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Best Supporting Podcast
by Colin Drucker & Nick Kochanov
Each week, we dive deep into our favorite awards show category--the Best Supporting Actress--and discuss the winners, nominees, and all of the acting choices and moments worthy of recognition, even if it's just our own.
Episodes
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Episode 267: The BSAs of the Best Supporting Podcast
It is alas our last supporting episode! After almost six years, we are looking back on our Top 10 favorite episodes, performances, quotes and new obsessions born out of hopping on microphones every week to talk about women (and sometimes men!) in supporting roles that we love. As a wise woman…
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Episode 266: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 5 & 6 (2003)
It’s the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as Hannah, Prior, Louis, Harper and Joe know it. Roy is left with nothing but the haunting of Ethel Rosenberg in the end, who herself finds peace through tradition (and believe it or not, Louis). While Joe’s fairy tale comes crashing...
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Episode 265: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 3 & 4 (2003)
The Angel, some ghosts and Mother Pitt descend upon New York. Harper vanishes to Antarctica by way of Prospect Park, Prior turns prophet, Hannah ends up in the Bronx, and Joe and Louis kick off a situationship straight out of East Hell. Speaking of which, Roy Cohn has become the demon of St...
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Episode 264: The BSAs of "Angels in America": Ep 1 & 2 (2003)
We are taking on the heaven-sent HBO television event of 2003, “Angels in America” and specifically the first two episodes this week. Not only is it a Big Important Gay Story, it’s directed by Mike Nichols and stars Meryl Streep, Mary Louise Parker, Emma Thompson and a series of straight men...
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Episode 263: The BSAs of "Grey Gardens" (2009)
Edie, get some ice cream! We’re celebrating 2009’s “Grey Gardens” with that fine HBO polish, impeccable prosthetics, a sweeping score, the wild range of Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore working harder than anyone to bring Little Edie Beale to life in all her glory, misery and resilience. Jeanne...
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Episode 262: The BSAs of "The White Lotus" - Season 3
How wonderful for us, to spend another 8 weeks in a season of “The White Lotus”, a show made up of essentially all supporting characters. We’re counting down our favorite guests, staff and scene-stealing accomplices as we pack our bags and head off towards whatever becomes the next pop culture...
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Episode 261: The Movie "Diane"!
The 2018 Mary Kay Place vehicle “Diane” may be a bit of a gloomy drive around a weathered stretch of the Northeast, but luckily it includes a bevy of character actresses and Broadway legends in the passenger seat. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Joyce Van Patten, LaChanze, Celia Keenan-Bolger,...
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Episode 260: The BSAs of "Forrest Gump" (1994)
Pull up a park bench at a bus stop cause we’re talking about a true 20th century American classic, “Forrest Gump”! Despite its comedic quotability and punchline of a lead character, it taught millennials with cable in the 90s so much about Vietnam, drugs, dad rock, and just about every way you…
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Episode 259 : The BSAs of Anora (2024)
We’re heading all the way down to that mansion in Mill Basin for 2024’s Best Picture, “Anora”! Mikey Madison is the lucky lady having a wild two weeks on the arm of Ivan the Terrible, before Best Supporting Toros comes knocking. Yuriy Borisov gives a Sister Agnes style BSA nominated performance…
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Episode 258: Isabella Rossellini - "Conclave" (2024)
It’s gonna take more than a bus full of nuns, a few cans of smoke and a good copier to elect a new pope in 2024’s “Conclave”. Isabella Rossellini makes a meal out of what is essentially an extended cameo as Sister Agnes, quietly instrumental in helping to bring down potential papal candidates and...
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Episode 257: Jamie Lee Curtis - "The Last Showgirl" (2024)
Pam Anderson’s performance of Shelly in “The Last Showgirl” gets better the longer it marinates in your mind, but Jamie Lee Curtis as the cocktail slinging ashtray Annette is an instant high camp icon, and it’s clear that Jamie Lee is having the time of her life as the down but never out best...
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Episode 256: Zoe Saldaña - "Emilia Pérez" (2024)
We’re finally talking about this year’s perplexing Oscars frontrunner Emilia Pérez! Is it absolutely El Mal? Well, Zoe Saldaña certainly deserves the BSAs this awards season, Édgar Ramirez is a total babe and Adriana Paz is a welcomed addition as Best Supporting Epiphania. But the more you know...
