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This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

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A podcast about movies the awards forgot

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  1. 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,…

  2. 366 – Foe

    · 2 h 04 min

    One of 2023’s most quickly forgotten buzzed titles just so happened to star some of the most heralded actors of their generation. Based on the hyped Iain Reid novel, Foe cast Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal as a married…

  3. 365 – Hanging Up

    · 2 h 21 min

    We were heartbroken at the news of Diane Keaton’s passing, so we decided to quickly get another of her films in the THOB books. Keaton’s final directorial effort was Hanging Up, based on Delia Ephron’s fictionalized…

  4. 364 – Bones and All

    · 2 h 22 min

    With Halloween this week and Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt now in theatres, what better time to discuss the BONES! The 2022 fall festival season felt like the first real movie moment post-COVID and anticipation was…

  5. 363 – Super 8

    · 2 h 06 min

    In the 2011 summer movie season overcrowded with sequels and IP, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 stood out as an original event film. Arriving with a mysterious marketing campaign that was the Abrams signature, the film follows a…

  6. 362 – Used People

    · 1 h 38 min

    We love talking forgotten awardsy films here on This Had Oscar Buzz and this week’s episode is a doozy. In 1992, Todd Graff’s off-Broadway play The Grandma Plays was adapted into the film Used People with both a high…

  7. 361 – Ocean’s Eleven

    · 2 h 11 min

    One of the defining stories of the 2000 Oscar year was the one-two punch of Steven Soderbergh delivering both Traffic and Erin Brockovich, making good on the past decade’s worth of promise kicked off by Sex Lies and…

  8. 360 – The Boxer

    · 1 h 41 min

    We’ve got Daniel Day-Lewis back in theaters this week with Anemone, so we’re looking back at one of his few failed Oscar bids. In 1997, Day-Lewis paired up with director Jim Sheridan for the third time in a decade for…

  9. 359 – The Last Thing He Wanted

    · 2 h 07 min

    Pair the rising star director Dee Rees with a Joan Didion adaptation and the Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway and you have the kind of on-paper buzz we love talking about here on THOB. But The Last Thing He Wanted,…

  10. THOB does TIFF-ty

    · 2 h 05 min

    Joe and Chris are back from the Toronto International Film Festival and it’s time to unpack everything we saw. Though we recorded prior to the announcement of this year’s People’s Choice Award winner, we talk at length…

  11. 358 – The Light Between Oceans

    · 1 h 38 min

    Listeners who remember our The Place Beyond the Pines episode will remember that this is a highly pro-Derek Cianfrance podcast. As his latest Roofman makes its TIFF world premiere, we’re looking back at his most recent…

  12. 357 – The Deep End of the Ocean

    · 2 h 18 min

    Michelle Pfeiffer is a favorite to discuss on This Had Oscar Buzz and this week we’re throwing it back to one of her late 1990s melodramas. In The Deep End of the Ocean, Pfeiffer starts as a mother whose young child…

  13. 356 – The Fountain

    · 2 h 01 min

    After an indie one-two punch of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky was riding high as one of the major emerging directors at the turn of the century. For his next film, he would graduate to big budget studio…

  14. 355 – Punch-Drunk Love (with Katie Walsh!)

    · 2 h 13 min

    We are so excited to welcome back Tribune News Service film critic Katie Walsh to discuss one of the most beloved American filmmakers! When will “Oscar for Sandman” happen? Well, in 2002, Adam Sandler had his first…

  15. 354 – Best in Show

    · 1 h 51 min

    Grab your half-butter-half-salt popcorn because this week, we’ve got something to make you howl! After the critically-hailed success of Waiting for Guffman, Christopher Guest returned with another improvisational…

  16. 353 – Mamma Mia! (w/ Jorge Molina!)

    · 2 h 23 min

    With Meryl currently on her first film set in years, what better time than to dance, jive, and generally speaking have the time of our lives. We’ve invited our friend, writer and programmer Jorge Molina to discuss the…

  17. 352 – Freaky Friday

    · 2 h 08 min

    You might not expect a family-friendly live action Disney movie to draw awards attention, but not all of those types of films star Jamie Lee Curtis. In 2003, JLC starred in a Freaky Friday remake starring then…

  18. 351 – The War of the Roses

    · 1 h 44 min

    After a pair of successful adventure movies together with Robert Zemeckis, the trio of Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito got the band back together for one last time in 1989. With DeVito in the…

  19. 350 – The History Boys

    · 1 h 57 min

    We’re ringing in another year on the pod with our 350TH EPISODE!! In 2006, Broadway imported the National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, an ensemble piece following a group of college hopeful…

  20. 349 – The Deep End (with Bobby Finger!)

