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Anatomy of an Oscar

1997 Episode 5: Best Actor

April 24, 2026·1h 33m
Episode Description from the Publisher

Call your agents, members of the jury! For this week's trial, your hosts are diving DEEP on Billy Bob Thornton, Woody Harrleson, Geoffrey Rush, Ralph Fiennes, and Tom Cruise in the case of Best Actor in 1997. What caused the sort of great explosion of Billy Bob Thornton? Does The People vs. Larry Flynt work as a movie? How does Geoffrey Rush, who's barely in a movie that has basically nothing to it, win against a pair of titans like Ralph Fiennes and Tom Cruise? Did we actually like Jerry Maguire? All this and more on this week's Anatomy of an Oscar!

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