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Episode 255: The Best Supporting Room
We’re tearing it apart, Lisa! Our second Birthday Girl’s choice is the 21st century’s answer to Citizen Kane, “The Room”! Tommy Wiseau’s Johnny may be a beloved local figure and frequent favorite customer who is also up for a promotion at the bank, but his fiancé Lisa finds him boring and prefers...
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Episode 254: It's Time to Talk About "The Lonely Lady"
It’s Birthday Girl’s Choice this week, and in the words of Veronica Randall, some people want everything! We are diving into the 1983 camp classic “The Lonely Lady,” starring the Frances McDormand of the Razzies, Pia Zadora as the tragically determined Jerilee Randall on her sleazy quest for...
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Episode 253: The BSAs of "Sing Sing" (2024)
We’re sing singing the praises of 2024’s feel good tearjerker about a prison theater program, “Sing Sing”! Colman Domingo should be a Best Actor Oscar frontrunner this year, with Clarence Maclin and Sean San Jose in the Best Supporting Actor category (to say nothing of Dino and Charlie stealing…
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Episode 252: Joan Chen - "Didi" (2024)
We love a Best Supporting Mom, a Best Supporting Sister and 11th hour monologues, and Didi has all of that and more. This 2024 coming of age story is familiar territory for PEN15 fans but full of small surprises, some standout ensemble performances and a surprisingly emotional use of 2008 era...
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Episode 251: Our BSAs of 2024
We’re kicking off the year by looking back! This week we’re counting down our Best Supporting movies, foods, music, reality TV, experiences and even furniture from the last year. We also briefly navigate a vacuum debacle and can’t stop thinking about a certain VHS-shaped cake. Join us for The…
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Episode 250: The Fourth Annual Westons
The most important, and certainly the most supportive awards show of the year is here, the Fourth Annual Westons! In this timeslot-busting episode, we’re celebrating the best supporting sisters, saints, moms and friends, the scene stealing featured ensemble members, moments that went to a 27, and...
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Episode 249: "Tea with the BSAs"
The golden girls of the West End, British cinema and occasionally even modern classics like Dennis the Menace sit down for a talk and a chat about whatever they want really. "Tea With the Dames” may not be high in caffeine, but is instead a warm mug of chamomile on a rainy afternoon with a...
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Episode 248: The BSAs of "Elf" (2003)
Whether it’s because of the holiday season, a redemption for Will Ferrell or our blossoming love of Mary Steenburgen, we’re talking about “Elf” this week! Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: [email protected]...
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Episode 247: "Beautiful BSAs"
Brovember concludes with some mid-30s male ennui in the mid-90s, “Beautiful Girls”. Despite the stacked ensemble cast of Oscar winners and nominees, only Rosie O’Donnell gets to steal the show for a couple minutes while Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly and Martha Plimpton…
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Episode 246: The "Step Brothers" Episode
Brovember is taking a big step into the early 2000s for, believe it or not, “Step Brothers”! We have more to say around bro humor than we do about the movie itself, though Mary Steenburgen is peak Mary Steenburgen here and Kathryn Hahn is really paying her dues. Join us for The Best Supporting...
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Episode 245: The BSAs of "Tommy Boy" (1995)
Holy schnikes, it’s Brovember! We’re going back to a simpler time and happier place this week, the mid-90s buddy road movie with a heart of gold, “Tommy Boy”! This is Chris Farley’s movie, but he’s surrounded by Queen Brian Dennehy, Julie Warner as Best Supporting Michelle, Razzie nominee Bo…
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Episode 244: The BSAs of "His Three Daughters" (2024)
A movie about preemptive grief is somehow exactly what we needed this week. “His Three Daughters” features Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne sistering out in a Lower East Side apartment while their father lingers through his final days in the other room. What could be better? Join…
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Episode 243: The BSAs of "Pieces of April" (2003)
We’re gonna need an extra dozen glazed and a whole bunch of family therapy to get through—or even to!—Thanksgiving at April’s on the Lower East Side this year. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early access to main episodes on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bsapod Email: [email protected]...
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Episode 242: "Eat, Drink and Be Scary" (w/ Justine Elizabeth)
Things are getting spooky on the Upper East Side this week as we revisit our favorite Best Supporting Housewives of New York for a disastrous Season 12 Halloween party. Helping us tackle this seafood tower of terror is The Shore Store’s Justine Elizabeth! Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow...
