This Had Oscar Buzz

A podcast about movies the awards forgot

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365 – Hanging Up

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

We were heartbroken at the news of Diane Keaton’s passing, so we decided to quickly get another of her films in the THOB books. Keaton’s final directo...

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364 – Bones and All

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

With Halloween this week and Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt now in theatres, what better time to discuss the BONES! The 2022 fall festival season fe...

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363 – Super 8

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

In the 2011 summer movie season overcrowded with sequels and IP, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 stood out as an original event film. Arriving with a mysterious...

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362 – Used People

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

We love talking forgotten awardsy films here on This Had Oscar Buzz and this week’s episode is a doozy. In 1992, Todd Graff’s off-Broadway play The Gr...

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361 – Ocean’s Eleven

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

One of the defining stories of the 2000 Oscar year was the one-two punch of Steven Soderbergh delivering both Traffic and Erin Brockovich, making good...

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360 – The Boxer

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

We’ve got Daniel Day-Lewis back in theaters this week with Anemone, so we’re looking back at one of his few failed Oscar bids. In 1997, Day-Lewis pair...

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THOB does TIFF-ty

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

Joe and Chris are back from the Toronto International Film Festival and it’s time to unpack everything we saw. Though we recorded prior to the announc...

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356 – The Fountain

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

After an indie one-two punch of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky was riding high as one of the major emerging directors at the turn of the...

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354 – Best in Show

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Grab your half-butter-half-salt popcorn because this week, we’ve got something to make you howl! After the critically-hailed success of Waiting for Gu...

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352 – Freaky Friday

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

You might not expect a family-friendly live action Disney movie to draw awards attention, but not all of those types of films star Jamie Lee Curtis. I...

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350 – The History Boys

Episode Date: July 14, 2025

We’re ringing in another year on the pod with our 350TH EPISODE!! In 2006, Broadway imported the National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s The His...

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348 – BPM

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

We close out Pride Month with one of our favorite queer films from the past decade, 2017’s BPM. From French director Robin Campillo, BPM follow a grou...

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347 – Take This Waltz

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

After a career as an actress, Sarah Polley made her directorial debut with Away From Her, landing Oscar nominations for both her screenplay and Julie...