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Oscar Loves Film Club

Oscar Loves Film Club

Two Best Pictures, one link, many thoughts. Join Mark, Chris, Amelia and Izzy as they watch their way through the entire history of Academy Award Best Picture winners, and discuss the Oscar Loves link between them.

tv & film

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01:00:59

Oscar Loves... A Courtroom Drama

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/02/16

As award nominations for Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 continue to amass, our Oscarologists explore the only two Best Picture winners to feature a prominent courtroom scene. Sir Carol Reed's film adaptation of Lionel Bart's successful stage musical Oliver! pushed child actors Mark Lester and Jack Wilde into the spotlight for their performances as Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger respectively, with Wilde garnering a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his work. In Kramer vs Kramer, we

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Oscar Loves... Taking The Bait

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2021/01/16

Love 'em or hate 'em, a good marketing strategy can make all the difference when it comes to success at the Academy Awards. This month our Oscarologists gather to chat about two films whose publicity campaigns changed the game. Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Cazale as the soldiers and civilians from a small town in Pennsylvania affected by the Vietnam War. Judi Dench and Gwyneth Paltrow both won Oscars for their performances in

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01:00:22

Oscar Loves... Playing Mind Games

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2020/12/16

This month our Oscarologists gather to discuss two Best Picture winners that explore neurodivergence and mental illness... to very different degrees of success. Barry Levinson's Rain Man tells the story of Charlie Babitt – played by Tom Cruise – who discovers he has a secret brother with savant syndrome, Raymond, played by Dustin Hoffman, who went on to win the Oscar for Best Leading Actor for his role. In A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, Russell Crowe portrays John Nash, the Nobel

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01:00:15

Oscar Loves... The Open Road

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2020/11/17

Whether it's hitchhiking or the night bus, this month our Oscarologists gather to discuss the Academy's love of an epic road trip. Frank Capra's It Happened One Night see Claudette Colbert's socialite flee her imposing father only to run into Clark Gable's ramshackle reporter in desperate need of a story. In Midnight Cowboy we watch an unlikely friendship form between two hustlers in New York, newly-arrived Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing conman 'Ratso' Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). Thank you to Thomas

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01:00:17

Oscar Loves... The Overdue

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2020/10/16

Our Oscarologists kick off Season 3 by a look at those great, oft nominated Directors, who finally secure their Oscar late into their careers. The Greatest Show on Earth is Cecil B DeMille's forensic exploration of day to day life within a successful 1950's circus, with all the excitement and peril that entails. Led by Matt Damon and Leonardo Di Caprio, The Departed is Martin Scorsese's intense tale of cat and mouse (or should we say rat) between Boston's police and criminal underworld. Thank you

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01:03:52

Oscar Loves... WW1

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2020/09/06

Mark and Izzy return after a long hiatus to bring you an archive episode from November 2019 before launching into series 3 this Autumn. This month, your friendly Oscarologists discuss the Academy's interest in exploring unique perspectives on World War 1. All Quiet On The Western Front is director Lewis Milestone's epic, realistic and harrowing account of WW1 told through the eyes of the german 2nd company, based on the Remarque novel of the same name. Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa is also a

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01:10:25

Oscar Loves... Female Filmmakers

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/10/31

This month, Izzy, Chris and Mark discuss female firsts at the Academy Awards, in particular, directors and producers. We start by joining the long con with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill. This film also has the honour of being the first to garner an Oscar for a female producer - the wonderful Julia Philips. Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is a searing look at the experiences of a military bomb disposal unit during the Iraq war, delivered with

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01:08:13

Oscar Loves... The Biopic

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/09/30

Izzy and Mark gather round the microphone to discuss the real lives recreated on celluloid that went on to win Best Picture. The Life of Emile Zola directed by William Dieterle portrays the life of the great french playwright and author (played by Paul Muni), focussing in particular on the Dreyfuss Affair of 1894-1906. Often called the greatest biopic ever made, Izzy and Mark discuss whether they agree with this moniker, particularly within the social context of the time. Based on the 1853 memoir

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01:04:03

Oscar Loves... The Musical Bio-Pic

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/08/28

This month, it's dynamic duo Mark and Izzy discussing the musical geniuses that caught the Academy's attention when their lives hit the screen. Released only a few years after Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. died, Robert Z Leonard's The Great Ziegfeld was an epic musical spectacle showcasing the ups and down of Ziegfeld's life and the many famous faces he discovered. Milos Forman's Amadeus is not only a biopic about the brilliance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but of another man's life: Antonio Salieri, whose

