Oscar-Winning Movies That English Learners Should Watch

🍿 Movies can be an excellent source of English input, especially when performances are powerful and memorable. This episode explores five films with Academy Award-winning Best Actress performances — perfect for learners who want to improve listening while enjoying great storytelling.

From older classics to modern multiverse cinema, listeners learn how film can boost fluency, strengthen comprehension, and help vocabulary grow naturally. The episode also explains how to find these films online, and why movies make language input more engaging.

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📝 Vocabulary list

1) Proponent: A person who advocates for a cause or idea.

2) Backdrop: The setting or environment of an event or situation.

3) Gut punch: A metaphorical blow or impact that leaves one feeling emotionally overwhelmed.

4) Ambiguous: Unclear or having more than one interpretation.

5) Dark humor/Black comedy: humor that is about serious or unpleasant subjects

6) Remorse: a feeling of guilt about something you have done

7) Multiverse: A hypothetical set of multiple possible universes, including the one in which we live.

8) Stylistic: Relating to the distinctive manner or style of something.

9) Absurd: Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.

10) Internal debate: A personal struggle or conflict within oneself over a decision or action.

11) Quirky: Characterized by peculiar or unexpected traits.

12) Flair: a special style or quality

13) Crowning achievement: The most significant or noteworthy accomplishment in one's career or life.