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Star Wars: A New Hope The Rewatchables May 6, 2025

George Lucas wins by majority, with Harrison Ford a serious alternate.

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Harrison Ford is nominated for keeping the movie attached to human cool and charisma amid robots and an uncertain young hero.
George Lucas is chosen for creating Hollywood’s most indelible franchise and retaining enormous financial upside.
The final consensus says no one in the industry may have won one movie as completely as Lucas won Star Wars.

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Star Wars: A New Hope The Rewatchables May 6, 2025

Sound wins over George Lucas, picture, and John Williams.

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Star Wars: A New Hope The Rewatchables May 6, 2025

George Lucas, the franchise’s craftspeople, multiple actors, science-fiction lore, sound, and blockbuster culture receive separate apex checks.

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Lucas’s apex is placed around 1981 after Empire and Raiders, though selling Lucasfilm for four billion dollars is another candidate.
Star Wars is judged an apex for science-fiction movies, galaxy adventures, and film-created fictional mythology.
The movie is accepted as Mark Hamill’s apex and a possible early apex for Carrie Fisher.
John Williams is difficult to pin to one apex, but Star Wars is preferred over later cultural competitors.
James Earl Jones is placed closer to Field of Dreams, Coming to America, or Mufasa than to his uncredited Vader voice.
Harrison Ford receives an explicit apex check and is rejected because his apex had already been named earlier.
The movie is an apex for 20th Century Fox because profits and stock value rose sharply.
The film is credited with beginning the cultural ascent of nerd fandom rather than representing its final apex in 1977.
Its sound effects remain exceptional, including Vader breathing, TIE fighters, droids, and lightsabers.
The saga is called a leading story of absentee fathers because Vader reappears only after Luke becomes powerful.
The film is declared the apex of Apex Mountain categories because so many people, crafts, objects, and institutions peak around it.

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1977

1977 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Sean Fennessey · Van Lathan

Aired May 6, 2025

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