Explaining the 2018 Oscar Nominations

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🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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With mixed news for Three Billboards, a surprising surge for Phantom Thread, and a total baffler in the documentary category, there's a lot to discuss.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair
0:09.7	and Panampley on this special Oscar nominations morning. I'm Katie
0:13.9	deputy editor of vanity fair.com and we have in three different time zones in
0:18.5	New York we have our digital director Mike Hogan. Hey Katie as usual California, we have our senior writer, Gerin Robinson.
0:25.0	Good morning.
0:26.0	And coming to you from the Sundance Film Festival, we have our film critic Richard Lawson.
0:29.8	Hello.
0:31.0	We all got up varying degrees of early to watch the Oscar Naminations this morning where Tiffany
0:34.7	Hattish reinvented pronunciation of half of the names of the nominees, which unfortunately
0:39.2	didn't include her.
0:40.2	We have a ton to talk about, but I kind of wanted to start just by going around the group of us
0:43.9	Mike starting with you what surprised and or delighted you most in these
0:47.4	nominations? I think what delighted me most is that as I expected but I was not entirely confident that Jordan Peel
0:55.5	and Greta Gerwig both got nominated for Best Director best director in
0:59.2	general turned out to be a nice group of people and it does certainly signal that
1:04.1	shape of water is probably the the likely as best picture winner since Martin
1:09.4	McDonough was not nominated there that kind of suggests that if he wasn't nominated for
1:13.2	director how the heck is it going to win best picture we've seen that happen in the
1:17.2	past recently with Argo but that was a really strange set of circumstances that
1:21.4	does not figure to be repeated this year.
1:23.7	So that was great and I love seeing Mary J. Blige get nominated in two categories.
1:28.4	Did somebody say she's the first person ever get nominated for Best Song and Best
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