Backstage at the Oscars
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
VF’s Hollywood Correspondent Rebecca Keegan has been on a fly on the wall backstage at the Oscars for years, and joins to share her stories from inside. Plus, our final Oscar predictions, for best director and best picture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Golden Men, the awards |
| 0:08.0 | and the award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Hanapley. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the last of our week of Oscar lead-up. then the award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panampley. |
| 0:12.6 | This is the last of our week of Oscar lead-up episodes. |
| 0:15.6 | We have lots of fun stuff safe for today. |
| 0:17.6 | I'll be talking to Rebecca Keegan, who has joined Vanity Fair this year, |
| 0:21.3 | is our Hollywood correspondent, |
| 0:22.6 | but has spent time backstage at the Oscars and years past, |
| 0:25.6 | and will tell us about what that's like. |
| 0:27.7 | And then Richard and I had a conversation |
| 0:29.2 | with Kevin O'Connell, the sound recording mixer, |
| 0:31.6 | who has been nominated for 21 Oscars and has never won and has some nice |
| 0:35.1 | perspective on all of that. |
| 0:36.8 | And we'll also have our predictions for who will win Best Director and Best Picture. |
| 0:40.3 | So now we're joined once again by Rebecca Keegan, our Hollywood correspondent, who as we speak is already in the thick of the Oscars, even though there's still days away. |
| 0:48.0 | Rebecca, thank you so much for taking a break from the Dolby Theater to join us. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh God, I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:53.2 | This is the first year you've been covering the Oscars for us, |
| 0:55.1 | but in the past for the LA Times, |
| 0:56.3 | you've not only covered the rehearsals, |
| 0:57.6 | which you're in the thick of now, |
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