Movies covered on This Had Oscar Buzz #1

Name the movies that have been covered on the podcast This Had Oscar Buzz. The list goes up to the first one hundred episodes.
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Was touted as a female Dead Poets Society, starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles
Mona Lisa Smile
Amsterdam-set drama about an artist who loves to paint a certain type of flower
Tulip Fever
A term to describe doing small acts of kindness for others
Pay It Forward
Romance set during the Great Depression, starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek
Ask the Dust
A woman is a candidate for the U.S. Army’s Medal of Honor
Courage Under Fire
Ridley Scott’s film about Christopher Columbus
1492: Conquest of Paradise
A film about the Iraq War starring Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise
Lions for Lambs
A term for the prosecution of a person twice for committing the same offense
Double Jeopardy
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence run a timber business in 1930s North Carolina
Serena
Bill Murray as President Franklin Roosevelt
Hyde Park on Hudson
Southern Gothic murder mystery directed by Clint Eastwood
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Family drama starring Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Lopez
An Unfinished Life
Nancy Meyers rom com with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin
It’s Complicated
Family drama adapted from a John Irving story; stars Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger
The Door in the Floor
John Travolta as Chili Palmer
Get Shorty
Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange
The Fifth Estate
A man (Will Smith) seeks redemption for a misdeed, which affected the lives of seven people
Seven Pounds
Richard Gere is a farmer returning home after the American Civil War. His wife (Jodie Foster) suspects he is not really her husband
Sommersby
2000 sequel to The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
The other racehorse movie that wasn’t Seabiscuit
Secretariat
Another name for a baby frog
Tadpole
Jennifer Aniston in a de-glammed role about a woman with chronic pain
Cake
Ricky Gervais joked nobody saw this movie when he hosted the Golden Globes; starred Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie
The Tourist
Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon as a mother-and-daughter pair
Anywhere But Here
Colin Farrell as __________ the Great
Alexander
Rom com with Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Holiday comedy about a woman who feels like a fish out of water among her boyfriend’s family
The Family Stone
A swampy Southern Gothic starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron
The Paperboy
Drama about a family grieving the loss of matriarch named Gillian
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Natalie Portman is in a love triangle between Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal
Brothers
Tells intersecting stories of several generations of women who are part of the same quilting circle
How to Make an American Quilt
Meryl Streep is a rock musician who returns to her family after decades on the road
Ricki and the Flash
Adaptation of a popular musical that is based on the opera La bohème
Rent
Biopic about a woman who overcame difficulties like teen motherhood and being a single mom, starring Drew Barrymore
Riding in Cars with Boys
Drama film set during a U.S. president’s assassination with a deep ensemble cast; directed by Emilio Estevez
Bobby
Brad Pitt is Death. Death likes to eat peanut butter
Meet Joe Black
An adaptation of a beloved children’s book about a kid’s imagination
Where the Wild Things Are
Southern Gothic where Cate Blanchett can foresee the future
The Gift
Based on a novel by Steve Martin starring him and Claire Danes
Shopgirl
A George Clooney-directed film about racial tensions in a 1950s Pennsylvania surburb
Suburbicon
“Romance and Other Pharmaceuticals”
Love and Other Drugs
Ang Lee film about suburban dysfunction in 1970s Connecticut
The Ice Storm
A dying woman recalls her youth in 1950s Rhode Island
Evening
Thriller mystery starring Emily Blunt which came amid the craze for Gone Girl-type films
The Girl on the Train
A Western starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones
The Missing
Biopic of a famous American poet and author of The Bell Jar
Sylvia
A college dean must confront a secret he’s hidden about himself for fifty years; based on a Philip Roth novel
The Human Stain
Erotic mystery film starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo
In the Cut
Concerns the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary _________
Rendition
Maligned film about a historic event in LGBTQ history (one word)
Stonewall
Tom Hiddleston is Hank Williams
I Saw the Light
A reunion of Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer after Scarface, adapted from a play
Frankie and Johnny
A police sergeant and a U.S. representative learn their spouses, who died in a plane crash, were having an affair with each other
Random Hearts
Jim Carrey is a Hollywood screenwriter suspected of being a Communist
The Majestic
DiCaprio as a prominent FBI director
J. Edgar
A Western with Matt Damon, directed by Billy Bob Thornton
All the Pretty Horses
Journalism drama about Dan Rather and Mary Mapes
Truth
A Jason Reitman film with an ensemble cast featuring Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Ansel Elgort, and Timothée Chalamet
Men, Women & Children
Reese Witherspoon in a period film set in 1800s UK
Vanity Fair
Jessica Chastain is a Washington, D.C. lobbyist
Miss Sloane
An expert is asked to help bring the sport of fly fishing to Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Biopic of a children’s author who wrote the Peter Rabbit books
Miss Potter
Rachel McAdams works at a TV news station
Morning Glory
Sequel to a hit 1983 James L. Brooks tearjerker
The Evening Star
A Martin Scorsese movie starring Nicolas Cage as a paramedic
Bringing Out the Dead
A non-period romance film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck (one word)
Bounce
Beyoncé is Etta James
Cadillac Records
Ben Stiller plays a man with a wild imagination
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Two sisters (Maggie Smith and Judi Dench) like to wear a lot of purple
Ladies in Lavender
A Robert Altman film set during Paris Fashion Week
Prêt-à-Porter
Hugh Jackman as the pirate Blackbeard and Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily
Pan
Remember the year 2004 when Jude Law was in like 8 movies? This comedy was one of them
I Heart Huckabees
Musical adaptation of a John Waters film
Hairspray
Steve Carrell is a war vet who copes with his trauma by creating a fictional village
Welcome to Marwen
Adaptation of a sci-fi novel by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer
Cloud Atlas
Comedy drama that stars Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette as siblings
In Her Shoes
Brad Pitt meets the Dalai Lama
Seven Years in Tibet
Robin Williams in an against-type creepy stalker role
One Hour Photo
John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson play alcoholics
A Love Song for Bobby Long
A rom com starring James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Enough Said
Gus Van Sant’s 2000 film starring Sean Connery
Finding Forrester
Will Ferrell can hear someone narrating his life
Stranger than Fiction
WWII romance starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Christina Aguilera x Cher
Burlesque
Christian Bale is Moses
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Notorious 1990 bomb by Brian De Palma
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson try to cross off things on this
The Bucket List
2004 remake of a classic Michael Caine film
Alfie
Legal drama film by Francis Ford Coppola
The Rainmaker
Exploits of a male stripper named Mike
Magic Mike
About a notorious California serial killer who was never caught
Zodiac
Kate Hudson has to help her sister get out of a marriage in France
Le Divorce
Edward Norton is a doctor in China
The Painted Veil
A biopic of a beloved princess (one word)
Diana
Bill Murray as a Vietnam War vet
St. Vincent
Black comedy with Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, and Chris Rock
Nurse Betty
A ghost film starring Nicole Kidman
The Others
An African-American butler works for several U.S. presidents
The Butler
Mathematician drama starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jake Gyllenhaal
Proof
Divisive film by Darren Aronofsky starring Jennifer Lawrence
Mother!
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