Hello and welcome to a very special post-oscors edition of Little Gold Men, the award season

podcast from Vanity Fair and Panampley. I am Katie Ridge, the deputy editor of

Vanity Fair.com and I'm here crouched in a hotel room wearing formal wear on no sleep with Mike Hogan,

Vanne Fair's digital director.

Hey Katie.

And joining us from New York where he got some sleep and its morning there is Vaney Fair's film Critic Riger Lawson.

Hello, and I'm also informal where just in solidarity.

Oh good.

We expect that of you and through the entire day

after the Oscars.

So we were all on separate coasts,

but watching the Oscars together.

Mike and I are recovering from the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, but before we get into any highlights

from that, let's talk about the Oscars.

I think we all kind of failed in the end to correctly predict best picture, but I think everybody

did.

Are we taking ourselves to task for thinking it was a remnant when it wound up being spotlight?

I'm taking myself a little to task because some other pundits that we know have been sort of patting themselves on the back and saying I knew it would be spotlight back in September and darn it I knew it too. I said this after the first screening at Toronto and I didn't trust myself.

So as happy as I was personally to see that when I was also sort of like annoyed that I didn't, you know,

you know, there's been a lot of talk about following your heart versus sort of using

your head and when predicting these things and I guess maybe a little more heart would have

done me good this year.

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