Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

And the Oscar goes too.

And the Oscar goes too.

The winner, it's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.

Mom, I just want an Oscar.

I'm Katie Rich.

I'm here on my own to introduce a little bit of a different format for this week's episode.

First, in a moment, you're going to hear our colleague, Chris Murphy of the still watching podcast and frequent guest on our show.

In a conversation with Stacey L. Smith, she's a professor and the founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative,

they have a new study out this week where they're examining the top grossing movies in Hollywood from 2007 to 2022

and finding how changes in inclusivity are occurring over that time.

And this year there are some notable progress and there's some areas where a whole lot of progress is still yet to be made.

So Chris will talk to Stacey about where we can still see Hollywood moving forward there.

And then after that, you're going to hear our latest installment of the Little Gold Men Book Club.

We're talking about the Zone of Interest by Martin Amos and the Jonathan Glazer Film Adapted from it.

That premiered at Cannes, Richard Lawson, Rebecca Ford are there to talk about it alongside me and Hillary Musis returning for a book club yet again.

So let's hear all of that and I will hand it over to Chris.

Dr. Stacey Smith, it's so great to talk to you about the Annenberg Inclusion Study.

So I think some of our listeners might not know exactly what that study is.

So can you sort of just describe your work and the study?

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