This week we're back in our bag and talking about whether or not the Best Picture winner from the 2015 Oscars deserved the win.  Even though these are not quite 10 years old, we still spoil them with abandon! Enjoy! 00:10 Bob's worst intro ever 02:01 Why 2014? 03:50 How many of the 8 nominees did we see? 06:21 Birdman! 09:33 Navel-gazing perspective 12:30 We're actors! We're the opposite of people. 15:05 Fame at the highest levels 19:47 Chicago! 20:09 Birdman verdicts 22:13 Hail, Caesar! is a better movie about the world of acting 22:42 Pandering to the academy 23:57 What did the end of Birdman mean? 28:14 Boyhood! 31:36 It's more interesting what it would be like to make such a movie than to watch this movie 32:29 Richard Linklater 37:14 Teenagers are not interesting 40:18 Wait, we're only two films in at the 40 minute mark? 40:39 The Grand Budapest Hotel 43:30 What kind of man is M. Gustave? 47:40 Bob has only liked 2 of the 4 Wes Anderson films he's seen 48:08 The French Dispatch digression 49:27 A point of congruence with Birdman 51:45 The Imitation Game/Whiplash 53:07 JK Simmons as Fletcher 54:05 Turing's personal life not that interesting 55:53 The wartime stakes in The Imitation Game not well established 57:04 Mark Strong as Stewart Menzies 59:33 Mark's pick for the best movie of 2014: Nightcrawler 1:05:44 Interstellar 1:09:09 Our picks for Best Picture 1:10:34 The legacy of the Best Picture nominees 1:12:05 Mark's technical difficulties 1:12:44 Preview of coming attractions Note: Oscar® and Academy Awards® are the trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This podcast is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Music: Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode