very own episode! Voting begins this week on Twitter and Instagram @bestpicturecast

We have moved on to Round 2 of our BPC Sub 50 Cup! Grant Z joins Kieran B on this bonus episode to breakdown the results of Round 1 and to announce and preview the Pools for Round 2! Please help us out by voting this week on Twitter @bestpicturecast and on Instagram @bestpicturecast ! Which Sub 50% Rotten Tomatoes Movie will get it's very own episode? Help us decide!

Best Picture Cast boards the biggest boat we can find to deliver a Robert Shaw double-feature! Kieran B is joined by returning cohosts Grant Z (Rebecca, Crash, Rocky, Broadway Melody), Chris G (Lambs, Rain Man, Broadway Melody), and Brendan B(Rocky, Shakespeare in Love)to discuss 1966 Best Picture Winner A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and show favorite JAWS. We give both movies their due length in a Deep D...

For a short break from our regularly scheduled programming, we preview our BPC Sub 50 Cup which we will be holding this upcoming week on our twitter account @bestpicturecast . Every cohost who has joined us for an episode at this point has selected 3 different guilty pleasure movies that are under 50% on Rotten Tomatoes and we have put them up against each other to determine which movie will get i...

BPC is back and this week we take a train ride through India to sit in the hot seat and lock in all our final answers on Danny Boyle's 2008 Best Picture Winner. In addition to breaking down SDM, we go through Danny Boyle's filmography and discuss his work in depth. Artie B (Departed, Broadway Melody) and Rob Bobcat (Chicago) take each other to task in their returns to BPC. A Deep Dive you are not...

It’s time for everyone to look a little closer and join us as we attempt to find inner beauty through the Best Picture Winner of 1999 AMERICAN BEAUTY. In the twelfth installment of BEST PICTURE CAST, Jay Dowski, author of the novel “Bury Me in Montauk” makes his BPC debut as we discuss one of his favorite movies. We chat about that stacked year in cinema before the end of the century, we go throug...

Crack open a nice bottle of Chianti and grill up some Fara Beans, it's time to talk about the 1991 Horror Classic THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS! The chains and the mask come off for this episode as Chris G (Rain Man, Broadway Melody) and Joey R(Cuckoo's Nest, Rebecca, Going My Way) rejoin the podcast to dive deep into the dark world of Hannibal Lector. There are no shortage of bad impressions, as is tr...

They stack the odds so we take to the streets to spar with the 1976 classic ROCKY! It’s touch and go, but BPC goes all 15 rounds for our longest episode to date. Grant Z and Brendan B join the cast as we engage in an in depth breakdown of Stallone’s Oscar Best Picture Winner. We discuss all the characters, all the sequels, and there’s no shortage of bad impressions or bad puns. As an added bonus G...

BPC returns to discuss 1944s highest grossing movie and Oscar Best Picture winner GOING MY WAY. In a long form discussion of this winner of 7 Oscars, we take a look Bing Crosby's award winning performance and discuss his impressive career. We also get to the important issues at hand such as, what animal you would most like to live your life as? And we desperately grasp for straws in attempt to con...

In possibly our most entertaining and explosive episode yet, three previous cohosts return for an all out movie battle royal. While we do spend sometime taking a look at one of the lowest rated Best Picture winners, don’t be scared away if you’ve never seen “The Broadway Melody”. In this episode we have a well balanced debate revisiting some of the anti-Goodfellas/Gangs of New York comments made i...

This week we discuss our first musical, the 2002 Best Picture Winner CHICAGO. We dig deep to figure out what distinguishes a movie as a "musical", and we dive deep to discuss this 1920s style modern production. Amidst the conversation we discuss why it might be that musicals have had such a strong history at the oscars, while comedies are regularly overlooked. No stone is left unturned in the wind...

Episode 6 we discuss the 1940 Best Picture Winner REBECCA, directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock! In our first 3-man-Pod, Kieran B is rejoined by Joey R(CuckoosNest) and Grant Z (Crash) in the BPC deep dive of an old classic. In addition to discussing REBECCA we delve into the Hitchcock library, and chat about some of his other classic films, specifically REAR WINDOW and PSYCHO. After the dust settles,...

We are back for episode 5 where we tackle 1998's controversial best picture winner Shakespeare In Love! Brendan B makes his debut as he attempts to make a case for why he thinks the Academy got this one right. We spend a little more time than usual on this year's runners up (Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, and Life Is Beautiful) and we take some time to compare the movie to Saving Private Ryan...

BPC is back for Episode 4 where we discuss the controversial best picture winner CRASH. Grant Z joins the Best Picture Cast for the first time and we tackle the surprise winner of 2005 and the cornucopia of baggage that comes along with it! In addition to showing great concern for the health of Sandra Bullock's ankle, we dive into all sorts of issues and discussions without a life vest. While navi...

Best Picture Cast Episode 3! We tackle the 1988 blockbuster RAIN MAN. Chris G makes his podcast debut as we talk in depth how the movie handles mental health in the late 80s and discuss how it has aged, for better or for worse. We dig deep into Tom Cruise's 1986-2006 impressive run and go through the works for the great Hans Zimmer! You can also hear our Pre-Oscar predictions the week after the 20...

In the second episode of Best Picture Cast guest cohost Joey R joins the show to discuss "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest". We take the plunge into the asylum and analyze the interrelationships amongst a well thought out cast of characters. In another episode of bad Jack Nicholson impressions, we talk Jack's career and take a close look at The Shining and the many similarities between the two movie...

Myself and guest cohost Artie B discuss all things Departed! We go through the themes of the movie, the acting performances from the all-star cast, and the storytelling tactics of the great Martin Scorsese! Artie declares war on "Goodfellas" and we debate the value of using voiceovers in cinema. We also talk flip phones, Tarantino, and The Sopranos! Let us know what you think... send us an email a...