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In 2005, critics all over the world predicted that Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain would win the 78th Academy Award for Best Picture. Imagine their shock when Crash won instead! This week, our hosts talk about one of the most controversial Best Picture winners of the last 20 years. Featuring an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, and Terrence Howard, Crash missed its...

Since earning his Oscar with The Revenant , Leo has only been in one other movie that's released. That movie is none other than his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood! For this 2019 Golden Age of Cinema retrospective, Leo would once again be nominated for an Oscar, alongside co-star Brad Pitt, and director Tarantino. Though he wouldn't win for this one, O...

Every few episodes, our hosts need to take a break from discussing proven classics and turn to reviewing more current material. Finding classic movies in real-time. Live, even, if you will! This week, our hosts turn their attention to Ron Howard's latest project for Netflix: Hillbilly Elegy . Fitting with our theme of Oscar-bait movies leading up to the 93rd Academy Awards, Hillbilly Elegy seems d...

BREAKING NEWS: The Golden Globe nominations for 2021 are out! In this special episode, our hosts discuss the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual celebration of the best movies in Hollywood! *airhorn sound*

This week, our hosts return to the distant past of 2018 to rewatch that year's Best Picture winner: Green Book ! In a year full of great movies, the 2018 Oscars were notable for ignoring quite a few. But the Academy didn't ignore the Peter Farrelly-directed, Mahershala Ali vehicle tackling racism in the 60s. Green Book would go on to win Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for...

Why do some movies win Oscars while others don't? Is the year's Best Picture always also the year's best picture? Over the next several weeks, we'll be exploring these and other questions on Classic Movies Live! as we look back at Best Picture winners of years past! On this episode, Pierre and Jeff travel back to 2010, the year that a movie about Mark Zuckerberg faced off against an LGBTQ psycholo...

Now that we're firmly in 2021, and with less than 5 months to go until the Oscars, this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! begins our yearly Oscars coverage! First up, our hosts discuss a likely contender for several categories at this year's Academy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Picture: Minari ! When Korean-Americans Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Han...

Well folks, we've finally reached the end of the series. After this episode, Leonardo DiCaprio will finally have gotten his Oscar. That's right, in this episode, we talk about The Revenant . Hot off the heels of Birdman , Alejandro González Iñárritu re-entered Awards Cinema in 2015 with The Revenant , a half-true story about trapper Hugh Glass. A larger-than-life personality even in reality, Glass...

Last week on Classic Movies Live! , our hosts discussed their favourite movies of the year. However, one of the movies on Pierre's list was so new, he and Jeff struggled to say much about it without spoiling it (and Jeff hadn't seen it by then anyway). This week, let's talk about that movie! Soul is the second Pixar movie released in 2020, and one of the year's final films. Featuring Jamie Foxx an...

In 2013, Leonardo DiCaprio reunited with Martin Scorsese yet again for a three-hour-long, overtly crude, dark comedy epic about Wall Street. Starring Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street is a hilarious and occasionally horrifying look at one man's pursuit of the American Dream at the expense of thousands of other...

Classic Movies Live! returns for yet another year with a very special, double-sized episode! For the very first episode of 2021, hosts Pierre and Jeff talk about the state of movies and award shows during a global pandemic! Then, our hosts list their respective Top 5 movies of 2020! What did Pierre and Jeff think were the best films of 2020? Tune in to find out!

Back in the 90s, Baz Luhrmann helped launch Leonardo DiCaprio into the spotlight with Romeo + Juliet . While this dynamic duo's work cannot be understated, it would take until 2013 for Luhrmann and Leo to reunite, this time for a sleek, secy re-interpretation of an American classic: The Great Gatsby . Starring Leo in as the exuberantly wealthy titular socialite, Gatsby is an exploration of class,...

Here on Classic Movies Live , we consider ourselves serious movie critics. However, any serious movie critic must eventually review Citizen Kane , and this week, our hosts have decided to do this. Based, in part, on the life and times of William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane shows the life of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate whose influence over the politics and culture of the United State...

In 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio received critical acclaim for a role he took in a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. But unlike most of his roles, Django Unchained features Leo in an important, but only minor role! For the second episode of our discussion on Late Period Leo, we talk about Quentin Tarantino's first western. Tune in to hear all our thoughts on Leo's most villainous turn, Christoph Walt...

This week on Classic Movies Live! , Pierre and Jeff explore the origins of Revisionist Western Cinema by looking at one of the most influential movies on the genre: Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai cinema classic Yojimbo ! Despite not technically being a western, Yojimbo 's influence on the genre is massive, having been remade more often as a Western than... well, probably any other Western film. Kur...

Welcome to the most modern period of Leonardo DiCaprio's career. That's right, we've made it to Late Period Leo! And to start this period off, we're talking about Leo's first (and so far only) role in a film by Clint Eastwood. Starring Leo in the title role, J. Edgar tells the story of J. Edgar Hoover, the man responsible for building the FBI into what it is today! But while J. Edgar puts on a tou...

What makes a movie a classic? Maybe more importantly, why are true classic movies not recognized as such right as they release? These are the core questions at the heart of this show, and in today's episode, our hosts seek the answers while talking about a nearly 80 year-old, impossibly influential film: The Maltese Falcon ! Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon is arguably t...

Closing out our discussion of Leo in the early 2000s, this week's movie is Inception ! Christopher Nolan's high-concept ensemble action movie about dreams is easily one of the most influential films of this millennium so far! As Inception celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, we discuss Nolan's filmmaking, Hans Zimmer's compositions, Wally Pfister's cinematography, and of course one of Leo's...

On Classic Movies Live! , you'll always get to hear about the latest movies that, one day, will come to be regarded as true titans of cinema! In no episode has that been more true than this week's, in which our hosts, Pierre and Jeff, discuss Kelly Reichardt's latest film, First Cow ! Taking place in frontier Oregon a little over 150 years ago, First Cow tells the story of down-on-their-luck trave...

In 2006, Leonardo DiCaprio would earn critical acclaim for two back-to-back performances. The first of those was that in year's Best Picture winner, The Departed . The second, Blood Diamond , would net Leo his third-ever Oscar nomination, and second for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Set in Sierra Leone during the civil war in 1999, Blood Diamond stars Leo as diamond smuggler Danny Archer. When Arc...

On today's episode of Classic Movies Live! , Jeff talks about his favourite thing: the American Midwest! Also, our hosts discuss the 2020 frontrunner for... all the Oscars?

This week, we present Leo's third collaboration with Martin Scorsese! With The Departed , Scorsese, and an ensemble cast including Leo, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Academy Award Nominee Mark Wahlberg take on the harsh world of Boston crime. Damon and Leo star as opposing moles in the police force and mob, respectively, locked in an intense battle of wits within a proxy war between Nicholson's...

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live! , our hosts dig deep into Aaron Sorkin's new ensemble film The Trial of the Chicago 7 !

With What's Eating Gilbert Grape , Leonardo DiCaprio would earn his first Oscar nomination and his only nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. It would be another 20 years before his next nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His second collaboration with Martin Scorsese, The Aviator sees Leo taking on the role of legendary American businessman Howard Hughes. A socially...

Just in time to be too late for Halloween, Pierre and Jeff discuss Brandon Cronenberg's latest horror movie: Possessor!