7th Academy Awards - Capra Captures All the Awards

20/05/2025 2h 53min Episodio 15
7th Academy Awards - Capra Captures All the Awards

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Episode Synopsis

This episode spoils 1934's nominees The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!, and winner It Happened One Night.
The White Parade gets an honorable mention by thankfully deciding to (mostly) be a lost film and saving us the watch time.
1934 delivered epic spectacle unlike anything we've seen so far. This year had everything from painful portrayals of conflicts over identity and family dysfunction to extremely questionable portrayals of historical figures. But the humblest and most human entries won us over this year (and the Academy too apparently) in the first Oscars sweep in history.