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This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

300 episodes · Explicit

A podcast about movies the awards forgot

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  1. 410 – Midsommar

    · 1 h 58 min

    Happy Halloween! Quickly following up his paradigm-shifting Hereditary, Ari Aster took to Sweden for Midsommar. The film stars Florence Pugh as a young woman who follows her boyfriend on a study trip in the wake of a…

  2. 409 – Romance and Cigarettes

    · 1 h 44 min

    Post-Chicago, just about any movie musical was fodder for awards buzz, especially if they boasted a cast as stacked as Romance and Cigarettes. A jukebox musical from the mind of John Turturro, the film stars James…

  3. 408 – The Russia House

    · 2 h 05 min

    In the years after his Oscar win for The Untouchables, Sean Connery remained a major movie star and box office draw. The latter proved untrue in 1990 when The Russia House fizzled at the holiday box office. Based on…

  4. 407 – Destroyer

    · 1 h 45 min

    In 2018, we were rooting for the comeback of director Karyn Kusama, emerging with the promising crime thriller Destroyer. Centering on Nicole Kidman playing against type as a grizzled investigator haunted by a previous…

  5. 406 – Arsenic and Old Lace (with Emily St. James!)

    · 2 h 12 min

    We have writer Emily St. James back with us this week, so naturally we’re breaking our own record for oldest film discussed on the show (after her episode on Moby Dick)! Based on the Broadway smash comedy, Arsenic and…

  6. 2026 TIFF Recap!!

    · 2 h 53 min

    We’re back home from our latest trip to the Toronto International Film Festival! And as always, we’re offering you a buffet of our reactions from a week’s worth of movies that will be coming soon to a theatre near you!…

  7. 405 – She Said

    · 1 h 45 min

    After their 2017 exposé of the horrors Harvey Weinstein inflicted upon women for decades, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detailed their process in their 2019 book She Said. Post-pandemic, Maria Schrader directed an…

  8. 404 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    · 2 h 07 min

    Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a musical like no other. A Off-Broadway smash in 1998 from creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Mitchell also starred as the titular…

  9. 403 – The Homesman (with Richard Lawson!)

    · 2 h 08 min

    We welcome back Richard Lawson this week to discuss Tommy Lee Jones’s final (to date!) directorial effort, 2014’s The Homesman. Led by Hilary Swank, the film follows a 19th century woman charged to transport three…

  10. 402 – The Return

    · 2 h 09 min

    As The Odyssey continues to prove to be a career peak for Christopher Nolan and possible return to the Oscar stage, we’re looking back at a very different take on Homer’s epic poem. In 2024, The Return reunited Ralph…

  11. 401 – Playing By Heart

    · 2 h 34 min

    Playing by Heart (1998) Directed by Willard Carroll Shown: Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe In the bygone moviegoing trend of “interconnected stories of Angelenos,” this week’s episode is a forgotten entry with a loaded…

  12. 400 – Town and Country

    · 2 h 50 min

    It’s our 400th episode this week, so we had to go big. What could be more fitting than a notorious bomb with major star pedigree?! No stranger to misfires, Warren Beatty nevertheless was one of the biggest names in…

  13. 399 – Lovely And Amazing (with Jeff Hiller!)

    · 2 h 00 min

    Emmy winner Jeff Hiller joins us this week to talk about one of our beloved Nicole Holofcener’s earliest films. Lovely and Amazing follows a Los Angeles family of women burdened by insecurities, from the mother (Oscar…

  14. 398 – Short Term 12

    · 1 h 51 min

    With Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving in theatres this week, we’re looking back at director Destin Daniel Cretton’s 2013 debut, Short Term 12. Launched at SXSW and distributed in late summer by micro-indie Cinedigm,…

  15. 397 – The Thin Blue Line (w/ Pamela Ribon!)

    · 1 h 56 min

    We welcome back Oscar-nominated My Year of Dicks filmmaker Pamela Ribon this week for [gasp] our very first documentary episode! In 1988, Errol Morris made a documentary hit out of The Thin Blue Line. Detailing police…

  16. 396 – The Stepford Wives (with Nicholas Colia!)

    · 2 h 29 min

    We’re back talking about Nicole Kidman’s post-Oscar years this week and Griffin in Summer filmmaker Nicholas Colia is here to join us! After winning her Oscar for The Hours, each of the many projects Kidman attached…

  17. 395 – Insomnia

    · 2 h 11 min

    After becoming a critical and arthouse sensation with Memento, Christopher Nolan leaped to studio filmmaking with American remake Insomnia. The film (based on the 1997 Norwegian film) stars Al Pacino as a corrupt cop…

  18. 394 – Queer (with Mitchell Beaupre!)

