Books About the Oscars
The Book Review
The New York Times
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🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Gilbert Cruz and this is the Book Review Podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | It's that time of year again, the Oscars are here. |
| 0:10.8 | It's genuinely one of my favorite weekends of the year. |
| 0:14.3 | There was a time when I would try to see as many of the nominated films as possible. |
| 0:19.2 | From the best picture nominees, to the foreign language films, to the animated shorts. |
| 0:26.1 | There was one year in particular, 2011, when I hold up at a movie theater in Times Square |
| 0:31.6 | just around the corner. |
| 0:32.6 | When we're on speaking these words, I hold up there for 24 straight hours to watch all |
| 0:38.5 | 10 best picture nominees. |
| 0:41.2 | This is a movie marathon that was organized by the movie chain. |
| 0:44.7 | This wasn't just me like planning out my own schedule. |
| 0:48.0 | It was great. |
| 0:49.0 | It was exhausting. |
| 0:50.0 | It started at 10 a.m. |
| 0:51.4 | And this was the order of films. |
| 0:53.8 | Boy Story 3, followed by 127 hours. |
| 0:58.6 | The kids are all right. |
| 1:00.4 | True grit. |
| 1:01.7 | The fighter. |
| 1:03.1 | Wintersbone. |
| 1:04.7 | Black Swan at about midnight, which is appropriate, given that movie. |
| 1:09.7 | Inception at 2 a.m., which is even more appropriate, given it's a movie about dreams. |
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