Did The Grammy Awards Nominations Finally Get It Right!?!
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca and John go down a road less traveled on this week's Little Gold Men and discuss the Grammy Awards with Vanity Fair associate editor Daniela Tijerina and staff writer Erin Vanderhoof. They break down this year's surprisingly good nominations, the Grammy's bumpy relationship with the music industry, and the idiosyncrasies of the Recording Academy before weighing in on their hopes for performances and wins on "music's biggest night."
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| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, |
| 0:50.0 | Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:54.2 | And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:57.6 | Hi, John. How are we doing? |
| 0:59.6 | I'm good. So you had a busy week last week. |
| 1:02.1 | Do you want to talk a little about the Academy Women's Luncheon that you attended? |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah, I view this as sort of the kickoff to the next two weeks being sort of insane because everyone is in town. |
| 1:14.2 | It's sort of the last hurrah before the Thanksgiving holiday. |
| 1:17.4 | And the Governor's Awards is going to be happening. |
| 1:19.8 | And so everyone shows up. |
| 1:21.9 | So I feel like this is the first event of that. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's hosted by the Academy and Chanel. |
| 1:25.8 | It's a very lovely lunch on their beautiful Academy |
| 1:29.4 | Museum rooftop. And they always have like a really inspirational keynote speaker who's usually |
| 1:35.1 | like, yay women, we can do this, we can make movies. And it makes me feel good. But this year, |
| 1:39.8 | it was Kristen Stewart who really had a much more honest take on the way of the world right now |
| 1:47.6 | and how there just hasn't been improvements for women, |
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