This Had Oscar Buzz

By Joe and Chris

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A podcast about movies the awards forgot

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235 – The Upside of Anger

03.20.2023

Every prestige actress overdue for an Oscar deserves her showcase, and after three Oscar nominations in under a decade, Joan Allen got hers written and directed by her The Contender costar Mike Binder. The Upside of Anger cast Allen as ...

This Had Oscar Buzz episodes:

03.20.2023 235 – The Upside of Anger Every prestige actress overdue for an Oscar deserves her showcase, and after three Oscar nominations in under a decade, Joan Allen got hers written and directed by her The Contender costar Mike Binder. The Upside of Anger cast Allen as ...
03.13.2023 234 – Dear Evan Hansen (with Adam Grosswirth!) To settle your post-Oscar hangover, we’re cracking open the Class of 2021 films this week and we’ve invited Muppeturgy co-host Adam Grosswirth to join us. Dear Evan Hansen follows a titular teen battling severe social anxiety, who fabricates a friendship ...
03.06.2023 233 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel From Shakespeare in Love director John Madden and with a bursting prestige-y ensemble, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is one we have been saving. Led by Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, who both had other films in the race ...
02.27.2023 232 – Waitress We decided to bring you a slice of joy this week with 2007′s Waitress. Starring Keri Russell as a small town waitress and inventive pie master stuck in a harmful marriage, the heartwarming film would eventually be adapted to the ...
02.20.2023 231 – Force Majeure We’re taking another dive into the Best International Feature category this week to talk about one of the biggest world cinema successes of the past year, Ruben Östlund. Though he made films before it, 2014 catapulted Östlund with the Cannes ...
02.13.2023 230 – Stage Beauty Longtime listeners will know that a special space in our podcast lore is reserved for our first six timer, Claire Danes. This week, we return to her work in the opulent and forgotten Stage Beauty. The film cast Danes as ...
02.06.2023 229 – Magic Mike XXL (with Pamela Ribon!) Listeners, are you ready to be exalted?! This week, we welcome back author, screenwriter, Listen to Sassy co-host, and now OSCAR NOMINEE Pamela Ribon. And to welcome her back we’re going on a road trip with some exotic male dancers ...
02.01.2023 BONUS – Sundancing On My Own And we’re backbackback again with a special BONUS episode this week to talk about our experience will the films of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival! The big prize winner for US Dramatic Competition was A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One, ...
01.30.2023 Class of 2022 An annual ritual returns! We are here to welcome the This Had Oscar Buzz Class of 2022! Off the top of the episode, we celebrate friend and former guest (and, spoiler alert, next week’s guest) Pamela Ribon on her Best ...
01.23.2023 228 – After Hours (with Mitchell Beaupre!) Letterboxd senior editor and podcast co-host Mitchell Beaupre joins us this week and is bringing their favorite film along, and it’s our oldest film yet: Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. In the mid-80s Scorsese was rebounding from his closest call with ...
01.16.2023 227 – The Old Man and the Gun In 2018, it was reported that Robert Redford would be making his acting swan song with David Lowery’s crime caper The Old Man and the Gun. As the film received its festival debut, those retirement statements were backtracked, but audiences ...
01.09.2023 226 – The Leisure Seeker When the 2017 Golden Globe nominations were announce, the question on everyone’s mind was “What the hell is The Leisure Seeker?!” Starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an aging couple having one last getaway in their eponymous Winnebago, the ...
01.02.2023 225 – Murder on the Orient Express All aboard, listeners! This week, we’re looking at Kenneth Branagh’s recent attempts to take on Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot with 2017′s Murder on the Orient Express. Directed by and starring Branagh as the French investigator, the film assembled a gobsmacking ...
12.26.2022 Mailbág: Goodbye 2022 We are bidding adieu to 2022 with our annual mailbag episode!! We dive into a feast of listener questions, kicked off first with a mini 20th anniversary celebration for The Hours and THOB-adjacent questions about theme parks, Drag Race, and ...
12.19.2022 224 – The Man in the Iron Mask As Titanic continued its months-long reign at the box office, its closest challenger (before Lost in Space would dethrone it, that is) at the multiplex starred none other than one of its star-crossed lovers. Yes, Leonardo DiCaprio owned the box ...
12.12.2022 223 – We Bought A Zoo After the notorious failure of Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe took a few years off and attempted to rebound with a warm-hearted family film, 2011’s We Bought A Zoo. The film starred Matt Damon in the very loose true story of a ...
