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List - 30 Great Movies Rejected by Oscars in 2026 From January 22nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: This is sort of a list, sort of a list,
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  Speaker 1: sort of, I mean it is a list.
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  Speaker 2: Is a list?
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  Speaker 3: Well, then it's then it's not sort of a list.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it's Radio from Hell with another list because
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  Speaker 2: people love a good list.
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  Speaker 1: X ninety six.
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  Speaker 3: What sort of list is it.
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  Speaker 1: We've been doing a lot of stuff out of Variety
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  Speaker 1: today and this is another article. They just put out
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  Speaker 1: thirty great movies rejected by the Oscars in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So to your point, Bill, these are movies maybe you
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  Speaker 1: should see even though they weren't.
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  Speaker 3: They were rejected this year. Yes, they were not.
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  Speaker 1: Nation should have been and worked.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe could have been.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Number one twenty eight years later really good. And
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  Speaker 1: Katie and I are going to Bone Temple today.
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  Speaker 3: We aren't.
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  Speaker 1: So they filmed twenty eight years later and Bone Temple
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  Speaker 1: all at the same time, like it picks up I
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  Speaker 1: think immediately after the other one. And so we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a review tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Please do, please do.
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  Speaker 1: Black Bag, it's a Steven Soderberg, Cate Blanchett. You'd think
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  Speaker 1: anything with.
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  Speaker 2: Her in it.
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  Speaker 3: I did watch that.
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  Speaker 1: They're Spies.
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  Speaker 4: I think, yeah, it's it's it's it's a lot of talking,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but the whole cast is great.
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  Speaker 1: Demon Slayer the movie Infinity Castle.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's an animated die My Love. You've seen Jennifer Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: around a lot, doing a lot of interviews and things,
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  Speaker 1: and I've read that she's supposed to be really good
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  Speaker 1: in this. She's in it with Robert Pattinson. She's a
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  Speaker 1: mom who is dealing with postpartum depression. Okay, Eddington. This
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  Speaker 1: is that ari Astor movie with Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.
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  Speaker 1: It takes place during COVID.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, Joaquin Phoenix is a sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: And and they're.
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  Speaker 1: Like one of them's fighting for I meant to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the here's your list of things you should you
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  Speaker 1: should catch back up on. I guess uh. Friendship. It's
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  Speaker 1: an a twenty four black comedy starring Tim Robinson and
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  Speaker 1: Paul Rudd.
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  Speaker 3: This was not good. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: No, you didn't like it?
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, and I like Tim Robinson in short you know,
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  Speaker 2: small bites.
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  Speaker 4: He's terrific heada, which is Chloe's ou. Tessa Thompson, Chloe's
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  Speaker 4: ou director highest to lowest. This is the Denzel Washington
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  Speaker 4: he's a record producer and his son gets kidnapped, or
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  Speaker 4: you think he gets kidnapped. And the History of Sound.
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  Speaker 4: This is another one starring Paul Muscal and Josh O'Connor.
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  Speaker 3: How did these movies just slip by again?
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe we should talk with Sean Means about
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  Speaker 1: this at our podcast on Sunday. Because House of Dynamite.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Catherine Bigelow Nuclear War.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't. I didn't. I contemplated seeing it, and then
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I don't. I can't subject myself to that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like yeah, but but really good.
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  Speaker 1: I guess j Kelly this is the George Clooney. I
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  Speaker 1: watched this one just yeah, okay, I didn't love it.
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  Speaker 1: Left Handed Girl. It's something from Taiwan. I guess they're
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  Speaker 1: saying it should have been nominated for Best Foreign Film.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Lurker This is a sun Dance movie from last year.
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  Speaker 3: I guess Lurker. It sounds like a horror movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, The Mastermind. This is another Josh O'Connor movie. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember hearing about that one at all. Materialists it
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  Speaker 1: was all right, this is the one where and I
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  Speaker 1: think Sean.
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  Speaker 3: Means really like architect. No uh brutal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dakota Fanning is a matchmaker with Pedro Pascal and
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  Speaker 1: Mickey seventeen. That was the Robert Pattinson one where he's
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  Speaker 1: like a it's a futuristic saw that they keep remaking
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  Speaker 1: him every.
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  Speaker 3: Day, redoing his body. It was kind of it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was sort of funny and sort of a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of pathos, pathos.
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  Speaker 1: Mission Impossible, the final reckoning. No no, no no, the
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  Speaker 1: naked gun, No no, no, no other choice. This is
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  Speaker 1: that's It's won a bunch of national or international awards.
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  Speaker 1: It's the guy who gets fired from a job and
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  Speaker 1: he has no other choice. He takes He's like mild
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  Speaker 1: mannered suburban dad and he takes a job becoming a hitman.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see one of them days. This is Keiky Palmer.
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  Speaker 1: I think this's got good reviews. Also the Phoenician scheme.
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  Speaker 1: So Wesa Anderson movie. You know, a weird Wes Anderson movie.
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  Speaker 1: Roof Man. This is the true story Channing Tatum and
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  Speaker 1: Kirsten Dunst where he's in the Toys r in the
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  Speaker 1: in the ceiling of the toys r us.
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  Speaker 3: I heard it was really not very good.
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  Speaker 1: Wake Up dead Man, A Knives Out mystery.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. I love all of these knives out ones.
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  Speaker 1: This one was really good. Warfare This is kind of surprising.
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  Speaker 1: It's won a bunch of awards. This is another A
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  Speaker 1: twenty four that has the real military people helped write it.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry Baby. This was another sun Dance movie from from
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  Speaker 1: last year. It's the movie that Julia roberts at the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Globes when she's like, I can't believe nobody nominated
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  Speaker 1: Sorry Baby for anything. It was the best movie of
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  Speaker 1: last year and everybody was applauding. And it's the movie
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  Speaker 1: that the Utah Utah Film Critics film critics said was
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  Speaker 1: their best movie of the year. It hasn't been nominated
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  Speaker 1: for anything this year. Superman. We talked about that A
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  Speaker 1: little Bit should have at least gotten some special effects
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  Speaker 1: something something. Testament of Ann Lee. This is the Amanda
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  Speaker 1: ciphered I think where she's a quake, not a Quaker, shaker,
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  Speaker 1: wicked for good. Nothing there you go interesting? Well maybe
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  Speaker 1: you should.
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  Speaker 2: I And what this tells me is that they make
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  Speaker 2: too many movies. They should limit the number of movies
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  Speaker 2: that get made in the world should be.
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  Speaker 1: A quota and once you met it, then that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And you you you know, like the United States can
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  Speaker 2: make the most and then you have then other countries
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  Speaker 2: can make certain quotas. But you know, there's just too
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  Speaker 2: many movies.
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  Speaker 3: How many weeks in a year fifty two?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, a movie a week.
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  Speaker 3: A movie a week. You get a movie a week.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, you would you go to the theater.
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  Speaker 1: There's one there and it goes to see the same movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. We we could do away with reviews.
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  Speaker 2: No, I guess you'd still have to have reviews because
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  Speaker 2: you'd have them competing against each other.
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  Speaker 3: There we go. We fixed that one all right.
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  Speaker 2: We've hoped you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from Hell
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  Speaker 2: on X ninety six.