And the Year’s Best Oscar Campaign Is . . .
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Vanity Fair’s executive west coast editor Krista Smith joins us to give a real insider’s look at the year’s Oscar campaigns so far, and make a bold prediction about the Best Picture hopes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And speaking of bold predictions, we close with our best guess of who will win Best Director.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's sponsor is Audible.com, who has more than 180,000 audio books and spoken word audio |
| 0:06.3 | products. Get a free audio book of your choice at www.audible.com. Gold. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men and Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair. I'm Katie Rich the Hollywood editor of vanity |
| 0:25.2 | fair.com and I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital director Mike Hogan. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:30.0 | And Vanity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson. Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | And this week we're also joined by a very special guest, |
| 0:35.4 | Krista Smith Vanity Fair's executive West Coast editor. |
| 0:38.4 | Hi, Krista. |
| 0:39.4 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:40.8 | We've been waiting so long to have you on. This is very exciting. I'm excited to be on. |
| 0:45.0 | Good. This week we're taking advantage of our expert special guest and getting the inside story |
| 0:50.7 | on award season at this point in the season from Krista. |
| 0:53.6 | Yes, it is early, but many, many stars are already working really hard for the |
| 0:58.1 | nominations they hope to receive in the spring. |
| 1:00.7 | From there we'll look a little bit further ahead but not quite so far ahead as the |
| 1:03.7 | Oscar nominations to Star Wars The Force Awakens, which really does have a chance of winning best picture |
| 1:09.7 | according to some of us. Finally, we'll go big before we go home and predict who we think will |
| 1:14.6 | win Best Director this year. |
| 1:17.1 | So Krista, you've been with Vanity Fair for many years and you've been an up-close witness |
| 1:20.7 | to basically every step of award season. |
| 1:23.2 | You're doing these interviews at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals and then of |
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