For your reconsideration - an Oscars podcast is a look backward at the various Academy Award winners for Best Picture. Our expert panel of film critics and fans carefully discuss, debate, and dissect Oscar winners and nominees from the year in question to determine if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences got it right or whether they require a do-over! For more information or to join a panel please email Jamie at jamie@dewvre.comJoin in the discussion at our Facebook group, Twitter, or Instagram. @FYR_Podcast

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50th Annual Academy Awards

Reassessing the 1977 Best Picture: Iconic Films and Missed Opportunities

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Get ready for a blast from the past as we take you back to 1977, an unforgettable year in American filmmaking. Join me, your host Matti Price, and our fantastic panel of film writers and broadcasters, Karen Gordon, Leslie Byron Pitt, and Ryan McNeil, as we discuss the 50th Academy Awards, the groundbreaking achievements in sound, and the legends we lost during this iconic year in cinema. We won&#39;t just focus on the Oscars – we&#39;ll also pay tribute to the likes of the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Elvis Presley, and Bing Crosby, as well as the directors and actors who left their mark on the silver screen. From Howard Hawks and William Castle to the tragically short but brilliant career of John Cazale, we&#39;ll explore the magic of 1977 together in this episode of For Your Reconsideration. So, visit Dewvre.com for more great podcasts, and join the conversation!TranscriptFor Your Reconsideration is a podcast. In the next episode, we have a great and diverse panel and really a pretty crazy year 1977. I&#39;m Matty Price and, along with JD, we could not be happier to be able to bring you discussions like the one we have coming up. As per usual, our panellists discuss a specific year in mostly American filmmaking through the clarifying crucible of Oscar&#39;s best picture. I&#39;ll be your host this time. Our panellists are film writers and broadcasters Karen Gordon, Leslie Byron, Pitt and, of course, a longtime friend of the show, podcaster and writer, Ryan McNeil. The 50th Academy Awards were actually held earlier than in previous years, in February of 1978. They were back at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and they went back to a single host for the first time in a while, bringing Bob Hope back as MC for the night. Despite Annie Hall winning Best Picture along with three other awards, it was actually Star Wars that had the best night. Overall, they took home six Oscars. Woody Allen did do something that nobody had done for a while, becoming the first person since Orson Welles to be nominated for writing, directing and acting in the same picture. The turning point still holds the record for most nominations without a single win with 11. They are tied with the colour purple and Close Encounters is tied with two films They Shoot Horses, don&#39;t They? and The Poseidon Adventure for most nominations without a Best Picture nod, with eight. There were two special achievement awards that year and actually, both of them were for sound. The sound was in a bit of a major renaissance in the late 70s with stereo, surround and digital sounds all coming to audiences really for the first time. One of those awards went to Frank Warner and Close Encounters for sound editing, and you can imagine the editing in Close Encounters and the specific sounds of those organ notes and everything else that happens. I mean it is an achievement. But the real achievement, I think, went to Ben Burt for creating the Alien Robot and Creature Voices in Star Wars Boy. There&#39;s a lot to talk about with Star Wars but I can&#39;t imagine it without that soundscape. Just amazing. Notable presenters, performers and recipients of awards that year included Debbie Boone, who sang You Light Up My Life. Now they decided that when she sang You Light Up My Life they would have deaf interpreters on the stage to sign as she sang. The problem is they turned out to not be real interpreters. They were fakes and their signs were totally unintelligible to the deaf community. Nailed it, Debbie Boone. The ceremony also neatly defined two sides of a debate that continues and actually probably will never be settled. Vanessa Redgrave used her acceptance speech to address concerns she had with the rights of the Palestinian community and how she was being treated in the press, and Patty Czevsky used his presenter time to essentially rebuke that by saying he was quite sick and tired of people exploiting the occasion of the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal political propaganda. