Click on this link to find places to listen to Worthy Podcast and learn more about each Best Picture winner. We’re heading back to the bright lights of Broadway in this episode of Worthy to explore the 9th Best Picture winner, The Great Ziegfeld (1936). …

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen Going into making the podcast and traveling back to the beginning of the Oscars, we knew there were three films that accomplished something great. That achievement is winning the “Big 5” awards at the Academy Awards. That feat entails winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen In this episode of Worthy, we take the high seas and explore the world of Mutiny On The Bounty (1935). As the world of Hollywood and the Academy Awards started to expand, big high-priced productions became the norm. MGM’s golden producer, Irving Thalberg, saw the…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen On March 16, 1934, a little over 87 years ago, the Academy Awards presented its next Best Picture winner award to Frank Lloyd’s, Cavalcade. The film is a look into the high social class life of early 20th Century England and two families experiences through…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer once promoted this film as “the greatest cast ever assembled”. No it wasn’t an Avengers movie, It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, or Ocean’s 11 or 12 or 13 or 8. It was the Best Picture winner at the 5th Academy Awards, Grand…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen While the 3rd Academy Awards were wrapping up in November of 1930, the next Best Picture winner was getting ready to be released in February of 1931. This film, the 4th Academy Award winner for Best Picture went to“Cimarron” directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen At the 3rd Academy Awards, Louis B. Mayer said upon giving the Best Picture award to Universal Picture’s All Quiet on the Western Front and studio head Carl Laemmle “I might also add Mr. Laemmle, that many of the great writers in magazines have asked…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen With the 1st Academy Awards coming to a close, Hollywood looked towards what was next. The question of which film would take home the Best Picture award at the 2nd Academy Award was on everyone’s mind. That film would be the Hollywood musical, The Broadway…

Worthy Podcast: Where To Listen The first Academy Awards ceremony featured films from the year’s 1927 and 1928. The film industry looked ahead to these honorary awards as a celebration of movies themselves. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in…