Best Picture Cast

On our first Best Picture Winner Episode of the new year, we are talking HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. Kieran B is joined by Grant Z and Oz to discuss the lone John Ford Best Picture winner, and everything that goes with it. We tackle the semi-autobiographic nature of this film, and whether of not we feel if that’s appropriate, along with all his Fordian tactics. Despite this not being a “Who Should Ha...

Welcome campers to Worst Picture Cast’s Sleepaway Camp episode! In this episode, Joey and Grant are joined by Adam and Melissa St. John to discuss this cult horror classic! We talk about Karen Fields’ possible age, the connection this movie has to the Jersey Shore, New York accents, and short shorts! This episode is an absolute blast! You can find Adam and Melissa discuss other bad movies on their...

Happy New Year Everyone! We are starting 2022 right as we are closing out another year of Best Picture Cast Calendar! For this Preview episode, I am joined by Artie B, just as I was in the Pilot episode of this show! The two of us take some time to go through everything we have planned for you in 2022, as we approach our 2nd Anniversary of a podcast on February 1st! Enjoy, and let us know what you...

Let's Get Ready to Rumble! The boys are back to first 30 Best Picture Winners covered by BPC! Kieran B is joined by Grant Z, Joey R and Artie B for our final episode of 2021, as we take all the films from Season 1 and Season 2 and try to get them in the right order! Here's a list of the 30 Films we rank in order they have appeared on Best Picture Cast: Season 1 The Departed One Flew Over Cuckoos N...

Hello and Merry Christmas everyone! We are back to cover one last movie for 2021, and it's William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives! Kieran B is rejoined by Grant Z, Joey R and Artie B to talk about this AFI top 100 classic from 1946. The gang talks about the representation of soldiers coming home from the war so close to the end of WW2, the strength of the female performers, Greg Tolland's Dee...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there in PodcastLand. Today we bring you good tidings and a holiday Honorary offering… 2003’s ELF! The Best Picture Cast team is really going for it on this one as we Rock around the Christmas Tree with some Will Ferrell Cheer. Last year’s Christmas podcasters Kieran B, Grant Z and Joey R are back and they are joined by Artie B who watched Elf for...

Happy Thanksgiving! Keeping our Turkey Day tradition alive Joey R and Chris G are back to talk some more Stephen King! Take a nostalgic stroll with us along the train tracks as we discuss Rob Reiner's adaptation of the Novella "The Body"... STAND BY ME. Enjoy this deep dive of this 1086 rewatchable classic, but beware of leeches! Check out our best picture merch https://best-picture-cast.creator-s...

Well folks, it's the moment you've all been waiting for. It's time for Tom Jones. We apologize in advance for this off the wall episode on this notably peculiar Best Picture winner! Kieran B is joined by Artie B (Godfather(s), Sound of Music, Platoon, Chariots of Fire) and Oz (Birdman, Cavalcade, Annie Hall, Grand Hotel) to navigate through one of the Academy's odder choices for Best Picture. Anyt...

Surfs up! In our second Worst Picture Cast episode we discuss Troma’s Surf Nazis Must Die! Join us as we discuss what worked and what didn’t with this 1986 cult classic. Plus we talk about the absence of violence, cohesive storytelling, and surfboards with guns on them. So sit down with a plate of Momma’s home cookin’ and enjoy! Questions/Comments? Feel free to get at us on Twitter @WorstPicCast....

We return to our regularly scheduled programing to discuss 1958’s Best Picture winner, GIGI! Joey R returns to the show and we also welcome the great Zita Short from The 300 Passions Podcast! The three of us talk about everything there is to talk about in terms of GIGI including the endlessly problematic nature of the plot, the clean sweep of the Oscars, the performance of the cast, and much more!...

We continue our series of episodes where each of our regular cohosts will be giving their Top Ten movies of All time! Hosts were limited to choosing only one film per director and also could not choose any films that have won Best Picture! Next up is BPC cohost, and fiction writer Jay Dowski! Jay is the author of the Book BURY ME IN MONTAUK available on Amazon today! Jay first appeared on our AMER...

It’s Spooky Season and this week we continue our seasonal break from Best Picture Winners to talk about the winner of our second annual HORRORFEST, 1982’s POLTERGEIST! Tournament winner Joey R join’s Kieran B along with last year’s winner Grant Z as we break down the final days of the tournament and chat about the Stephen Spielberg produced 80s classic! We deep dive the characters, the plot and ev...