12.05.2022 222 – Away We Go After winning Best Picture and Best Director for his zeitgeist-seizing debut feature American Beauty, Sam Mendes instantly became a director who generate awards chatter no matter the project. In 2009, he took a noticeable tonal downshift with Away We Go, ...
11.28.2022 221 – The Front Runner We’ve previously discussed the work of Jason Reitman with our Men, Women, and Children episode, and this week we have another Reitman bomb: 2018′s The Front Runner. The film features Hugh Jackman as Senator Gary Hart and dramatizes Hart’s failed ...
11.21.2022 220 – The Lost City of Z (with Katey Rich) It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little tradition, so naturally Vanity Fair’s Katey Rich makes her annual return to us this week to discuss James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. The film had a long pre-production history, including promises ...
11.14.2022 219 – Always As The Fabelmans is welcomed into theatres and Spielberg nostalgia is about to come back into conversation, we naturally are here to talk about one of his least discussed films: 1989′s Always. Based on the 1943 Victor Fleming film A ...
11.07.2022 218 – The Meddler (with Richard Lawson) Vanity Fair’s chief critic Richard Lawson return to us this week to talk about a piece in a trend of films about aging women self-actualizing, Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler. Starring Susan Sarandon as a widow ingratiating herself to her writer ...
10.31.2022 217 – Mary Reilly Happy Halloween, Garys! Get ready for lots of whispers and accents as we close spooky season with one of our oft-referenced favorites, 1996′s uberflop Mary Reilly. A riff on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale starring Julia Roberts as ...
10.24.2022 216 – Snowden Welcome all our new CIA listeners, because this week we are talking about 2016′s Snowden. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden, the film follows Snowden’s journey through exposing the surveillance state and his exile to Russia, all while ...
10.17.2022 215 – Beatriz at Dinner (with Jorge Molina) On the eve of the return of The White Lotus, we’re taking a look at the Mike White oeuvre with returning guest Jorge Molina and 2017′s Beatriz at Dinner. Starring our beloved Salma Hayek as a holistic masseuse trapped at ...
10.10.2022 214 – Mud (with Roxana Hadadi) What’s better than movies like this? Guys being dudes! This week, Vulture television critic Roxana Hadadi joins us to return to the McConaissance with Jeff Nichols’ Mud. Matthew McConaughey stars as the film’s eponymous criminal who befriends a young teenager ...
10.03.2022 213 – Where’d You Go, Bernadette As Cate Blanchett inches towards a possible third acting Oscar with this week’s Tár, we look back at the quickly forgotten Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Based on the praised novel by Maria Semple about an eccentric former architect’s disappearance, the ...
09.26.2022 212 – The Bling Ring (with George Civeris) StaightioLab cohost and Gawker editor George Civeris returns to us this episode, and we’re going to Paris’. In 2013, Sofia Coppola delivered another tale of disaffected youth, this time ripped from gossip column headlines with The Bling Ring. With a ...
09.19.2022 Reunited at TIFF! It’s an annual tradition! Joe and Chris (reunited for the first time in years!) are reporting on the films of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, including this year’s (Not Grolsch) People’s Choice Award winner: Steven Spielberg’s The Fablemans. And ...
09.12.2022 211 – Mermaids We’ve got a personal favorite coming to you today starring one of our most beloved icons! After winning her Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck, Cher then conquered the world with the album Heart of Stone, and didn’t return to the ...
09.05.2022 210 – 25th Hour We talk about a lot of films dealing with the social and political aftermath of 9/11 but few like this week’s episode: Spike Lee’s 25th Hour. Filmed in New York City in the months after and adapted by David Benioff ...
08.29.2022 209 – A Walk on the Moon (with Tara Ariano) This week, Tara Ariano returns to us to talk about a forgotten and quite lovely independent film from 1999, A Walk on the Moon. The first feature directed by actor Tony Goldwyn, the film stars Diane Lane as a late ...
08.22.2022 208 – This Is Where I Leave You It’s time to sit shiva with a slew of stars and 2014′s This Is Where I Leave You. Adapted from Jonathan Tropper from his own novel and directed by Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy, the film casts Jason Bateman ...
08.15.2022 207 – Life Itself (with Billy Ray Brewton) We don’t know if we’re equipped to episode this much, but here we are. A bomb so fiery, we brought host of The Incinerator podcast host Billy Ray Brewton to help us unpack it all: 2018′s Life Itself. From This ...
