1941 Best Picture Winner: How Green Was My Valley (John Ford) – Awards Don’t Matter

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We arrive at maybe the most notorious and contentious Best Picture winners… ever? John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley which triumphed over the ‘Best Film Ever’, Orson Welles Citizen Kane. In a possibly strident, and yet no less passionate, defense of How Green Was My Valley, co-hosts Dave and Andrew discuss John Ford’s enduring classic, encouraging modern viewers to embrace this film without the shackles of its Oscar glory. Somehow we even wrap in a comparison to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One.

Listen to Dave’s Top 25 Films of All Time list on Talk Film Society here.

Oh, and also make sure to watch The Little Foxes too.

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Andrew F Peirce

Andrew is passionate about Australian film and culture. He is the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, and the author of two books on Australian film, The Australian Film Yearbook - 2021 Edition, and Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.

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