The Award Goes To With Patrick and Lauren: Recent Episodes
Patrick and Lauren
Welcome to “The Award Goes to” podcast! Where we celebrate the films that have won best picture through out the years and discuss the history of filmmaking one Oscar winner at a time.
The man in the hat is back and adventure has a name...again!
Yes we know that this movie came out already. But now that the Actor's strike is over and the film is headed to Disney+ on 12/1/2023 we're ready to release it!
Join Indiana Jones as he journeys around the world meeting new friends and old with the fate of the world in his hands yet again.
Directed by:
James Mangold
Starring:
Harrison Ford
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Karen Allen
John Rhys-Davies
Patrick and Lauren discuss the final chapter in the Indiana Jones story. If you haven't seen it already, what are you doing? There are spoilers a plenty.
Join us as we discuss making short films. Making your own work. Something our co-host Lauren has done with previous guest Ashley Maria. Harsh Wilderness! We discuss filmmaking on a budget and finding the right location. The time it takes to self produce something.
Unfairly exiled from her home and marriage, Verna must find common ground with Beatrice, the woman she hates, to survive the Harsh Wilderness of the Old West.
Starring:
Lauren Olipra
**Liesel Hlista
Directed By:
Ashley Maria
Written By:
Andy Greene
Director Of Photography:
Rodolphe Portier
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INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
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If you haven't seen the new Indiana Jones, please wait to listen to this. Lauren and Patrick sat down and FINALLY saw a movie. In the theaters! We take you on a little trip through the world of Indiana Jones and discuss our thoughts on the final film in the series. The characters. The plot. How it fits in the world of Indy and of course, trash Crystal Skull.
Join us!
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Let's run away to the Circus together. Come on. It'll be great. There are Trapeze artists battling eachother in the air, Murderous clowns? Small time Mafia, a horrendous train wreck, and far too much footage of the Actual Ringling Circus.
Come on down!
Starring:
Jimmy Stewart
Charlton Heston
Butty Hutton
Dorothy Lamour
Cornel Wilde
Gloria Gragame
Hosted by Lauren Olipra and Patrick Pizzolorusso
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Patrick and Lauren are joined by Mark Gindick as they discuss An American In Paris. Truly one of the best movie musicals. Led by Gene Kelly, it's the story of 3 friends in Paris, all artists. Two of which are romantically involved with the same woman. How will this end!!!
Starring:
Gene Kelly
Leslie Caron
Oscar Levant
Henri Laurel
Milo Roberts
You can find Mark anywhere online but Instagram is great so here ya go!
Go follow this masterful clown.
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We're doing it! We're getting them all wet, exposing them all to bright lights, and most definitely feeding them after midnight.
Join us as we dive into the 1984 horror comedy known as GREMLINS!
Starring:
Zach Galligan
Phoebe Cates
Hoyt Axton
Corey Feldman
The story of a young man who inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Sadly this didn't win any Academy Awards but it did with Best Horror in the Saturn Awards and it also won our hearts. Which isn't that the greatest award after all?
Join Patrick and Lauren as we follow the story of up and coming actress Eve Harrington and her ability to manipulate her way into people's lives. She's plotting and devious and wedge's her way int Bette Davis' character's life for personal gain.
Lot's of tongue in cheek moments, brilliant writing, dark and light comedy. And of course Patrick and lauren. What more could you want?
Written and directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring:
Bette Davis
Anne Baxter
George Sanders
Celeste Holm
Marilyn Monroe
Welcome to Season 2's recap episode where Patrick and Lauren discuss the decade's movies pointing out key take aways. They rate them and then slowly drink their way through the decade of cocktails that were featured in each episode.
What more could you want?
Patrick and Lauren, your favorite podcasters, are joined by friend and actor Adam Wasser to discuss and dissect All The King's Men. A film about the rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
...Who does that sound like to you????
Eerily familiar story and themes. It's hard not to ask yourself after watching this, how are we still making the same mistakes?
Starring:
Broderick Crawford - Willie
John Ireland - Jack Burden
Joanne Dru - Anne Stanton
Directed by:
Robert Rossen
Adam would prefer to hide online some where but his improv troupe can be found here:
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On this thrilling episode Patrick and Lauren dive into Hamlet! The Best Picture winner for 1948. It's a British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.
This particular version, like all versions, is not without controversy. Massive cuts to the script, artistic license by Olivier, rearranging of scenes. We discuss what works and what doesn't work.
We're also joined by Deven Anderson. A New York based actor, creator, artist, and member of the comedy parody troupe, The Usual Rejects.
So join us as we walk through the first film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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In this daring episode of our special series, The Envelope Please, Patrick and Lauren talk about the ads running before films and during intermission at movie houses during the 1940's.
What's your favorite concession? Concessions were and still are pushed down our throats. Popcorn being the number one seller at the movies.
