31. The 95th Academy Awards Part 1: What Happened to the Oscars? (featuring Jim Batcho)

Now It's Dark Movie Podcast

With the 95th Academy Awards right around the corner, I had the great pleasure to be joined by Jim Batcho, in his second appearance on Now It's Dark. Jim is an academic, writer, friend, and co-host with his wife Cece Kim of the Movies About podcast. Jim also recently launched a great new YouTube channel applying philosophical concepts to film. I'll post links below. What I originally expected would be one hour of us praising the greatness of Tar turned into a wide-ranging, 4-hour discussion about the Academy, social media, risk aversion in the film industry, the Andrew Riseborough controversy, globalization, and much more. As a result, we've decided to break this into two parts. Part 1 is focused on the Academy itself, and how it has reinvented itself after #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo. Part 2, which we plan to drop before the Oscars ceremony, will be focused on this year's nominees, mostly the Best Picture nominees along with a few of the other categories, and what we thought were the best films of 2022. Be sure to check out Now It's Dark on YouTube for visual essays and more @nowitsdarkmovie. Also, for access to full episodes and our entire back catalogue, head on over to our patreon.com/nowitsdark. Jim and Cece's podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and other platforms. You can find Movies About on YouTube @moviesabout and Instagram @moviesaboutpodcast. Jim's recently launched Creative Philosophy YouTube channel can be found here: @creativephilo.