12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special

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Can you tell us, please tell us, about the movie, what you did, what the theme of the movie is, and how everybody did and got along on the movie.

— Toni Newman, asking people about the plot of Zombie 2 2

*The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special*
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Hosts	New Heidecker
Guests	Gregg Turkington Joe Estevez Toni Newman Mark Prooksh G. Amato Axiom Manuel Giusti Eric Roberts Jeremy Roberts Big Mike "Dudley Moore" Unknown APS caseworker Joey P. Firefighters
Aired	March 2, 2025
Segments	savemoviehouse Top 10 Zombie Movies of All Time Movie House Hall of Fame! X-Pert Investigations Runtime Relay Witches & Wizards Final Conclusion Tribute to Polar Express
Runtime	TBD
Video link	HEI (subscription required)

The 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special aired March 2, 2025, live from the Movie House that was also the home to season 15 of the series. The special was hosted by New Heidecker.

Trivia

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This is the first Oscar special on the HEI Network to not use Vimeo, instead using Mux. There were no major streaming issues that, like what happened with the 8th, 9th, and 11th specials, resulted in HEI having to use a backup YouTube livestream.
The Witches & Wizards segment was produced by vicberger.
Thunder Studios Broadcasting helped produced the special, providing a mobile production truck that could be clearly seen when Joey confronted New.
LaRue only appears in old Xposed footage with a voice over. This is because the actor couldn't show up due to challenges involving health.^[1]

Goofs

The start of the special was delayed by a minute as the intro's audio was not properly playing. The countdown was rewound in real-time back to a minute.
- A hot mic, presumably of director Eric Notarnicola, counting down to the start of the special could also be heard.
While Toni was interviewing G. Amato, an accidental camera cut to Tim and Gregg was shown with both of them out-of-character and laughing at G.'s non-answers.
The reflection of a teleprompter could be seen during a couple of scenes.

1. ^a "Thank you thank you … Heinetwork , On Cinema Family in spite of health challenges u found away to get me in the Oscar Special ! but Special thanks to the fans & Followers 💯You make this so much fun 🤩 🎥🍿", Tweet from @real_mcm, 3/3/25