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The Lone Acting Nominees

Gordon McNulty

234 episodes

4 days ago

A podcast covering each of the films to only receive a single Oscar nomination - in an acting category. Each week I'm joined by a different guest where we talk about the nominated performances, the rest of the film surrounding them, and their place at the Oscars in their respective years. Hosted by Gordon McNulty. Twitter - @loneactingnoms Letterboxd - @loneactingnoms Instagram - @theloneactingnominees

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A podcast covering each of the films to only receive a single Oscar nomination - in an acting category. Each week I'm joined by a different guest where we talk about the nominated performances, the rest of the film surrounding them, and their place at the Oscars in their respective years. Hosted by Gordon McNulty. Twitter - @loneactingnoms Letterboxd - @loneactingnoms Instagram - @theloneactingnominees

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Episodes (20/234)

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 230 - Mister 880 (with Eoin Daly)

To kick off the new year, we're talking about Edmund Gwenn's performance as an affable old counterfeiter who's been evading the Secret Service for two decades in Edmund Goulding's MISTER 880!

4 days ago

1 hour 6 minutes 45 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 229 - The Fixer (with Harrison Dunn)

For our last episode of the year, we're talking about Alan Bates's one and only Oscar nomination, for his performance as a Russian-Jewish handyman who is falsely imprisoned for years after being accused of the ritual murder of a young boy in John Frankenheimer's THE FIXER!

1 week ago

2 hours 3 minutes 56 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 228 - Causeway (with Alicia Kozma)

This week, we talked about Brian Tyree Henry's performance as a car mechanic who befriends a woman home from Afghanistan after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Lila Neugebauer's CAUSEWAY!

2 weeks ago

1 hour 53 minutes 33 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 227 - The Brothers Karamazov (with Valentina Starcovich)

This week, we're talking about Lee J. Cobb's performance as the scheming scoundrel of a father to four sons in Richard Brooks's Dostoevsky adaptation THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV!

3 weeks ago

1 hour 16 minutes 55 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 226 - Inside Moves (with Juno Portaleo)

This week, we're talking about Diana Scarwid's performance as a waitress at a bar who becomes romantically involved with both her boss and his best friend in Richard Donner's INSIDE MOVES!

1 month ago

1 hour 30 minutes 53 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 225 - The Pope of Greenwich Village (with Andrew Carden)

This week, we're talking about Geraldine Page's brief but memorable performance as the tough older mother of a cop who dies after stumbling on a heist in progress in Stuart Rosenberg's THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE!

1 month ago

1 hour 19 minutes 50 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 224 - The Visitor (with Kevin Jacobsen)

This week, we talked about Richard Jenkins's performance as a college professor who befriends a young immigrant couple who have been mistakenly living in his apartment, and helps out when one of them is arrested and detained for being undocumented, in Tom McCarthy's THE VISITOR!

1 month ago

1 hour 35 minutes 21 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 223 - Emma (with BabyClyde)

This week, we talked about Marie Dressler's performance as a family's longtime housekeeper who is accused of murdering the family patriarch after marrying him in Clarence Brown's EMMA!

1 month ago

1 hour 5 minutes 47 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 222 - Comes a Horseman (with Ronaldo Sosa)

To close out the 1970s on this show, we're talking about Richard Farnsworth's performance as an aging farmhand on a cattle ranch in the 1940s in Alan J. Pakula's COMES A HORSEMAN!

2 months ago

1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 221 - Of Human Bondage (with Monica Sandler)

This week, we're talking about Bette Davis's write-in "nomination" for her breakout performance as a cold, unfeeling waitress who becomes the object of affection of a medical student in John Cromwell's OF HUMAN BONDAGE!

2 months ago

1 hour 28 minutes 56 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 220 - What's Eating Gilbert Grape (with Eliza)

This week, we're talking about Leonardo DiCaprio's breakthrough performance as an intellectually disabled teenager living with his dysfunctional family in a small midwestern town in Lasse Hallström's WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE!

2 months ago

2 hours 16 minutes 24 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 219 - Hondo (with Guy Clark)

This week, we talked about Geraldine Page's first of eight Oscar nominations, for her performance as a homesteader living with her young son who falls in love with the titular Army dispatch rider in John Farrow's HONDO!

2 months ago

2 hours 3 minutes 40 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 218 - Tortilla Flat (with Zita Short)

This week, we're talking about Frank Morgan's performance as the Pirate, an old Mexican-American man (not a pirate) with a pack of dogs, who saves up his money to buy a candle to pay tribute to one of his dogs, in Victor Fleming's TORTILLA FLAT!

2 months ago

1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 217 - They Knew What They Wanted (with Derrion Brown)

This week, we're talking about William Gargan's performance as a man who gets embroiled in a love triangle between his lovable oaf friend, and said friend's penpal fiancée in Garson Kanin's THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED!

3 months ago

58 minutes 5 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 216 - Three Comrades (with Fritz)

3 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 34 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Mulholland Drive (scrapped Patreon episode)

The first (and last) episode of what was originally a Patreon miniseries on the lone Best Director nominees, which for a number of factors I ended up scrapping, talking about David Lynch's nomination for MULHOLLAND DRIVE!

3 months ago

2 hours 13 minutes 52 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 215 - Kinsey (with Shelley Ross)

This week, we're talking about Laura Linney's performance as Clara McMillen, the wife of groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey, in Bill Condon's KINSEY!

3 months ago

2 hours 18 minutes 4 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 214 - Stand and Deliver (with Frank Calvillo)

This week, we're talking about Edward James Olmos's performance as Jaime Escalante, a high school math teacher who led his students to all pass the AP Calculus test in Ramón Menéndez's STAND AND DELIVER!

3 months ago

1 hour 58 minutes 49 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 213 - The Constant Nymph (with Cláudio Alves)

This week, we're talking about Joan Fontaine's performance as a fourteen year old girl who falls in love with her cousin's husband, a skilled composer, in Edmund Goulding's THE CONSTANT NYMPH!

4 months ago

1 hour 30 minutes 28 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 212 - Gloria (with Matt Haller)

This week, we're talking Gena Rowlands's tough-as-nails performance as a mobster's ex girlfriend who goes on the run with the young child of a family that was killed in a mafia execution in John Cassavetes's GLORIA!

4 months ago

2 hours 7 minutes 11 seconds