Editing The Academy
Two friends get together to discuss the best picture nominees of each year starting in 1969. We discuss each nominated film in detail breaking down the technical aspects, character development, acting, story presentation, etc. But, we also chat about how they hit us...our emotional reactions. We try hard to let our modern filters fade and put ourselves in the mind frame of the year of release, but we’ll admit...it’s hard. So join us as we dive deep in these films and discuss whether academy made the correct choice that year. Feel free to join in the discussIO and agree or disagree, we only ask that you do so respectfully. Oh, and yeah...major spoilers for each film.
Listen on:
Episodes
Episodes
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Welcome to our discussion of the 1993 Best Picture Nominees! We agreed on a few things, disagreed on some others, and definitely thought this was an odd year at the movies:
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howards End
Scent Of A Woman
Unforgiven
Major Spoilers for all the movies we discuss!
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Welcome to Editing the Academy! This week Darryl shares why Momento by Christopher Nolan is his #10 favorite movie of all time. Is it yours? Listen in!
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
Tuesday Apr 08, 2025
Listen to Darryl and Laura as they agree on the best picture of 1992, and recommend everyone go out and read all of Pat Conroy's novels.
Beauty And The Beast
Bugsy
J.F.K.
Prince Of Tides
Silence Of The Lambs
Major Spoilers for all movies!
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Join Laura as she talks about her #10 Favorite movie, Barcelona by the amazing writer/director Whit Stillman. If you haven't seen it, it has some of the best dialogue and characters of any movie out there, and probably the only scene where a man dances to big band music while reading the bible.
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Laura and Darryl close out another decade! The Eighties are done (thankfully) and they end with quite typical Oscar Bait and a decent film or two. Thanks for hanging in there as we begin the films released in 1990:
Awakenings
Dances with Wolves
Ghost
Godfather Part 3
Goodfellas
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Closing out another decade! The Eighties are done (thankfully) and they end with quite typical Oscar Bait and a decent film or two.
Thanks for hanging in for another decade!
02:54 Born On The Fourth Of July
14:52 Dead Poets Society
28:51 Driving Miss Daisy
39:32 Field Of Dreams
50:12 My Left Foot
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Monday Mar 03, 2025
Do you like camp? Over the top acting? Brilliant one liners? This is the movie for you! Darryl talks about his # 11 favorite movie of all time - Army Of Darkness (Gimme some sugar, baby) and Laura adds her joy as well.
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Darryl and Laura are posting a special episode just in time for the Academy Awards on March 2! A few caveats: we were not able to see all of the movies (mostly because we decided to do this episode two weeks ago), but Darryl saw 8 and Laura saw 6, so not too shabby! Also, we tried not to spoil, but couldn't get through the discussions without revealing a few major plot points, so know that going in.
In the end, we agreed on the movie that we think WILL win, but disagreed on the movie we think SHOULD win. Let us know your thoughts!