The similarity between things we see in movie theatres today and back then. Silence has always been an issue apparently. But less common today...seat cutting?
And War Bonds! The war effort was in full swing during the 40's and what better way to support the troops than to give them money and "back the attack."
The Academy award winner for best picture in 1948.
Join Patrick and Lauren, along with their special guest Alexandra Kopko, as they journey through NY and navigate the un spoken anti-semitism that gripped the nation. And still has a stranglehold on parts of society
A journalist goes undercover as a Jewish person to uncover anti semitism in the nation and world.
Directed by Elia Kazan
Starring
Gregory Peck
Dorothy McGuire
John Garfield
Celeste Holm
June Havoc
Anne Revere
Dean Stockwell
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The Academy award winner for best picture in 1947.
Join Patrick and Lauren, along with their special guest Kelley Portier, as they discuss this innovative film that explores what post WWII life was like for many returning servicemen.
This film follows 3 servicemen all in different places in their lives, all dealing with a lot of PTSD, and trying to find their place in a very changed world.
We also discuss Harold Russell and his special honorary Oscar that was presented to him.
Directed by William Wyler
Starring Myrna Loy
Fredric March
Dana Andrews
Teresa Wright
Virginia Mayo
Harold Russell
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The Academy award winner for best picture in 1946.
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring:
Ray Milland
Jane Wyman
Phillip Terry
Patrick and Lauren welcome Amanda Conlon to the podcast and the three wade through this very propaganda feeling film about the life of an alcoholic over a long weekend. Alcoholism up to this point was a joke but this film opened the door to the conversation. People started talking about it. And changed started to happen.
But yes, we still rip this apart.
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On this episode we take a deep dive into Going My Way, the best picture winner in 1945 starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Joining us is filmmaker and producer Ashley Maria. We discuss Bing's ability to just float through a plot and how some of this film just didn't need to happen.
Give Bing Crosby a piano and you've got the makings of a movie right there. Probably all his movies.
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The 1944 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Casablanca! The story of a cynical expatriate American cafe owner (Humphrey Bogart) struggling to decide whether or not to help his former lover (Ingrid Bergman) and her fugitive husband (Paul Henried) escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Join us as we hide from the Nazi's and desperately try to find passage out of Casablanca all the while discussing the music, the look, the iconic actors. And joining us this episode is actor and writer, Jim Cairl
Starring:Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henried
But also Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Dooley Wilson
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
The 1943 Academy Award winning film, Mrs. Miniver. Hollywood has officially gone to war after skirting it for the past several years. This film started out as a very Pro-British propoganda film. However, once the United States entered the war, it took on a whole new meaning, mainly of survival and resilience.
Listen along as we discuss the film, story, and technology of the time. And this episode Patrick and Lauren are proud to welcome special guest Jodi Dennithorne!
On this episode Patrick and Lauren welcome special guest Christina Perry of the Chain Theatre and the Usual Rejects to talk with them about the 1942 Best Picture Winner:
How Green Was My Valley
Starring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, and Roddy McDowell
It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch, where Llewellyn spent many summers visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel.
Join us as we discuss how green our valleys really were and fight over whether or not this was a good movie.
Join us for a deep dive into H.G. Wells War of the Worlds from 1953. This might just be the alien invasion film that all other alien invasion films aspire to be. A tale of invasion and ultimate triumph by the smallest of things on this planet. The 1953 version puts a religious spin on the events of the novel. Which was decidedly against religion.
From filming models, to cobras, to Woody Woodpecker. Patrick and Lauren join the martians in their slow, oh so slow, destruction of the human race. Thankfully there is a light at the end of the tunnel. And L.A. is saved! (oh and the world)
The true prototype for the modern alien movie.
Rebecca! Alfred Hitchcock's first American film and his only best picture winner. Patrick and Lauren invite their very first guest, Julienne Irons to explore this suspenseful film based on the novel by the same name. Model Miniatures, ex-wives, A new husband no one can figure out, model miniatures the size of sound stages. What more could you ask for?
Rebecca won the Best Picture in 1941 and Hitchock's style for story telling is evident even in this earlier work by the master of suspense.
So sit back and enjoy as we journey to Manderley and try to avoid the former Mrs. DeWinter's ever present ghost, Rebecca!
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We recap our journey so far through the world of Best Picture winners from the Academy awards. Get ready for season 2 with some fun new surprises! A give away is on it's way. Which was your favorite film?
