The Best Picture Podcas‪t‬ Sean Homrig

Director:  William Friedkin

Producer: Philip D'Antoni

Screenplay:  Ernest Tidyman

Photography:  Owen Roizman

Music:  Don Ellis

Cast:  Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 98%/Audience: 87%

Director:  Norman Jewison

Producer:  Norman Jewison

Screenplay:  Joseph Stein

Photography:  Oswald Morris

Music:  Jerry Bock

Cast:  Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 83%/Audience: 92%

Director:  Stanley Kubrick

Producers:  Stanley Kubrick

Screenplay:  Stanley Kubrick

Photography:  John Alcott

Music:  N/A

Cast:  Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Carl Duering, Anthony Sharp, Madge Ryan

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 86%/Audience: 93%

Eric and Sean rank and discuss the five nominees for Best Picture of 1998 and bring up some other contenders for the prize that weren't nominated.  Once again, the nominees are: "Elizabeth", "Life is Beautiful", "Saving Private Ryan", "Shakespeare in Love", and "The Thin Red Line".

Director:  Terence Malick

Producers:  Robert Michael Geisler, Grant Hill, John Roberdeau

Screenplay:  Terence Malick

Photography:  John Toll

Music:  Hans Zimmer

Cast:  Sean Penn, Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, George Clooney

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 80%/Audience: 80%

Director:  John Madden

Producers:  Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick

Screenplay:  Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

Photography:  Richard Greatrex

Music:  Stephen Warbeck

Cast:  Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson

Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 92%/Audience: 80%