Best Picture Cast

Join us as the Best Picture Cast gang checks into the GRAND HOTELl! In this two part episode, Kieran B is joined by frequent guests Joey R (Both Godfathers, Mutiny on the Bounty, Silence of the Lambs) and OZ(Birdman, Annie Hall, Cavalcade) to discuss the start studded Best Picture winner of 1932! There are no early checkouts this week as we breakdown what was one of the first movies to feature a s...

For this Best Picture Cast bonus tournament preview episode, we welcome very special guests, Adam and Melissa from the Below Freezing podcast! Below Freezing covers movies that fall beneath 32% on Rotten Tomatoes, so we thought they would be a perfect addition to our crew as we pick movies that fall below 50% for our latest Social Media Tournament! In addition to helping us analyze the Round 1 Bra...

In our latest Best Picture Cast Movies Draft installment, the Co Hosts from episodes past reunite to draft their favorite movies that fall under 50% on Rotten Tomatoes (both Critic and Audience Rating). Ten former cohosts lineup to draft three movies each in a snake draft format. Grant Z, Chris G and Steve B join Kieran B to go through how the whole draft played out! We have a ton of fun discussin...

This week we take a break from our regularly scheduled Best Picture winners to celebrate the winner of the Best Picture Cast Animation Tournament Winner 1994's THE LION KING. Grant Z, Artie B, and Jay Dowski rejoin Kieran B to form a pride of podcasters excited to discuss this 90's nostalgia classic. Our search for deeper themes is surrounded by some over the top impressions, regrettable singing,...

In the Best Picture Cast Season 3 Premiere we complete the Godfather journey by discussing the Best Picture winner of 1974, The Godfather Part II. The Godfather squad is back as Grant Z, Artie B, and Joey R rejoin Kieran B to dissect, digest, or whatever you call it to Frances Ford Coppola's follow up to one of the most iconic films of all time. Buckle up as this is one of the most emotionally and...

Our group of season two movies are in the book and it's time for us to rank what we've done! The gloves come off as Artie B, Joey R, Chris G and Grant Z join Kieran B to hash out the very best and very worst of season two! In addition to putting these movies in order we also each pick a movie to replace almost entirely with Muppets, we recast the Back to the Future movies with season 2 actors and...

Grant Z and Artie B rejoin host Kieran B to discuss the 2011 Best Picture winner THE ARTIST for our Season 2 finale! We also talk Singing in the Rain and Sunset Blvd in one of our most heated episode to date! Follow us on Social Media, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook @bestpicturecast Email us: bestpicturepodcast@yahoo.com Time Stamps Singing in the Rain Discussion 1:31:52 Sunset Blvd Discussion 1:43:...

In this bonus episode, frequent cohosts Grant Z, Joey R, and Brendan B join Kieran B as we run through the results of each of the rounds in our Social Media Animation Tournament! Find out which animated film took outlasted all the others to take home the big prize! The winner does indeed get it's very own honorary episode this summer! As we go through the rounds we talk about the heated debates th...

Completing our series of Best Picture winners from the 1970s, we head to 1930s Chicago to discuss THE STING. Kieran B welcomes back Chris G (Rain Man, The Lost Weekend, Silence of the Lambs, Oliver!) and Brendan B (Amadeus, Mutiny on the Bounty, Rocky, Shakespeare in Love) to tackle this Paul Newman and Robert Redford conman buddy flick. The crew discusses the noticeable contrasts of The Sting to...

Kieran B and Joey R are joined by film expert Zita Catherine Short from the 300 Passions Podcast to discuss this year's Oscar nominees and give our opinions on what should win! We cover the Cinematography, Score, Director, and All Four Acting categories as well as Ranking the Best Picture Nommiees worst to first! You can find Zita Short on social media @300Passions and the 300 Passions Podcast whe...

In what may be our biggest venture yet, the Best Picture Cast gang tackles one of the most famous films of all time in Frances Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER. BPC “Made Men” Artie B, Joey R and Grant Z return to join host Kieran B in this momentous celebration. We dissect all the elements of the film that add up to the greater whole, and analyze why exactly this is considered by many...

We are back for Episode 27 as we take our first trip of three part series to the 1970s! Oz (Birdman, Cavalcade) and Rob R(Chicago, Slumdog) host the Thursday Night Sales Podcast ( @TNSalespod ) rejoin Best Picture Cast on a blustery day in the North East to discuss the New York Classic Film ANNIE HALL. After a healthy Woody Allen Disclaimer about separating the art from the artist, we discuss what...

