Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panapley that reminds

you in fact that the award season is a year-round event.

It's not just a few months.

Sort of.

I'm vanity fair's film critic Richard Lawson filling in for deputy editor Katie Rich who is making up some big life

changes that she can you know elaborate on when she's back. But I'm also here

with vanity fair senior writer Joanna Robinson. Hello?

And our digital director Mike Hogan.

Hello.

Katie made me promise to tell all our listeners that she will be back.

She will.

Yes.

It's like at the end credits, you know, like James Bond will return.

I'll be back. She'll be back literally next week. So. you know like James Bond will return and yeah

so we'll be back literally next week so yeah next week so you know

award season really is year round because we just had nominations come out

this week albeit for less watched things like the theater.

So the Tony Awards, yeah, yeah, the Tony's.

And increasingly I feel like this is a kind of a star-studded sort of thing.

You used to have sort of theater actors siloed and then they were movie actors and now it's all

sort of bleeding together you know because we have some big names who were got nominated

Kate Blanchit's in there Laura Linney's in there it's a lot of people

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