The Lone Acting Nominees

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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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Episode 145 - Pete Kelly's Blues (with Joey Gentile)

May 16 2024 86 mins  
In this week's episode, we're talking about Peggy Lee's performance as an alcoholic singer whose gangster boyfriend strongarms her into singing with a jazz band in a speakeasy in Jack Webb's PETE KELLY'S BLUES!

Episode 144 - Warrior (with Matthew Anderson)

May 09 2024 123 mins  
This week, we talked about Nick Nolte's performance as a recovering alcoholic father of two estranged sons both competing in the same MMA tournament in Gavin O'Connor's WARRIOR!

Episode 143 - The Best Man (with Will Steele)

May 02 2024 113 mins  
In this week's episode, we're talking about Lee Tracy's performance as an ex-U.S. president dying of cancer who is expected to give his endorsement to one of two candidates within his party in Franklin J. Schaffner's THE BEST MAN!

Episode 142 - The Impossible (with Julian Von Schilcher)

Apr 25 2024 115 mins  
This week, we're talking about Naomi Watts's performance as a woman who, along with husband and three young sons, survives one of the deadliest tsunamis in recorded history in J.A. Bayona's THE IMPOSSIBLE!

Episode 141 - Spencer (with Will Jones)

Apr 18 2024 96 mins  
This week, we're talking about Kristen Stewart's performance as a paranoid Princess Diana struggling with her inner and outer lives over the course of a Christmas holiday in Pablo Larraín's SPENCER!

Episode 140 - Ride the Pink Horse (with Fritz)

Apr 11 2024 71 mins  
This week, we're talking about Thomas Gomez's performance as an affable man who owns a carousel and befriends a man looking for retribution for the death of his friend in Robert Montgomery's RIDE THE PINK HORSE!

Episode 139 - Love Field (with Lewis Wride)

Apr 04 2024 97 mins  
This week, we're talking about Michelle Pfeiffer's last Oscar nomination to date, for her role as a 1960s housewife trying to get to John F. Kennedy's funeral who gets involved with a black man and his daughter in Jonathan Kaplan's LOVE FIELD!

Episode 138 - Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (with Lily Mend)

Mar 28 2024 123 mins  
In this week's episode, we're talking about Barbara Harris's one and only Oscar nomination, for her performance as a struggling actress auditioning for a musical who has a brief but impactful romance with a rockstar in Ulu Grosbard's WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?

Episode 137 - Kentucky (with Ben Miller)

Mar 21 2024 90 mins  
This week, we're talking about Walter Brennan's second of three Best Supporting Actor wins in the first five years of the category, for playing the cantankerous patriarch of a horse racing family caught in an embittered feud with another family of horse racers in David Butler's KENTUCKY!

Episode 136 - The Judge (with Matt Haller)

Mar 14 2024 135 mins  
This week, we're talking about Robert Ruvall's late career nomination playing an elderly judge accused of murdering an ex-con in a hit and run in David Dobkin's THE JUDGE!