{"id":909,"date":"2023-03-06T21:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T21:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=909"},"modified":"2023-03-06T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T21:37:52","slug":"233-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2023\/03\/06\/233-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"233 &#8211; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-910\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob-1024x637.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob-1024x637.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob-768x478.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob-1200x746.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bestexoticmarigoldhotel-thob.jpeg 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <i>Shakespeare in Love<\/i> director John Madden and with a bursting prestige-y ensemble, <i>The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel<\/i> is one we have been saving. Led by Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, who both had other films in the race in this season, the film follows several seniors who seek fulfillment and romance in India, including Tom Wilkenson as a man seeking reconciliation with a former gay lover. With Dev Patel as a young hotelier, the film was a global box office success that showed up throughout the precursor season, but Oscar did not come calling.<\/p>\n<p>This episode, we take a look at the 2012\u2032s wide-spread acting races, with all previous winners in Supporting Actor and Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actress. We also talk about Smith\u2019s two Oscar wins, Dench\u2019s near nomination this year for <i>Skyfall<\/i>, and the Ol Parker franchise ethos.<\/p>\n<p>Topics also include our winner predictions for this year,\u00a0\u201cThe Quartet,\u201d and Dev Patel going from twink to hunk.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us on Twitter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Had_Oscar_Buzz\">@Had_Oscar_Buzz<\/a><br \/>\nJoe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joereid\">@joereid<\/a><br \/>\nChris: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisvfeil\">@chrisvfeil<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_400\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-909-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.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_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=909-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_233_The_Best_Exotic_Marigold_Hotel.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>From Shakespeare in Love director John Madden and with a bursting prestige-y ensemble, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is one we have been saving. Led by Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, who both had other films in the race in this season, the film follows several seniors who seek fulfillment and romance in India, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2023\/03\/06\/233-the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;233 &#8211; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[923,5,1241,582,1240,1238,144,291,340,3,6,1239,187,1215],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-aarp-movies-for-grownups","tag-academy-awards","tag-bafta","tag-bill-nighy","tag-celia-imrie","tag-dev-patel","tag-golden-globes","tag-judi-dench","tag-maggie-smith","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-penelope-wilton","tag-sag-ensemble","tag-tom-wilkinson","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}