Welcome one and all to The Academy’s Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our goal is to create an audio record of these films. Our reactions, thoughts, and overall experience will be here as a guide post to navigate all those films you may have never heard of and always wondered why they won. Without any further ado, Let’s roll that film!
Welcome one and all to the 61st Academy Awards! In this episode Ben and Kit bear witness to a scandalous game of cat and mouse in pre-revolutionary France before jet setting to New York to take in the sights and see the rise of an overlooked secretary stake her claim in the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. Our nominated films are...
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Dangerous Liaisons
Working Girl
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23 Sept 2026
Episode 30: A Background of Tchotchkes
In this episode we round off the the surprising 36th Academy Awards! Surprising how? Well first Ben and Kit take us west across an epic and harrowing journey across America. After that we shoot all the way to the height of civilization spanning Rome and Egypt and the many costumes along the way. After that we find our winner in the chaotic misadventures of a man that whole wide wonderful wicked world loves. The nominees are...
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How the West was Won
Cleopatra
Tom Jones
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9 Sept 2026
Episode 29: Room for Improvement
Welcome to the year 1963! Ben and Kit are here to take you through one of the slimmest years Hollywood ever went through. To start our odyssey across our five nominees, we follow a Greek immigrant from Anatolia as his harrowing tale leads us to New York, New York—so nice it's named twice. After that we head out on a mission to the Arizona desert where we meet a rather hotheaded yet laidback handyman butt heads with his pride. This years' nominees are...
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America, America
Lilies of the Field
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