1917 Oscar Sprint Profile - The Best Picture Field Turns Into a War Zone - Ep 267

1917 is our final Oscars Sprint Profile movie review of the season, and as we speculate in this episode, it could also be the last to hear its name called on Oscars sunday. A non-spoiler review comes first with analysis of all 10 noms & then we dive into the plot in spoilers. Mike1 is Losing Hope - Top of Show Episode Format - 1:41 NONSPOILER REVIEW: Production Profile - 2:34 (Covering Its Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay Noms) Plot Premise/Expectations - 7:24 Production Values: Cinematography Nom - 8:14 Production Design - 12:27 Makeup and Hairstyling - 15:46 Original Score - 16:43 VFX - 18:31 Sound Categories (x2) - 19:43 Performances - 21:25 Script Thoughts - 25:46 Oscars Lens - 27:07 SPOILER WARNING DANCE BREAK - 29:48 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: The Few Nitpicky Lowlights - 31:00 Highlights/Bests - 38:25 (North by Northwest 1917 - 40:15) (Everything Matters - 42:25) (The Best 45 Minutes Stretch of 2019 - 44:34) (Older Brother Blues - 48:04) FINAL GRADE - 49:32 Your Homework/What Drugs Work Best Here? - 50:50 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 51:43 We didn’t want to love this movie. In fact, I think we kinda dragged our feet to review it, fearing that our fandom for Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood would receive a major hit, aaaannd WE WERE CORRECT. 1917 is a terrific film, and it is most deserving of the Oscar Sprint Profile movie review format here. As always, we begin with a non-spoiler section. Though to be fair, we cannot help but quote some of the Andrew Scott scene from Act 1 of the film. So beware of that if you’re allergic to ALL spoilers. But we do otherwise remain spoiler free and analyze all 10 nominations the film received throughout our non-spoiler review. Then our House DJ plays his spoiler warning dance music, and we dive into the plot with a few worsts. But for the most part, we take the time to discuss a whole lot of best scenes. Now if you’ve enjoyed all our Oscars speculation, don’t fret. We have a ton of that here, even putting a creative over/under on how many wins the film may get. We compare the film’s chances to previous years, we harken back to what we know about the production of the film, and we gush about so many great movie moments pulled off by Sam Mendes, Roger Deakins, and company. Make sure you go back to all our 2019/20 Oscar Sprint Profile movie reviews. We’ve now reviewed each of the major nominees with many of those episodes featuring guests like Jon Gabrus & Nick Mundy to only name a few. You can find the rest of our Oscar nom reviews in our weekly shows, MMOW & Oscar Race Checkpoint, and we encourage you to relive every big moment of this wild awards season and your movie year by clicking play on either of those playlists in our soundcloud feed. As always, we’ll be recapping & analyzing this weekend’s awards on our next Oscar Race Checkpoint covering SAG, PGA, and the ACE EDDIE’s. Stay tuned for the rest of our big 7 category reviews. We just released Best Actress, and we’re planning guests for the following this week: Best Original & Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actress, and Director. Then we’ll close out that series with the two actor categories & of course, Best Picture. If you’re enjoying our show, please take a moment to leave us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts. We thank you for your support there, and don’t forget to submit your categories, noms, & winners for our upcoming MMO’s award show. Let us know what you thought of 1917. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.