Season 1 Stats & 95th Academy Awards Predictions

The Oscars Got It Wrong

We've got something a little different this week! In this episode we're crunching the numbers and summarizing the stats from Season 1 of the podcast - how many films we've watched, how many times the Oscars got it wrong, which years have been the best, and much, much more! Finally we'll see if we've learned enough to predict what will win Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards.

NOTE: This episode contains spoilers for some previously discussed films. All time stamps are approximate.

SUMMARY STATS

1:40 - Season 1 Summary Stats

3:35 - How often do the Oscars get it wrong?

• 4:35 - The wrongest winners
• 6:45 - Worst Best Picture nominee misses

9:30 - What we've been tracking

• 9:35 - Angry white guys (Travis Bickles)
• 10:30 - Biopics
• 11:45 - Original Ideas
• 13:35 - How popular was the Best Picture winner?
• 15:25 - Steven Spielberg Oscar Count
• 16:40 - Jake Gyllenhaal Corner
• 17:45 - HORSE DEATHS (deaths inflicted by horses)

OUR RATINGS (NOMINEES ONLY)

20:00 - Our Overall Ratings

• 20:15 - The Best Year
• 23:30 - The Most Average Year
• 25:00 - The Worst Year
• 26:45 - Best Picture Highest and Lowest Rated Film of the Nominees

28:35 - When We Disagree on Ratings

• 29:05 - Films with a >.5 Star Rating Difference
• 32:25 - Difference in Average Ratings

32:50 - Best Best Picture and Worst Best Picture Winner

A QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT (ALL FILMS)

34:45 - Top Movies We've Watched because of the Podcast

40:00 - We Keep Watching Extra Westerns and Maybe We Should Stop?

45:30 - Biggest Surprises

50:30 - Worst Movies We've Watched

53:20 - Reevaluations

95TH ACADEMY AWARDS PREDICTIONS

57:20 - The Nominees

1:01:35 - Next Time