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Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to The Envelope Podcast. Here on The Envelope, we will be discussing and reviewing every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. We will start at the beginning and work our way toward present day. You can reach anyone here at TheEnvelopePodcast.com – Just go there to email us, check our bios, and keep up with the latest episode.
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Final Episode Special!
Ladies & Gentlemen. Welcome to “The Envelope” Podcast. For the last time. Here on The Envelope, we have discussed & reviewed every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. We began with the very first Best Picture Winner “Wings” and over the past 93 episodes (plus a few Special…
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Nomadland
On this episode, we discuss the ninety-third Best Picture Winner: “NOMADLAND” "Nomadland" is based on the 2017 nonfiction book "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" by Jessica Bruder. The film follows Fern, a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great...
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Parasite
On this episode, we discuss the ninety-second Best Picture Winner: “PARASITE” "Parasite" is a South Korean black comedy thriller that follows a poor family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family and infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals. Greed...
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Green Book
On this episode, we discuss the ninety-first Best Picture Winner: “GREEN BOOK” "Green Book" is a biographical comedy-drama written by Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie and Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga's son, Nick Vallelonga, based on interviews with his father and Shirley, as well as letters his...
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The Shape of Water
On this episode, we discuss the ninetieth Best Picture Winner: “THE SHAPE OF WATER” "The Shape of Water" is a romantic fantasy film that follows Elisa, a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever...
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Moonlight
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-ninth Best Picture Winner: “MOONLIGHT” "Moonlight" is a coming-of-age drama based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue." The film presents three stages in the life of Chiron, a young black man...
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Spotlight
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-eighth Best Picture Winner: “SPOTLIGHT” "Spotlight" follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child...
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-seventh Best Picture Winner: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” follows former cinema superhero Riggan Thomson as he mounts an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes will breathe new life...
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12 Years a Slave
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-sixth Best Picture Winner: “12 YEARS A SLAVE.” "12 Years a Slave" is a biographical period-drama adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup. In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate...
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Argo
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-fifth Best Picture Winner: “ARGO.” "Argo" is a historical drama thriller based on the 1999 book by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez, titled "The Master of Disguise," and the 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman, titled "The Great…
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The Artist
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-fourth Best Picture Winner: “THE ARTIST.” "The Artist" is a French comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship between a rising young actress and…
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The King’s Speech
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-third Best Picture Winner: “THE KING’S SPEECH.” "The King's Speech" is a British historical drama that follows King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist. The men become friends as they work...
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The Hurt Locker
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-second Best Picture Winner: “THE HURT LOCKER.” "The Hurt Locker" follows an Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Following the death of their well-respected...
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Slumdog Millionaire
On this episode, we discuss the eighty-first Best Picture Winner: “SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.” "Slumdog Millionaire" is a British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel "Q & A" written by Indian author Vikas Swarup. The story follows 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. As…
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No Country for Old Men
On this episode, we discuss the eightieth Best Picture Winner: “NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.” "No Country for Old Men" is neo-Western crime thriller film based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss finds the grisly aftermath of a drug deal. Though he knows...
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The Departed
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-ninth Best Picture Winner: “THE DEPARTED.” "The Departed is a crime thriller remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs" and is also loosely based on the real-life Boston Winter Hill Gang; the character Colin Sullivan is based on the corrupt FBI...
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Crash
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-eighth Best Picture Winner: “CRASH.” "Crash" is a crime drama that interweaves several connected stories about race, class, family and gender in Los Angeles in the aftermath of 9/11. Characters include a district attorney and his casually prejudiced wife,...
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The Envelope – 2021 Oscar Winners Special
On this episode, we discuss the 93rd Academy Awards Ceremony and the Winners!
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2021 Oscar Nominations Special
On this episode, we discuss the 2021 Oscar Nominations. We tell you who WILL win and who SHOULD win in every category at this year's Academy Awards!
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Million Dollar Baby
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-seventh Best Picture Winner: “MILLION DOLLAR BABY.” "Million Dollar Baby" is a sports drama film based on short stories by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. The film follows Frankie Dunn, a veteran Los Angeles boxing trainer…
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-sixth Best Picture Winner: “LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING.” "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is an epic fantasy adventure film that is the culmination of nearly 10 years' work and the conclusion to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based…
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Chicago
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-fifth Best Picture Winner: “CHICAGO.” "Chicago" is an American musical black comedy crime film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film centers on...
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A Beautiful Mind
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-fourth Best Picture Winner: “A Beautiful Mind.” "A Beautiful Mind" is a biographical drama based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student…
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Gladiator
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-third Best Picture Winner: “GLADIATOR.” "Gladiator" is an epic historical drama inspired by Daniel P. Mannix's 1958 book "Those About to Die" (formerly titled "The Way of the Gladiator"). The film follows Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is...
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American Beauty
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-second Best Picture Winner: “AMERICAN BEAUTY.” "American Beauty" is a dark satire of American middle-class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction. The film follows Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes...
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Shakespeare in Love
On this episode, we discuss the seventy-first Best Picture Winner: “SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.” "Shakespeare in Love" follows a fictional relationship between William Shakespeare and a young woman who poses as a man in order to star in one of the writer's plays, "Romeo & Juliet." Several characters in...
