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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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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…
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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 co…
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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, wit…
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Episode 34: 2010 - The King's Speech
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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 br…
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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! Film…
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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 tr…
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Episode 31: 1996 - The English Patient
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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 F…
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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 …
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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 bun…
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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 co…
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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 feature…
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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 nov…
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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 fil…
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Episode 25: 2007 - No Country for Old Men
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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 nomi…
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We're taking a brief breather as life catches up on the 3 of us, so we've decided to repost our very first episode from when lockdown prompted us to start this podcast just over 2 years ago! Our very first episode went back 50 years to 1970 to discuss the 5 films nominated for Best Picture that year, and was the introduction to Revisiting the Oscar…
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Episode 24: 1990 - Dances With Wolves
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On this episode of Revisiting the Oscars we're moving forward in time to 1990, when 'The Godfather Part 3' was released to conclude the trilogy. Listen on for more discussion on the optimal way to eat an orange, whilst Bingham thinks he may have found the best ever impersonation of a donkey.... It's a bumper year for the gangster genre with Scorses…
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Episode 23: 1974 - The Godfather Part II
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Last time round we headed back to 1972 to talk about arguably the greatest film of all time in 'The Godfather', so we felt it would be rude not to continue the series with the next entry in the trilogy - all of which were nominated for Best Picture. That means we're in 1974, a year in which Francis Ford Coppola had 2 films nominated for the big pri…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest films of all time in 'The Godfather'! Francis Ford Coppola's iconic mafia movie has been back in cinemas this year and what better time than now to revisit this classic film! 1972 packs a punch beyond 'The Godfather' though, with memorable and lauded film…
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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 co…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2021 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture' this year! The Oscars have gone back to 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 al…
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It's a return to the 80s on Revisiting the Oscars, which of course means cheesy songs, a higher than average ratio of comedies and yes folks, some long and bald haircuts! Join us to learn about Ikea's formation, Nicolas Cage's wooden hand, and how one of this year's nominees may have influenced seminal Scottish comedy sketch show Chewin the Fat as …
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We're right in the midst of Oscars season with the nominations just announced, so we thought we'd pull together a shorter pod to give new listeners a flavour of what we do here at Revisiting the Oscars! This brief episode features our discussion on the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture in 'Beauty and the Beast', alongside a discu…
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We're off to Middle Earth for the third and final time on Revisiting the Oscars as we talk all things Return of the King, one of the most successful Oscars winners of all time in our episode on the 2003 Oscars! It's a globetrotting episode as we're also off to Tokyo for Lost in Translation, the Galapagos Islands for Master and Commander, Boston for…
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It's Disney time on Revisiting the Oscars as we cover 1991, the first (and to this date only the third!) year to have an animated nominee for Best Picture. To celebrate we have special guest Sara Bingham along to talk us through 'Beauty and the Beast' and her views on the best things Disney have to offer! It was also a big year for 'Silence of the …
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We're returning to the 1970s on this episode of Revisiting the Oscars as we talk 1976, one of the strongest years in Oscar history! We'll all remember the iconic 'Rocky' but this year also has Martin Scorsese's first nomination in 'Taxi Driver', the ahead of its time satirical drama 'Network', the cracking conspiracy thriller about the scandal that…