    · 2 h 20 min

    We’re thrilled to welcome back author and Who? Weekly co-host Bobby Finger this week to talk about a fun modest thriller that helped turn one of our favorites into an industry darling. In 2001, director duo Scott…

  21. 348 – BPM

    · 1 h 58 min

    We close out Pride Month with one of our favorite queer films from the past decade, 2017’s BPM. From French director Robin Campillo, BPM follow a group of ACT UP activists during the height of the AIDS epidemic. With…

  22. 347 – Take This Waltz

    · 2 h 00 min

    After a career as an actress, Sarah Polley made her directorial debut with Away From Her, landing Oscar nominations for both her screenplay and Julie Christie’s performance. Her follow-up would be a slight gear shift:…

  23. 346 – Madame Sousatzka (w/ Taylor Cole!)

    · 2 h 13 min

    Our friend and theme music composer Taylor Cole returns to us this week to talk about one of our most beloved stars on This Had Oscar Buzz, Shirley MacLaine. After finally winning her Oscar for Terms of Endearment,…

  24. 345 – Great Expectations

    · 1 h 52 min

    After his A Little Princess adaptation earned a duo of Oscar nominations, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón followed that up with another literary adaptation, a modernization of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. With…

  25. 344 – Things We Lost in the Fire

    At the beginning of the aughts, both Halle Berry and Benicia Del Toro were riding high on Oscar wins. In 2007, they both paired up for Things We Lost in the Fire, a melodrama from Danish director Susanne Bier. From a…

  26. 343 – White Noise (Festival Fever!)

    · 2 h 23 min

    Festival Fever comes to an end this week with a look at the last major film festival of the year, the New York Film Festival. In 2022, Noah Baumbach follow-up up his biggest Oscar success, Marriage Story, by tackling…

  27. 342 – Strictly Ballroom (Festival Fever!)

    This week, Festival Fever gives us our first Baz! Strictly Ballroom gave then-stage director Baz Luhrman his debut film, one of a number of Australian comedies that would achieve cult followings in the US. But this…

  28. 341 – Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (Festival Fever!)

    · 2 h 07 min

    estival Fever continues this week with a forgotten adaptation and the Venice Film Festival. Tom Stoppard earned his first Tony Award for Best Play for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an absurdist spoof of Hamlet…

  29. 340 – Titane (Festival Fever!)

    · 2 h 42 min

    We’re kicking off this year’s May Miniseries this week! Introducing: Festival Fever!! We’re spending all month discussing the ethos around some of the most important film festivals–and if you subscribe to our Patreon,…

  30. 339 – 99 Homes

    · 1 h 58 min

    99HOMES_00014_CROP (l to r) Andrew Garfield stars as ‘Dennis Nash’ and Michael Shannon as ‘Rick Carver’ in Broad Green Pictures release, 99 HOMES. Credit: Hooman Bahrani / Broad Green Pictures 2014 fall festivals saw…

  31. 338 – The Death of Stalin

    · 2 h 10 min

    After passing off the reins of Veep, Armando Iannucci returned to movie screens with another political satire. Based on the graphic novel, The Death of Stalin farcically recounts the last days of the dictator and the…

  32. 337 – To the Wonder

    · 2 h 01 min

    With the whispers and rumors that Terrence Malick’s Jesus film The Way of the Wind maybe possibly perhaps who knows could finally premiere this year after filming in 2019, we thought it was time to discuss his work.…

  33. 336 – Certain Women (with Shirley Li!)

    · 2 h 24 min

    As we begin to get hyped for a new Kelly Reichardt film on the horizon with The Mastermind, The Atlantic staff writer Shirley Li joins us to discuss her 2016 triptych Certain Women. The film adapts three Maile Meloy…

  34. 335 – Jersey Boys (with Tyler Coates!)