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There&#39;s no end to this debate. Should actors and actresses and others Stand up for things they are important in front of a global, they feel are important in front of a global audience, or should they shut up and dribble? Yeesh? Anyway, lots of special, special presenters, including Mickey Mouse, r2-d2 and C3PO, as the awards got increasingly sophisticated from a production standpoint and they were able to mix in things like remote-controlled robots and animation and live action. Really a big moment in terms of how the show looked. Jack Nicholson presented Best Picture and the Academy Awards. Chorus brought That&#39;s Entertainment back again. They really love That&#39;s Entertainment. Anyway, for the first year in several years, they gave OJ Simpson the night off. I&#39;m actually not sure what he did with his free time. As always, there was no in memoriam until 1993, but for that year it would have been, I think, quite significant. Two of the remaining three Marx Brothers passed away, Groucho and Gummo, and Zeppo would pass really only a couple of years later. So the end of an era in terms of that, and, and kind of interesting that the same year that Annie Hall got nominated, I think there&#39;s a pretty direct line between the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen, especially in the early years of his career. Charlie Chaplin also passed away that year, as did Joan Crawford. So some real Titans. On the character actor side, three huge influential character actors Zero Mustel, most famously from the producers, but also the original Tevea and Fiddler on the Roof. Sebastian Cabot, who just an absolutely wonderful presence in a lot of Hitchcock films and later movies as well, and also Gene Hagen. Now, the name Gene Hagen might not mean anything to you just on the surface, but if I say I can&#39;t see them, maybe you&#39;ll realize who she is. Gene Hagen is, for my money, the best part of one of the best movies that I know, which is Singing in the Rain. Steven Boyd also passed away. Steven Boyd had a really interesting career. He was the second lead in Ben Hur, starting a lot of stuff. But the reason I bring him up is that he was the star of an absolutely incredible so bad it&#39;s a good movie, The Oscar, which I mean. Check that movie out. It is insane to me that they built that movie the way they did. The minute you start watching it you&#39;re like I cannot believe that this is the movie they decided to make and call The Oscar And then cut short, cut down in the prime of his life with four incredible performances and we all lost out. John Kazal, who had been Fredo in The Godfather and The Godfather part two, starred in Dog Day Afternoon and had a very strong role in The Dear Hunter and tragically passed away way too young. Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby both died that year, so significantly they left only Sinatra as the last man standing in terms of the greatest pop hero icons of the 20th century. Directors who passed away that year included Howard Hawks, William Castle, Roberto Rossellini and Bob McKimson, who was a director of hundreds and hundreds of Looney Tunes shorts, as well a couple of people in the history of noir, both James M Cain, who wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice. Tay Garnett, who directed it, passed away in that year. Tay Garnett also and this is just for viewers who want to go down this road He directed one of my favorite movies of all time. It stars Marlena Dietrich and John Wayne and it&#39;s called Seven Sinners, or sometimes called Cafe of the Seven Sinners, and I love it and I hope you check it out. Last but absolutely not least, Leopold Stokowski, was quite an accomplished conductor but famously was the conductor in Fantasia. Anyway, I&#39;m looking forward to sharing this year&#39;s movies with all of you. 1977 is coming right up. Remember, go to Dewvre.com for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can&#39;t wait to talk to you again. On For Your Reconsideration, for Your Reconsideration is the production of Dewvre Podcasts and Such. To subscribe, share, rate and review. Please visit Dewvre.com.

