You can listen to The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Google Podcasts.
Don’t forget to check out our other podcast: The Way Too Early Oscar Podcast a year-long Oscar podcast hosted by Marisa Carpico (Film Editor at ThePopBreak.com) and Matt Taylor that covers all the latest Oscar contenders and film festivals plus Oscar-related news and trends.
Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a 5th season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is…
This series has Matt and Marisa going in the wayback machine to walk the red carpet and examine a singular year of Oscars. They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. They discuss the cultural relevance of the nominations at the time and how those nominations have aged. They also talk about what they feel were snubs and their picks for under-appreciated films from that year.
As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from each year.
In this episode they look at the 1968 Oscars. Tune in to hear them talk about everything they learned from Barbra Streisand’s incredible memoir, thirst over Oliver Reed and each give their line readings of Ingrid Bergman’s Best Actress presentation.
Don’t forget to check out their episode on the 2012 Oscars.
Best Picture:
Oliver! – Winner
Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
Best Director
Carol Reed – Oliver! – Winner
Stanley Kubrick – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Gillo Pontecorvo – The Battle of Algiers
Anthony Harvey – The Lion in Winter
Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet
Best Actress
Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter – Co-Winner
Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl – Co-Winner
Patricia Neal – The Subject Was Roses
Vanessa Redgrave – Isadora
Joanne Woodward – Rachel, Rachel
Best Support Actress
Ruth Gordon – Rosemary’s Baby – Winner
Lynn Carlin – Faces
Sondra Locke – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Kay Medford – Funny Girl
Estelle Parsons – Rachel, Rachel
Best Actor
Cliff Robertson – Charly – Winner
Alan Arkin – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Alan Bates – The Fixer
Ron Moody – Oliver!
Peter O’Toole – The Lion in Winter
Best Supporting Actor
Jack Albertson – The Subject Was Roses – Winner
Seymour Cassel – Faces
Daniel Massey – Star!
Jack Wild – Oliver!
Gene Wilder – The Producers
