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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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#272
Thursday · 1 hr 45 min
Episode 272 - The Way of All Flesh, The Noose, & The Barker (with Monica Sandler)
For our penultimate(!) episode, we're taking a detour from the regular formula to look at once performance from an almost completely lost film - Emil Jannings in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH - and two performances from films that are only available in archives - Richard Barthelmess in THE NOOSE and Betty Compson in THE BARKER! Plus - go to the podcast's social media pages (linked below) to submit your questions for the finale Q&A episode at the end of the month! https://x.com/loneactingnoms/status/2105
#271
October 15 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 271 - Tumbleweeds (with Lewis Wride)
This week, we're talking about Janet McTeer's performance as a single mother of a preteen daughter who has a habit of packing up and moving to a new city every time her latest relationship goes south in Gavin O'Connor's TUMBLEWEEDS! Plus - go to the podcast's social media pages (linked below) to submit your questions for the finale Q&A episode in a month's time! https://x.com/loneactingnoms/status/2105651447719416031 https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd8zbd5x1bV/
#270
October 8 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 270 - Their Own Desire (with Fritz)
This week, we're talking about Norma Shearer's performance as a young woman who falls in love with a young man, only to realize that he's the son of the woman that her father divorced her mother to be with, in E. Mason Hopper's THEIR OWN DESIRE! Plus - go to the podcast's social media pages (linked below) to submit your questions for the finale Q&A episode in a month's time!
#269
October 1 · 1 hr 49 min
Episode 269 - The Green Goddess (with Ben Miller)
This week, we talked about George Arliss's performance as the Raja of a realm in the Himalayas where three British citizens crash land in Alfred E. Green's THE GREEN GODDESS! Plus - go to the podcast's social media pages (linked below) to submit your questions for the finale Q&A episode in a month's time! https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXrrTgkDgj4/
#268
September 24 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 268 - Berkeley Square (with Derrion Brown)
This week, we're talking about Leslie Howard's performance as an American man in the 1930s who is transported back into the body of his ancestor in 18th century London in Frank Lloyd's BERKELEY SQUARE!
#267
September 17 · 2 hr 10 min
Episode 267 - Song Sung Blue (with Frank Calvillo)
This week, we're talking about Kate Hudson's performance as one half of a husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act which gets sidelined when she loses a leg after being hit by a car in Craig Brewer's SONG SUNG BLUE!
#266
September 10 · 2 hr 14 min
Episode 266 - Johnny Eager (with Eliza)
For our very last coverage of a Supporting Actor nominee, this week we talked about Van Heflin's Oscar-winning performance as the ennui-filled, alcoholic, intelligent best friend and confidant to a paroled head of an illicit gambling operation in Mervyn LeRoy's JOHNNY EAGER!
#265
September 3 · 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!

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