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Snubs & Dubs is a weekly movie podcast where each season is a retrospective look at a year in the Academy Award for Best Picture. With 25 movies covered each season, S&D examines all the nominees as well as other noteworthy films from that year to finish a season off informed are ready to answer the question: Did the winner of Best Picture that year deserve the Dub? Whether you listen the whole way through or pick-up whenever, join hosts Kyle Tobiasson and Jason Miller on their Snubs & Dubs ...
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Welcome to the 2nd Annual Snubs & Dubs Oscars Pre-Show! We're going over most of the categories at the 95th Academy Awards and providing you with what we think should and will win for each category at this Sunday's ceremony! Please note: This was recorded the SAME DAY as we recorded our Season 3 finale (January 27th). That is to say, a lot has happ…
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Welcome to the Season 3 Finale of Snubs & Dubs! This episode wraps up the 74th Academy Awards and the films of 2001 and finally answers the question: Did Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind deserve to win Best Picture? NOTE: As we mention in the episode, we are going to be taking a substantial break between S3 and S4. Please follow our social media (link…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For the final Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about the worst movie of 2001, Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered. Gord Brody (Tom Green) is a struggling cartoonist trying to pitch an animated show to Hollywood executives. Whe…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 25, we are finally talking about the 74th Best Picture Winner, Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. A human drama inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., and in part based on the biography "A Beautiful Mind" b…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 23, we are talking about Pete Doctor's Monsters, Inc. Monsters Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world, and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) is one of its top scarers. Sullivan is a huge, intimida…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 23, we are talking about Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (aka El Espinoza del Diablo). After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 22, we are talking about Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards) and his…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 21, we are talking about The Coen Brother's The Man Who Wasn't There. A dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, the film portrays Ed Crane (Bill…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For the second Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about another franchise starter, Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) enjoys the adrenaline of street car racing and his fans treat him like a r…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 20, we are talking the last Best Picture nominee for the season, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cu…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 19, we are talking Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. "Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in o…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 18, we are talking John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-change operation. Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway r…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 17, we are talking David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. A dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnesiac after a car crash. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment. The…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 16, we are talking Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. The film takes place in 1993 when the U.S. sent special forces into Somalia to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 15, we are talking about the 3rd Best Picture nominee of the season, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost f…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 14, we are talking about Antoine Fuqua's Training Day. Training Day is a police drama about a veteran officer (Denzel Washington) who escorts a rookie (Ethan Hawke) on his first day with the LAPD's tough inner-city narc…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 13, we are talking about Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast. Ex-villain Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shatter…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For the first Bonus Episode of Season 3, we are talking about Ben Stiller's Zoolander. Propelled to the top of the fashion world by a photogenic gaze he calls "Blue Steel," dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) thinks …
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 12, we are talking about Alejandro Amenábar's The Others. Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly religious mother of Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), moves her family to the English coast during World War …
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 11, we are talking about Marc Forster's Monster's Ball. Hank (Billy Bob Thornton), an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia (Halle …
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 10, we are talking about the second Best Picture Nominee this season, Todd Field's In The Bedroom. Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler …
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 9, we are talking about Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- al…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 8, we are joined by friend of the show Tim Plamondon to talk about Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. In a funny, moving and distinctly mind-bending journey through suburban America, one extraordinary but disenchanted teenag…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 7, we are talking about Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson's Shrek. Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 6, we are talking about Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World. The story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school, take a hard look at the world they wryly observ…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 5, we are talking about the first Best Picture Nominee this season, Robert Altman's Gosford Park. Robert Altman, one of America's most distinctive filmmakers, journeys to England for the first time to create a unique fi…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 4, we are talking about Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids. Two young kids become spies in attempt to save their parents, who are ex-spies, from an evil mastermind. Armed with a bag of high tech gadgets and out-of-this world t…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 3, we are talking about Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven. Dapper Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thief is alread…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For Episode 2, we are talking about Christopher Nolan's Memento. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that h…
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Welcome to Season 3 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 74th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2001. For the first episode of Season 3, we are talking about Chris Columbus's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone). Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy …
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Welcome to the Season 2 Finale of Snubs & Dubs! This episode wraps up the 87th Academy Awards and the films of 2014, and finally answers the question: Did Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) deserve to win Best Picture? TIMECODES: 00:25 - Intro 01:13 - 2014 Year in Review 04:20 - Finale Contents 05:28 - Rev…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For the second bonus episode of Season 2, we are talking about Vic Armstrong's adaptation of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' book, Left Behind. The entire planet is thrown into mayhem when millions of people disappear without a tr…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 25, we are finally talking about the winner of Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Former cinema superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keat…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 24, we are talking about Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat.). When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), an o…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 23, we are talking about Dean DeBlois and Tom Owen's How To Train Your Dragon 2. Five years have passed since Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charti…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 22, we are talking about the last Best Picture nominee of the season, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash. Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conse…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 21, we are talking about Jon Favreau's Chef. After a controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman) pushes him too far, chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) quits his position at a prestigious Los Angeles restaurant. As he tries to figur…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 20, we are talking about Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin. Disguising herself as a human female, an extraterrestrial (Scarlett Johansson) drives around Scotland and tries to lure unsuspecting men into her van. TIMECODES…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 19, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, James Marsh's The Theory of Everything. In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in lov…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For the second bonus episode of Season 2, we are talking about Lenny Abrahamson's Frank. An aspiring musician (Domhnall Gleeson) finds himself way out of his element after he joins a pop group led by an enigmatic figure (Michael Fa…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 18, we are talking about Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi's What We Do In The Shadows. Vampire housemates (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh) try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 17, we are talking about Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer.A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity's last survivors aboard a globe-spanning supertrain. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 16, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, Ava DuVernay's Selma. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 15, we are talking about Paul King's adaptation of Paddington.After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear (Ben Whishaw) makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, du…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 14, we are talking about both the 9th and 10th entries into Marvel Studios' "Marvel Cinematic Universe," the Russo Brother's Captain America: The Winter Soldier AND James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. In Guardians, br…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 13, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, Morten Tyldum's The Imitation Game.In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedic…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For the first bonus episode of Season 2, we are talking about Kevin Smith's Tusk. A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past, and the A…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 12, we are talking about Matt Reeves' Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.Ten years after simian flu wiped out much of the world's homosapiens, genetically enhanced chimpanzee Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his ever-growing band o…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 11, we are talking about Jennifer Kent's The Babadook.A troubled widow (Essie Davis) discovers that her son is telling the truth about a monster that entered their home through the pages of a children's book. Please lea…
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Welcome to Season 2 of Snubs & Dubs! This season we are covering the 87th Academy Awards, featuring the films of 2014. For Episode 10, we are talking about the next Best Picture nominee of the season, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H…
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