Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project
TLDR; Father/Daughter team watch and review all movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, starting back in 1927.
Welcome to Shea Cinema, The Best Picture Project!
Join host Sara Shea and her father, William Shea, as they watch and explore every film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Sara and Dad are recreating a project Sara assigned to her high school Film Studies students, which includes contextual historical research, discussing their personal responses to each film, what makes these films important, why these films need to be understood in context, and, finally, did the winner deserve the Oscar?
So grab your popcorn, pull up a chair, sit back and relax, and let's begin Shea Cinema.
Shea Cinema: The Best Picture Project
S1E1: 1st Academy Awards, 1929
In our first official episode, Sara and Dad go over the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, details of the first awards ceremony in 1929 (honoring the best in films from 1927 and 1928), and give an overview of the six films nominated for the top honor. Subsequent episodes of Season One will cover each of these films in detail.
The Movies:
- Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, 1927
- 7th Heaven, 1927
- Wings, 1927
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927
- The Crowd, 1928
- The Racket, 1928
Books mentioned by Dad:
- Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman
- The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle by David Yallup
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