This week, we're talking about Deborah Kerr's first of several Oscar nominations, for her performance as the mother of a spoiled son who turns to drinking as a response to her husband's cruelty in George Cukor's EDWARD, MY SON!

For Thanksgiving this year we're talking about one of the few Thanksgiving movies out there, with Patricia Clarkson as a woman with cancer who ventures with her family on a road trip to visit her estranged daughter who's offered to host dinner for the holiday in Peter Hedges's PIECES OF APRIL!

This week, we're talking about Isabelle Huppert's performance as a businesswoman who is sexually assaulted in her home and eventually enters into a dangerous relationship with her attacker in Paul Verhoeven's ELLE!

In this week's episode, we talked about Diane Keaton's performance as a woman who takes care of her elderly father and aunt, who's diagnosed with leukemia and reconnects with her estranged sister and nephews as a result, in Jerry Zaks's MARVIN'S ROOM!

This week we're talking about Dame Edith Evans's performance as the grandmother and guardian of a troubled pyromaniac teenager in Ronald Neame's THE CHALK GARDEN!

It's Halloween, and what better way to celebrate than with a truly horrific movie! Two guests joined me this week to break down Ana de Armas's tortured turn as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's BLONDE! also, shoutout to this supercut that gets dropped in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdkopCkqSzM&ab_channel=MostlyWrongOpinions

This week, we're talking about Barbara Stanwyck's performance as a bedridden woman who overhears a murder plot over the phone and as a result unravels a web of schemes around her in Anatole Litvak's SORRY, WRONG NUMBER!

This week, we're talking about Ruth Chatterton's performance as an opera singer determined to take back the son that was taken from her and raised by another couple in the first film by a female director to receive an Oscar nomination, Dorothy Arzner's SARAH AND SON!

This week, we're talking about Peter O'Toole's penultimate Oscar nomination, for his performance as a flamboyant, alcoholic, washed up movie star set to make an appearance on a comedy variety show in Richard Benjamin's MY FAVORITE YEAR!

In this week's episode, we talked about Penélope Cruz's performance as a woman dealing with many interconnected strands of family drama, including the death of her deadbeat husband at the hands of her daughter, in Pedro Almodóvar's VOLVER!

For the impending release of Megalopolis, this week we went all the way back to talk about Geraldine Page's performance as the overbearing mother of a sheltered teenager looking for love in Francis Ford Coppola's YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW!

In this week's episode, we talked about Joan Cusack's performance as a woman whose fiancé is outed as gay by one of his former students during his Oscar acceptance speech in Frank Oz's IN & OUT!

This week, we talked about Nicole Kidman's performance as a woman whose young son died in a car accident, leaving her family relationships strained in the following months, in John Cameron Mitchell's RABBIT HOLE!

On this week's episode, we're talking about Margaret Leighton's performance as the matriarch of a wealthy English family at the end of the Victorian era whose daughter is having an affair with a farmer in Joseph Losey's Palme d'Or winner THE GO-BETWEEN!

This week, we're finally talking about the legend Meryl Streep with her 16th nomination, for playing Julia Child in the process of publishing her first cookbook in Nora Ephron's JULIE & JULIA!

In this week's episode, we're going all the way back to the 3rd Academy Awards to talk about one of Maurice Chevalier's two nominations in that year, as a French tour guide who gets a job at a chewing gum factory to prove himself to the father of the woman he wants to marry in Hobart Henley's THE BIG POND!

This week, we're talking about Holly Hunter's performance as a single mother whose thirteen year old daughter gets whisked into a life of substance abuse, sex, and crime in Catherine Hardwicke's THIRTEEN!

This week, we're talking about Laurence Olivier's transformative performance as a music hall performer whose career and personal life are both in decline in Tony Richardson's THE ENTERTAINER!

This week, we're talking about the final (available) Best Actor winner on my list - José Ferrer reprising his Tony-winning role as the titular swordsman/poet/romantic in Michael Gordon's CYRANO DE BERGERAC!

This week, we're talking about Robin Williams's starmaking movie role as a humorous Army DJ who pushes back against authority in Barry Levinson's GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM!

For this week's episode, we're talking about a nominee from the very first Academy Awards - Richard Barthelmess, playing the titular boxer-turned-war hero in Alfred Santell's THE PATENT LEATHER KID!

This week, we're talking about Lee Grant's first nomination after more than a decade of being blacklisted, for her performance as an aloof wealthy woman who disapproves of her son's decision to buy a tenement building and socialize with its black tenants in Hal Ashby's THE LANDLORD!

This week, we're talking about Lotte Lenya's vampy performance as a matchmaker of rich older women and young Italian men, who schemes against one of her matches when it doesn't prove fruitful for her in José Quintero's THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE!