HeyJaredThe Lone Acting Nominees
A podcast covering each of the films to only receive a single Oscar nomination - in an acting category.
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- 11
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Episode 267 - Song Sung Blue (with Frank Calvillo) (opens the original)
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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!
Episode 266 - Johnny Eager (with Eliza) (opens the original)
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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!
Episode 265 - Rustin (with Markku Ylipalo) (opens the original)
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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!
Episode 264 - A Ship Comes In (with Jason Cimon) (opens the original)
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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!
Episode 263 - Condemned! (with Ronaldo Sosa) (opens the original)
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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
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