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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
  • 87 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    87 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | How Green Was My Valley (1941)
    Jun 25 2026
    We are 87 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as the answer the question all of us have been thinking: How Green Was My Valley? Of course that is the name of 1941's Best Picture winner.


    Wale, Wale, Wale, what do we have here? A valley huh? How green is it? Oh, not that green? Covered with coal soot actually? Oh Wale... That's it. That's the movie. It's a pretty even-keeled coming-of-age story for a young lad named Huw who comes from a coal mining family. Directed by legend John Ford it contains a lot of his hallmarks - growth, love, loss, and worker's rights. This is considered a bit of a controversial winner by cinema snobs - what does the Brainrot crew think of it?


    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • A history of Wales and it's coal-mining roots (or seams)
    • Robust discussion on a completely different Best Picture nominee, much to Drew's chagrin
    • Why solving problems with violence is good, and awesome, sometimes
    • So many Phantom Menace references. Seriously you are not ready for the amount of times we reference The Phantom Menace.


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

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 88 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Rebecca (1940)

    88 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Rebecca (1940)
    Jun 18 2026
    We are 88 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they get a little Hitchcockian and meet the winner of 1940's Best Picture - Rebecca.



    We find ourselves in the hangover year from Gone With the Wind with Rebecca, another dark love story - but one where we trade American aesthetic for European sensibility, large scale for intimacy, and sweeping color for black and white cinematography at its best. Rebecca tells the tale of a whirlwind romance across class barriers that sees our nameless heroine become the wife of the luxurious de Winter estate; but the lingering memory of Max de Winter's deceased wife (you'll never guess her name) threatens to derail it all. If you're a fan of Hitchcock, you've likely seen, and enjoyed, Rebecca; but will the Brainrot crew's takes introduce a new twist?


    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • How Hitchcock's Catholic upbringing informed his film catalogue
    • Our thoughts on falling in love on vacation
    • If therapy-speak may actually have a legitimate place in this movie
    • Which current pop icon we are surprised hasn't made a song about this movie (shoutout this being the 13th winner)


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

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 89 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Gone With the Wind (1939)

    89 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | Gone With the Wind (1939)
    Jun 11 2026
    We are 89 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they, frankly, give a damn about the 12th Best Picture winner - 1939's Gone With the Wind.


    1939 was a banner year for a lot of reasons. The New York Yankees swept the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series, Hitler invaded Poland, and a scrappy little cinematic novel adaptation named Gone With the Wind released to unprecedented financial success and Oscars recognition. It's the epic Southern romance that set the world (and a few big movie sets) ablaze with Confederate passion, for better or for worse. Of it's unprecedented 10 Oscars, Best Picture was, of course, one of them. It's legacy is one of a historical cinematic achievement - but how does the Brainrot squad feel about it?


    In this episode you're gonna hear:
    • How the Civil War gave the whole world excessive brainrot
    • About Scarlett O'Hara's gaslighting, gatekeeping AND girlbossing
    • Which iconic line was nearly foiled by the Hays Code
    • If the South will rise again


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

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    1 hr and 28 mins
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