The Best Picture Podcast

Director:  Terence Malick Producers:  Robert Michael Geisler, Grant Hill, John Roberdeau Screenplay:  Terence Malick Photography:  John Toll Music:  Hans Zimmer Cast:  Sean Penn, Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, George Clooney Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 80%/Audience: 80%

Director:  John Madden Producers:  Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick Screenplay:  Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Photography:  Richard Greatrex Music:  Stephen Warbeck Cast:  Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 92%/Audience: 80%

Director:  Steven Spielberg Producers:  Ian Bryce, Bonnie Curtis, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Allison Lyon Segan. Steven Spielberg Screenplay:  Robert Rodat Photography:  Janusz Kaminski Music:  John Williams Cast:  Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Matt Damon Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 93%/Audience: 95%

Director:  Roberto Benigni Producers:  Gianluigi Braschi, John M. Davis, Elda Ferri Screenplay:  Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni Photography:  Tonino Delli Colli Music:  Nicola Piovani Cast:  Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 80%/Audience: 96%

Director:  Shekhar Kapur Producers:  Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Alison Owen Screenplay:  Michael Hirst Photography:  Remi Adefarasin Music:  David Hirschfelder Cast:  Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Attenborough, Christopher Eccleston Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 82%/Audience: 86%

Eric and Sean rank and discuss the ten nominees for Best Picture of 1990 and bring up some other contenders for the prize that weren't nominated.  Once again, the nominees are: Awakenings; Dances with Wolves; Ghost; The Godfather, Part III; and Goodfellas .

Director:  Martin Scorsese Producer:  Irwin Winkler Screenplay:  Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese Photography:  Michael Ballhaus Music:  Christopher Brooks Cast:  Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 96%/Audience: 97%

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, Charles Mulvehill, Fred Roos Screenplay:  Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola Photography:  Gordon Willis Music:  Carmine Coppola Cast:  Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Sofia Coppola Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 69%/Audience: 78%

Director:  Jerry Zucker Producers: Lisa Weinstein Screenplay:  Bruce Joel Rubin Photography:  Adam Greenberg Music:  Maurice Jarre Cast:  Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 74%/Audience: 80%

Director:  Kevin Costner Producers:  Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson Screenplay:  Michael Blake Photography:  Dean Semler Music:  John Barry Cast:  Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 83%/Audience: 87%

Director:  Penny Marshall Producers:  Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes Screenplay:  Steven Zaillian Photography:  Miroslav Ondricek Music:  Randy Newman Cast:  Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 88%/Audience: 89%

Eric and Sean rank and discuss the ten nominees for Most Outstanding Production of 1939 and bring up some other contenders for the prize that weren't nominated.  Once again, the nominees are: Dark Victory; Gone with the Wind; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Love Affair; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Ninotchka; Of Mice and Men; Stagecoach; The Wizard of Oz; and Wuthering Heights .

Director:  William Wyler Producer:  Samuel Goldwyn Screenplay:  Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht Photography:  Gregg Toland Music:  Alfred Newman Cast:  Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 95%/Audience: 85%

Director:  Victor Fleming Producer:  Mervyn LeRoy Screenplay:  Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf Photography:  Harold Rosson Music:  Harold Arlen Cast:  Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 98%/Audience: 89%

Director:  John Ford Producer:  John Ford Screenplay:  Dudley Nichols Photography:  Bert Glennon Music:  Gerard Carbonara Cast:  Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 100%/Audience: 86%

Director:  Lewis Milestone Producer:  Lewis Milestone Screenplay:  Eugene Solow Photography:  Norbert Brodine Music:  Aaron Copland Cast:  Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 100%/Audience: 85%

Director:  Ernst Lubitsch Producer:  Sidney Franklin Screenplay:  Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch Photography:  William H. Daniels Music:  Werner R. Heymann Cast:  Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 97%/Audience: 89%

Director:  Frank Capra Producer:  Frank Capra Screenplay:  Sidney Buchman Photography:  Joseph Walker Music:  Dimitri Tiomkin Cast:  Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 95%/Audience: 94%

Director:  Leo McCarey Producer:  Leo McCarey Screenplay:  Delmer Daves, Donald Ogden Stewart Photography:  Rudolph Mate Music:  Roy Webb Cast:  Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 86%/Audience: 71%

Director:  Sam Wood Producer:  Victor Saville Screenplay:  R.C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz Photography:  Freddie Young Music:  Richard Addinsell Cast:  Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Henreid Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 82%/Audience: 87%

Director:  Victor Fleming Producer:  David O. Selznick Screenplay:  Sidney Howard Photography:  Ernest Haller Music:  Max Steiner Cast:  Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel, Olivia de Havilland Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 91%/Audience: 93%

Director:  Edmund Goulding Producer:  David Lewis Screenplay:  Casey Robinson Photography:  Ernie Haller Music:  Max Steiner Cast:  Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 87%/Audience: 81%

Eric and Sean rank and discuss the ten nominees for the Best Picture of 1960 and bring up some other contenders for the prize that weren't nominated.  Once again, the nominees are: The Alamo, The Apartment, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, and The Sundowners .

Director:  Fred Zinnemann Producer:  Gerry Blattner Screenplay:  Isobel Lennart Photography:  Jack Hildyard Music:  Dimitri Tiomkin Cast:  Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 75%/Audience: 62%

Director:  Jack Cardiff Producer:  Jerry Wald Screenplay:  Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke Photography:  Freddie Francis Music:  Mario Nascimbene Cast:  Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 67%/Audience: 52%