Movies On The Radio: Best And Worst Of 2014

WUNC News | By Laura Lee,

Published January 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM EST

The Oscar nominations were announced earlier today with Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel topping the list with nine nominations each. As the stars prepare to hit the red carpet, listeners take a look back at the best and worst films of 2014.Film curator Laura Boyes and film professor Marsha Gordon talk about the best and worst films of 2014

From Boyhood to Interstellar, Host Frank Stasio talks with North Carolina Museum of Art film curator Laura Boyes and North Carolina State University film professor Marsha Gordon.

Boyhood was a listener favorite in 2014. Listener Ferdinand Stout was impressed with the "huge risk in making it," and said the movie reminded him of moments from his own life.

The Summer Blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy was a favorite of listener Ryan Sailstad, because he is "a long time reader of the comic[book]" and his "love [for] 70's music helped."

Laura Lee

Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Hady Mawajdeh

Hady Mawajdeh is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He listened to Fresh Air growing up and fell in love with public radio. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication at Texas State University and specialized in electronic media. He worked at NPR affiliate stations KUT and KUTX in Austin, Texas as an intern, producer, social media coordinator, and a late-night deejay.

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