The Jimmies

[00:00] Right. For sure. That sounds like an under gooble, though, Coalson.
[00:04] I don't think it's ever happened.
[00:08] That's what I'm going to go with. Go ahead, Joey.
[00:12] Oh, okay. I thought he was setting you up. He was setting me up,
[00:16] but then I was like, I just love... Why'd you just put the ball right on
[00:20] the turf, buddy? I just love the sound of Joey's voice.
[00:24] So, I want more, I want more, uh, Joey. So, he
[00:28] dropped you a softball, and now I gotta pick it up and put it on the tee.
[00:32] Yes.
[00:36] Well, it does sound like an under gooble question.
[00:40] Coalson, again, this week, we got more. We got some topical
[00:44] things. You're going to ask some questions, and we will know
[00:48] partial answers, I'm sure. What do you got for us this week?
[00:52] You guys do great every week. I don't know what you're talking about, Joey.
[00:56] Basically, people don't need to Google stuff anymore. They just need to listen to our show.
[01:00] Then they would know, like, one thing a week. Sometimes.
[01:04] That's so great. You're at work, and you're like,
[01:08] I wonder what the answer to this is. No, I'm just going to wait until the next time the beatables
[01:12] up to, maybe, until Thursday. Maybe they'll cover my specific request.
[01:16] Well, yeah. I'm super excited.
[01:29] You told us we had to, sir.
[01:33] We signed up for it. In the end, it's going to be better and more true
[01:39] than Google can give you.
[01:45] As we're recording right now during the Oscars,
[01:49] the Academy Awards is happening as we speak.
[01:53] That made me inspired to think about
[01:57] the previous award-winning movies.
[02:01] I thought about it, and I can't really name
[02:05] any movie recently, because I just stopped watching movies, I guess.
[02:09] But I have some sense of maybe who won
[02:13] movies in the 90s, and I'm wondering if
[02:17] between the four of us, we can gather the
[02:21] winners of Best Picture from 1990
[02:25] to 2000. I was 11 in 1990.
[02:29] But I cared about movies then.
[02:36] I feel like I've got this. I'll help.
[02:40] To show you my perspective, we've actually done several podcasts
[02:44] because I don't watch movies. That's true.
[02:48] Jason, actually, I remember once I'm at your house, I think your sister hosted a
[02:52] board game night, and we played a
[02:56] movie trivia game, and I basically sat off to the side and stared out the window.
[03:00] Too smart for the shit, instead of too smart for this.
[03:04] It was the opposite of that. I don't know any of these things.
[03:08] Let's do this. Okay, Joey, but for example, didn't you watch
[03:12] La La Land? That's currently up for Best Picture?
[03:16] I did not know that it was up for Best Picture.
[03:20] Jason watched Moonlight. Those are the two favorites to win.
[03:24] You guys potentially have seen the movies that one of them will walk away with
[03:28] the award this evening.
[03:32] Yeah, that makes us qualified for the 90s.
[03:36] Okay, I got one, Life is Beautiful, that Italian movie.
[03:40] I would not have thought of that one at all. Gerdo Benigni.
[03:44] I'm going to say...
[03:49] What year would that have been?
[03:53] We were in college, for sure.
[03:57] Okay, let me list the ones that I know
[04:01] Best Picture. I don't know the order, but I just remember these one Best Picture.
[04:05] Forrest Gump, Schindler's List,
[04:09] Brave Heart.
[04:13] That's the only one that I knew. Thanks for stealing my thunder, of course.
[04:17] Schindler's List was the one I had, too.
[04:21] Crash? Crash would have been
[04:25] in the 2000s.
[04:29] What about Philadelphia?
[04:33] I don't think that won Best Picture. I think it was nominated.
[04:37] I think it got overlooked. Yeah, I think Tom Hanks won Best Actor for that.
[04:41] Which is a travesty, by the way.
[04:45] I don't know what year that was, but there wasn't a better movie.
[04:51] Okay.
[04:55] A Beautiful Mind.
[04:59] That movie was awful, no.
[05:03] But it won Best Picture. It definitely did.
[05:07] It definitely did.
[05:11] What's the one with Kevin Spacey,
[05:15] American Beauty?
[05:19] That one when we were in college.
[05:23] That could have been 2000.
[05:27] I think that was like 98.
[05:31] 99.