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01:04:38

Oscar Loves... To Cannes Cannes

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/07/21

After a short hiatus, Amelia, Mark and Izzy reconvene to discuss the only two Best Picture winners to win the highest honours at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by the great Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend is a stark look at the effects of alcoholism on writer Don Birnam, played by Ray Milland (who also won an Oscar for his work on this film). Marty, written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Delbert Mann, based on the teleplay from 1953, is a romantic drama spanning just 36 hours in life of New

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01:05:02

Oscar Loves... The Exposé

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/04/16

The group gather to discuss the Academy's fascination with the power of the press and a love of investigative journalism. Directed by Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement stars Gregory Peck as reporter Phil Green, looking for a fresh angle whilst reporting on anti-semitism in America, discovering just how prevalent and embedded this prejudice has become. Written by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, directed by McCarthy, Spotlight tells the true story of the Boston Globe team who uncovered the scandal of

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01:06:03

Oscar Loves... The Director's Medium

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/03/25

This month, a trio of OLFC podsters gather to discuss two films that won Best Picture but were not nominated for Best Director - a rarity for the Academy; and debrief on 2019's Oscars ceremony. Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, is the only off-broadway play to be adapted for screen that has ever gone on to win an Academy Award. A 25-year journey exploring the relationship between Miss Daisy (Best Actress winner Jessica Tandy) and her driver, Hoke (Morgan Freeman), it's a chronicle of

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01:05:04

Oscar Loves... The Royal Family

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/02/17

This episode, three of our podsters gather to talk all things royal and Oscars' obsession with King and country. Paul Schofield delivers a spellbinding (and Oscar-winning) performance as Thomas More during his final years and fatal fall-out with King Henry VIII in Fred Zinnemman's A Man For All Seasons, also featuring one of John Hurt's earliest screen performances, and not one, but two Redgrave appearances. In Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush go head to head as King

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01:09:28

Oscar Loves... The Big Five

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/02/16

An extra bonus episode, originally recorded in July 2018, with additional material to bring it bang up to date for this year's Oscars race. What links One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of The Lambs (1991)? And what's The Big Five when it comes to the Oscars anyway? We thought that had to do with safari. As if that isn't, there's also a bonus fifth Oscarologist, with Chris standing in for Chris. They're practically the same person, with the same name, but one's a little more

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01:00:55

Oscar Loves... The English Language

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/01/25

This episode, the podsters gather to discuss the Academy's aversion to honouring films not in the English Language, with one yet to win Best Picture. With Alfonso Cuaron's Roma hotly tipped to take the award in 2019, is everything about to change? Bernardo's Bertolucci's The Last Emperor tells the extraordinary true story of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China; the first feature film to be shot within the Forbidden City, the film features dialogue in Chinese, Mandarin and Japanese. With twenty percent

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01:05:21

Oscar Loves... A Black Renaissance

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2019/01/16

The group gather to discuss two films that tackle the black experience in America, the paradigm shift that has taken place in Hollywood over the last fifty years and how this all relates to this year's Oscar Best Picture potential nominees. Directed by Norman Jewison, In The Heat Of The Night pairs Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance) in the story of a murder investigation in a racially hostile southern town, featuring 'the slap that was heard around the

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01:02:01

Oscar Loves... Actors turned Directors

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2018/12/16

The gang discuss the directorial debuts of Robert Redford and Kevin Costner, both of whom won Oscars for their efforts. With A Star Is Born, directed by Bradley Cooper, a strong contender for this year's statuette, actors turned directors are back in the spotlight once again. Thank you to Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music and Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork.

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01:01:24

Oscar Loves...A Rematch

Oscar Loves Film Club ·

2018/11/14

The gang gather to discuss how Hollywood loves a do-over. With a potential rematch between Barry Jenkins and Damien Chazelle at next year's Oscars, we revisit another classic Academy Awards rematch. In 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Elia Kazan was tipped to win Best Picture, with Marlon Brando a shoo-in for Best Actor. But it was not to be. An American Paris, directed by Vincente Minelli took the prize, and to the shock of the public, Humphrey Bogart shut out Brando, winning his only

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