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The Oscar Worsty Podcast Three movie nerds watch Academy Award winners by category, chronologically, and try to find out which movie is the WORST to win each award.

Covered: Best Picture, Best Animated Feature
Current Series: Best Original Screenplay

The Grouches are re-visiting two Best Picture winners, this time as Best Original Screenplay awardees. Two new episodes ...
17/04/2025

The Grouches are re-visiting two Best Picture winners, this time as Best Original Screenplay awardees. Two new episodes are posted!

Green Book (2018) and Parasite (2019).

The fellas also complete the decade round-up at the end of the Parasite episode.

**Pardon some technical issues in the first few minutes of the Parasite episode - Internet was acting wacky that night!

The episode audio starts closer to 2 minutes. Thanks!**

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This week the Grouches dive deep into the symbols and metaphors in the 2017 winner of Best Original Screenplay.Get Out i...
03/04/2025

This week the Grouches dive deep into the symbols and metaphors in the 2017 winner of Best Original Screenplay.

Get Out is an American psychological horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Lil Rel Howery, LaKeith Stanfield, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Catherine Keener and Betty Gabriel. The plot follows a young black man (Kaluuya), who uncovers shocking secrets when he meets the family of his white girlfriend (Williams).

So, here goes 3 bald white guys talking about a film with complex racial themes. Do they honor the subject matter?

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02/04/2025

how it feels to wait for your friend to rate the movie you just showed them

The next film in the Best Original Screenplay series is the winner from 2016.Manchester by the Sea is an American drama ...
31/03/2025

The next film in the Best Original Screenplay series is the winner from 2016.

Manchester by the Sea is an American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan that stars Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges. Revolving around the themes of depression, guilt, grief, responsibility, dysfunctional families, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the plot follows a depressed and grief-stricken man who becomes the legal guardian of his teenage nephew after the death of his brother.

A couple of the Grouches are left a little shaken by this one, while another doesn't quite vibe with it.

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This week the Grouches are joined by filmmaker and friend of the pod, Christina Reynolds, to discuss the 2015 winner for...
23/03/2025

This week the Grouches are joined by filmmaker and friend of the pod, Christina Reynolds, to discuss the 2015 winner for Best Original Screenplay.

Spotlight is an American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child s*x abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Although the plot was original, it is based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.

Before discussing the film, the Grouches do a quick recap of the most recent Academy Awards Ceremony and crown a new King of the Podcast!

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This week the Grouches revisit Best Picture winner Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), this time with a mor...
13/03/2025

This week the Grouches revisit Best Picture winner Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), this time with a more critical eye on the script, considering it as the Best Original Screenplay Winner from 2014.

Birdman is an American dark comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up Hollywood actor, best known for playing a superhero named Birdman, and follows the struggles he faces while trying to make a comeback by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". The film's supporting cast includes Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts.

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New episode for Best Original Screenplay!Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic film written, directed, and co-...
07/03/2025

New episode for Best Original Screenplay!

Her is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic film written, directed, and co-produced by Spike Jonze. Her follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an artificially intelligent operating system personified through a female voice. The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt.

Come along as the Grouches get existential and dissect the human condition.

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Great time last night! Even Hulu's streaming kerfuffle couldn't get us down 😜
03/03/2025

Great time last night! Even Hulu's streaming kerfuffle couldn't get us down 😜

Here we go!
03/03/2025

Here we go!

New episode available covering the winner for Best Original Screenplay in 2012!Django Unchained is an American revisioni...
02/03/2025

New episode available covering the winner for Best Original Screenplay in 2012!

Django Unchained is an American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Tarantino's A Band Apart and Columbia Pictures, it stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson; Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson also star in supporting roles.

The film, set in the Antebellum South and Old West, is a highly stylized, revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns. Its title refers particularly to the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci (that film's star, Franco Nero, has a cameo appearance in Tarantino's). The story follows a slave who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife.

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Here are the picks from the Oscar Grouches! Have you filled out a ballot? Who have you picked? A downloadable ballot (fr...
01/03/2025

Here are the picks from the Oscar Grouches! Have you filled out a ballot? Who have you picked?

A downloadable ballot (from Letterboxd) will be in the comments.

#2025

If you could go back in time to visit any era, when would it be? The Grouches discuss that idea and more as they watch t...
28/02/2025

If you could go back in time to visit any era, when would it be? The Grouches discuss that idea and more as they watch the winner for Best Original Screenplay in 2011, Midnight in Paris. Joining for this episode is returning guest, and history teacher, Autumn Cuevas!

Midnight in Paris is a fantasy romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen (content warning provided during his films covered on previous episodes). Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a screenwriter and aspiring novelist, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his fiancée (Rachel McAdams). Their divergent goals become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time to the 1920s and meets some of his artistic inspirations each night at midnight.

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It's Oscar Week!The Grouches will be posting their predictions later today. Who do you think will win some of the big aw...
28/02/2025

It's Oscar Week!

The Grouches will be posting their predictions later today. Who do you think will win some of the big awards?

#2025

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