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The Lone Acting Nominees

Gordon McNulty

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.

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#265
Thursday · 1 hr 55 min
Episode 265 - Rustin (with Markku Ylipalo)
This week, we're talking about Colman Domingo's performance as Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin throughout his efforts to organize the 1963 March on Washington in George C. Wolfe's RUSTIN!
#264
August 27 · 1 hr
Episode 264 - A Ship Comes In (with Jason Cimon)
This week, we're talking about Louise Dresser's performance as the matriarch of a family of immigrants in the United States, whose husband is falsely imprisoned for an assassination attempt on a judge and whose son enlists to go fight in WWI in William K. Howard's A SHIP COMES IN!
#263
August 20 · 1 hr 37 min
Episode 263 - Condemned! (with Ronaldo Sosa)
This week, we talked about Ronald Colman's performance as a suave French thief doing time in a South American penal colony where he becomes romantically linked with the warden's dissatisfied wife in Wesley Ruggles's CONDEMNED! GAME! - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ujm7736LFj1nAnCnV1Ncvif9TsmJW1OqT1rmj-6cDEA/edit?usp=sharing
#262
August 13 · 2 hr 4 min
Episode 262 - The United States vs. Billie Holiday (with Matt Haller)
This week, we talked about Andra Day's performance as jazz icon Billie Holiday as she is being persecuted by federal agents for her narcotics use in Lee Daniels's THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY!
#261
August 6 · 1 hr 54 min
Episode 261 - A Hatful of Rain (with James Davidson)
This week, we're talking about Anthony Franciosa's performance as a man living in the shadow of his favored older brother, a Korean War veteran with a morphine addiction kept secret from everyone in his life except for his brother, in Fred Zinnemann's A HATFUL OF RAIN!
#260
July 30 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 260 - Of Human Hearts (with Andrew Carden)
This week, we talked about Beulah Bondi's performance as the long-suffering wife of a pastor and mother of a selfish son who neglects and takes advantage of her as he goes off to be an Army doctor during the Civil War in Clarence Brown's OF HUMAN HEARTS!
#259
July 23 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 259 - Min and Bill (with Eoin Daly)
This week, we're talking about Marie Dressler's Oscar-winning performance as a salty old hotel proprietress who, along with her drunken fisherman compatriot, tries to protect the abandoned girl who she's been raising since she was a baby in George W. Hill's MIN AND BILL!
#258
July 16 · 1 hr 22 min
Episode 258 - The Devil's Holiday (with Monica Sandler)
This week, we're talking about Nancy Carroll's performance as a man-hating golddigger who marries a young heir for his money, only to realize after taking a payout from his father to leave that she had actually fallen in love with him for real in Edmund Goulding's THE DEVIL'S HOLIDAY!
#257
July 9 · 2 hr 2 min
Episode 257 - One True Thing (with Dennis Bingham)
This week, we're talking about Meryl Streep's performance as an affable housewife and mother whose grown daughter moves back home to help care care of her when she suddenly gets cancer in Carl Franklin's ONE TRUE THING!
#256
July 2 · 1 hr 52 min
Episode 256 - A Better Life (with Samuel Cahill)
This week, we talked about Demián Bichir's performance as an undocumented gardener in Los Angeles trying to provide for his teenage son in Chris Weitz's A BETTER LIFE!
#255
June 25 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 255 - Black Fury (with Aaditya Bhattacharya)
This week, we're talking about Paul Muni's write-in nomination for his performance as a jovial immigrant miner who is jaded after seeing the corruption on both sides of an ongoing strike within the mines in Michael Curtiz's BLACK FURY!
#254
June 18 · 2 hr 5 min
Episode 254 - Pickup on South Street (with Matt Haller)
This week, we talked about Thelma Ritter's fourth (consecutive!) Oscar nomination, for her performance as a professional stool pigeon in good standing with both the cops and the criminals in Samuel Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET!
#253
June 11 · 2 hr 5 min
Episode 253 - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (with Valentina Starcovich)
This week, we're talking about Rose Byrne's performance as a psychotherapist going through a prolonged mental breakdown as a result of all number of factors in her life - from her anxious daughter with a feeding disorder, to the spontaneous hole that appears in the ceiling of her apartment, to her disaffected therapist, to her aloof and absent husband, to a patient who abandons her baby in the middle of a session, and so much more - in Mary Bronstein's IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU!
#252
June 4 · 1 hr 45 min
Episode 252 - The Sin of Madelon Claudet (with Derrion Brown)
This week, we're talking about Helen Hayes's first Oscar win, for her performance as a French woman who has to deal with being abandoned, betrayed, imprisoned, and separated from her young son who doesn't even know she's alive in Edgar Selwyn's THE SIN OF MADELON CLAUDET!
#251
May 28 · 2 hr 23 min
Episode 251 - The Accused (with Lewis Wride)
This week, we talked about Jodie Foster's first Best Actress win, for her performance as the victim of a gang rape who goes after not just her assaulters in court, but also the bystanders who egged them on in Jonathan Kaplan's THE ACCUSED!
#250
May 21 · 2 hr 10 min
Episode 250 - To Leslie (with Zita Short)
For our benchmark 250th episode, this week we're talking about Andrea Riseborough's performance as an alcoholic single mother six years after squandering the $190,000 lottery prize she won in Michael Morris's small film with a giant heart TO LESLIE!
#249
May 14 · 1 hr 17 min
Episode 249 - Private Worlds (with Fritz)
This week, we're talking about Claudette Colbert's performance as a psychiatrist working in a mental hospital who clashes with the hospital's new supervisor who disapproves of female doctors, though the two soon find themselves falling in love, in Gregory La Cava's PRIVATE WORLDS!
#248
May 7 · 2 hr 21 min
Episode 248 - Loving (with Will Jones)
This week, we're talking about Ruth Negga's performance as one half of a married couple whose marriage ends up as the basis of a landmark Supreme Court case that deemed laws banning interracial marriage to be unconstitutional in Jeff Nichols's LOVING!
#247
April 30 · 1 hr 33 min
Episode 247 - Sister Kenny (with Frank Calvillo)
This week, we talked about Rosalind Russell's performance asan Australian bush nurse who fought back against a largely dismissive medical field with her attempts to treat polio in Dudley Nichols's SISTER KENNY!
#246
April 23 · 1 hr 45 min
Episode 246 - The Trespasser (with Jason Cimon)
This week, we're talking about Gloria Swanson's first sound movie, with her performance as a strong-willed stenographer whose marriage to a rich heir is swiftly annulled by his father, and who has a son by him out of wedlock, in Edmund Goulding's THE TRESPASSER!

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