{"id":1448,"date":"2026-01-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:54:47","slug":"class-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2026\/01\/26\/class-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/classof2025-thob.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the biggest This Had Oscar Buzz episode every year! Now that we have this year&#8217;s crop of Oscar nominations, that means it&#8217;s time to welcome a whole year&#8217;s worth of films to the THOB fold. We unpack the Class of 2025 in all its glory, from the films that deserved better to the ones that didn&#8217;t, from the narratives we fell for and didn&#8217;t, from the most forgotten to the close calls. And, of course, we call it for the Valedictorian, the film that will get the first THOB episode from 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9970\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1448-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1448-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_Class_of_2025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the biggest This Had Oscar Buzz episode every year! Now that we have this year&#8217;s crop of Oscar nominations, that means it&#8217;s time to welcome a whole year&#8217;s worth of films to the THOB fold. We unpack the Class of 2025 in all its glory, from the films that deserved better to the ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2026\/01\/26\/class-of-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Class of 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,34,12,549,35,13,3,6],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-actress","tag-best-director","tag-best-supporting-actor","tag-best-supporting-actress","tag-movies","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}