Home/Categories/Great Shot Gordo Award

Great Shot Gordo Award

Most cinematic shot.

Great Shot Gordo Award has run in 96 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

⌕

‘It Follows’Bill Simmons

The 360-degree POV shots while Cera is handcuffed to the chair, plus the pool shots including when the pool fills with blood

‘It Follows’Chris Ryan

Jay touching/fondling a flower growing out of the concrete right before she gets drugged, symbolizing her last moment of innocence

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’Bill Simmons

Didn't name a single definitive shot for this category; instead discussed several standout moments (the girl running into Jason's 'mom'/uncle reveal reference, the finger-sucking grandpa scene) without settling on one cinematic shot, and later praised the final shot of the film as an all-time great last shot

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’Chris Ryan

The shot of Sally looking out the door before the truck pulls up, debating whether to run, right before Leatherface arrives with the bag and rope

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’Chris Ryan

Also highlighted the final shot: Sally's blood-covered screaming face and Leatherface swinging the chainsaw in the dawn sun as one of the most haunting endings ever, though his main 'most rewatchable' pick is the Kirk kill buildup

‘13 Going on 30’Bill Simmons

The shot of the Brooklyn Bridge in the background

‘13 Going on 30’Juliet Litman

Agrees with Bill, noting they show both sides of the bridge shot - the Manhattan side at the beginning (eating Razzles) and the Brooklyn side later (at the playground)

‘Talladega Nights’Craig Horlbeck

The crane shot atop the racetrack where the cars are racing and the crane swoops down into the driver's seat with Ricky Bobby

‘Talladega Nights’Danny Kelly

Praised the long crash scene shown in slow motion with the tumbling car and fire in the engine block, plus an earlier crash moment ('I'm flying through the air, this is not good'), and the pre-race flyby shot with fighter jets; didn't lock into one single definitive pick

‘Aliens’Chris Ryan

The dissolve from Ripley in her sleeping pod to the planet, mimicking the famous match cut/dissolve style of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

‘Aliens’Sean Fennessey

Rather than a single shot, lists multiple stealth homages: Bishop's knife game (from Dark Star), the kid on the Big Wheel riding past the Weyland Yutani sign (homage to The Shining), the probe entering Ripley's escape pod (mimicking the alien ship probe from 1953's War of the Worlds), the tough sergeant/leatherneck mission structure homage to Sands of Iwo Jima, and comparisons to First Blood Part II as parallel Vietnam War storytelling.

‘About Last Night’Bill Simmons

The snowy subway/New Year's Eve shot referencing the 'refrigerator/Peyton' bit from 1986, with Bernie doing the double shots at Mother's

Episode	Host	Answer
‘It Follows’	Bill Simmons	The 360-degree POV shots while Cera is handcuffed to the chair, plus the pool shots including when the pool fills with blood
‘It Follows’	Chris Ryan	Jay touching/fondling a flower growing out of the concrete right before she gets drugged, symbolizing her last moment of innocence
‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’	Bill Simmons	Didn't name a single definitive shot for this category; instead discussed several standout moments (the girl running into Jason's 'mom'/uncle reveal reference, the finger-sucking grandpa scene) without settling on one cinematic shot, and later praised the final shot of the film as an all-time great last shot
‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’	Chris Ryan	The shot of Sally looking out the door before the truck pulls up, debating whether to run, right before Leatherface arrives with the bag and rope
‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’	Chris Ryan	Also highlighted the final shot: Sally's blood-covered screaming face and Leatherface swinging the chainsaw in the dawn sun as one of the most haunting endings ever, though his main 'most rewatchable' pick is the Kirk kill buildup
‘13 Going on 30’	Bill Simmons	The shot of the Brooklyn Bridge in the background
‘13 Going on 30’	Juliet Litman	Agrees with Bill, noting they show both sides of the bridge shot - the Manhattan side at the beginning (eating Razzles) and the Brooklyn side later (at the playground)
‘Talladega Nights’	Craig Horlbeck	The crane shot atop the racetrack where the cars are racing and the crane swoops down into the driver's seat with Ricky Bobby
‘Talladega Nights’	Danny Kelly	Praised the long crash scene shown in slow motion with the tumbling car and fire in the engine block, plus an earlier crash moment ('I'm flying through the air, this is not good'), and the pre-race flyby shot with fighter jets; didn't lock into one single definitive pick
‘Aliens’	Chris Ryan	The dissolve from Ripley in her sleeping pod to the planet, mimicking the famous match cut/dissolve style of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
‘Aliens’	Sean Fennessey	Rather than a single shot, lists multiple stealth homages: Bishop's knife game (from Dark Star), the kid on the Big Wheel riding past the Weyland Yutani sign (homage to The Shining), the probe entering Ripley's escape pod (mimicking the alien ship probe from 1953's War of the Worlds), the tough sergeant/leatherneck mission structure homage to Sands of Iwo Jima, and comparisons to First Blood Part II as parallel Vietnam War storytelling.
‘About Last Night’	Bill Simmons	The snowy subway/New Year's Eve shot referencing the 'refrigerator/Peyton' bit from 1986, with Bernie doing the double shots at Mother's