Lights Camera Accolade

Lights Camera Accolade
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Lights Camera Accolade takes listeners on a journey through a century of cinema by way of the Academy Awards' Best Picture nominees and winners (as told by complete amateurs).

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    Black History Month #2 - Confirm My Bias, King (Preview)

    This episode spoils 1929's Hallelujah. For Black History Month, we’re revisiting King Vidor’s 1929 film Hallelujah (one of the first major studio productions to feature an all-Black cast). Celebrated for groundbreaking performances and sound design, yet complicated by stereotypes and studio-era framing, Hallelujah sits at a crossroads of representation, exploitation, and opportunity. We unpack its legacy, its music, and what it meant for Black performers navigating early Hollywood. If you don't want to wait a year before listening to our full bonus episodes, support us on patreon and get access to monthly bonus content.

    26 мин.

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    13th Academy Awards - How to Lose a Wife in Two Hours

    This episode spoils 1940’s nominees The Grapes of Wrath, Our Town, All This and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Long Voyage Home, The Great Dictator, The Letter, The Philadelphia Story, Kitty Foyle and winner Rebecca. This year brings us some of the highest highs and the lowest lows. It’s the year in which the looming world war becomes more real and Hollywood has to start acknowledging it. Meanwhile, two movies break Jake this year, and it’s not necessarily the ones you’d expect. For bonus content find us on patreon For contacting us about our totally correct takes, or for fulfilling our Test Pilot or The Philadelphia Story fanfiction request— you can email us at lightscameraaccolade@gmail.com

    2 ч. 42 мин.

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    Black History Month #1 - Beyond the Studio Gates (Full)

    This is the full release of 2025’s February bonus and spoils the movie Within Our Gates (1920). We honored Black History Month by viewing the oldest existing feature film from a black American director; Oscar Micheaux's 1920 classic: Within Our Gates, a landmark of early Black cinema that confronts racism, violence, and hypocrisy in Jim Crow America head-on. Unfortunately, the type of narrative that we don't see in mainstream media for almost another century after its release. If you don't want to wait a full year before listening to our full bonus episodes, consider supporting us on patreon

    1 ч. 5 мин.

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    Sarah's Choice - Climbing the Corporate Leader (Preview)

    This episode spoils the pre-code movie Baby Face (1933). Join us as we discuss one of the movies credited with causing the enforcement of the Hays Code. A woman sleeps her way to the top, and gets away with it relatively unscathed? Can't say the same for the men she leaves in her wake or William Hays's ghost. If you don't want to wait a year before listening to our full bonus episodes, support us on patreon and get access to monthly bonus content.

    27 мин.

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    12th Academy Awards - Hollywood’s Greatest Year

    This episode spoils 1939’s nominees Dark Victory, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, and winner Gone With the Wind. Widely regarded as the strongest year for movies in Academy history, the lingering effects of the nominees and winners can still be felt to this day— for good and for bad. It’s the year of toxic romance, ugly hats, questionable medical ethics, and maybe the best teacher we’ve ever seen. Several of these movies were absolutely foundational for their genres, and had they come out in any other year they may have even stood a chance at taking home the grand prize. For bonus content find us on Patreon For contacting us about our totally correct takes, or for fulfilling our Test Pilot fanfiction request— you can email us at lightscameraaccolade@gmail.com

    2 ч. 37 мин.

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    Sarah's Choice - View 'M' For Murder (Full)

    This is the full release of 2025’s January bonus and spoils the movie M (1931). The otherwise cinematically dismal year (1931) is salvaged by the 11th hour intervention of a groundbreaking German thriller: M. Listen to us discuss the morality of capital punishment and the potential origins of true crime in film. If you don't want to wait a full year before listening to our full bonus episodes, consider supporting us on patreon

    58 мин.

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    Holiday Bonus 2 - My Secret Santa Cruising (Preview)

    This episode spoils Netflix’s hit Christmas movie My Secret Santa (2025). Join us as we yet again take a simple, feel-good movie way too seriously and dissect every part of the movie worth talking about. We also may or may not go down a rabbit hole looking at Netflix’s version of manifest destiny and how monopolization and the corporatization of the internet ruined everything. Normal Christmas conversations. Happy holidays and happy new year! This is a preview. Become a subscriber to find the full episode at patreon.com/lightscameraaccolade

    24 мин.

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    11th Academy Awards - Frank Capra Must Be Stopped

    This episode spoils 1938’s nominees The Adventures of Robin Hood, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Boys Town, The Citadel, Four Daughters, La Grande Illusion, Jezebel, Pygmalion, Test Pilot, and winner You Can’t Take it With You. It’s a confusing year for the Oscars. Big Opera is officially overtaken by Big Tobacco, America shields its eyes to tensions continuing to rise in Europe, Robin Hood is a confirmed sociopath, Boys Town is a PR nightmare, white people invent ragtime, and we all turn on Frank Capra. For bonus content find us on Patreon For contacting us about our totally correct takes, or for fulfilling our Test Pilot fanfiction request— you can email us at lightscameraaccolade@gmail.com

    2 ч. 34 мин.
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Lights Camera Accolade takes listeners on a journey through a century of cinema by way of the Academy Awards' Best Picture nominees and winners (as told by complete amateurs).

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    Lights Camera Accolade
  • Годы выхода
    2024 - 2026
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    36
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