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Revisiting the Oscars: The Movie Podcast

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"Revisiting the Oscars" is a movie podcast that looks back at the Oscars over the past 50 years, revisiting the highs and the lows through a discussion about the films nominated for the coveted "Best Picture" award over the years, with each episode covering one year in film history. Reviews and random chat with a bit of insight thrown in with our three hosts, Watty, Mason and Bingham!

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Episode 40: 1971 - The French Connection

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2025/09/19

In our latest episode we're going back more than 50 years to 1971 where we'll be seeing Gene Hackman, a classic musical and another appearance from a podcast favourite...On this episode we’ll be looking at a gritty New York crime saga that redefined the cop thriller in The French Connection, the sweeping yet tragic portrait of Russia’s doomed royal family in Nicholas and Alexandra, the timeless story of tradition and change in Fiddler on the Roof, a haunting exploration of lost innocence

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Episode 39: 1984 - Amadeus

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2025/05/18

We're heading back 40 years in time on this episode as we cover 1984 - a year when we first met Denzel Washington, John Malkovich and The Terminator!On this episode we'll be looking at the relationships that form between British colonials and Indian locals in A Passage to India, Sally Field trying to make a living in rural Texas in Places of the Heart, a murder mystery set in a Black only army regiment in A Soldier's Story, the story of a friendship formed amidst the Cambodian

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68:49

2024 Oscars Preview Special!

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2025/02/27

It's the Oscars on Sunday and we've got you covered with our special preview episode of Revisiting the Oscars! In this extra episode we give you the lowdown on the nominees in all of the main categories, with the usual banter, trivia and (wild) opinions thrown in! We've also used this opportunity to take a further step into music criticism as we cover the 'Best Song' category - a chance to discuss Elton John, Emilia Perez and of course regular nominee Diane Warren. If you're enjoying the ...

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108:28

Episode 38: 2024 - Anora/The Brutalist

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2025/02/20

Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2024 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture' this year!There's 10 nominees so plenty of movies to unpack this year, and it looks like it's going down to the wire to see what movie will win!All alongside usual features such as the blast from the 'present', random trivia and chat, with accompanying bonus episode to follow next week! 2024 Best Picture NomineesI'm Still

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79:29

Episode 37: 1995 - Braveheart

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2024/09/05

It's the one you've all been waiting for as 2 Scots and an Englishman tackle the story (or not as the case may be!) of William Wallace in Mel Gibson's historical Scottish epic Braveheart! That of course means its 1995, a year at the heart of the Britpop scene with some cracking movies to match out in the cinema.Alongside discussing the merits of Braveheart, its cultural impact and benefits to the Stirling tourism scene we also have a couple of rarities with a non-English language film

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Episode 36: 1977 - Annie Hall

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2024/05/21

On this episode of Revisiting the Oscars we're headed to a galaxy far, far away as we finally tackle Star Wars, a film one of our hosts had never seen before preparing for this episode!As well as George Lucas's smash hit we've got a couple of romantic comedies in Annie Hall and The Goodbye Girl, while some of us are off to dance at the ballet with The Turning Point.Add in a WWII drama in Julia alongside some musings on our infrequent and sporadic recording schedule!Hit us up on our

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64:54

2023 Oscars Preview Special!

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2024/03/09

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Episode 35: 2023 - Oppenheimer

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2024/02/29

Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2023 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture' this year!There's 10 nominees so plenty of movies to unpack this year, with Barbenheimer a hot topic of conversation!All alongside usual features such as the blast from the 'present', random trivia and chat, with accompanying bonus episode to follow next week! 2023 Best Picture NomineesMaestroPast LivesThe Zone of InterestAmerican

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Episode 34: 2010 - The King's Speech

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2024/02/11

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed to 2010 for the year that saw 'The King's Speech' and 'The Social Network' go head to head, alongside a little movie from some barely known director called Christoper Nolan...Films included on this pod include the mind bending 'Inception', the trilogy ender (of sorts) to 'Toy Story', and a breakout performance from Jennifer Lawrence in 'Winter's Bone'We also talk Banksy,

