About Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars
Best Picture Brainrot is a 100-week countdown to the 100th Academy Awards, where your hosts Adam, Alexis, and Sarah watch every Best Picture Oscar winner in order, starting with 1927's Wings to... whatever the Academy picks for their 100th winner. Learn about Oscar history, film history, even some world history while your hosts discuss every winner in detail and continuously suffer from ever-worsening brainrot. New episodes every Thursday.
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We are 69 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and we bid farewell to our good friend William Wyler who has brought us bangers such as Mrs.Miniver and The Best Years of Our Lives but now brings us his arguably most famous Oscars work - 1960's Ben-Hur.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ sounds like a curious novel to adapt if you are a famous Jewish Hollywood director. Alas, William Wyler set out to make "a thinking man's biblical epic" in direct competition to Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Shots fired! They both even star Charlton Heston. Ben-Hur is the story of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince who is send into slavery and returns home to seek revenge against his childhood friend who now rules for the Romans in Judea. All this while his story intersects with the rise of Jesus Christ in a slightly Gump-ian way. It's big, it's epic, it's long and it won the most Oscars of all-time. A big stature to live up to - so does it?
In this episode you're gonna hear:
The way Wyler saved MGM by creating a movie of unprecedented scale
Exhaustive discussion of how painfully hot Charlton Heston is in this movie
What leprosy is and why everyone threw rocks at lepers
If there's room for another new-age biblical epic in the Oscars canon
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22 Oct 2026
70 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Gigi (1958)
We are 70 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and... buckle up. Vincente Minelli's French-Belle Epoque-set Gigi is our 31st Best Picture Winner and I assure you, we have a lot to say about this.
Gigi is a (14-year old) girl who is a courtesan (mistress/hooker-in training) under the tutelage of her grandma and great-aunt (pimps) in the roaring French ages where you're either too rich to have real relationships, trying to siphon money off those rich people, or too poor to even be discussed in the bounds of this story. Weirdly this is an enduring story that adapts a novel, and has been adapted into the stage. On it's surface, this feels like it could be something subversive, but does the group read it that way, or does it read it to filth? I'm sure you can guess.
In this episode you're gonna hear:
How Aretha Franklin's assessment of Taylor Swift informed our opinion of this movie
An emergent new viral hashtag - #FreeGigi
The shortest Brainrot section of all time because the whole episode is rot
Three frustrated hosts trying to figure out what the heck was in the water of 1958
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15 Oct 2026
71 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
We are 71 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today, we go back to the World War II well with a non-Wyler-led epic about POWs on the Pacific front who are forced to build a river crossing in the lovely jungles of Burma. The Bridge on the River Kwai is our first David Lean, and our 30th Best Picture Winner. Featuring special guest - Zach!
You likely know him best for originating the character of Obi Wan Kenobi, but Alec Guinness was an Oscar-winning actor whose most significant role before Star Wars was in this movie where he basically acts as a summer camp counselor wrangling troublesome youths who need to unite to solve a common goal. But here's the catch - they are all prisoners of war of the Japanese forces. Nevertheless, this is the task that Guinness' Colonel Nicholson must take on - keep the men alive and productive in hostile conditions. Does he take it a little too far? Let's find out!
In this episode you're gonna hear:
The real story of Sir Lieutenant Colonel Philip John Denton Toosey and how that inspired (or didn't inspire) the events of the movie
Which Eddie Murphy character vehicle was inspired by one of Alec Guiness' performances
Valuable technical camera information from an expert in the craft
The results of the 3rd Brainrot Awards!
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Sarah - https://boxd.it/6VQMl (https://boxd.it/6VQMl)
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