08.08.2022 206 – Infamous Before Bennett Miller’s Capote even arrived and made a steamroll Best Actor winner out of Philip Seymour Hoffman, there was an entire other Truman Capote biopic in the can. Charting the same portion of the legendary and controversial writer’s life ...
08.01.2022 205 – The Four Feathers Long-time listeners of the podcast will recognize this week’s episode as one promised from the very beginning! In 2002, The Four Feathers arrived with major Oscar follow-up and star-on-the-rise pedigree. The film was Shekhar Kapur’s directorial follow-up to the Oscar ...
07.25.2022 204 – A Prairie Home Companion (with Clay Keller) An episode long teased has finally arrived. Screen Drafts co-host (and proud Minnesotan) Clay Keller joins us to discuss the final film from beloved auteur Robert Altman, 2006′s A Prairie Home Companion. Based on and set within the eponymous radio ...
07.18.2022 203 – Martha Marcy May Marlene One of the major stories out of 2011′s Sundance Film Festival was the arrival of Elizabeth Olsen, a new actress who just happened to be the younger sibling of the Olsen twins. In Sean Durkin’s debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, ...
07.11.2022 202 – Us Few filmmaking ascents have been as exciting and heralded as Jordan Peele’s with the arrival of Get Out in 2017. After creating lasting cultural importance and winning the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, Peele’s follow-up was one of the most eagerly ...
07.04.2022 201 – How Do You Know While not known for their love for comedies, the Academy has often proven a fan for the works of James L. Brooks. This week, we’re talking about his (likely) final film, the 2010 flop How Do You Know. The film ...
06.27.2022 200 – Gloria Bell We’ve made it to 200 episodes! And as long-time listeners are aware, there are few THOB-eligible films as beloved as Gloria Bell. In 2013, Sebastián Lelio delivered Gloria, a delightful Chilean character study of the everyday life of a single ...
06.20.2022 199 – Shutter Island This episode, we return to the work of director Martin Scorsese, with one of his very few films to receive zero Oscar nominations, 2010′s Shutter Island. The film was Scorsese’s highly anticipate follow-up to The Departed after finally securing his ...
06.13.2022 198 – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (with Christina Tucker) YA-YA!! This week, Christina Tucker joins us once again to discuss popular literary adaptation and TNT staple, 2002′s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The directorial debut of Callie Khouri, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, the film stars ...
06.06.2022 197 – Downsizing And we’re back to your regularly scheduled episodes! This week, we return to our non-EW episodes with one of the more divisive high-profile bombs in recent years, 2017′s Downsizing. A globalization satire from Alexander Payne and his Sideways co-writer Jim ...
05.30.2022 196 – Notting Hill (EW Summer Movie Preview – Listeners’ Choice) Whoopsie daisies, we have come to the close of our May miniseries taking a deep focus look back at Entertainment Weekly’s seasonal movie preview issues. And the closer was chosen by you, listeners! For your Listeners’ Choice, you have selected ...
05.23.2022 195 – The Pelican Brief (EW Holiday Movie Preview) (with Bobby Finger) We move forward with our May miniseries this week by looking back at the 1993 holiday season with EW’s Holiday Movie Preview and The Pelican Brief. And this week, we have returning guest and Who? Weekly cohost Bobby Finger joining ...
05.16.2022 194 – Ransom (EW Fall Movie Preview) What’s the one about a Best Director frontrunner who gets snubbed for a nomination only to have the star of his then-filming movie assume his frontrunner status all the way to a win. No joke, this is what happened with ...
05.09.2022 193 – The Da Vinci Code (EW Summer Movie Preview) Our EW Movie Previews miniseries continues this week with a look at the summer season! After the ubiquity of the best-selling book, The Da Vinci Code was primed for a glossy movie adaptation even before it landed the Oscar pedigree ...
05.02.2022 192 – Panic Room (EW Spring Movie Preview) (with Adam B. Vary) We’re kicking off our May Miniseries on EW Movie Preview cover movies at the beginning of the calendar with the Spring Movie Preview spotlight on Panic Room. David Fincher’s post-Fight Club foray into elevating a straightforward thriller with his stylistic ...
04.28.2022 BONUS – EW Movie Previews, We Love Yous We have a special BONUS episode for you to kick off our May Miniseries looking back on Entertainment Weekly’s movie preview editions. We bid a fond farewell to the print edition of this formative, beloved publication as we set the ...
04.25.2022 191 – The Zookeeper’s Wife This week, we are returning to the work of the recent Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain. In 2017, the actress headlined the adaptation of the popular non-fiction book The Zookeeper’s Wife, detailing Antonina Zabinska and her husband Jan’s efforts to ...

