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The Academy’s Captive Audience

The Academy’s Captive Audience

By: Kitrick Callis Benjamin Allen
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Welcome one and all to The Academy’s Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our goal is to create an audio record of these films. Our reactions, thoughts, and overall experience will be here as a guide post to navigate all those films you may have never heard of and always wondered why they won. Without any further ado, Let’s roll that film!Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Art
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  • Episode 18: Topo Gigio
    Mar 25 2026

    Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programing! In this episode Ben and Kit kick off the 20th Academy Awards. We start by getting into the well dressed and smokey post war cinema mindset before spending Christmas at Macy's. Then we hop the pond to take in the Dickens tale of a boy named Pip. The following films in this episode are...

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    Miracle on 34th Street

    Great Expectations

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    1 hr
  • The 98th Academy Awards: Red Carpet Show!
    Mar 11 2026

    Well we finally made it! One last installment before the big night. In this episode Ben and Kit take their final look across the nominees including other categories and films seen from them. To top it all off we touch on a potential theme that seemed to be a driving force in the majority of the films nominated for Best Picture. So listen in and let us know what you think! Do you agree, disagree, or did you notice something about the films this year that we missed? Let us know!

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    LAST CHANCE to join our ESPN Oscar Pick'ems group! Reach out to us at our email theacapodcast@gmail.com to be added.

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    If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment that you've done so!

    Also follow us at our social media feeds to interact with us and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience...

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    41 mins
  • The 98th Academy Awards: Part 5
    Mar 4 2026

    We made it to the final two Best Picture nominees of the year! In early celebration Ben and Kit make their way down south to check out the Juke Joint nightlife scene, after which we make our way further south to experience the brief reprieve of Carnival in 1977 Brazil. Dancing or running shoes are recommended as we take a look at the following films...

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    Sinners

    The Secret Agent

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    Reach out to us at our email theacapodcast@gmail.com to be added to our ESPN Oscar Pick'ems group and receive your ballots.

    Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons for future episodes!

    If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment that you've done so!

    Also follow us at our social media feeds to interact with us and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience...

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    53 mins
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