After a hiatus that was inexcusably long, the boys are back to celebrate Episode 40! And since it's a special occasion, they decided to give you a special episode that harkens back to the idea that started it all. Instead of turning their iconic film Olympia into a mini series, the boys try to craft an original series that would get Arnold Schwarzenegger a Primetime Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. And they came to play, because the show they create is a banger, if ...
Aug 03, 2025•58 min•Ep. 40
Today, we wanted to give back to all you loyal listeners out there. The fans who have stood by our side for every episode. There's enough of you to populate a small village. Really more of a hamlet, if we're being honest. But we figured it was your turn to decide what Sonny and Tom were going to talk about for once. So we went to Instagram and asked the fans what they wanted to hear. We then compiled seven of those topics from seven different people and got busy talking. Simple as that. So if yo...
Jun 03, 2025•58 min•Ep. 39
This is a bracket episode dedicated to all the celebrities who became famous for something other than acting (basically as a musician or athlete) and then became actors afterwards. Just wanted to start by clearing that up because the title does not really convey it but we didn't know what else to call this bracket. We're talking about people like Lady Gaga, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Eminem, and Cher. Sixteen celebrities like that are going head-to-head as we decide who the best actor among them...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 38
Not to toot our own horn here, but we think that last episode was probably the best banter episode we've ever done. So it's only natural that it would come with an incredible bonus banter episode attached to it. Enjoy the bits that weren't quite good enough for the regular episode, but still deserve some love. First Sonny and Tom discuss the recent success of Arnold's son Patrick Schwarzenegger, who has been making waves with his performance in White Lotus and has the most milquetoast Twitter ac...
Mar 16, 2025•26 min
That's right, it's banter time! But first, we should probably address the fact that Sonny and Tom open this episode by bragging about how early in the month they're recording an episode only for it to ultimately be released on the last day of the month. But hey, nobody's perfect. And if it makes you feel any better, this is an excellent episode. Sonny and Tom cover six different topics and honestly there isn't a dry one in the bunch. They came to play when it comes to this banter. So sit back, r...
Feb 28, 2025•49 min•Ep. 37
The boys kick off 2025 with a game episode! After the last three game episodes have not exactly gone Sonny's way, he's looking to fight back before he gets lumped into the all-time choke conversations. Meanwhile, Tom is attempting to complete a historic comeback after being down 0-3, solidifying himself as the winner of this (currently) 7-game series. Who will come out on top? Today the boys try to stump each other by making their cohost guess which of two films received more Oscar nominations. ...
Jan 31, 2025•49 min•Ep. 36
It's time for a special Christmas episode of An Oscar For Arnold! This one is sort of a two-parter, with the boys starting off by discussing "Jingle All the Way," the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas movie that sees him playing a workaholic father desperate to make his son happy by buying the most popular toy in the country on the day before Christmas while his horny neighbor tries to bang his wife. After giving you a thorough analysis of that film, including its commentary on consumerism, S...
Dec 25, 2024•51 min•Ep. 35
You asked, and we answered! Well, maybe nobody really asked. But the boys are here to bring you another original Indiana Jones movie crafted right in front of your ears in a supersized episode. And today they have a special guest! Sonny and Tom's dear friend Ryan Town joins the podcast to contribute to the new Indy movie after years of begging to be on this podcast. This particular Indiana Jones movie takes place in the 60s, where Indiana Jones owes a debt to the United States government after f...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 34
In April of 2022, the boys brought you a Movie Mash-Up episode in which they attempted to combine two movies into one. The result was absolutely awful, but you guys still seemed to like the concept. So the fellas are back to try a different spin on the mash-up premise: merging famous TV dramas with famous TV sitcoms. For instance, what would it look like if "The Sopranos" merged with "George Lopez"? Or what if "Frasier" was combined with "The Wire"? These important questions will be answered tod...
Oct 02, 2024•47 min•Ep. 33
On a special episode of An Oscar For Arnold, Sonny and Tom sit down with Jemima McEvoy, a wealth reporter at Forbes, for the podcast's first ever interview. Jemima recently published an article titled "How Arnold Schwarzenegger Became a Billionaire," and the boys were lucky enough to have her join the podcast to discuss Arnold, his wealth, and her career covering wealthy people. The topics of conversation include Arnold's successful investments, his not-so-successful investments, his personality...