The 50th Annual Academy Awards - A Primer

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1976 Best Picture

6. Reassessing the Film Treasures of 1976's Best Picture Race

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Ever wondered how the Oscars have evolved over time and their impact on the film industry? Join Matti Price and his esteemed panel of guests as we take a trip down memory lane and focus on the awards year of 1976. The upcoming episode will feature series regular Norm Wilner (critic and TIFF programmer), Dave Voight (InTheSeats.ca), and JD Duran (InSessionFilm.com), our insightful conversation delves into the fascinating history of the Academy Awards and their role in shaping the world of cinema.From the original 5 to the current 17 branches, we&#39;ll examine the Oscars&#39; journey and uncover some lesser-known facts about these prestigious awards, like the story behind the iconic gold-plated bronze statue and the original intentions of the Academy&#39;s founders. Plus, we discuss how the Oscars have influenced the film industry and why certain categories, like stunt performers, still remain conspicuously absent. Don&#39;t miss this engaging and insightful conversation about one of the most famous awards shows in the world!0:00:05 - Speaker 1For Your Reconsideration, for Your Reconsideration is a podcast. Next week we return with another year in movies and a panel that can&#39;t wait to discuss them. I&#39;m Mattie Price, and myself and Jamie Dew, JD, as we like to say are your navigators through the sometimes choppy waters of the past. Once again, we have put together some great panellists to examine and contextualize a whole year in mostly American movies. Alongside the choices the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made for that year&#39;s best picture, we&#39;ll be focusing on 1976. I&#39;m in the host chair this time. Joining me are series regular Norm Wilner, a critic and Tiff programmer, Dave Voight from InTheSeats.ca, also a writer and podcaster, and another great writer and podcaster, jd Duran from InSessionFilmcom. It&#39;s a good talk. I&#39;m hoping you&#39;ll join us. I&#39;ve been thinking about how we got here this podcast, but also the idea that the Oscars, no matter what you think of them, have this weird special place in the culture. There are a lot of awards shows, but clearly this is the king Name, the winner of a song of the year at the Grammys from 1976. Not easy, it&#39;s. I write the songs. By the way, barry Manilow, the Academy was put together basically to improve the image of the film industry. It was often seen as a kind of disreputable business. Its founders, including Louis B Mayer, cecil B DeMille and Irving Thalberg, wanted to promote this idea that there was artistic achievement of the film community and they basically just wanted to give it credibility. That said, they also wanted to use the Academy to mediate labor disputes without unions because of course they did. They actually spent more time initially working on labor disputes, but eventually they turned the Academy away from arbitrations. There were 230 initial members under founding president Douglas Fairbank Sr. The awards were actually approved in July of 1928 with 12 original categories. Ballots were sent out to the 230 members. Actually, some of those original 12 awards are still around Best actor, best actress, best cinematography, and others have really changed over time. There were separate directing awards for comedy and drama. There was both an outstanding picture award, which was won by Wings, and a quote unquote best unique and artistic picture, which was won by Sunrise, a song of two humans, which is why you&#39;ll often see both of those films cited as the winner of the first Academy award. There was also an award for best title writing, which I mean. Who knew that was even a job? Where is that job? I could make a meal out of that job. You put the whole movie together, make it and then I come in at the end and just do the title in. I am in for that. Most people know that Oscar itself is made of sort of gold-plated bronze and it was designed by Cedric Gibbons, who was the head of the art department at MGM Studios. Just Google Cedric Gibbons His name is on literally 5,000 movies. It depicts the statue sorry, depicts a knight holding a sword and he&#39;s standing on a reel of film that has five spokes. There&#39;s a spoke for each of the original five branches of the Academy, which were actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers. There are currently 17 branches of the Academy, most of which were actually expanded from that technicians group. As films got larger, studios understood that you needed more people and that films became more of a collaboration of departments. So cinematographers, visual effects, sound, makeup and hair stylists, designers, editors and costume designers all pretty much grew out of that initial technicians designation. The Academy also has branches now for less direct participants in filmmaking casting directors, public relations and executives. But despite the 17, there&#39;s still this glaring omission which remains for stunt performers They do not have their own Academy branch and they still have no representation and no award. The Academy Awards is the world&#39;s longest running show award show that is televised live, and today it&#39;s actually broadcast live in 76 countries. Over the years there have also been condensed, edited versions of the awards packaged to be broadcast later around the world, which I honestly that might be something home audiences would enjoy if it were possible in real time. I would certainly sign on to watch a two hour condensed version of the Oscars if I had the choice. Anyway, we will be back soon with the 1976 awards year. Hope you can join us. Go to duvercom for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can&#39;t wait to talk to you again. On For Your Reconsideration. For Your Reconsideration is the production of Dewvre podcasts and such