[05:35] We're struggling on early 90s because we clearly were not movie-efficient around us.
[05:39] I know that Goodfellas came out around 92,
[05:43] but I know that it did not win Best Picture. Definitely did not.
[05:47] Was it Grand Canyon or something?
[05:51] I don't even know what that is.
[05:55] Really? Do you remember that one?
[05:59] Without a doubt it did.
[06:03] So we got Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forest Gump, Braveheart.
[06:07] You're saying Crash is Too Late.
[06:11] I'm saying Gladiator, American Beauty.
[06:15] That's six.
[06:19] This is Harper's favorite movie of all time.
[06:23] I love this movie, but you hated the book.
[06:27] It's the only movie where the movie was better than the book.
[06:31] Land Tumbling Backwards.
[06:35] English Patient.
[06:39] I also like the answer Land Tumbling Backwards.
[06:43] That movie was real budget.
[06:47] That's seven.
[06:51] That's a classic.
[06:55] I don't think that won anything.
[06:59] We can do this.
[07:03] Beauty and the Beast was the animated movie that
[07:07] it didn't win, but it was nominated for Best Picture. Do you remember what beat it?
[07:11] I do. I'm googling it now.
[07:15] We're missing a big one that you guys could definitely get.
[07:19] Titanic.
[07:23] Titanic. I was going to go Saving Private Ryan.
[07:27] Yes.
[07:31] That got overlooked.
[07:35] It got beat. It was nominated, but it got beat.
[07:39] Life is Beautiful also got beat the same year.
[07:43] Do you want to know what beat those two movies?
[07:47] I'm going to run them down. You guys ready? Let's do it.
[07:51] 1990, Dances with Wolves.
[07:55] 91, Silence of the Lambs.
[07:59] We should have had that.
[08:03] 92, Unforgiven.
[08:07] 93, Schindler's List.
[08:11] 94, Forrest Gump.
[08:15] 96, The English Patient.
[08:19] 97, Titanic.
[08:23] 98, Shakespeare in Love.
[08:27] That's garbage, although I've never seen it, but it's still garbage.
[08:31] Gwyneth Paltrow gets naked, so it's sort of worth it.
[08:35] I'm watching that.
[08:39] 99, American Beauty.
[08:43] Chocolat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and
[08:45] Brockovich, and Traffic.
[08:49] Are you kidding me? You beat out Traffic and Crouching Tiger? Yes.
[08:53] This is the most exciting I've seen you all day. Beautiful Mind was 2001.
[08:57] Okay, so we're close. I saw Chocolat and
[09:01] Crouching Tiger. Chocolat was okay. Crouching Tiger is awesome.
[09:05] It is awesome. It wasn't like best picture of the year. It was just a nice
[09:09] little story. What, Chocolat?
[09:13] Well, in a year where Gladiator won, apparently it's
[09:17] high cinema.
[09:21] So all of those things, we were a little too young maybe
[09:25] to remember Dances with Wolves. I remember going to see that in the theater.
[09:29] Okay. I remember seeing E.T. in the theater. What year was that?
[09:33] Like 1983? That was early.
[09:37] 1985. Yeah. I think that's my first
[09:41] cinema memory. But I think
[09:45] the one we did forget is the one we
[09:49] should have forgotten, which is Shakespeare in Love.
[09:53] Otherwise, not bad, guys. So shout out to the Oscars
[09:57] for getting it right, you know, nine out of ten years.
[10:01] So are the Academy Awards the Oscars? Is that the same thing?
[10:05] Yes. Okay.
[10:09] The Academy is the people who give the awards. The Oscar is the statue.
[10:13] Okay. So that's like the, it's like the NBA
[10:17] and the Jim O'Brien trophy, right?
[10:21] Precisely. That analogy was spot on.
[10:25] So the Academy Award is you're voted on by your peers
[10:29] where the Golden Globes is voted on by the media.
[10:33] And at the end of the year, Joey, you'll remember
[10:37] the NBA gives out the gyms.
[10:41] The gyms, yeah. I remember that. Okay. That'll be easy.
[10:45] I'm sure I'll remember from here on out. The Jimmys. They're all Jimbo's.
[10:52] I hope I can win the Jimmy someday. We actually probably
[10:57] need to, we need to probably change our Underbeat Awards
[11:01] officially to the Jim O'Brien Awards. Yes.
[11:05] And done, sir.