Jul 20, 2024•50 min•Ep. 32
That's right, we got another bonus episode for all you lovers of extra content! Join the fellas to hear the topics that couldn't quite make the cut for the recent regular banter episode and have now been relegated to the bonus episode. We know how much you guys love these bonus episodes, so we made sure to give you a good one today with plenty of content to enjoy. Today's topics that couldn't make the cut include Big Hoss, Corey Harrison, and the History Channel show Pawn Stars . This episode is...
Jul 10, 2024•6 min
Yes, it's time once again for an episode that's only banter. We know you guys have been pining for it, especially after some of the stinkers we've been giving you lately, so Sonny and Tom are here to deliver nothing but fresh banter for you all to enjoy. On the docket today are the last words of Kirk Douglas, Kevin Costner bankrolling a 3+ part western epic and ruining his marriage in the process, a status update on the production of Alec Baldwin's Rust, a look into the ominous past of the guy w...
Jul 01, 2024•48 min•Ep. 31
For the 30th episode of An Oscar For Arnold, Sonny and Tom are playing another game. And this time, Sonny's winning record is on the line. Will he be able to defend his 3-2 lead over Tom, or will the score go even? Luckily the game is stupider than ever, with the boys trying to guess which of two given celebrities has more children. Is there a solid strategy to picking which celebrity has more children? Probably, but the hosts certainly don't know it. As always, play along at home and see how yo...
May 31, 2024•59 min•Ep. 30
After just doing an episode about the Oscars, the boys decided to keep things exciting and do another one immediately after. But the Oscars are half the podcast's title, so we think our hosts deserve a pass for this one. Today they take a look at some films which have recently won Best Picture at the Academy Awards or Worst Picture at the Golden Raspberry Awards, trying their best to recast the movies and flip the outcome of the awards. In other words, can Sonny and Tom take a Best Picture film ...
Apr 30, 2024•48 min•Ep. 29
The fellas just barely got this episode out at the end of March, keeping their promise of one episode a month this year alive. And ironically, they're doing an episode about something that happened several weeks ago. Sonny and Tom do a deep dive into the weirdest moments of the most recent Academy Awards, which saw Oppenheimer sweep, Killers of the Flower Moon get shut out, and Emma Stone enter a new conversation as one of the GOATs of her time. Not to mention Oscar award presentations by Al Pac...
Mar 31, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 28
From the creators of "Indiana Jones and the Hurricane of Katrina" and "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Flute" comes an all new cinematic event: "Predator '69." On today's episode, Sonny and Tom craft a new Predator movie from scratch. The setting? Woodstock, the legendary music festival of 1969. Can a group of hippies, all dealing with their own personal and interpersonal issues while on a quest to acquire acid, defeat a deadly alien hunter who seeks to kill them for sport? That is the question th...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 27
Ahh, the bonus episodes. Where all laws are thrown out the window and we bring you a collection of strewn-together bits from last week's banter episode. The last Bonus Banter episode ended up being more popular than the episode it spawned from, so we'll find out if that's the case again this time. In these isolated conversations, Sonny and Tom discuss the best one-hit wonder acting performances. The only problem is that they forget all of them except Barkhad Abdi's performance in Captain Phillip...
Feb 08, 2024•37 min
The fellas are kicking off 2024 with a fresh episode of nothing but banter. Today, Sonny and Tom discuss the controversies behind the recent Oscar nominations, including their thoughts on who was robbed and who was wrongfully nominated. Then they discuss Arnold's recent legal trouble, which saw him detained in a German airport. But there's more serious legal trouble in the air today, as Alec Baldwin was recently indicted for manslaughter. The boys discuss the murder case as well as Alec's wife H...
Jan 31, 2024•48 min•Ep. 26
The fellas are doing another game episode to close out the year! After previously bringing you Which Celebrity is Taller, Which Celebrity is Older, Which Movie Made More Money, and Which Movie has a Higher Rotten Tomatoes Score, they finish off the quintet by delivering Which Movie Had a Bigger Budget, arguably the hardest of the games they've played. Will Tom continue his winning streak? Or will Sonny reclaim the throne? The boys also do a speedy installment of Arnold in a Famous Role, in which...
Dec 21, 2023•48 min•Ep. 25
The boys sit down to ponder a simple question in different forms: What if Martin Scorsese directed Forrest Gump? What if Greta Gerwig directed Scarface? What if Quentin Tarantino directed Toy Story? What if corporate greed hadn't gotten in the way of making the final Divergent movie? All these questions and more will be answered as Sonny and Tom do an episode that's basically banter with a tiny bit of structure. And when that structure proves to be too boring, they fall back on the banter to kee...