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We're back to Middle Earth on the latest episode of Revisiting the Oscars as we head into 2002, so expect lots of chat about those bloody talking trees, the greatness of the battle of Helms Deep and who can do the best Gollum impression? It's not just 'Lord of the Rings' time though as we've 4 more big movies to discuss including holocaust drama 'T…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode takes us to the early 80s to take in 1981, introducing us to Indiana Jones, the Russian Revolution and the Olympic Games. We've had a slight hiatus on account of one of the team getting hitched, summer football and a return to socialising in the UK, but we're glad to be back with you all! In this episode we'll m…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode takes us to the early 90s to cover the 1992 Oscars and our first experience on this podcast of the western! In this episode we're talking Clint Eastwood's revisionist western 'Unforgiven', the film that won Al Pacino his only Oscar to date ('Scent of a Woman') and trips to Britain for another period drama ('Howa…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us head back 20 years to 2001 where we visit Middle Earth for the first time, back in those heady days before cinematic universes and all sorts changed the nature of blockbuster filmmaking! Alongside 'Lord of the Rings' we've also got Baz Luhrmann's trippy musical extravaganza 'Moulin Rouge', Russell Crowe …
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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 step into music criticism as we cover the …
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2020 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture'! It's been a funny old 12 months in many respects and that's been the same for the movies, so tune in as the guys provide a bit of escapism as we discuss some of this year's hopefuls like 'Nomadland', 'Minari' and…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode takes us up to 2009, the first year that the Oscars returned to a larger pool of Best Picture nominees. There's a wide variety of films for the guys to discuss on this episode, from the juggernaut that was 'Avatar', to our first encounters with the Coen Brothers with 'A Serious Man' and our first animated film i…
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Bonus Episode: A PVT Chat with director Ben Hozie
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Our latest episode is a slight detour from our regular pods as the guys had the pleasure of speaking to the multi-talented musician and director Ben Hozie about his latest film 'PVT Chat', a movie about Jack (Peter Vack), a lonely internet gambler who develops an obsession with Scarlett (Julia Fox), a cam girl based in San Francisco. In the intervi…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode takes us back to the 1980s, with another opportunity to 'inject the 80s into your veins' with the films up for discussion this week including 'Tootsie', 'Gandhi' and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic 'E.T.' Expect lots of discussion of 1980s fashion, music and the Academy's attitude towards computer generated ef…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode brings us as close to the present day as we've been in this series, and our first taste of an Oscars year with a higher number of Best Picture nominees! That makes for a bumper, 'feature length' episode, which only just comes in shorter than this years shortest film in 'Hell or High Water'. 2016 was the infamous…
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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode takes us into the 1990s where we cover the biggest film of the decade and one of the biggest of all time in 'Titanic'! It is of course the festive period so we also discuss some of our favourite Christmas movies and we get an update on how Mason's fledgling cricketing career was going at the age of 12.... On the…
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Revisiting the Oscars returns to the 2000s so that means more anecdotes about Mason's teenage years, alongside the usual film discussion of course! This year has several firsts as we cover cinematic legends Martin Scorsese ('The Aviator') and Clint Eastwood ('Million Dollar Baby') for the first time, alongside our first music biopic in 'Ray', a tri…
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It's our first trip to the 1980s on Revisiting the Oscars and Mason has conveniently chosen 1988, the year of birth for his fellow hosts. Alongside the five films nominated for Best Picture this year, we discuss Cruel Intentions, 80s soundtracks, the origins of the kiwi fruit and Bingham's new found love of Carly Simon*! (* this one may be a lie ;)…
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It's back to the 1970s for Episode 5 and what a year we've got in store for this month's podcast! Join us as we continue our journey across the last 50 years of film history, reviewing the films nominated for 'Best Picture' across one year per episode. In Episode 5 of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're covering 1975, a year when some of the greatest fil…
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We're into the 2000s now as we continue our journey across the last 50 years of film history, reviewing the films nominated for 'Best Picture' across one year per episode. In Episode 4 of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're covering 2005, the infamous year when 'Crash' surprised just about everybody to take the top accolade ahead of films including 'Brok…
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Welcome to the third episode of our brand new podcast series, 'Revisiting the Oscars'! Episode 3 of 'Revisiting the Oscars' takes us from the 1970s into the 1990s for a classic Oscars year that has generated much discussion and debate in the years since! Our hosts discuss the year 1994 and the merits of the five films nominated for 'Best Picture' a…
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Episode 2 of 'Revisiting the Oscars' takes us from the start of the decade to the end as we move from 1970 to 1979 to revisit the films in contention at the ceremony celebrating the best films of that year. Our hosts discuss the merits of the five films nominated for 'Best Picture', how well they have aged, and whether the voters picked the right w…
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Episode 1 of 'Revisiting the Oscars' takes us back 50 years in film history to 1970, and the Oscars ceremony that celebrated the finest films of that year. Our hosts discuss the merits of the five films nominated for 'Best Picture', how well they have aged, and whether the voters picked the right winner on this occasion. 1970 Best Picture Nominees …
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