It’s time for a break in our regularly scheduled programing to discuss a movie that was the winner of our second annual Sub 50% Twitter tournament, and it’s 1988’s TWINS! Twins outlasted Anaconda in the Tournament Finals, and Kieran B is joined with Joey R, the lucky winner who selected it. Also joining the Twins panel is last years winner Grant Z and runner up Steve B. The crew talk about a movie...

All Aboard! BPC is back with one of our biggest episodes ever!! Kieran B, Grant Z, Artie B and Michala return to bring you a truly unsinkable episode where we deep dive James Cameron’s deep dive! The episode is equipped with recasts, nitpicks, spinoffs, recommendations, and enough life boats for everyone on board. We even consider alternate musical entertainment for the voyage and Michala enlighte...

Welcome to the debut episode of Worst Picture Cast! We're kicking things off with Miami Connection! Join Grant and Joey as they discuss this classic bad movie from 1989. Plus we try to answer the following questions: 1) Does Quentin Tarantino like this movie? 2) Is Y.K. Kim self-conscious about his nipples? 3) Was Jeff's Outward Bound hat brilliant story telling or just a coincidence. Reach out to...

It’s Spooky Season which means it’s that time of year again to kick off BPC’s second annual HORRORFEST! Last year we pinned some of our favorite Horror Movies against each other to come up with one winner (Halloween 1978) and this year we are doing it all over again! In this jammed pack episode we go through the whole process. Team BPC heads back to the Draft Room to select each of our Horror Favo...

Great Scott! We are back again for the second part of our two part episode: Around the World and Back to the Future in 80 Days and it is time to Deep Dive the 1985 beloved classic, BACK TO THE FUTE. Chris G and Joey R are back to join Kieran B as the three discuss a movie that was a big part of our host’s, and so many viewer’s childhood. While we certainly go through all the things that make the m...

We are continuing a new series of episodes where each of our regular cohosts will be giving their Top Ten movies of All time! Hosts were limited to choosing only one film per director and also could not choose any films that have won Best Picture! We continue the series off with one of our more active and animated cohosts, Artie B! Artie first appeared on our pilot episode The Departed and has app...

We are back with a loaded two part episode as we go Around the World and Back to the Future in 80 Days! In part one of this two part summer Blockbuster Episode, Kieran B is joined by cohosts Joey R and Chris G to discuss the 1956 Box Office Smash, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS! We talk everything from Hot Air Balloons, to Submarines, to Ostriches as we deep dive Michael Todd's 1956 extravaganza. Nex...

This episode continues our new series where each of our regular cohosts give their personal Top Ten movies of All Time! Hosts were limited to choosing only one film per director and also could not choose any films that have won Best Picture! The next stop in the series brings us to one of our most frequent cohosts, BPC graphic designer, and handler of our Instagram and Facebook Accounts Grant Z! G...

This Episode is dedicated in memory of Ian Woodington Best Picture Cast is back to cover the sweeping, sandy epic that is BEN-HUR!! Kieran B and Grant Z load up the chariots and welcome a very special guest, from the 1001 by 1 podcast and the Below Freezing podcast Adam St. John!! Adam dares to step into the arena as we talk all things Ben-Hur… Good, Bad, and hilarious. The hosts provide movie rec...

We are launching a new series of episodes where each of our regular cohosts will be giving their personal Top Ten movies of All Time! Hosts were limited to choosing only one film per director and also could not choose any films that have won Best Picture! We kick the series off with one of our most frequent cohosts, Joey R! Joey first appeared on our very second episode ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS N...

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Kieran B is joined by last year's champ Grant Z, this year's runner up, Stev B, and the new champ Joey R to recap Best Picture Cast's second Sub 50% tournament. We go through the final 8 movies, and talk about what an episode will look like for the movie that took home the crown. Also we preview some of the things to expect from Best Picture Cast this Fall! Follow us on social media, Twitter, Face...

It's Summer Olympics season and the Best Picture Cast Crew is sprinting into a new week of Deep Dives as we take on the sometimes maligned Best Picture winner CHARIOTS OF FIRE! Kieran B is joined by Artie B, Brendan B and BPC first timer Joe B as the gang discusses the 1981 Sports Drama that took home the Gold in 1981. There are a ton of laughs as we go through the watchability of the film, the ic...