Thursday, February 28, 2019

Dual Redundancy's March Madness Bracket - Strongest Best Picture Nominees - Round 1


It is March and that only means one thing: March Madness! Inspired by a debate on the podcast we wanted to try and figure out which year had the strongest best picture nominees!

Every week we will have the best picture nominees of each year face up against each other until only one year remains! Some years have a stronger crop of nominees than others and it is time to finally decide which year The Academy had the “best” best picture contenders.



How were the seeds figured out you ask? Math! We looked up the average rating of each best picture nominee on the online movie social network service Letterboxd. These ratings were than averaged together to get one rating for each year. For instance, 1994 received a 3.98 because that was the average between Forrest Gump (4.1), Four Weddings and a Funeral (3.3), Pulp Fiction (4.4), Quiz Show (3.7) and The Shawshank Redemption (4.4). If there was any ties in these yearly averages each film’s domestic box office was averaged together for the year. Whatever year had the higher total average between the two took the higher seed. (Box office totals could not be just added together because after 2009 there was more than five best picture nominees).

Voting for each round will close on Wednesday night and the next round of match-ups will begin on Thursdays. Keep an eye on the blog, our Twitter feed and each episode’s show notes for the voting link!

Speaking of voting ROUND ONE HAS BEGUN! Please only one vote per person.

Friday, February 22, 2019

Podcast Episode 235: PEN15, Miracle Workers and Narcos: Mexico


In this week's episode David, John and Kyle discuss the results from the Writers Guild Awards and how that will effect the Oscars (2:05). We also discuss The Academy’s decision to reveal four Oscar winners during the commercial breaks (and then the swift reversal of this decision) (9:10). Next we discuss the claim that the Golden Raspberry Awards are fake (20:40). Finally, we review the series premieres of Hulu’s PEN15 (25:05) and TBS’ Miracle Workers (32:10) before Kyle gives us a mini-review of the first season of Narcos: Mexico (39:45).


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Monday, February 18, 2019

Podcast Mini-Episode 234B: More 2019 Oscar Predictions with The Boyle and Rojas Podcast


After predicting the top eight awards for the 91st Academy Awards, David and Kyle are joined again by Nicholas Boyle & Nick Rojas of The Boyle and Rojas Podcast. In this special mini-episode they try and predict two other categories that could have some unique winners at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
 

This episode was originally recorded on February 12th before The Academy reversed their plans of not showing all the categories live. For even more Oscar predictions be sure to check out our main Oscar prediction special. You can also listen to past episodes of the podcast on iTunes, YouTube and our new Twitch channel!

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Podcast Episode 234: Predicting the 91st Academy Awards vs. The Boyle and Rojas Podcast


In this week’s episode David and Kyle take on special guests Nicholas Boyle & Nick Rojas of The Boyle and Rojas Podcast in predicting the very unpredictable Oscars. In this special episode they try and forecast who will take home the Oscar in all the major categories for the 91st Academy Awards.



We discuss (in order) best adapted screenplay (7:00), best original screenplay (11:15), best supporting actress (16:55), best supporting actor (20:55), best actress (25:10), best actor (30:10), best director (37:15), and best picture (43:05).



Want even more Oscars? We discussed a few more Oscar categories and have a nomination reaction podcast! You can also listen to past episodes of the podcast on iTunesYouTube and our new Twitch channel!

Friday, February 8, 2019

Podcast Episode 233: Super Bowl LIII and Russian Doll Premiere


In this week's episode David, John and Kyle discuss the lawsuit from “Fiji Water Girl” against Fiji Water (2:00) and how the Fyre Festival documentaries may have led to a TV show for one of their stars (9:15). We also discuss everything from Super Bowl 53 including Maroon 5’s halftime show and the commercials (18:40). Finally, we review the series premiere of Russian Doll entitled “Nothing in This World is Easy” (41:00).



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