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The Lone Acting Nominees

Gordon McNulty

227 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 (20/227)

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!

4 days 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!

1 week 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 weeks 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!

3 weeks 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!

1 month 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!

1 month 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!

1 month ago

58 minutes 5 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 216 - Three Comrades (with Fritz)

1 month 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!

1 month 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!

2 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!

2 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!

2 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!

2 months ago

2 hours 7 minutes 11 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 211 - Dangerous (with James Davidson)

This week, we're talking about Bette Davis's first official nomination and first win, for her performance as a supposedly jinxed former actress who is taken in and given another shot at a career in Alfred E. Green's DANGEROUS!

2 months ago

1 hour 37 minutes 48 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 210 - A Dry White Season (with Ben Miller)

This week, we talked about Marlon Brando's return to the screen after almost a decade's absence, for a brief but impactful turn as a human rights lawyer in South Africa who tries to expose the injustices being carried out by the police in Euzhan Palcy's A DRY WHITE SEASON!

3 months ago

1 hour 45 minutes 3 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 209 - Sitting Pretty (with Ronaldo Sosa)

This week, we talked about Clifton Webb's performance as an eccentric genius hired to be a family's live-in babysitter in Walter Lang's SITTING PRETTY! Also -- we're now on Patreon! Go subscribe for just $5 a month, and be on the lookout for the upcoming bonus episode on MULHOLLAND DRIVE dropping on Monday the 11th! https://www.patreon.com/theloneactingnominees

3 months ago

1 hour 57 minutes 1 second

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 208 - The Year of Living Dangerously (with Julia Jeffries)

This week, we're talking about Linda Hunt's Oscar winning performance as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism who serves as the contact for an Australian journalist on assignment in 1965 Indonesia in Peter Weir's THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY!

3 months ago

1 hour 30 minutes 15 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 207 - Come Fill the Cup (with Jamie McNulty)

This week, we're talking about Gig Young's performance as an alcoholic composer whose uncle persuades his sober employee to attempt to get him sober as well in Gordon Douglas's COME FILL THE CUP!

3 months ago

1 hour 1 minute 16 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 206 - Claudine (with Derrion Brown)

This week, we're talking about Diahann Carroll's performance as the titular single mother of six children living on welfare who strikes up a romance with a charismatic garbage collector in John Berry's CLAUDINE!

4 months ago

1 hour 25 minutes 14 seconds

The Lone Acting Nominees

Episode 205 - The Bridges of Madison County (with Eoin Daly)

This week, we have another guest reaching their 10th episode as we talk about Meryl Streep's performance as a lonely Italian-American housewife who's caught up in a whirlwind affair with a traveling photographer in Clint Eastwood's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!

4 months ago

1 hour 56 minutes 38 seconds