Tag: Best Picture

Meredith Willson's The Music Man Make sure your trombones and French horns are polished. Empty those spit valves. Get those shoes shined to mirrors and make sure your uniforms are…

The Longest Day It's that time again. We're rolling back time and heading to the 1963 Academy Awards to take a look at the Best Picture nominations from 1962. The nominees for Bes…

When people talk about great years for movies if they don't mention 1972 run, run fast and far. 1972 was a banner year for cinema. The New Hollywood esthetic was gathering steam. W…

DELIVERANCE With Deliverance we've reached both the end of the Best Picture nominees of the 1973 Academy Awards and our "first year" with Best Picture This. As a reminder, the pre…

The Godfather It's 1972, but it feels more like the late Forties. Gravy is simmering on the stove. Garlic and gunpowder linger in the air. Luca Brasi is sleeping with the fishes a…

It's 1972, we're traveling by ox drawn cart, ship, horse driven wagon, a Mississippi steamboat, and on foot. Where are we headed? Where are we bound? The 1973 Academy Awards where …

1972 was a banner year for cinema. Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway hit the big screen. Clint Eastwood was Joe Kidd. Charlton Heston directed himself and Hildegard Neil (who passed away…

We are proud and honored to announce that the brains behind the Best Picture This podcast have allowed us to carry on their good work in the "pages" of A Mind On Fire. If you haven…