Welcome to Sibling Cinema!
Dennis and Bonnie are siblings and we're here to talk movies! Dennis is an obsessive cinephile and Bonnie is a super casual movie watcher.
In this series we are embarking on a countdown of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. A couple months ago, Dennis embarked on a rewatch of all 94 Best Picture winners. Yes, you read that right--it's a rewatch. Dennis is something of a completionist and long ago he completed a watch of all the Best Picture winners (but he's still only seen 519 of the 581 nominees). He wanted to shore up his ranking list of the best Best Picture winners, but the problem is so many of them have become cold storage. The only logical solution was to watch all 94 again.
To break up the monotony of binging 94 movies, Dennis thought it would be fun to watch them from worst to best, based on consensus. There's a lot of rankings out there, but all of them have some issues, and there really is no definitive ranking. To create a framework, he aggregated seven different lists and also added in some bonus points for those Best Picture winners that feature on select Best-of-all-time rankings. He made an Excel sheet, but hid the rankings so that the process would be a surprise. Starting at number 94, Dennis typed in 94 on the spreadsheet to reveal the movie's title, watched the movie, wrote a review, and then went back to the spreadsheet to reveal number 93.
That's where Bonnie comes in. In our conversations over the last couple of months, Dennis had shared progress on the project, and Bonnie insisted that this has to be a podcast. By the time we decided to go ahead with it, Dennis was already up to #70. Rather than go back to the beginning, we decided we'd do a special mega episode discussing the bottom 25, and then start a weekly podcast. Dennis and Bonnie will both watch the next movie on the list and then get together to discuss it.
Don't take the list itself too seriously, it's just there as a fun framework. We hope you enjoy!