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Episode 241: The BSAs of "Closer" (2004)
It’s the date movie of 2004, “Closer”! Not a couples counselor in sight as four broken people bump traumas and look for love in all the wrong strip clubs. Clive Owen and Natalie Portman both got best supporting Oscar nominations, but we’re equally intrigued with Julia Roberts in one of her...
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Episode 240: The BSAs of "That Thing You Do!" (1996)
The rise and fall of the one-hit Wonders is packed with chart-topping performances and is a platinum record in our books! This week we’re fangirling over 1996’s “That Thing You Do”, with Tom Hanks doing triple duty as director, writer and co-star, Steve Zahn running away with the movie, Tom…
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Episode 239: "Unfaithful" (2002)
Honestly, we just felt like talking about “Unfaithful” this week! It’s got strong fall vibes, an Oscar nominated Diane Lane, Kate Burton in the Friend role, a face journey on the Metro North, wind machines at a 27, that song in the trailer and two beloved BSAs in practically nonexistent cameos....
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Episode 238: The BSAs of "Juno" (2007)
Well leggo my eggo, Juno is preggo! While this 2007 Oscar winner was a career making moment for writer Diablo Cody and Elliott Page, it’s Jennifer Garner who runs away with this movie for us, with Allison Janney’s Bren close behind in a Previa. Join us for The Best Supporting Aftershow and early...
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Episode 237: The BSAs of "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012)
“Silver Linings Playbook” brought home Oscar gold for Jennifer Lawrence and nominations all around for 2012’s Dirty Dancing for Manic Depressives in Philly. (Or is this some strange version of Garden State?) Jacki Weaver makes crabby snacks and drives a Cadillac, John Ortiz and Chris Tucker are...
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Episode 236: The BSAs of "Rabbit Hole" (2010)
We’re welcoming in the unofficial start of fall the best way we know how—talking about grief! 2010’s “Rabbit Hole” is easily one of Nicole Kidman’s best performances, and The Wiest as her mother with her own brick in her pocket almost makes us forget that Tyne Daly played that role on Broadway....
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Episode 235: The BSAs of "Matilda" (1996)
We wrap up Family Movie Month with what can best be described as “Carrie” for kids. (With a surprising scoop of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and an important connection to “Scream 2”!) Despite its spooky undertones (and Roald Dahl roots), “Matilda” is also an enthralling coming of age story…
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Episode 234: Lisa Ann Walter - "The Parent Trap" (1998)
We’re seeing double this week as we cover “It Takes Two”‘s refined identical twin, “The Parent Trap”! Lindsay Lohan gets the Nancy Meyers treatment twice over in her film debut, and Lisa Ann Walter makes denim shirts and Dockers iconic as Best Supporting Chessy. Plus Elaine Hendrix feasting on…
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Episode 233: Rosie O'Donnell - "Harriet the Spy" (1996)
Family Movie Month is returning to the heyday of the oddball 90s kid this week with “Harriet the Spy”! We first run through the roster of our own childhood favorites as former Nickelodeon kids, and spend some time talking about how great A Little Princess and A League of their Own are. Speaking…
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Episode 232: Bonnie Hunt - "Jumanji" (1995)
We’re kicking off what has turned into an annual tradition because we’ve now done it twice, Family Movie Month! This week we’re buying an old mansion with Bebe Neuwirth, rolling the dice with Kirsten Dunst and remembering a time when Bonnie Hunt was seemingly always on our televisions with 1995’s...
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Episode 231: "This is Morocco."
A month of international interpersonal dramas between the Real Housewives of New York ends with the Season 4 melodrama that is Morocco. We’ve got all the original wives, including Alex fighting with the strength of ten out of control camels. (Or perhaps a herd of buffalo.) Kelly is here to make…
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Episode 230: "The Blue Stone Manor Chainsaw Massacre"
We’re headed up to the Berkshires this week for another girls trip gone awry at Dorinda’s infamous and possibly sentient Blue Stone Manor. Ramona spends the afternoon dodging Elyse as an opening act before Luann takes center stage in, once again, a cabaret related drama, this time with an…
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Episode 229: "Life is Actually Not a Cabaret"
Things go south in South Beach this week as we take another trip with the Real Housewives of New York, specifically Season 11’s “Life is Not a Cabaret.” Highlights include coercing Sonja to go to an AA meeting with recently sober Luann, which sends her spiraling out over a sandy cabana an hour...