5. 1976 Primer

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1975 Best Picture

4. Exploring the Best Picture Nominees of 1975 and Their Lasting Effects

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Chapter 1: IntroductionHosted by Mattie Price and Jamie DewPanelists: Ryan McNeil, JM McNabb, and Matti PriceOverview of the podcast&#39;s premise and formatDiscussion on the 48th Annual Academy Awards held in 1976Keywords: Podcast introduction, Hosts, Panelists, Academy AwardsChapter 2: Highlights of the 48th Annual Academy AwardsABC acquires broadcast rights for the first timeCo-hosts: Walter Mathau, Robert Shaw, George Siegel, Goldie Hawn, and Gene KellyHumorous remark on the desire for a heist movie with the star-studded castKeywords: Academy Awards highlights, ABC, Co-hosts, HumorChapter 3: Notable Films and Achievements&#34;One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest&#34; sweeps the five major categoriesComparison with other films achieving a clean sweepMention of Isabelle Adjani&#39;s record as the youngest Best Actress nomineeGeorge Burns becomes the oldest acting winnerKeywords: &#34;One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest,&#34; Clean sweep, Youngest nominee, Oldest winnerChapter 4: Memorable Moments from the Ceremony&#34;Jaws&#34; winning multiple awards except Best PictureHonorary award presented to Mary PickfordIrving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient: Mervyn LeRoyGene Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient: Jules C. SteinKeywords: &#34;Jaws,&#34; Mary Pickford, Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Gene Hersholt Humanitarian AwardChapter 5: Musical Performances and PresentersRay Bolger&#39;s opening number, &#34;Hollywood Honors its Own&#34;Keith Carradine&#39;s performance of &#34;I&#39;m Easy&#34;USC Trojan&#39;s marching band&#39;s closing medleyNotable presenters from outside the entertainment industryKeywords: Musical performances, Ray Bolger, Keith Carradine, USC Trojan&#39;s marching band, PresentersChapter 6: Remembering the DepartedMention of notable individuals who passed away between ceremoniesFrederick March, Paul Robeson, Lee Jay Cobb, Sal Minio, Michelle Simo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wild Bill Wellman, Busby Berkeley, Master Luo, Rod Serling, Sidney Buckman, Bernard HermanKeywords: In Memoriam, Departed individualsChapter 7: Closing and Future EpisodesConclusion of the episode&#39;s contentInvitation to join the panelists for the next episode on 1975Website and contact information for the podcastKeywords: Closing remarks, Next episode preview, Contact information Transcript 0:00:05 - Speaker 1For your reconsideration, for your reconsideration is a podcast. Next week we are back with another stacked panel and another great year in movies. I&#39;m your host, mattie Price, and I&#39;m here with the always fabulous Jamie Dew. Together we assemble great panelists with diverse points of view to discuss a specific year in mostly American filmmaking, but through the clarifying crucible of the Oscars Best Picture. Our next episode is a good one, looking at the movies of 1975. Jd is hosting that conversation and our panelists are Podcaster and writer Ryan McNeil, writer JM McNabb and, oh and me, mattie Price. I am in the panelist chair for this one.  So the 48th annual Academy Awards were presented in March of 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. As was the style at the time, they awarded films made in 1975. Abc had the broadcast rights for the first time and the show was once again co-hosted. This again was a popular thing in the 70s to have multiple hosts on this show. This time it was stacked Walter Mathau, robert Shaw, george Segal, goldie Hahn and Gene Kelly. Here is my heist movie with this cast is my question.  Most folks know that for the first time since it happened, one night a single movie. Milosh Forman&#39;s One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest, made a clean sweep of the five major categories Best Picture, best Actor, best Actress, best Director and Best Screenplay this time adapted. It&#39;s only happened one other time so far, and that&#39;s with the Silence of the Lambs. At 20, isabella Johnny became the youngest Best Actress nominee ever at the time. Ultimately, her record was beaten first by 13-year-old Keisha Castle Hughes in whale music, and then they both went down hard to nine-year-old Kavanjanae Wallace in Beasts of the Southern Wild. At 80, george Burns became the oldest acting winner, as well as the last person born in the 19th century