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77:20

Episode 33: 2006 - The Departed

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2023/12/13

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're back to the mid-2000s for Scorsese's only Oscar win for 'The Departed'. We may have recorded this at Christmas time but there's little Christmas cheer on show as the films we're talking about cover war, suicide and death by car accident, but don't worry - we'll do our best to brighten things up!Films included on this pod alongside 'The Departed' are the globe spanning drama 'Babel',

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Episode 32: 1973 - The Sting

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2023/10/24

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back 50 years in time to 1973 to revisit the top films of the year, led by none other than arguably the greatest ever horror movie in William Friedkin's The Exorcist.We're also running a long con a ruthless crime boss in The Sting, falling out with our sisters in Cries & Whispers, having a transatlantic affair in A Touch of Class and driving around aimlessly in 1950s America in American Graffiti.All this and the

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78:00

Episode 31: 1996 - The English Patient

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2023/08/23

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back to the 90s for 1996 - the year of Euro 96, the release of Trainspotting and the split of the original incarnation of Take That!On this year's episode we're treating patients who may or may not be English in The English Patient, arranging a kidnapping of our wives to collect a ransom in Fargo, maintaining deep secrets in Secrets & Lies, starting our own sports agency in Jerry Maguire and trying our hand at piano

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Episode 30: 2011 - The Artist

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2023/07/12

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed 12 years in the not so distant past to discuss one of the first years with a bumper crop of movies - 9 in the case of 2011!We're revisiting the silent era (The Artist), fixing clocks and meeting cinematic legends (Hugo), visiting the Deep South in the 60s (The Help), meeting literary legends (Midnight in Paris), revolutionising baseball (Moneyball), dealing with family tragedy in Hawaii (The Descendants) and in NYC Post 9/11

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Episode 29: 1986 - Platoon

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2023/05/04

On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back almost 40 years to talk all things 1986 as we dissect the 5 movies nominated for 'Best Picture' that year!Crocodile Dundee, Diego Maradona, Catchphrase and Top Gun were just some of the things making headlines in 1986, but what was happening at the Oscars....We've got an interesting bunch to discuss this year that includes Robert De Niro playing a Spanish slave trader cum missionary in the oddity that is

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68:01

2022 Oscars Preview Special!

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2023/03/09

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Episode 28: 2022

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2023/03/01

Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2022 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture' this year!There's 10 nominees so plenty of movies to unpack this year, whilst we also touch on the merits of some of the biggest box office hits of the year with respect to the Oscars.All alongside usual features such as the blast from the 'present', random trivia and chat, with accompanying bonus episode to follow next week!2022 Best

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Episode 27: 1980 - Ordinary People

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2023/02/16

It's back to the 80s on Revisiting the Oscars as we revisit the year 1980 - Reagan, Thatcher, Crispy Pancakes and some classic movies!On this episode we're looking at David Lynch's only Best Picture nominee in 'The Elephant Man', Scorsese and De Niro's classic non-boxing boxing movie 'Raging Bull', Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1800s novel 'Tess', Loretta Lynn biopic 'Coal Miner's Daughter' and Robert Redford's

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83:23

Episode 26: 1999 - American Beauty

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2022/12/22

We're partying like it's 1999 on this episode of Revisiting the Oscars, as we head back just over 20 years ago to cover a big year for cinema!On this episode, Revisiting the Oscars is seeing dead people, tackling corruption in the tobacco industry, running an orphanage, managing death row and having a midlife crisis as we cover some of the big films to have been released just before the turn of the millennium.Kicking us off is M. Night Shyamalan's renowned supernatural drama 'The

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Episode 25: 2007 - No Country for Old Men

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2022/10/12

On this episode of Revisiting the Oscars we're headed to 2007, a year widely regarded as one of the strongest years for movies in recent history!It featured the battle of the titans for the Best Picture award, with the Coen Brothers 'No Country for Old Men' going head to head with Paul Thomas Anderson's 'There Will Be Blood', with room on the nominations list for a legal thriller ('Michael Clayton'), a coming of age dramedy ('Juno') and a period

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Episode 1: 1970 - Patton (REPOST)

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2022/09/03

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