Clash compares the Oscar winners –  and sometimes losers – of years gone past, reminiscing on the cinematic greats, whilst keeping an eye on the current film circulation. Celebrating this awards season, we asked the trio what they thought of this year’s cinema awards season.

Hello guys! So, who are your favourite winners of the 2023 awards season?

Alex: Loved Elvis! So many awards season films are quite slow and in 2023’s social media – infused world of NEEDING CONSTANTLY CHANGING STIMULI, Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic pace to his movies kept me suitably engaged. Also it’s a very good film.

Vicky: Jamie Lee Curtis – when will we finally start believing women when they tell us there’s a murderer in the house, AND when will one receive an Oscar for being awesome in Everything Everywhere All At Once? Oh right, now!

Chris: Big fan of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. Making fascism’s rise the backdrop and sticking Mussolini in a kid’s movie was brave, but somehow, it works.

Give a shout out to your favourite ever Oscar winner of all time!

C: The Godfather. Or The Godfather Part II. It’s so hard to choose between them, which made that week particularly tough.

A: Silence of the Lambs. Upon discovering Sean Connery had been close to playing Hannibal Lecter it gave me the opportunity to roll out my appalling Connery impression to deliver Lecter’s lines. So, entirely selfishly, that.

V: I am still very much affected (shocked, traumatised, jealous) by Whiplash; the structure is ludicrously tight, the characters are knotty AF and if anyone clenches a fist near me or looks even slightly disappointed, I am a wreck because of this film.

In your opinion, who deserved to win this year but was just pipped at the post?

A: I’d have liked to have seen Colin Farrell win big for The Banshees of Inisherin. His relationship with Daisy the donkey is one of the most beautiful and heart-breaking that I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe as the owner of the world’s biggest whippet (almost donkey
sized) I can relate to his unbridled love for that animal.

V: Colin Farrell for Banshees in Inisherin, but mostly because he took his son as his guest and I would love to do that. Oscars + a party + free babysitting by A-listers, correct?

C: I loved The Banshees of Inisherin, especially the script and Colin Farrell’s performance. So while it was honoured elsewhere, I was disappointed it got shut out at the Oscars.

For more irreverent analysis of cinema’s biggest ever films, listen to Clash of the Titles on Apple Podcast, Spotify and other popular podcast apps – new episodes twice a week! 

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