Hi, this is Daniel Garber at the Movies for culturalmining.com and CIUT 89.5 FM.

Photo of Jeff Harris by Jeff Harris.

It’s Oscar time again, when Hollywood’s  biggest celebrities walk down a red carpet on their way to the the most-watched cinematic award show in the world. Is it a celebration of excellence, or a curdling cauldron of petty grievances and backstabbing? Will it really choose great movies, or just movies of the week? And what big surprise will we witness this year…? Well, the show is one week away, so to help me look at this years Academy award nominations, is cinephile Jeff Harris. Jeff is a Toronto-based Award-winning photographer, former photo editor at Maclean’s, and is continuing a twenty-year long art project of self portraits taken each day. 

We look at the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, Oscar Bait and the truly original, what’s new and what’s the same old thing, who we think will win, and who we hope will win.

Recorded on February 18, 2025.