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Mar 2022
1h 32m

Top Five Best Picture Winners and Why ‘T...

The Ringer
About this episode

We are in the home stretch of a very long award season. On this episode, Sean is joined by Joanna Robinson and they are finally digging into Jane Campion’s widely praised revisionist western ‘The Power of the Dog’ and why it has remained the presumptive Best Picture favorite for months. Then, Sean and Joanna share their favorite Best Picture winners ever.


Host: Sean Fennessey

Guest: Joanna Robinson

Producer: Bobby Wagner

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