Snubs & Dubs: A Best Picture Podcast
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Snubs & Dubs is a weekly movie podcast where each season is a retrospective look at a year in the Academy Award for Best Picture. With 25 movies covered each season, S&D examines all the nominees as well as other noteworthy films from that year to finish a season off informed are ready to answer the question: Did the winner of Best Picture that year deserve the Dub? Whether you listen the whole way through or pick-up whenever, join hosts Kyle Tobiasson and Jason Miller on their Snubs & Dubs journey today!
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Welcome to the 2nd Annual Snubs & Dubs Oscars Pre-Show! We're going over most of the categories at the 95th Academy Awards and providing you with what we think should and will win for each category at this Sunday's ceremony!Please note: This was recorded the SAME DAY as we recorded our Season 3 finale (January 27th). That is to say, a lot has happened since then, including many precursor awards AND the completed watch-through of all nominees of Best Picture by me, host Kyle. Now, I ...
Welcome to the Season 3 Finale of Snubs & Dubs! This episode wraps up the 74th Academy Awards and the films of 2001 and finally answers the question: Did Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind deserve to win Best Picture?NOTE: As we mention in the episode, we are going to be taking a substantial break between S3 and S4. Please follow our social media (linked below) to stay up-to-date with our announcements. TIMECODES:00:25 - Intro01:19 - General Thoughts on 200102:56 - Biggest Surprises of 2...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For the final Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about the worst movie of 2001, Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered. Gord Brody (Tom Green) is a struggling cartoonist trying to pitch an animated show to Hollywood executives. When he fails, he returns to his hometown with no choice but to live with his parents and younger brother, Freddy (Eddie Kaye Thomas). His father (...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 25, we are finally talking about the 74th Best Picture Winner, Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. A human drama inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., and in part based on the biography "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar. From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he mad...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 23, we are talking about Pete Doctor's Monsters, Inc. Monsters Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world, and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) is one of its top scarers. Sullivan is a huge, intimidating monster with blue fur, large purple spots and horns. His scare assistant, best friend and roommate is Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), a gree...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 23, we are talking about Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (aka El Espinoza del Diablo). After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen (Marisa Paredes), and the kindly professor, Casares ...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 22, we are talking about Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his wife (Frances O'Connor). Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Wit...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 21, we are talking about The Coen Brother's The Man Who Wasn't There. A dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, the film portrays Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber dissatisfied with his life. His wife Doris' (Frances McDormand) infidelity presents Ed with an opportunity for blackma...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For the second Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about another franchise starter, Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) enjoys the adrenaline of street car racing and his fans treat him like a rock star. After a blazing encounter with the ruthless Johnny Tran, Dom decides to take Brian (Paul Walker), a newcomer to street racing, under h...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 20, we are talking the last Best Picture nominee for the season, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet (Ewan McGregor), who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the c...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 19, we are talking Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. "Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionar...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 18, we are talking John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-change operation. Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theater hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" tells the story of the "internationally ignored" rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom an...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 17, we are talking David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. A dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnesiac after a car crash. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment. There she is discovered by Betty (Naomi Watts), a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Togeth...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 16, we are talking Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. The film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack by Somalian forces brings two of the helicopters down...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 15, we are talking about the 3rd Best Picture nominee of the season, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins ...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 14, we are talking about Antoine Fuqua's Training Day. Training Day is a police drama about a veteran officer (Denzel Washington) who escorts a rookie (Ethan Hawke) on his first day with the LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. "Training Day" is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the ...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 13, we are talking about Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast. Ex-villain Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to s...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For the first Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about Ben Stiller's Zoolander. Propelled to the top of the fashion world by a photogenic gaze he calls "Blue Steel," dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) thinks he's got a fourth consecutive win as Male Model of the Year in the bag. But, when his rival, Hansel (Owen Wilson), unexpectedly takes the crown,...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 12, we are talking about Alejandro Amenábar's The Others. Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly religious mother of Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), moves her family to the English coast during World War II. She awaits word on her missing husband while protecting her children from a rare photosensitivity disease that causes the sun to harm them. ...
Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001.For Episode 11, we are talking about Marc Forster's Monster's Ball. Hank (Billy Bob Thornton), an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia (Halle Berry), a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair begins just after Hank oversees the capital punishment of Leticia's husba...
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