Listen free for 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Best Pick cover art

Best Pick

By: John Dorney,Jessica Regan,Tom Salinsky
Narrated by: John Dorney,Jessica Regan,Tom Salinsky
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £13.99

Buy Now for £13.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Oscar Wars cover art
Bond, James Bond cover art
20th Century-Fox cover art
Cinema Speculation cover art
Best. Movie. Year. Ever. cover art
Adventures in the Screen Trade cover art
Killin' Generals cover art
Back from the Future cover art
Michael Curtiz cover art
The Way They Were cover art
From Hollywood with Love cover art
A Convenient Parallel Dimension cover art
Sleeping with Strangers cover art
Shooting Columbo cover art
A Disturbance in the Force cover art
All About "All About Eve" cover art

Summary

A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture winners and the box-office contenders.

In Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside 10 detailed 'making-of' accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinised to answer the ultimate question: 'did the Academy get it right?'

Full of wonderful stories, cogent analysis and fascinating insights, Best Pick is a witty and enthralling look at the people, politics, movies and trends that have shaped our cinematic world.
©2022 Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky, John Dorney (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd
Art History & Criticism Social Sciences Film History
Show More Show Less

More from the same

Narrator

What listeners say about Best Pick

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for nery saenz
  • nery saenz
  • 29-06-23

They pretend to love movies

I completely understand that this is an opinion book. So judging the book itself for having opinions different than mine May not be fair. But it was more than that for me. Their opinions are those that I find dreadful, bullish and uber pretentious. I get it, they like the movies they like. Fine. But they often tore down other movies in order to “praise” the movie they felt “should’ve won”. This is a good premise for a podcast. But listening to this for 7+ hours was very difficult. They come off as pretentious jerks that claim they “love movies” but what they mean is “only the movies we deem worthy.”

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!