May 2023 – This Had Oscar Buzz

100 Years, 100… Snubs! – Part Five

We’ve arrived at the grand finale of our blowout May miniseries 100 Years, 100… Snubs! It’s all been leading up to this Red and Wild strawberry social with guests arriving, boots handed out with abandon, and our picks for the biggest Oscar snub of all time! We also dive into a feast of topics including hating Braveheart, corny 1970s disaster movies, running times of nominated Documentary Features, international feature eligibility issues, double Supporting Actor nominations in 1991, Nicole Kidman’s gaze, which one of us is a bigger You Can Count on Me fan, and 100 Years, 100… Snubs! SNUBS. Special thanks to all of our listeners for sticking with us week after week, film after film — we hope you all had fun with this miniseries!!

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100 Years, 100… Snubs! – Part Four

The penultimate episode of our May miniseries is here! And this week, we are returning to a few repeat boot victims and some of our favorite oft-discussed films and performances. This round of snubs and boots includes terrifying bundles of sticks (cough), being 4′8″ and dying, codpieces, visions of the afterlife, lump twins, Mike Leigh performers, Spike Lee performers, horror movies, the upcoming live action The Little Mermaid, and lots more!

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100 Years, 100… Snubs! – Part Three

We’ve got 20 more snubs (plus guest appearances!) on deck for another installment of 100 YEARS, 100… SNUBS!, and this episode is out for blood! We dive into the much discussed 1999 Best Original Song category, two very famous snubs that DON’T make our list, Chris’ early stumping for one highly anticipated performance this year, a 1980s genre film loved by horse girls and soft boys alike, Leslie Caron getting gaslit by puppets, falling in love from across a fish tank, and lots more!

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100 Years, 100… Snubs! – Part Two

Our May miniseries continues this week with 20 more of our picks for the greatest snubs of Oscar history! As we march towards our pick for the single greatest snub of all time we’re talking about early 2000s emo music, Jessica Lange and Charlize Theron as bootable nominees, Beyonce’s trio of performances for nominated songs, horny acting, the most perplexingly snubbed movie of 2022, Jim Carrey’s fast rise in the 1990s, loving musical theatre people, and horror nominations!

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100 Years, 100… Snubs! – Part One

It’s May miniseries time, Garys! And we’re doing something a little different!

In 1998, the AFI compiled a list of the 100 greatest American films of all time, and turned the list into a primetime special complete with famous faces and a schmaltzy Trisha Yearwood song. It was such a success, the AFI continued to release Top 100 lists for love stories, comedies, stars, and more. For our May miniseries, we are paying a loving tribute to the tradition by selecting our choices for the 100 greatest Oscar snubs of all time, and we have several beloved THOB guests calling in to provide their picks as well!

In part one, we’ll cover our ground rules for selection, including no double mentions for a single category in a year, or double mentions for an artist. And we’ll also be giving the boot to the nomination we would replace in our snubs’ place. Here we kick off the month of May with our first (unranked!) 20 snub selections!

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