The Academy’s Captive Audience
Welcome one and all to The Academy’s Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our goal is to create an audio record of these films. Our reactions, thoughts, and overall experience will be here as a guide post to navigate all those films you may have never heard of and always wondered why they won. Without any further ado, Let’s roll that film!
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7 days ago
7 days ago
In this episode Ben and Kit share their picks from the New York Times Top 100 Films of the 21st Century. We also share our thoughts on the new inductees into the Academy Awards. Come fly with us!
You can access the NYT article here.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-21st-century.html
And cast your own ballot here.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/reader-ballot-movies-21st-century.html
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Tuesday Jun 17, 2025
Welcome one and all to The Academy's Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.
After publishing our first three episodes on substack, we have finally expanded our reach to other podcast platforms. And what better place to begin Episode IV than with the 50th Academy Awards. Again Welcome and Thank You for listening!