Wings
The Broadway Melody
All Quiet On The Western Front
Cimarron
Grand Hotel
Cavalcade
It Happened One Night
Mutiny On The Bounty
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life Of Emile Zola
You Can’t Take It With You
Gone With The Wind
Atlanta is on fire, people are giving their jewelry away to fund a losing side, lovers who really don't love each other, and a manipulative lead character. Patrick and Lauren take on Gone With The Wind. Give you a little insight into the behind the scenes and discuss some of the (many) problems with the film. Is it a perfect film? No. Is it a history lesson? Definitely not. Is it maybe too long? Yes. Is it beautiful and innovative for it's time? You bet it is. Join us as we dive into this Hollywood classic
Is it the Birdcage? Is it the Adams Family? Is it the play that every high school does across the country at least every other year? Follow a long as we disect the film adaptation of the Kaufman-Hart play, You Can't Take It With You. Columbia is still crawling out of poverty row as they bring back Frank Capra. Are the seeds sewn for It's a Wonderful Life with the team up of Capra, Lionel Barrymore ad Jimmy Stewart? Why is there a crow? So many questions.
We've all seen it. A lot. And if you haven't you should. There be spoilers ahead! Patrick and Lauren take a look at Jaws. But instead of breaking it down and examining the movie as a whole, they discuss some key moments in the film and some unexplored history that went into making it. We're gonna need a bigger podcast.
The Best picture winner in 1937. "I Accuse!" We discuss the parallels of Paris in the 1860's to social issues now. Lauren gets her own segment. FUN FACTS! Why are older movies so shaky? How do you pronounce biopic? Burning questions.
Patrick and Lauren explore the life and times of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. One of the world's earliest and greatest showmen. Sex Sells. The birth of the Follies and the first biopic to win Best Picture. Join us as we pick apart his life and the ladies he leaves along the way.
The Academy Awards 2021! Sit back and relax as Patrick and Lauren break down this year's best picture nominees and weigh in on their picks. Set your calendars for April 25th! Who do you think will win?
Patrick and Lauren take the famous sea voyage to Tahiti on the HMS Bounty. There are press gangs. Captain Bligh is out for blood, and cheese, and coconuts. There is Mutiny and love. Breadfruit gets tossed overboard. Someone eats a raw seagull. We drink Johnnie Walker and Grog. Some more Looney Tunes cross overs. The chief gets a hat!
It didn't happen in one night! Join Patrick and Lauren on the Night Bus from Miami to NYC in this blueprint for the screwball comedy. The movie that put Columbia on the map and swept the Oscars. Clark Gable is Funny! Who knew!
Dive into the early version of Downton Abbey in this 30-plus year journey through the beginning of the 20th Century. There is the Boers War, the Titanic, WWI, and Death. As we follow an upper and lower class through London at the turn of the Century. There are Medieval Knights. Find out what a 'Pearly' is. Auld Lang Syne is sung. A lot.
Patrick and Lauren set foot into the Art Deco opulence of the Grand Hotel in Berlin and navigate the rooms and hallways of the star studded film. All seven of MGM's top actors of the time appear in this film making it a shoe-in for awards. Drinks are discussed. Favorite lines. Behind the scenes trivia. What more could you ask for?!
"**A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century."
Patrick and Lauren head into the 'untamed' - and stolen - lands of the Oklahoma territory and follow a family who helps build and shape the land into the state of Oklahoma. We're shootin' from the hip in this one folks. Justice meted out in a church, a husband who can't stay home, and a wildly progressive film from 1931.**
HO. HO. HO! Patrick and Lauren descend upon Macy's in NYC and discuss the brilliant (and young) Natalie Wood and whether or not Kris Kringle is truly Santa Claus. Similarities to Elf are uncovered and blow Lauren's mind. HOLIDAY DRINKS! A quick game of Santa trivia.
The 3rd Best Picture Winner! One of the first truly anti-war movies. Patrick and Lauren follow a group of school friends as they experience the horrors of war. One by one they're picked off or lose a limb. Is it wrong to make this a drinking game? We discuss the horrors of war, especially WWI.
The second Best Picture award Winner. We follow two semi-talented sisters from the vaudeville circuit as they try to make it big time on Broadway. Matters of the heart complicate the attempt. Patrick and Lauren discuss this weird love triangle...square...thing, and break down Hollywoods first movie musical. The grand-daddy of all movie musicals. There are a ton of laughs, many...not intentional.
The John Landis genre bending 1981 hit is here in time for Halloween! David and Jack are attacked on the Moors by a werewolf. Follow along with Patrick and Lauren as they discuss this groundbreaking horror film and some of their practical special effects. Winner of the first Academy Award for Make-up.
The First best Picture Winner! William A. Wellman's 1929 masterpiece WINGS is discussed. The first film to win a Best Picture Oscar from the Academy. Starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Gary Cooper. Lauren and Patrick discuss the film's artistry and innovative camera shots. Clara Bow's comedic timing and brilliant acting within the silent medium. That one famous camera tracking shot in the cafe in Paris. Best line and what drink pairs best with this film? One of the most famous shots recently recreated in Star Wars
Welcome! Meet Patrick and Lauren, your hosts through all of the Academy Award Films that have won Best Picture. Through out the series we'll be discussing those films along with specialty episodes throughout each season. In this episode, get to know who we are, our favorite movies, our worst impressions, and a brief history of the Academy Awards.