With our March ANIMATION Tournament beginning Monday, we held the first ever Best Picture Cast Draft! Host Kieran B is joined by familiar BPC Cohosts (and now Draft Analysts) Grant Z and Artie B. Each cohost had to select One Pre 90s Disney Animated Movie, One Pixar Movie, and one other Animated Film of their choosing. See how the Draft shook out! We also layout the Brackets and preview the tourna...

The BPC Gang takes to the streets of 19 Century England to review the situation and discuss the 1968 Best Picture winner OLIVER! You won't have to ask for more this week as there is no shortage of gruel, gin, or movie chatter as Best Picture Cast regulars Grant Z (Argo, Crash, Rocky, Home Alone) and Chris G (Silence of the Lambs, Rain Man, Lost Weekend, Shawshank Redemption)join Host Kieran to tal...

Best Picture Cast is back with Episode 25 and we are proud to debut our first female cohosts, Danielle and Michala, as they join BPC host Kieran B to discuss Mel Gibson's 1995 Scottish Revolutionary Epic BRAVEHEART. The girls hold back no punches as they tackle Mel's vision head on. We discuss the movie's length, its underlying themes, the vibrant cast, the beautiful landscapes, and everything in...

With the release of Episode 24, BPC celebrates it’s one year Anniversary! A full calendar year after dropping our very first episode, we reflect on our first year as a podcast all while tackling our first war movie, Platoon. Cohosts from our debut episodes, Artie B and Joey R, return as we discuss Oliver Stone’s grizzly Vietnam film. We take a deep dive into this authentic, and sometimes hard to w...

Half way through season two and an episode before our 1 year anniversary, Joey R(Cuckoos Nest, Sound of Music, Silence of the Lambs) and OZ (Birdman)rejoin BPC for a special TWO PART episode this week where we discuss the 1933 Best Picture winner CAVALCADE and also revisit our "First Fifteen" Best Picture rankings from season one. In part one we do an old school deep dive into what many consider t...

It's a new year and we are back with our first episode of 2021! We return to the 1980s to discuss Milo Forman's AMADEUS. Artie B (Departed, Sound of Music, Slumdog Millionaire, Argo) and Brendan B (Mutiny on the Bounty, Rocky, Shakespeare in Love) dust off their batons and join Kieran B to chat about what many consider to be the best Best Picture Winner of the 80s. Does the movie hold up? We take...

Best Picture Cast returns for our final episode of 2020, as the original two guest hosts Artie B and Joey R sit in to discuss 1951s AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. The same gang that brought you the BPC episode on The Sound of Music reunites to dissect this Gene Kelly extravaganza and all of it’s good, it’s bad and it’s ugly. We also spend some time talking about Singing in the Rain, La La Land and Ryan Gos...

It’s a very BPC Christmas as we bring you our 2020 Holiday Special Episode HOME ALONE. Frequent flyers Grant Z and Joey R rejoin the mix for the fourth installment of our BPC honorary episode series. We dive deep into this classic 90s holiday blockbuster and take the movie to task on many of it’s improbable, and likely impossible, series of events. Joey R wages war on dairy and Grant Z analyzes th...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I chose this movie for this episode because it is my favorite movie of all time and wanted to share it with the BPC universe! Chris G and Joey R rejoin the podcast as we talk all things Shawshank including the much debated 1994 Oscars, the layered themes to the film, the endlessly quotable script, the infamous movie title, Morgan Freeman's brilliant voiceover, the Step...

Best Picture Cast reached 20 episodes as we talk the 2014 Best Picture Winner BIRDMAN (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Grant Z and Joey R return and we welcome OZ to his BPC debut! The four of us dive deep to chat Michael Keaton and whether anyone else could have slid into this roll. There are heated conversations about the MCU and DC Universe and how we view them in the grand scheme of th...

It is a weekend vacation for team BPC as we walk the streets of NY with the troubled Don Birnum. Artie B (Departed, SlumDog, Argo) and Chris G (Rain Man, Lambs, Halloween) rejoin the podcast as we deep dive this Billy Wilder Classic! We marvel over the film making skills of Wilder as he gives the world his cinematic take on Alcoholism and how well it holds up 75 years laster. We take an on brand d...

Thanks to all the people on Twitter and Instagram who voted in our BPC HorrorFest Tournament, HALLOWEEN has been selected as our second inductee into the BPC Hall of Honors! We are taking a little break from our regularly scheduled program of Best Picture winners to get into the spirit of spooky season! Grant Z, Chris G, and Joey R rejoin the Podcast to discuss John Carpenter's 1978 Horror Classic...

In this BPC Bonus Episode we review and recap the October horror movie tournament that we ran on social media. We go through the results and chat about all the selections and the movies in general! A good listen for anyone who is into scary movies! Follow us on social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @bestpicturecast Send us an email: bestpicturepodcast@yahoo.com