Revisiting the Oscars: The Movie Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Ten nominees. One gold statue. On this episode of Revisiting the Oscars we’re revisiting every Best Picture contender ahead of the Oscars — from the undeniable masterpieces to the prestige indies to 'F1', the feature-length Formula 1 commercial that somehow found itself in the race. Who’s taking the big prize and who has got no chance of making it to the front from the back of the grid? 

2025 Best Picture Nominees
F1
Train Dreams
Bugonia
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Hamnet
Sinners
One Battle After Another

**This podcast will contain some spoilers for these movies although we have tried our best to signpost them on this occasion!

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In our latest episode we're going back more than 50 years to 1971 where we'll be seeing Gene Hackman, a classic musical and another appearance from a podcast favourite...

On this episode we’ll be looking at a gritty New York crime saga that redefined the cop thriller in The French Connection, the sweeping yet tragic portrait of Russia’s doomed royal family in Nicholas and Alexandra, the timeless story of tradition and change in Fiddler on the Roof, a haunting exploration of lost innocence in The Last Picture Show, and Stanley Kubrick’s audacious, controversial vision of violence and control in A Clockwork Orange. Together, they capture a moment when Hollywood was pushing boundaries, questioning authority, and reshaping what a Best Picture nominee could be.

All this and our usual features, banter, trivia and insights!

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1971 Best Picture Nominees
The Last Picture Show
Nicholas and Alexandra
Fiddler on the Roof
A Clockwork Orange
The French Connection

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're back to the mid-2000s for Scorsese's only Oscar win for 'The Departed'.

We may have recorded this at Christmas time but there's little Christmas cheer on show as the films we're talking about cover war, suicide and death by car accident, but don't worry - we'll do our best to brighten things up!

Films included on this pod alongside 'The Departed' are the globe spanning drama 'Babel', the aftermath of Princess Diana's death in 'The Queen', Clint Eastwood's Japanese war drama 'Letters from Iwo Jima' and a little independent road trip movie in 'Little Miss Sunshine'.

All this and the usual nonsense, banter and fun facts!

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2006 Best Picture Nominees
The Queen
Letters from Iwo Jima
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back 50 years in time to 1973 to revisit the top films of the year, led by none other than arguably the greatest ever horror movie in William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

We're also running a long con a ruthless crime boss in The Sting, falling out with our sisters in Cries & Whispers, having a transatlantic affair in A Touch of Class and driving around aimlessly in 1950s America in American Graffiti.

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1973 Best Picture Nominees
The Exorcist
Cries & Whispers
American Graffiti
A Touch of Class
The Sting

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back to the 90s for 1996 - the year of Euro 96, the release of Trainspotting and the split of the original incarnation of Take That!

On this year's episode we're treating patients who may or may not be English in The English Patient, arranging a kidnapping of our wives to collect a ransom in Fargo, maintaining deep secrets in Secrets & Lies, starting our own sports agency in Jerry Maguire and trying our hand at piano in Shine

We also discuss the differences between the US and the UK through the prism of plastic/paper bags, and we have a belting Corrie reference for you all. No spoilers!

All this and the usual nonsense, banter and fun facts!

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1996 Best Picture Nominees
Jerry Maguire
Secrets & Lies
Shine
Fargo
The English Patient

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed 12 years in the not so distant past to discuss one of the first years with a bumper crop of movies - 9 in the case of 2011!

We're revisiting the silent era (The Artist), fixing clocks and meeting cinematic legends (Hugo), visiting the Deep South in the 60s (The Help), meeting literary legends (Midnight in Paris), revolutionising baseball (Moneyball), dealing with family tragedy in Hawaii (The Descendants) and in NYC Post 9/11 (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), following a horse across Europe in WW1 (War Horse) and doing nothing short of contemplating the nature of life itself (The Tree of Life).

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2011 Best Picture Nominees
War Horse
The Help
Hugo
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Descendants
The Artist

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On this episode of 'Revisiting the Oscars' we're headed back almost 40 years to talk all things 1986 as we dissect the 5 movies nominated for 'Best Picture' that year!

Crocodile Dundee, Diego Maradona, Catchphrase and Top Gun were just some of the things making headlines in 1986, but what was happening at the Oscars....

We've got an interesting bunch to discuss this year that includes Robert De Niro playing a Spanish slave trader cum missionary in the oddity that is 'The Mission', a Woody Allen ensemble comedy in 'Hannah and her Sisters', ANOTHER Merchant Ivory period romance ('A Room with a View'), a romantic drama set at a school for the deaf ('Children of a Lesser God') and Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama 'Platoon'.

All this and the usual nonsense and fun facts - who knew there was a Vatican Film List?!

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1986 Best Picture Nominees
The Mission
Children of a Lesser God
A Room with a View
Hannah and her Sisters
Platoon

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It's the Oscars on Sunday and we've got you covered with our special preview episode of Revisiting the Oscars!

In this extra episode we give you the lowdown on the nominees in all of the main categories, with the usual banter, trivia and (wild) opinions thrown in!

We've also used this opportunity to take a further step into music criticism as we cover the 'Best Song' category - could this year surely be better than last year?!

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Revisiting the Oscars latest episode sees us cover the upcoming 2022 Oscars as we preview all of the movies nominated for 'Best Picture' this year!

There's 10 nominees so plenty of movies to unpack this year, whilst we also touch on the merits of some of the biggest box office hits of the year with respect to the Oscars.

All alongside usual features such as the blast from the 'present', random trivia and chat, with accompanying bonus episode to follow next week!

2022 Best Picture Nominees
Avatar: The Way of Water
Triangle of Sadness
Elvis
Tar
Women Talking
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once

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It's back to the 80s on Revisiting the Oscars as we revisit the year 1980 - Reagan, Thatcher, Crispy Pancakes and some classic movies!

On this episode we're looking at David Lynch's only Best Picture nominee in 'The Elephant Man', Scorsese and De Niro's classic non-boxing boxing movie 'Raging Bull', Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1800s novel 'Tess', Loretta Lynn biopic 'Coal Miner's Daughter' and Robert Redford's debut as a director in 'Ordinary People'.

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1980 Best Picture Nominees
The Elephant Man
Tess
Coal Miner's Daughter
Raging Bull
Ordinary People

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