Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply that proves that

awards season is a year-round event.

We are all here, albeit in different recording spaces.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com,

and in New York is Mike Hogan, our digital director.

Hey Katie. And Oakland is our senior writer, our digital director. Hey, Katie.

And Oakland is our senior writer,

Jeranna Robinson.

Hi, Katie.

And on the coast of France is our predict Richard Lawson.

Bonswai.

You're gonna do this entire podcast in French just to spite us, right?

C, is that French?

You're doing great.

So we're going to quiz Richard about Can thus far as we're speaking. The films have not yet started screening but there's lots of buzz to dig through.

But real quick, first of all, news broke today as we record this that Jimmy Kimmel will be back as the host of the Oscars

next year which I find particularly funny because at the end of this year's

ceremony which you might remember and it chaotically he said something along the lines

of good night and I promise I'll never come back or something like that kind of self-deprecatingly take the

blame but he's coming back and I think this is a pretty great idea what do you

guys think I think he was terrific I think the show was really good he has that sort of weird Bob Hope quality that is kind of easy on the

it's not the grading and you kind of just feel like you're in pretty good hands. He tells good jokes but it's not really all about him.

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