{"podcast":{"title":"The AwardsWatch Podcast","slug":"the-awardswatch-podcast-200716","podcast_index_feed_id":200716,"rss_url":"https://awardswatchpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://awardswatchpodcasts.libsyn.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/0/e/5/a0e5ccbbecf125bd16c3140a3186d450/aw-podcast-logo-new-2-1400x1400.png","author":"Erik Anderson","episode_count":300,"summary":"Podcasts from AwardsWatch on the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, SAG and more.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T04:22:34.329735+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awardswatch-podcast-200716"},"episode":{"title":"AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 346: Oscars Retrospective of the 84th Academy Awards","slug":"awardswatch-podcast-ep-346-oscars-retrospective-of-the-84th-academy-awards","published_at":"2026-06-01T14:50:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awardswatch-podcast-200716/awardswatch-podcast-ep-346-oscars-retrospective-of-the-84th-academy-awards","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awardswatch-podcast-200716","url":"https://awardswatchpodcasts.libsyn.com/awardswatch-podcast-ep-346-oscars-retrospective-of-the-84th-academy-awards","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awardswatchpodcasts/AwardsWatch_Ep346.mp3?dest-id=150334","summary":"On episode 346 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributors Dan Bayer, Mark Johnson, and Josh Parham to go back 15 years and take a look at the 84th Academy Awards, covering the films of 2011. On this week's retrospective, the AW team returns from Cannes to take a look back at the 84th Oscars, one that was known for having a great selection of films to choose from that the Academy decided to mostly ignore for more middle of the road, safer choices. This lead to a winner that is not remembered as much for a film that defined the year, both from a critical and commercial aspect, and also lead to one of the worst wins in the Best Actress category. So given the nature of the show and the game played by the AW team, change is a coming for 2011, as the following films were mentioned over the courses of lengthy discussions over every category; Weekend, Contagion, Shame, Melancholia, Crazy Stupid Love, Take Shelter, Killer Joe, The Skin I Live In, 50/50, as well as films that were already nominees getting more love like Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Warrior, The Tree of Life, Drive, Bridesmaids, and more. In their in-depth discussion, the AW team talked about the film year of 2011, briefly discuss talk about The Artist as a Best Picture winner, and how that speaks to the legacy of their nominates and or wins, do an extensive conversation over the below the line categories and nominees for the year, and then the new version of the AW Shoulda Woulda Coulda game, where instead of individual replacements, they must decide as a group who the nominees and winners should be in the top eight categories. The rules of the game state they can only replace two of the nominees tha…","meta_description":"On episode 346 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10327,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-awardswatch-podcast-200716/episodes/awardswatch-podcast-ep-346-oscars-retrospective-of-the-84th-academy-awards/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-awardswatch-podcast-200716/awardswatch-podcast-ep-346-oscars-retrospective-of-the-84th-academy-awards.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}