Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that insists that the

award season is a year-round affair. I am

Vanity Fair digital director Mike Hogan. I'm here with our film critic Richard Lawson

hello and in the Bay Area our senior Hollywood writer Joanna Robinson.

Hello?

How you doing guys?

Good, good.

It's feeling less ridiculous than usual to do a podcast about awards season.

Finally.

Now that award season has started.

We had 40 years in the desert or whatever it is.

And now we're 40, 40 days, years, what have you.

And we've got a lot of stuff to talk about suddenly,

including the Telluride Film Festival, which Richard just returned from,

and he's still kind of adjusting to the new altitude.

Yeah, I don't know where I am or what time it is.

The Toronto Film Festival, which we will both be jetting off to shortly, Richard and I.

And then we have an interview with Judith Light, star of Transparent, because the Emmys are

right around the corner next weekend. And then we're going to stop relitigating old Oscars

and start talking about this year.

And we're going to make some sort of shot in the dark

predictions for best actress based on a tweet that Richard wrote.

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