to receive an acting award, george Oswand. Every award it was nominated for that year, except Best Picture. The honorary award for that year went to Mary Pickford. The Irving G Thalberg Award, which is given to producers of Note, was given to Mervin G Leroy, and then they gave out a Gene Herschold Award. That&#39;s something they don&#39;t actually do all the time. That award is given for public service and working for the public good. This time they gave it to Jules C Stein, who had founded MCA, which ultimately wound up owning Universal Studios and also helped create the Hollywood canteen during World War II, which was a place where servicemen and women could go to relax and be entertained.  Ray Bolger sang the opening number. It was a classy little diddy called Hollywood Honors It&#39;s Own. I cannot find any evidence of this song anywhere but presumably it existed at the time. There were other notable musical I&#39;m going to start that paragraph again. Ray Bolger sang the opening number, a classy little diddy called Hollywood Honors It&#39;s Own, which I can&#39;t find any evidence of that song anywhere, but I guess it does exist. There were other notable musical performances. Keith Carradine sang his Nashville hit, i&#39;m Easy, which he also wrote. Then at the end of the show, the USC Trojans marching band played a medley of America the beautiful. And that&#39;s entertainment. I&#39;m sure there was not a dry eye in the house.  There were other notable presenters that year from worlds outside of entertainment Gore Vidal, poet and playwright, poet and composer Rod McEwen. Audrey Hepburn was the presenter for Best Picture. Oh, and for the second year in a row, future murderer OJ Simpson gave out an Oscar. I don&#39;t know They loved OJ Simpson, i anyway. There was no in memoriam. Those didn&#39;t start until much later.  But these notable folks did pass away between ceremonies Frederick March, the great actor Paul Robeson, and the activist and brilliant performer as well, actor Lee J Cobb, who had just completed the Exorcist, not a couple of years earlier. Salminio, gone way too young from well, mostly notably from Rebel Without a Cause, but many other things as well. Michel Simond, the great French actor who worked extensively with Renoir and many other great French directors. And then, for the second year in a row, one of the three Stooges died. This time they got Moe Directors Pierpaolo Pasolini, wild, bill Wellman, busby Berkeley and Master Lucchino Visconti all passed away in that year.  Writer Rod Serling, four-time writing nominee, sidney Buckman, who wrote, among other things, mr Smith Goes to Washington and Agatha Christie. And then composer Bernard Herman died right before his score for Taxi Driver was released posthumously. So we&#39;ll be back soon with that episode 1975. Join us and our panelists, including me, and enjoy. Go to duvercom for all the shows and more great podcasts. Can&#39;t wait to talk to you again on For Your Reconciliation, for Your Reconciliation is the production of Duver Podcasts and Such. To subscribe, share, rate and review, please visit duveracom. Duvera Ah podcasts and such.

1975 Primer

Episode 3 - 1975 Primer

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1974

Hey, it’s jD here and welcome to For Your Reconsideration - an Oscars podcast. 

If you’re someone who loves fiery film discussions between knowledgable cinephiles; or if you’re someone who is always second-guessing the Oscar for Best Picture; then For your Reconsideration is for you.

Each and every week I’ll assemble a panel of film buffs to talk about the five nominees for Best Picture of a featured year. From there we open the table for our panellists to curate their own ballot by removing one or more films thus allowing them to add their own. 

Once we’ve done all of that we’ll get to the nitty-gritty and ask the question. Did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences get it right?  

We’ll drop a new episode in your feed every Sunday morning. 

Now let’s dim the lights and start the show…

Episode 2 - 1974

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Join Host, Matti Price as he gives you the lowdown on the 1974 Best Picture nominees and a run down of what you can expect on For Your Reconsideration.

1974 Primer

A weekly look backward at the Academy Award winners for Best Picture. Did the Academy get it right? We'll examine the films and let you know!

Episode 1 - 1974 Primer

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Welcome to For Your Reconsideration an Oscars Podcast. Coming May 7, 2023