OSCARS '82: The 55th Academy Awards

Macintosh & Maud Haven't Seen What?!

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We’ve watched all the movies, seen all the nominations, formed our opinions, and now it’s finally here. And after steeping deeply in the year that was 1982, we can say, for sure, that this was a really great year for movies. Heck, one of the biggest movies of the year isn’t anywhere in our archives because it’s such a classic we’d already seen it. But with all these movies, who will be the big winner? Will Gandhi sweep the nominations? Will The Verdict make a big splash? And will our four hosts sing a song so terrible we might as well just not had a ceremony this year? We discuss the 55th Academy Awards this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!

Plus, a review of a gaggle of new Oscar movies, and The Batman. We'll let you guess which might be our favorite.

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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.

Excerpts taken from the telecast of the 55th Academy Awards Ceremony, broadcast by ABC on April 11, 1983.

Excerpt from “Flying” taken from the motion picture score of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, written and composed by John Williams. © 1982 MCA Records Inc.

Excerpt from “Up Where We Belong” taken from the soundtrack for An Officer and A Gentleman, performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. ℗ 1982 Island Records. Out of print, but the song is everywhere.

Excerpt from “Something in the Way” written by Kurt Cobain and performed by Nirvana. © 1991 Virgin Songs, Inc/The End Of Music; ©℗ 1991 The David Geffen Company.