Contra Zoom

61: 2018 Oscars Recap

On this Episode Dakota Arsenault and Sammy Feilchenfeld recap and review the 90th Academy Awards that were handed out on Sunday March 4th, with the Best Picture being awarded to The Shape of Water.

Some thoughts discussed include:

  • Dunkirk became the 17th film to win both Sound Editing and Sound Mixing
  • Netflix won it’s first full length feature award when Icarus was awarded Best Doc
  • Jordan Peele is the first black person to win Best Original Screenplay for Get Out
  • Roger Deakins finally won an Oscar after 13 previous nominations for Best Cinematography
  • The Jet Ski gag was probably the best bit of the night

Among many other topics!

If you have any thoughts on the Oscars let Dakota know what you think! Follow Dakota @Dgapa and the show @ContraZoomPod on Twitter.

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Music Editor at Live in Limbo and Host of Contra Zoom podcast. Dakota is a graduate of Humber College's Acting for Film and Television. He now specializes in knowing all random trivia. He writes about music, sports and film. Dakota's life goal is visit all baseball stadiums, he's at 7.