    · 2 h 37 min

    Letterboxd head of editorial Mitchell Beaupre returns to us this week to close out Pride month with one of Luca Guadagnino’s most divisive films. In 2024, with audiences still under the spell of Challengers, the…

  19. 393 – C’Mon C’Mon

    · 1 h 58 min

    On deck this week is a sentimental recent fav, Mike Mills’ beautiful black-and-white tribute to modern day youngsters and the state of mind that is “uncle.” C’Mon C’Mon casts Joaquin Phoenix as a radio journalist who…

  20. 392 – Robin Hood (2010)

    · 1 h 43 min

    We’re back to discussing the filmography of director Ridley Scott this week, though this episode was recorded… before the news of his Honorary Oscar. Nope, there is also a new riff on a Robin Hood this week, so we’re…

  21. 391 – The BFG (with Kyle Amato!)

    · 2 h 20 min

    With Steven Spielberg returning to theatres with this week’s Disclosure Day, we’re taking the rare opportunity to discuss one of his films! Kyle Amato returns to talk about Spielberg’s take on Roald Dahl’s classic…

  22. 390 – Les Miserables (1998)

    · 1 h 46 min

    We’re back after our May Miniseries and it’s Tonys week! Rather than a musical, we’re talking about a movie that disappointed in part because it wasn’t a big screen version of the Broadway smash… In 1998, director…

  23. CATEGORY IS… – Stunts

    · 2 h 04 min

    CATEGORY IS… comes to a close this week and we’re ending this May Miniseries by looking to the future. Next year’s 100th Academy Awards will bring the Academy’s first award to Stunts! This episode, we go into the…

  24. CATEGORY IS… – Choreography

    · 2 h 05 min

    The May miniseries CATEGORY IS… chugs along this week with Choreography! You know we love talking about dance on film, so this was a category we couldn’t pass up discussing. We’re talking about the three (early) years…

  25. CATEGORY IS… – Voice Acting

    · 2 h 10 min

    Our 2026 May Miniseries CATEGORY IS… continues this week with a discussion about a dreamed-for category that stirred a lot of conversation, particularly in the 2000s. We’re talking about Voice Acting! This episode, we…

  26. CATEGORY IS… – Casting

    · 2 h 18 min

    It’s May Miniseries time!! Presenting CATEGORY IS…! We’re in a moment of the Academy Awards introducing new categories for the first time in many years, and we’ll be spending the whole month discussing the categories…

  27. 389 – The Manchurian Candidate

    · 1 h 34 min

    If you make a remake to a cinema classic (and Oscar nominee), chances are the buzz starts there. But in revamping The Manchurian Candidate to the post-9/11 culture, Oscar winning director also added the pedigree of…

  28. 388 – La Chimera

    · 2 h 03 min

    We’re talking about one of our favorite films of the 2020’s this week with Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera. Told with magical realism and an earthy bespoke quality, the 2023 film follows Josh O’Connor as a British…

  29. 387 – Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

    · 2 h 07 min

    As maverick director David Lowery returns to theatres this week with Mother Mary, we’re looking back at his 2013 film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. The film follows two Texas lovers played by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara…

  30. 386 – Contagion

    · 2 h 14 min

    With The Christophers finally arriving in theatres, we are returning to the ever-evolving filmography of director Steven Soderbergh. In the period of his one-for-you-one-for-me jostling between micro budgets and…

  31. 385 – Billy Bathgate

    · 2 h 00 min

    We’re journeying back to the early 1990s this week to discuss the forgotten failure Billy Bathgate. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s Pulitzer finalist, the film cast Dustin Hoffman as real-life mobster Dutch Schultz…

  32. 384 – Jarhead

    · 2 h 20 min

    We’re tackling Sam Mendes’ third feature this week, 2005’s war adaptation Jarhead. The film followed Jake Gyllenhaal as Gulf War marine Anthony Swofford trapped in an existential wartime malaise. With a supporting cast…

  33. 383 – Joker: Folie à Deux

    · 1 h 59 min

    Continuing our Oscar hangover tradition, we’re cracking the seal on the previous Oscar season’s lineup and have we got a doozy of a Class of 2024 title for you! After Joker walked away from the 2019 season with a…

  34. 382 – Get Low

    · 2 h 01 min

    We keep losing movie legends, but this week we wanted to memorialize the great Robert Duvall. In 2010, the actor entered the race with Get Low, a tale (based on regional legend) of a town outcast who decides to throw…

