Academy Vs Audience enters the 1960s

Welcome to the 60s, the decade that most changed Hollywood! But not quite yet. In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is doing a sex farce while Shirley Maclaine is in a doomed romance tragedy, Billy Wilder tries to make both work at once, and the Academy was here for it. The Audience wasn't ready to give up sword and sandal epics, and turned out for Kirk Douglas' more secular take on the genre in Spartacus. It's black and white tragi-comedy vs full colour period epic, and both begin to chip away at the Hays Code. Which deserved the win more? Dan, Claire, and Erin debate, but agree that the best call is always Peter Ustinov. Give a cry of "I'm Spartacus!*" and join us!

*We do not officially endorse being Spartacus

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