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 getti...

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 fo...

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...

In this special bonus episode of Re-Oscared, we take a look at some of the greatest holiday films from throughout history and nominate a few of them for our own Oscars. With categories ranging from Best Classic Christmas Movie to Best Version of A Christmas Carol , we spend a whopping two-plus hours discussing everything we can think of that pertains to the holidays. But don’t be fooled, we’re not...

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 m...

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....

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 ....

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...

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 Pictur...

In this episode of Re-Oscared we go back to 1991 to look at what we perceive as the major injustice of Dances with Wolves pummelling Goodfellas in the race for statues. Plus, Mike has a lot to say about Hector Elizondo, Steven has a newfound love of Ghost, and everybody is on board the Kathy Bates train. We get into all of that and a bunch more—including tangents on Steven Seagal and the Bob Hoski...

Welcome to ReOscared, the show where we look at Hollywood’s biggest night and determine what the Academy got right—and where they went horribly wrong. This week: 2006! In our inaugural episode, we look at the 2006 Oscars, and boy were they a doozy. There was a lot of controversy over Best Picture with  Crash  beating out  Brokeback Mountain , but there was also a whole lot of Cloone...