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Titanic
On this episode, we discuss the seventieth Best Picture Winner: “TITANIC.” "Titanic" is an epic romance set against a fictionalized account of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, the film follows the forbidden romance between Rose and Jack,...
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The English Patient
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-ninth Best Picture Winner: “THE ENGLISH PATIENT.” "The English Patient" uses the sweeping expanses of the Sahara as the setting for a passionate love affair in this adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name. A man burned beyond recognition…
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Braveheart
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-eighth Best Picture Winner: “BRAVEHEART.” "Braveheart" is an epic historical fiction war film that follows William Wallace, a late-13th-century medieval Scottish patriot who is spurred into revolt against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who...
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Forrest Gump
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-seventh Best Picture Winner: “FORREST GUMP.” "Forrest Gump" is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses and...
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Schindler’s List
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-sixth Best Picture Winner: “SCHINDLER’S LIST.” "Schindler's List" is based on the 1982 non-fiction novel "Schindler's Ark" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows businessman Oskar Schindler who arrives in Krakow, Poland in 1939 ready to make...
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Unforgiven
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-fifth Best Picture Winner: “UNFORGIVEN.” Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several horses make up for a cowhand slashing a prostitutes's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by the fierce Strawberry Alice, take justice into their own…
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Silence of the Lambs
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-fourth Best Picture Winner: “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.” "The Silence of the Lambs" follows Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious...
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Dances with Wolves
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-third Best Picture Winner: “DANCES WITH WOLVES.” "Dances With Wolves" follows Civil War soldier Lieutenant John Dunbar who develops a relationship with a local Sioux tribe. Attracted by the simplicity of their lifestyle, he chooses to leave his former life...
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Driving Miss Daisy
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-second Best Picture Winner: “DRIVING MISS DAISY.” "Driving Miss Daisy" follows Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, who is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie, arranges for her to…
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Rain Man
On this episode, we discuss the sixty-first Best Picture Winner: “RAIN MAN.” "Rain Man" follows car dealer Charlie Babbitt, who, after learning that his estranged father has died, returns home to Cincinnati where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond and that his…
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The Last Emperor
On this episode, we discuss the sixtieth Best Picture Winner: “THE LAST EMPEROR.” "The Last Emperor" is the sweeping account of the life of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, and his tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu Yi recalls his childhood from...
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Platoon
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-ninth Best Picture Winner: “PLATOON.” "Platoon" follows Chris Taylor who leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit between Staff...
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Out of Africa
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-eighth Best Picture Winner: “OUT OF AFRICA.” "Out of Africa" is based loosely on the autobiographical book "Out of Africa" written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from...
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Amadeus
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-seventh Best Picture Winner: “AMADEUS.” "Amadeus" follows Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic...
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Terms of Endearment
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-sixth Best Picture Winner: “TERMS OF ENDEARMENT.” "Terms of Endearment" follows widow Aurora Greenway and her daughter, Emma, who have a strong bond until Emma marries teacher Flap Horton against her mother's wishes. When the marriage grows sour due to Flap's...
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Chariots of Fire
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-fourth Best Picture Winner: “CHARIOTS OF FIRE.” "Chariots of Fire" takes place in the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, where two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout...
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Ordinary People
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-third Best Picture Winner: “ORDINARY PEOPLE.” "Ordinary People" follows alienated teenager Conrad Jarrett who is tormented by guilt following the death of his older brother, Buck, in a sailing accident, so he attempts suicide. Returning home following an...
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Kramer vs Kramer
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-second Best Picture Winner: “KRAMER VS KRAMER.” "Kramer vs Kramer" follows Manhattan advertising executive Ted Kramer who lands the biggest account of his career, and on the same day, learns that his wife, Joanna, is leaving him and their young son, Billy....
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The Deer Hunter
On this episode, we discuss the fifty-first Best Picture Winner: “THE DEER HUNTER.” "The Deer Hunter" takes place in 1968, and follows Michael, Nick and Steven, lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town as they prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding...
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The Envelope – 50th Episode Special! Our Top 10 of the First 50!
Here on The Envelope Podcast, we usually discuss & review every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. However, this week we’re bringing you a special episode where we will be ranking our Top Ten Favorite Films of the first 50 Best Picture Winners.
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The Envelope – Ep. #50 – Annie Hall
On this episode, we discuss the fiftieth Best Picture Winner: “ANNIE HALL.” "Annie Hall" follows comedian Alvy Singer as he examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall. Speaking directly to the audience in front of a bare background, Singer reflects...
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The Envelope – Ep. #49 – Rocky
On this episode, we discuss the forty-ninth Best Picture Winner: “ROCKY.” "Rocky" follows Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, who is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent…
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The Envelope – 2020 OSCARS POST-SHOW Special Episode!
On this episode, we discuss the 92nd Academy Awards Ceremony and the Winners!
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Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to The Envelope Podcast. Here on The Envelope, we will be discussing and reviewing every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History. We will start at the beginning and work our way toward present day. You can reach anyone here at TheEnvelopePodcast.com – Just go there to email us, check our bios, and keep up with the latest episode.
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