Alternative Oscars - Episode 23 - 5th Academy Awards

About this episode

The episode discusses the 5th Academy Awards and highlights overlooked films and performances from 1932.

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognising those who were cruelly overlooked. This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 5th Academy Awards. The event celebrated all the films released between the 1st of August 1931 and the 31st of July 1932. To make things easier for the Holmes Brothers, they decided to only talk about give awards and nominations to the films released only in 1932. The event was held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California on November 18th 1932. The host was Conrad Nagel. This was the first of three Oscars events in where two films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the actual winner. It was also the year where there was a tie-winner for Best Actor. This was also the last Oscars ceremony where no film won more than two Oscars. It also introduced the Best Short Subject, Cartoon Oscar. The film Flowers and Trees won. It was the first…

People in this episode

Host: Anders

Topics covered

• Oscars
• film history
• awards
• movie reviews
• Academy Awards

Keywords

• 5th Academy Awards
• Best Picture
• Best Actor tie
• Flowers and Trees
• Grand Hotel

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Letterboxd

Books & works: Alternative Oscars, Academy Awards, Oscars, Best Picture, Best Actor, Cartoon Oscar, Flowers and Trees, Grand Hotel, Wings, Driving Miss Daisy

Places: Los Angeles, California, US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Oslo, Denmark

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