Nov 11, 2023•48 min•Ep. 24
After recording Episode 23, the boys realized they had gone on a few too many tangents. So they took out the worst bits to shorten the episode into something more manageable. Today, they present these worst bits to you in a bonus episode, tied together with some additional transitions that Sonny and Tom recorded to help make the sudden change from one bit to another less awkward. So if you thought that last week's episode was just a bit too good, enjoy the parts that we decided were somehow wors...
Sep 20, 2023•22 min
The boys take it easy today and stop worrying about those pesky themes and structured conversations to just have a chat. They discuss a number of things, which I will now spoil in this description so the episode is more likely to get noticed from online searches. First the boys discuss the fan vote for their CGI Character Bracket, which was completed on Instagram after Episode 22's release. They would be remiss if they didn't bring up the new Arnold Netflix documentary, simply called "Arnold," a...
Sep 13, 2023•49 min•Ep. 23
After the apparent popularity of the last bracket episode (who would've guessed?), Sonny and Tom decided to do another one instead of thinking of something original. Today, the boys decide to hash out a bracket of the 16 best CGI characters in live action movies to determine which character reigns supreme. Will it be Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Caesar from The Planet of the Apes, or another character played by Andy Serkis? The possibilities are endless. The boys also give their classic op...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 22
After everyone seemed to enjoy last year's episode "Indiana Jones and the Hurricane of Katrina," Sonny and Tom decided to continue their hobby of outlining modern-day Indiana Jones movies. And what excellent timing, with the new "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" coming out in just a couple weeks. And with how tepid the reviews for that currently seem, Sonny and Tom are arrogant enough to believe they've cooked up a better film after an hour of shooting the shit. For Indiana Jones and the C...
Jun 16, 2023•53 min•Ep. 21
It's time for another game episode! After the boys delivered such hits as "Which Celebrity Is Taller?," "Which Celebrity is Older?," and "Which Movie Made More Money?" they decided to bring you an even more arbitrary guessing game with "Which Movie has a Higher Rotten Tomatoes Score?" With Sonny having won all three of the previous game episodes, Tom is entering today's game with a vengeance never before seen in this podcast. Sonny, on the other hand, is kind of hoping Tom will win one so people...
Apr 17, 2023•53 min•Ep. 20
That's right, the episode that nobody requested is finally here! To celebrate International Women's Day, your two favorite male podcast hosts decided to do an episode that's for the girlies. Long overdue, right? Now, you may be wondering how a podcast about Austrian bodybuilder, actor, and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could possibly do an episode dedicated to women. Trust us, we struggled with that question too. But we finally found a theme that we think satisfies both our desire to honor wome...
Mar 08, 2023•43 min•Ep. 19
The boys are back with another banger banter episode! There's no single designated topic on this episode, just good vibes and good conversation. Pull up a chair and join your old pals Sonny and Tom to hear them shoot the shit about vaguely film-related things. If you're still not enticed, here's a little rundown of the topics they cover. First, the boys discuss the fan results of the previous episode's Nepotism Babies Bracket. The fans on Instagram (@AnOscarForArnold) voted in their own version ...
Feb 13, 2023•50 min•Ep. 18
With all the recent uproar around nepotism babies in Hollywood, Sonny and Tom decided to throw their hats into the ring. Not by providing any meaningful commentary on the validity of nepotism babies' success, but by putting them head-to-head in a bracket to determine who the most talented one is. The boys have selected sixteen of the most successful nepotism babies in Hollywood and placed them into a bracket with no seeding. They do their best to decide these as quickly as possible and not dwell...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 17
Folks, we want to go ahead and take a moment to apologize for this one. We're not gonna lie to you, this seemed like a great idea going in. The concept was that we would read the synopsis and the beginning of the plot description for a few movies and try our best to guess how they might end. What resulted was one of the most dull and disjointed episodes we've ever made. And for that, we're truly sorry. We started with "Terminator: Dark Fate," which honestly went okay all things considered, even ...
Nov 21, 2022•51 min•Ep. 16
It's another game episode! After having played "Which Celebrity is Taller?" and "Which Celebrity is Older?," the boys decided to try a new game: "Which Movie Made More Money?" Sonny and Tom each prepared five matchups of two movies for the other man to guess which one had more success in the worldwide box office (not adjusted for inflation). Like the previous game episodes, things get heated between our two hosts. But who can blame them with so much on the line? The loser, as usual, must say "We...
Nov 05, 2022•52 min•Ep. 15
