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The OSCARS: What Were They Thinking?! — 72 episodes

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1937 - The Great Oscar (and Plenty of Follies!)
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1975 - I Knew it was You, Oscar. You broke my heart!

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BONUS - Disorder in the Court!

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1960 - Ben Hur, Won That!

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1983 - Oscars, Phone Home!

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1984 Redux - Oscars of Endearment

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1940 - Gone With the Oscars!

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1998 - A Titanic Year for Movies & the Oscars!

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Bonus - No Competitive Oscars for Sidney Lumet Makes us ‘Mad as Hell!’

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1963 - Oscar of Arabia

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2009 - The Curious Case of the Slumdog Oscar

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Encore 1999 - Love vs War

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1943 - Minvers, Ambersons & The Pride of the Yankees Doodle Dandy

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Bonus - The Freakishly Fantastic Films of 1995

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1996 - They May Take Our Lives…But They'll Never Take Our Oscars!

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ENCORE 1961 - A Boy's Best Friend is his Oscar!

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BONUS 1952 - The Fantastic Films Noir of 1952!

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1953 - The Not-So-Greatest Oscar on Earth!

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Bonus - 2026 Oscars Reaction!

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1974 Bonus - The Worst Sequels to the Best Movies

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1974 - Get the Butter, this Oscar is Going to Sting!

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Bonus - The Incredible Indie Explosion of 1996

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The Oscar Goes to The English Patient. “Just Die, Already!”

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ENCORE 1986 - Back to the Oscars (Again)

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BONUS - 2026 Oscars: Conversations about the Nominations

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BONUS - The Fabulous Films Noir of 1946!

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1947 - It’s a “Wonderful” VS. “Best” Oscar

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Bonus - Golden Globes 2026 Reaction

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Bonus - Mr. Kubrick, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Losing Oscars

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Bonus - A Few Good Man: A Tribute to Rob Reiner

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1958 - Oscar on the River Kwai

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Encore: Holiday Movie Special

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Bonus - You Talking To Me, Oscar?

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2007 — Departing with an Oscar, Finally!

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Bonus - Here's Looking at You, Bogart

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1938 - The Awful Truth About the Oscars...

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Bonus: Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah!

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1971 - No Poor Bastard Ever Won an Oscar Dying for His Country

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Bonus: Was 1986 the Greatest Year in Movie History?

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At the Oscars, No-one Can Hear You Scream

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1987 - The First Casualty of Oscars is Innocence!

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Bonus Episode: The Oscars Murdered Hitchcock!

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1955 - I Coulda Been a (Oscar) Contender

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1965 Bonus - Oscars on a Wet Afternoon

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1994 - Oskar’s (Schindler) Oscar

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The Oscars and The Sundance Kid - Special Episode
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2012 - Silence is Golden at the Oscars

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1935 - It Happened One Oscars

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1968 - In the Heat of the Oscar

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1984 - "I Deserve This Oscar"
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2005 - Million Dollar Oscar

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1944 - Play it Again, Oscar

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1973 - The God-Oscar
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1981 - Ordinary vs. Raging Oscar

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1964 - My Fair Oscar
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2013 - Four Score and Seven Oscars Ago

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1978 - In an Oscars, far, far away…
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2003 - Welcome to an Oscars full of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery & treachery.
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1951 - ALL ABOUT OSCAR
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1999 Pt. 2 - Oscar in Love
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2025 Oscar Reaction! (Is Adrien Brody still talking?)
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1999 - Saving Private Oscar
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2006 - Brokeback Oscar!
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2025 Oscars Nominations Special!
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1942 - How Green Was My Oscar?
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1977 - Yo, Oscars!

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2024 Holiday Movies/Oscars Special - (No, not the Star Wars one Bruce co-wrote!)

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1961 - A Boy's Best Friend is His Oscar

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1986 - Back to the Oscars

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2010 - “The Hurt Oscar!”
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1989 - “Time For Oscars!”
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Trailer: OSCARS.... What Were They Thinking?!