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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!
Unknown Host hosts The Academy’s Captive Audience, a tv show with 34 episodes published.
We've crossed the halfway point in the 12th Academy Awards! In this episode Ben and Kit encounter a girl that lives on borrowed time, wind up in a rags to riches love quadrangle, and liberate a bond so strong that the fa
Our 25th episode features Mike Zolik! Give him a warm welcome as he joins Ben and Kit as we dedicate a full episode to his favorite film and this iconic nominee from the 12th Academy Awards. We explore the themes of the
The news is grim across the sea but grand old Hollywood is booming. In this episode we head back to 1939 in an attempt to grapple with the average movie goer on the cusp of World War II. We first get a taste of American
Ben and Kit finish up the 44th Academy Awards and it is a doozy. We describe this year as a rather bleak year for cinema. Iconic in every sense of the word as we step off the stage to the familial strife of a beloved Rus
Ben and Kit return to their regularly scheduled programing to bring you the 44th Academy Awards. We start the year with the birth of the Tsar and Tsarina's fifth child and first son and boy what a life he lives. Then we
Ben and Kit are breaking off from our regular schedule to interact with some questions asked by our listeners. We also engage in the current discussion on The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan and take a look at the new rule
With the final films of the 52nd Academy Awards coming to a close, Ben and Kit make a huge discovery. After punching in to the life of a textile factory worker, we live it up once again on Broadway hitting the after part
We begin this journey into the heart of the 52nd Academy Awards by going through a brief overview of what was happening during the latter part of the 1970's. Ben then takes us on a descent through the thick overgrowth of
We wrap up our look into the 20th Academy Awards but not before we have a chance to check our pulse as we encounter the high strangeness surrounding Christmas. Afterward Ben and Kit encounter the antisemitism of 1947...
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
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
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 experien
In this installment of our look at the Best Picture nominees, Ben and Kit prepare for the actions and consequences of the resistance before returning home to reconnect with family. Be ready for a wild ride as we look at
Welcome back to the Pod! Contrary to what Ben says to Kit, this is indeed the third installment of our look into the best picture nominees. In this episode we sit and mourn with those who mourn before getting wrapped up
In this episode we welcome back Marc Mens to join Ben and Kit on a voyage to the arctic where we hear the fantastical story of a monster and his father. After being sent out to sea we skip ahead a couple of centuries to
In this episode Ben and Kit trek the Washington forests to see a man at the turn of the century come to terms with the vastness, brutality, and majesty of nature that cradles his life. Afterward we cross the continent to
Welcome one and all to the 98th Academy Awards! We are excited to bring you this special episode highlighting what is about to take place for the run up to this years Academy Awards celebration. In this episode we discus
Welcome to the first episode of 2026! Ben and Kit wrap up the 77th Academy Awards by heading down to Georgia on the Spruce Goose to watch a title boxing match that ends a life. Shocking we know. So take your seats, sit b
For the last episode of 2025, Ben and Kit look back twenty years to 2005 to the 77th Academy Awards. We reminisce on what the early millennium was like and what could these two nominated films say about the culture we in
Ben and Kit complete their race around the 29th Academy Awards. Only to realize that along the way they forgot to mention one of the most influential films to our modern day directors! If you can figure out what it is, g
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