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‘Alien’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

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The Best Picture of 1979

The Alien wasn't getting nominated for Best Director, but in retrospect it has to be one of the five if we're redoing the 1980 Oscars. It's an interesting thing to look at the nominees because most of the movies are these frightful family dramas or social dramas and Alien would have been weird. What is it? Benton for Kramer versus Kramer. Chris has got Bob Fossey for all that jazz. I mean, Coppola for Apocalypse. Peter Yates for Breaking Away. And Molinaro for the Kazra fall was not nominated for Best Picture so what are the best picture? Kramer, all that jazz apocalypse, Breaking Away, Norma Ray. The Alien wasn't

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