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This Had Oscar Buzz episodes:

235 – The Upside of Anger

234 – Dear Evan Hansen (with Adam Grosswirth!)

233 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

232 – Waitress

231 – Force Majeure

230 – Stage Beauty

229 – Magic Mike XXL (with Pamela Ribon!)

BONUS – Sundancing On My Own

Class of 2022

228 – After Hours (with Mitchell Beaupre!)

227 – The Old Man and the Gun

226 – The Leisure Seeker

225 – Murder on the Orient Express

Mailbág: Goodbye 2022

224 – The Man in the Iron Mask

223 – We Bought A Zoo

222 – Away We Go

221 – The Front Runner

220 – The Lost City of Z (with Katey Rich)

219 – Always

218 – The Meddler (with Richard Lawson)

217 – Mary Reilly

216 – Snowden

215 – Beatriz at Dinner (with Jorge Molina)

214 – Mud (with Roxana Hadadi)

213 – Where’d You Go, Bernadette

212 – The Bling Ring (with George Civeris)

Reunited at TIFF!

211 – Mermaids

210 – 25th Hour

209 – A Walk on the Moon (with Tara Ariano)

208 – This Is Where I Leave You

207 – Life Itself (with Billy Ray Brewton)

206 – Infamous

205 – The Four Feathers

204 – A Prairie Home Companion (with Clay Keller)

203 – Martha Marcy May Marlene

202 – Us

201 – How Do You Know

200 – Gloria Bell

199 – Shutter Island

198 – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (with Christina Tucker)

197 – Downsizing

196 – Notting Hill (EW Summer Movie Preview – Listeners’ Choice)

195 – The Pelican Brief (EW Holiday Movie Preview) (with Bobby Finger)

194 – Ransom (EW Fall Movie Preview)

193 – The Da Vinci Code (EW Summer Movie Preview)

192 – Panic Room (EW Spring Movie Preview) (with Adam B. Vary)

BONUS – EW Movie Previews, We Love Yous

191 – The Zookeeper’s Wife