Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Procast from Vanity Fair

and Panably, I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity fair.com. We have here our digital director Mike Hogan

Hey Katie our senior writer Joanna Robinson

Hi Katie and in New York presumably in Richard Lawson's usual seat we have deciders Joe Reed I am indeed in Richard Lawson's usual seat we have to signers Joe Reed.

I am indeed in Richard Lawson's usual seat so.

Well how do you even know that?

Because I was here last year.

This is where he sat last year.

Good memory.

I remember.

Wow.

So if we have Joe on and it is mid-March, you must know that it's time to do some absurdly

early Oscar predictions.

Joe is someone who we rely on every year to kind of take a look at what's ahead and figure things out for us when we are

maybe incapable of looking beyond May.

So we're going to go and look at the year ahead and predict what we think might win some

Oscars this time next year. But first we have to do our due

diligence and go back to last year's episode where we did exactly this. Joe sat in

that exact same seat and we talked about what we thought would win Oscars this

year. And I want to start maybe by

reading a list of the titles that we did not mention at all during last year's

pre-Oscor episode. Here we go. No mention of The Shape of Water, which was our best picture winner.

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