A podcast about movies the awards forgot
We’ve finally made it to this year’s crop of Oscar nominations, which means we have come to our annual tradition of welcoming a new class of would-be awards hopefuls to the ranks of This Had Oscar Buzz. This week, we go long on everything that stirred some Oscar chatter between now and pre-production, with categories we deem our most surprising films to miss, films we’re happiest got snubbed, and much, much more!!
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As Lee-ver comes to a close (maybe?!), we decided to revisit a recent Kate Winslet vehicle that’s also a fun antidote to tHesE tiMeS. In 2015, Jocelyn Moorhouse (a director we love talking about here on THOB) returned with the TIFF premiere of The Dressmaker. Adapted from the Rosalie Ham novel, the film stars Winslet as a woman returning to her small Australian town – and bringing couture and a spirit of vengeance with her. With Judy Davis as her town outcast mother and Hugo Weaving as the town’s queer cop, the film got a little lost in the shuffle when Amazon released it the next year.
This episode, we talk about Davis’ two Oscar nominations and her legendary performance in Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. We also discuss Sarah Snook’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo audition, Liam Hemsworth as Winslet’s love interest of unclear age, and 2016 Supporting Actress.
Topics also include the 2016 Costume Design nominations, small town outsiders, and Winslet as movie star.
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And we’ve made our way to “movies that exist only as a title” royalty, We Don’t Live Here Anymore. In 2004, this marital drama arrived at Sundance boasting several indie aughts heatseekers: a post-You Can Count On Me Mark Ruffalo, a post-Oscar nom Naomi Watts, Six Feet Under‘s Peter Krause, and the always buzzy Laura Dern, all wrapped up in an adaptation of Andre Dubus. This grim look at two literary-adjacent married couples facing the abyss of infidelity earned especially strong notices for Dern, but never caught fire in a year where Sideways dominated the independent scene.
This episode, we look back at the first year of Warner Independent and Laura Dern joins our Six Timers Club. We also discuss Dern’s place in the 2004 Supporting Actress race, the work of cinematographer Maryse Alberti, and the 2004 Sundance lineup.
Topics also include director John Curran, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and photoshop marketing.
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This week’s episode is a callback to our beloved 100 Years, 100 Snubs May miniseries: Mitchell Beaupre joins us to talk about 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress! Carl Franklin emerged with the indie success of crime thriller One False Move and moved onto studio filmmaking with Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington as a veteran hired to find a missing woman. The film was a smart noir exercise that nevertheless didn’t quite catch on with audiences, though critics were taken with an unpredictable supporting player, Don Cheadle.
This episode, we discuss the controversy over 1995’s all white acting nominees and the origin story quality of the film’s story. We also talk about Franklin’s unique awards haul for One False Move, Washington’s atypical lack of love interest costars, and how Cheadle’s performance feels like it has more screen time than it does.
Topics also include 1995 Best Supporting Actor, 2003 Entertainment Weekly as Oscar gateway, and Jennifer Beals as anti-femme female.
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