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Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars

Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars

By: Adam Sadiq Sarah Sax Drew Vollmer
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 Best Picture Brainrot is a 100-week countdown to the 100th Academy Awards, where your hosts Adam, Drew, 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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Episodes
  • 95 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Cavalcade (1933)

    95 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Cavalcade (1933)
    Apr 30 2026
    We are 95 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they trudge through British history with the sixth Best Picture winner - 1933's Cavalcade.

    Oi! We talkin' about Cavalcade this week, innit? This film traces the history of Britain from the turn of the 20th Century up until the year of its release - 1933. It's one of those films where simultaneously a lot happens while also nothing happens at all. Cavalcade might be the most British film to win Best Picture - but it may not be all beans and toast for us.

    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • History that only British kids learn in primary school
    • How a Gumpian ethos drives the action (or lack thereof) in this movie
    • A variety of terrible English accents
    • Our modern rewrite that brings Cavalcade to the 21st Century


    Follow us @bestpicturebrainrotpodcast as we keep delving into Oscars history with a brainrot spin

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    Adam - https://boxd.it/9fMt
    Drew - https://boxd.it/ahkIx
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 96 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Grand Hotel (1932)

    96 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Grand Hotel (1932)
    Apr 23 2026
    We are 96 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they check in to cosmopolitan Berlin with the fifth Best Picture winner - 1932's Grand Hotel.

    What if Mike White was a time traveler who went back in time to test a pilot for The White Lotus in the 1930s? This is exactly what Grand Hotel feels like - a cast of colorful characters interacting within the walls of a luxury hotel dealing with deceit, devotion, and even death. Grand Hotel is our most contained and character-driven Best Picture winner thus far - but how do we feel about that?

    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • Why the Grand Hotel in Berlin was the right setting for this movie
    • Which iconic Illumination character shares a name with a character in this movie
    • The merits of replacing golden retreivers with dachsunds as the cinematic dog of choice
    • Our piping hot takes on the new Best Casting Oscar


    Follow us @bestpicturebrainrotpodcast as we keep delving into Oscars history with a brainrot spin

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    Adam - https://boxd.it/9fMt
    Drew - https://boxd.it/ahkIx
    Sarah - https://boxd.it/6VQMl
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    1 hr
  • 97 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Cimarron (1931)

    97 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Cimarron (1931)
    Apr 16 2026
    We are 97 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they journey to the early days of Oklahoma with the fourth Best Picture winner - 1931's Cimarron.

    Are we in Oklahoma, 1950's New York City or Dune? These are questions we ask this week as we meet a colorful cast of OG gentrifiers settling the American West. Hold on to your wife and kids because some of these characters sure aren't doing the same. Cimarron is the first Western to win Best Picture - but how does it stack up against the rest?

    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • How the OU fight song "Boomer Sooner" came to be
    • The fascinating history of the first black actor to appear in a Best Picture winner
    • A step-by-step guide on how to be the worst father of all time
    • The introduction of a new Best Picture Brainrot host: Yancey Supreme


    Follow us @bestpicturebrainrotpodcast as we keep delving into Oscars history with a brainrot spin

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    Adam - https://boxd.it/9fMt
    Drew - https://boxd.it/ahkIx
    Sarah - https://boxd.it/6VQMl
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    1 hr and 10 mins
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