Re-Oscared

Whoa, boy is this episode something else! Hosts Mike and Steven welcome their first-ever guest, author Laura Carney, to the show, and the year she chose to discuss is the doozy of all Oscar years:1940. It's common knowledge that 1939 was an embarrassment of riches for Hollywood, with films like Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, and Goodbye Mr. Chips all getting love from the Academy. But there were a few other titles in contention at the ceremony too. They cover all of that and much more in this episode—including quite a lot of talk about Mickey Rooney. Check it out!____________Read more about Laura and pick up her book, My Father's List, at bylauracarney.com.____________To find out where to watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Also, be sure to visit our Substack page for bonus content, and follow us on Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X to keep the conversation going._____________PROGRAMMING NOTE: This is the second-to-last episode of Re-Oscared. Mike and Steven have a new show called the Weekly Movie Throwdown, which takes a monthly theme and looks at a film that fits into it each week. It's a lot of fun and if you like what you've heard here you'll love that. Please do seek it out wherever you're listening to this and subscribe/follow.

2012 was an incredible year for film. A lot of Oscar races come down to two or three films or actors at most, but in 2013 there were so many great competitors that it could have been anybody’s win in just about every category. In this episode, Mike and Steven go deep into all of them and make some surprising choices with their re-Oscaring.To find out where to watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Also, be sure to visit our Substack page for bonus content, and follow us on Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X to keep the conversation going.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

In this episode, Mike and Steven discuss the 1947 Oscars, where William Wyler and his stunning post-war story The Best Years of Our Lives rightfully took home a bunch of awards. They also get into the plethora of deserving films that lost to it in various categories—things like The Razor’s Edge, The Yearling, and the beloved It’s a Wonderful Life—along with one questionable nominee, Duel in the Sun. All this and a whole lot more!To find out where to watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Also, be sure to visit our Substack page for bonus content, and follow us on Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X to keep the conversation going.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

Uma, Oprah. Oprah, Uma. The 1995 Academy Awards ceremony was a fun one thanks to the discomfort of its host David Letterman. The nominees were an interesting group, too, with more traditional Hollywood fare like Forrest Gump and Nobody's Fool sharing equal billing with the soon-to-explode independent movement embodied by Quentin Tarantino and his groundbreaking film Pulp Fiction. Did the voting members get it right? We break it all down in this episode, along with a discussion about a handful of other great films from the year. To find out where to watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Also, be sure to visit our Substack page for bonus content, and follow us on Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X to keep the conversation going.

The Academy had some tough choices to make in 1977. The films nominated—things like Rocky, Network, and All the President’s Men—were part of what many consider one of the most important years in Hollywood history. In this episode, Mike and Steven look at all the Oscar-worthy titles up for statues, talk about a few underappreciated titles from the year, and get nerdy over the split diopter lens. It’s a fun discussion about some really influential films.To find out where you can watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Also, be sure to visit our Substack page for bonus content, and follow us on Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X to keep the conversation going.

1982 was quite a year in film, and the Oscar nominees were a strong bunch. Maybe Gandhi got a little too much love from the Academy, but beyond that many of the awards seem pretty right on. We talk about all of them, along with some choice guilty pleasures (Zapped! anyone?), in this week's episode. Check it out.To find out where you can watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.And as always, follow us on social media to keep the conversation going: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X.

This is our first aftershow, where we keep the mics open and dive a little deeper into some of the things we brought up in the regular episode. Like the bonus episodes, these will eventually be behind a paywall. But for now, they’re free for everyone to enjoy. This one in particular was a lot of fun.In our Horror Oscars episode, we handed out awards in a bunch of categories. Here, we drill down on some of those films and take a look at the kinds of horror that really make us uneasy. We also look at gimmicks, how killers in some of these franchise films are basically superheroes and much more.To find out where you can watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.

At Re-Oscared we plan to offer bonus episodes every once in a while. In them, we’ll hold our own Oscar ceremonies for anything fun that we can think of, whether that’s a particular genre, an actor, or something else that’s totally off the wall. First, we’re handing out statues in the Academy’s least favorite category: horror.There have only been a handful of horror films nominated for Best Picture, and a couple of them are more suspenseful—or even supernatural—than scary. So we thought we’d do right by the genre and create some fun categories like Best Horror Comedy and Best Vampire Film, among others, and nominate films we think deserve consideration. It’s a really fun episode that you’ll love listening to during Spooky Season.To find out where you can watch this episode’s films, search for them on JustWatch.And if you’d like to log as you go you can find everything we discussed on our Letterboxd list page here.Don’t forget to follow us on social media! Here’s where to find us:Letterboxd | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | X