Jul 05 2024 105 mins 2
16 movies for 2016! That's right, it's another full tournament for the 89th Academy Awards or the films of 2016. We took the Academy's nine nominees for this year and added seven of our own. In this episode, discuss the losers from Round 1 in this episode.
The nominees were: Arrival; Fences; Hacksaw Ridge; Hell or High Water; Hidden Figures; La La Land; Lion; Manchester by the Sea; and Moonlight.
The films we added were: Captain America: Civil War; Hail, Caesar!; Hunt for the Wilderpeople; The Lobster; Paterson; Swiss Army Man; and Toni Erdmann
Notes: SPOILERS - we talk through the full plots of all the movies we cover.
Timestamps are approximate:
11:10 - Bracket Set-Up
11:40 - Round 1 Match-Ups and Deciding Winners and Losers
21:50 - Swiss Army Man
29:55 - Hell or High Water
36:20 - Hacksaw Ridge
49:00 - Hail, Caesar!
1:02:35 - Paterson
1:09:00 - Captain America: Civil War
1:24:20 - Hidden Figures
1:32:30 - Fences
1:42:55 - Best of the Worst & Worst of the Worst
1:44:10 - Next Time
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