The Best Pictures Podcast

About the show

Join Maggie, Ian, and their unsolicited opinions as they watch their way through every Academy Award Best Picture winner.

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Episodes

  • 79th Academy Awards - The Departed

    September 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 17 mins

    We're back with an episode on the 79th Best Picture winner The Departed.

  • 78th Academy Awards - Crash

    July 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 10 mins
    brendan fraser, don cheadle, jennifer esposito, lorenz tate, ludacris, matt dillon, newton, paul haggis, robert moresco, ryan philippe, sandra bullock, terrence howard, thandiwe, william fichtner

    Join Ian and Maggie for the 78th winner Crash.

  • 77th Academy Awards - Million Dollar Baby

    June 18th, 2024  |  1 hr 22 mins
    clint eastwood, hilary swank, morgan freeman, paul haggis

    Join Ian and Maggie as they talk through the 77th winner, Million Dollar Baby.

  • 76th Academy Awards - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

    May 20th, 2024  |  1 hr 37 mins

    On this episode we tackle a titan of the fantasy film genre and the 76th Best Picture winner.

  • 75th Academy Awards - Chicago

    April 24th, 2024  |  1 hr 12 mins
    catherine zeta-jones, colm feore, danny elfman, john c. reilly, john kander, lucy liu, queen latifah, renee zellweger, richard gere, rob marshall, steve bartek

    Join our hosts for their takes on the 75th winner, Chicago.

  • Special Episode - Big Trouble in Little China

    April 1st, 2024  |  1 hr 13 mins
  • 74th Academy Awards - A Beautiful Mind

    March 16th, 2024  |  1 hr 22 mins
    anthony rapp, christopher plummer, ed harris, jennifer connelly, paul bettany, ron howard, russell crowe

    Join us as we cover the 74th winner, A Beautiful Mind.

  • 73rd Academy Awards - Gladiator

    February 5th, 2024  |  1 hr 26 mins

    We're back with another canon episode, and we're kicking off a new decade of winners!

  • Special Episode - List Reordering 3

    January 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

    Join Ian and Maggie as they discuss changes to their rankings and how their opinions have changed upon revisiting winners from episodes past!

  • Special Episode - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

    December 24th, 2023  |  53 mins 17 secs

    For our final episode of 2023 we cover the classic 1964 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special.

  • Special Episode - The Nightmare Before Christmas

    December 13th, 2023  |  1 hr 1 sec

    We're kicking off the 2023 holiday season with a special episode on The Nightmare Before Christmas!

  • Special Episode - Alien

    October 29th, 2023  |  1 hr 27 mins

    For this special spooky episode, we cover the 1979 scifi horror classic Alien!

  • Special Episode - Creature from the Black Lagoon

    October 18th, 2023  |  1 hr 6 mins
    antonio moreno, ben chapman, jack arnold, julie adams, nestor paiva, richard carlson, richard denning, rico browning, whit bissell

    Join hosts Ian and Maggie along with special guest Lola as the dive into this classic Universal monster flick.

  • 72nd Academy Awards - American Beauty

    September 16th, 2023  |  1 hr 20 mins

    In this episode, we tackle one of the cringiest best picture winners we've covered so far: American Beauty.

  • 71st Academy Awards - Shakespeare In Love

    July 22nd, 2023  |  1 hr 27 mins

    We're back with our critique of the 71st Best Picture winner Shakespeare In Love!

  • 70th Academy Awards - Titanic

    May 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 48 mins
    billy zane, frances fisher, james cameron, james horner, kate winslet, kathy bates, leonardo dicaprio, titanic

    Join us for the 70th Best Picture winner, Titanic!