  35. 381 – Happy Endings

    · 2 h 10 min

    After the edgy sexual comedy The Opposite of Sex made Don Roos a hot indie name and the drowsy romance of Bouncedampened the vibe, Roos returned in 2005 with ensemble dramedy Happy Endings. With a cast of Lisa Kudrow,…

  36. 380 – The Company

    · 1 h 44 min

    After the tremendous success and Oscar comeback for Robert Altman with 2001’s Gosford Park, the idiosyncratic director delivered a more understated work for what would become his second-to-last film, 2003’s The…

  37. 379 – Amsterdam

    · 1 h 48 min

    2022’s Amsterdam was a high profile box office dud from disgraced director David O. Russell with timely themes, a big budget, and a ton of stars. The film tells a (partly true) story about fascist maneuverings in…

  38. 378 – Being Flynn

    · 1 h 45 min

    Is the “buzzy literary adaptation to Oscar bonafide” pipeline kaput? This week, we’ve got a forgotten, pre-production-buzzy title on deck: 2012’s Being Flynn! Based on Nick Flynn’s memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck…

  39. 377 – The Iron Claw (w/ Roxana Hadadi!)

    · 2 h 32 min

    After our Class of 2025 episode last week, we’re doing one of the most requested from the Class of 2023! After his COVID-stunted release (and beloved THOB title) The Nest, Sean Durkin’s next film would be the true and…

  40. Class of 2025

    · 2 h 43 min

    It’s the biggest This Had Oscar Buzz episode every year! Now that we have this year’s crop of Oscar nominations, that means it’s time to welcome a whole year’s worth of films to the THOB fold. We unpack the Class of…

  41. 376 – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

    · 2 h 18 min

    As Rachel McAdams returns to movie screens with Sam Raimy’s horror film Send Help, we thought it a good time to look back at one of her most beloved performances to date. In 2023, Kelly Freeman Craig adapted a book…

  42. 375 – My Own Private Idaho

    · 2 h 10 min

    We’re finally pulling one of our most passionate entries to our 100 Snubs series, Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. Adapted loosely from multiple Shakespeare plays (particularly both Henry IVs), the film follows an…

  43. 374 – Booksmart

    · 2 h 02 min

    Happy New Year, Garys! We’re kicking off 2026 with something more bubbly and light-hearted, 2019’s Booksmart. Sold as an ultra-modern and female take on boy-led high school raunch comedies, the film stars Kaitlyn Dever…

  44. 373 – Uncut Gems (w/ Chris Rosen!)

    · 2 h 42 min

    With Marty Supreme in theatres, we thought it was perfect timing to talk about the Safdies and the gems. And we’ve finally brought in The Ankler’s Chris Rosen to join us! In 2019, the ascendant Josh and Benny Safdie…

  45. 372 – The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (w/ Natalie Walker!)

    · 2 h 46 min

    Happy Holidays, Garys! This week, we have some unfinished business with Keira Knightley and who better than our pal, actress Natalie Walker to join us for the holiday season. In 2018, Oscar pedigreed Lasse Hallström…

  46. 371 – The Founder

    · 1 h 53 min

    This week, we got one of the most requested episodes finally on the feed. In 2016, Michael Keaton had already had two comeback seasons on the Oscar trail with both Birdman and Spotlight. Neither earned him Oscar gold…

  47. 370 – Looper

    · 2 h 23 min

    With a new Benoit Blanc out for you to devour, we decided it was a great time to talk about the great Rian Johnson. In 2012, Johnson delivered his genre hybrid Looper, set in a dystopic future where, through the magic…

  48. 369 – i’m thinking of ending things

    · 2 h 18 min

    This week, we are talking about Charlie Kaufman in the director’s chair and how our thoughts have settled on what’s probably his most divisive film. In 2020, Kaufman returned to directing by adapting Iain Reid’s…

  49. 368 – The Devil All the Time (with Katey Rich!)

    · 2 h 43 min

    The Devil All The Time: Tom Holland as Arvin Russell. Photo Cr. Glen Wilson/Netflix © 2020 Our annual Thanksgiving tradition means The Ankler’s Katey Rich is back! And this year, we’re got a stone cold bummer to go…

  50. 367 – Mumford

    · 2 h 03 min

    Outside of his place in the Star Wars canon, Lawrence Kasdan has a quick rise in the 1980s after his debut Body Heat. With multiple Best Picture nominees to his name like The Big Chill and The Accidental Tourist,…

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