    · 1 h 50 min

    Ooh wee ee ooh ooh ooh ooh wah, Gary! It’s about time we talked about another musical and we’ve got a first time guest this week to join us! Writer Tyler Coates is here to talk about 2014’s Jersey Boys, the screen…

  35. 334 – The French Dispatch

    · 2 h 32 min

    We’ve got a new Wes Anderson movie on the horizon, so why not revisit one of his more divisive films: 2021’s The French Dispatch. The film features a bursting murderer’s row of cast members to fill out Anderson’s ode…

  36. 333 – King of the Hill

    · 1 h 52 min

    Perhaps the only silver lining in 2025 is that we have been given a Steven Soderbergh double dip, with both Presence and Black Bag in theatres. Among Soderbergh’s less discussed films is King of the Hill, a…

  37. 332 – Snowpiercer (with Bilge Ebiri!)

    · 2 h 23 min

    The beloved Bong Joon-ho is finally back in cinemas after his global success with Parasite, and to help us celebrate Mickey 17, we invited Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri to discuss director Bong’s divisive…

  38. 331 – Saltburn (with Louis Peitzman!)

    · 2 h 32 min

    We’re here with your Oscar hangover cure to break the seal on the THOB Class of 2023 and we brought Louis Peitzman along for the chaos. It’s Saltburn time! After the COVID-era Oscar success of Promising Young Woman,…

  39. 330 – In Good Company (with Emily St. James!)

    · 2 h 23 min

    Oh, the quaint economic anxieties of 20 years ago! We’re tackling 2004’s seriocomic tale of “what if your much younger boss slept with your newly adult daughter” and Paul Weitz film In Good Company, and writer Emily…

  40. 329 – The Devil’s Own (with Dan Mecca and Conor O’Donnell!)

    · 2 h 33 min

    What a delight to have not one but TWO pals join us this week, The B-Side hosts Dan Mecca and Conor O’Donnell! Naturally, we’re going back to forgotten films from the 1990s with director Alan Pakula’s final film, The…

  41. 328 – Hope Springs

    · 2 h 06 min

    It’s been a minute since we talked about Meryl Streep, so we decided what better time than Valentine’s Day and her 2012 romantic drama Hope Springs. Streep stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones as a sexually frustrated older…

  42. BONUS – Sundance ’25

    · 56 min

    We’re breaking a little bonus episode recounting our thoughts from this year’s Sundance Film Festival! We’ve closed out another year of virtual screenings, and what perhaps might be the last year to do so after piracy…

  43. 327 – On the Road

    · 1 h 45 min

    With I’m Still Here garnering praise in this year’s awards race, we thought it would be a great time to talk about Walter Salles – and, well, things turned out great with a surprise Best Picture nomination for Salles…

  44. Class of 2024

    · 2 h 50 min

    We’ve finally made it to this year’s crop of Oscar nominations, which means we have come to our annual tradition of welcoming a new class of would-be awards hopefuls to the ranks of This Had Oscar Buzz. This week, we…

  45. 326 – The Dressmaker

    · 2 h 02 min

    As Lee-ver comes to a close (maybe?!), we decided to revisit a recent Kate Winslet vehicle that’s also a fun antidote to tHesE tiMeS. In 2015, Jocelyn Moorhouse (a director we love talking about here on THOB) returned…

  46. 325 – We Don’t Live Here Anymore

    · 2 h 21 min

    And we’ve made our way to “movies that exist only as a title” royalty, We Don’t Live Here Anymore. In 2004, this marital drama arrived at Sundance boasting several indie aughts heatseekers: a post-You Can Count On Me…

  47. 324 – Devil in a Blue Dress (with Mitchell Beaupre!)

    · 2 h 38 min

    This week’s episode is a callback to our beloved 100 Years, 100 Snubs May miniseries: Mitchell Beaupre joins us to talk about 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress! Carl Franklin emerged with the indie success of crime thriller…

  48. 323 – Rust and Bone

    · 1 h 46 min

    For New Years week, the auld acquaintance that won’t be forgot on our show is… a grim French drama about broken bodies. In 2012, Jacques Audiard returned to Cannes with Rust and Bone starring Marion Cotillard and…

  49. 322 – Love Actually

    · 2 h 57 min

    Just in time for Christmas, we’re covering a seasonal favorite… or one you love to hate, depending on the corner of the internet you occupy. In 2003, Richard Curtis decked the halls of the ensemble romantic comedy mold…

  50. 321 – Ben Is Back

    · 1 h 59 min

    Guess who’s back in the house?! We finally close the loop on the 2018 troubled son trifecta of films with Ben is Back, a grim Christmas tale of a family in the throws of addiction recovery. Lucas Hedges stars as the…

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