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Episode 228: Parallel Widows
The only thing we love as much as Best Supporting Actresses is The Real Housewives of New York, so we will combine the two whenever possible. And there’s no better example of that than the Season 7 episode “London Calling” when cool Carole and a debut season Dorinda go to London to retrieve the...
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Episode 227: Kathleen Quinlan - "Apollo 13" (1995)
We’re just over the moon that Kathleen Quinlan got an Oscar nomination for playing Marilyn Lovell, the heart of 1995’s “Apollo 13”. But it’s also babe city with Ed Harris in that vest, Gary Sinise leaning against that car, Kevin Bacon’s elusive butt, a southern fried Bill Paxton and a baby faced...
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Episode 226: The BSAs of "The Birdcage" (1996)
Not only do we queen out on “The Birdcage” this week, we also discuss some of our favorite Diane’s, a couple of Ron’s, at least two Mames, one singular Bonnie, a piece of Jason Alexander and just buckets of veteran actresses in lightweight ensemble comedies. Join us for The Best Supporting...
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Episode 225: The BSAs of "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" (1997)
We’re ordering two businesswomen’s lunch specials this week and discussing the 1997 cult classic “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion”! Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are iconically indelible (especially the Romy voice), but we also get cigarette acting from Jeneane Garafalo, Elaine Hendrix as…
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Episode 224: The BSAs of "American Fiction" (2023)
This is a bestseller in our hearts! 2023’s “American Fiction” earned writer/director Cord Jefferson’s screenplay a much deserved Oscar, Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown underdog nominations for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and introduced us to Queen Coraline, Ten Perfect Minutes of...
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Episode 223: The BSAs of "The Graduate" (1967)
Our sampler of the 60s ends this month with “The Graduate”! We get to see Annie Sullivan in a whole new light as the OG cougar Mrs. Robinson, one of our favorite Stepford Wives as her unwitting daughter Elaine, the mayor from Jaws in a surprisingly fascinating role as the spurned husband, Roz…
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Episode 222: Patty Duke - "The Miracle Worker" (1962)
We’re staying in the 60s this week and with Patty Duke, but instead of sparkling as Neely O’Hara she’s learning to fold her napkin and beating the crap out of Annie Sullivan in “The Miracle Worker”! Duke and Anne Bancroft deservedly both won Oscars in this portrayal of Helen Keller’s arduous...
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Episode 221: The BSAs of "Valley of the Dolls" (1967)
We are ascending the Mr Everest of camp this week to plunge into 1967’s “Valley of the Dolls”! While not necessarily a good movie, it is still a GREAT movie, with Patty Duke absolutely sparkling as Neely (especially when it comes to conquering Cystic Fibrosis!), Barbara Parkins laying on the…
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Episode 220: Adriana Barraza & Rinko Kikuchi - "Babel" (2006)
We’re wrapping up a month of early 2000s prestige pictures that Nick potentially owned on DVD with the quintessential modern classic, 2006’s “Babel”! Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi joined a competitive race for Best Supporting Actress against Abigail Breslin’s Rick James inspired dance moves…
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Episode 219: Marcia Gay Harden - "Pollock" (2000)
We were so full of Marcia Gay Pride from last week’s episode that it was time to break a decades long blacklisting of “Pollock” to discuss her dark horse Oscar win as Lee Krasner in Ed Harris’s punch drunk biopic of Jackson Pollock. We also get Amy Madigan going full Ullman, Jennifer Connelly as...
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Episode 218: Marcia Gay Harden & Laura Linney - "Mystic River" (2003)
We’re shipping up to Boston this week for 2003’s modern day Greek tragedy, “Mystic River”! Sean Penn and Tim Robbins both took home Oscars for their rag-wrung performances, and Marcia Gay Harden was well and truly robbed of her second Oscar as the tortured Celeste. We’re of differing opinions on...
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Each week, we dive deep into our favorite awards show category--the Best Supporting Actress--and discuss the winners, nominees, and all of the acting choices and moments worthy of recognition, even if it's just our own.
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