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Lights Camera Accolade

Lights Camera Accolade takes listeners on a journey through a century of cinema by way of the Academy Awards' Best Picture nominees and winners (as told by complete amateurs).

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  • #36
    February 27 · 25 min

    Black History Month #2 - Confirm My Bias, King (Preview)

    This episode spoils 1929's Hallelujah. For Black History Month, we’re revisiting King Vidor’s 1929 film Hallelujah (one of the first major studio productions to feature an all-Black cast). Celebrated for groundbreaking performances and sound design, yet complicated by stereotypes and studio-era framing, Hallelujah sits at a crossroads of representation, exploitation, and opportunity. We unpack its legacy, its music, and what it meant for Black performers navigating early Hollywood. If you don't want to wait a year before listening to our full bonus episodes, support us on patreon and get access to monthly bonus content.

  • #35
    February 17 · 2 hr 41 min

    13th Academy Awards - How to Lose a Wife in Two Hours

    This episode spoils 1940’s nominees The Grapes of Wrath, Our Town, All This and Heaven Too, Foreign Correspondent, The Long Voyage Home, The Great Dictator, The Letter, The Philadelphia Story, Kitty Foyle and winner Rebecca. This year brings us some of the highest highs and the lowest lows. It’s the year in which the looming world war becomes more real and Hollywood has to start acknowledging it. Meanwhile, two movies break Jake this year, and it’s not necessarily the ones you’d expect. For bonus content find us on patreon For contacting us about our totally correct takes, or for fulfilling our Test Pilot or The Philadelphia Story fanfiction request— you can email us at lightscameraaccolade@gmail.com

  • #34
    February 3 · 1 hr 5 min

    Black History Month #1 - Beyond the Studio Gates (Full)

    This is the full release of 2025’s February bonus and spoils the movie Within Our Gates (1920). We honored Black History Month by viewing the oldest existing feature film from a black American director; Oscar Micheaux's 1920 classic: Within Our Gates, a landmark of early Black cinema that confronts racism, violence, and hypocrisy in Jim Crow America head-on. Unfortunately, the type of narrative that we don't see in mainstream media for almost another century after its release. If you don't want to wait a full year before listening to our full bonus episodes, consider supporting us on patreon

  • #33
    January 30 · 26 min

    Sarah's Choice - Climbing the Corporate Leader (Preview)

    This episode spoils the pre-code movie Baby Face (1933). Join us as we discuss one of the movies credited with causing the enforcement of the Hays Code. A woman sleeps her way to the top, and gets away with it relatively unscathed? Can't say the same for the men she leaves in her wake or William Hays's ghost. If you don't want to wait a year before listening to our full bonus episodes, support us on patreon and get access to monthly bonus content.

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