Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and

Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanity fair

and I'm here with our whole crew we have our digital director Mike

Kogan. Hey Katie. Our film critic Richard Lawson.

Hello and our senior writer Duena Robinson.

Hi Katie.

It is Oscar Week and lucky us we are not starving ourselves or having multiple meetings with our stylists because we are not nominated for Oscars.

We just get to talk about them.

And this is the first of two episodes we'll have this week where we are

predicting who's going to win finally I should be starving myself can I use this as a

plug yeah for the live stream on the red carpet at the Oscar party with cat

saddler who actually knows what she's doing.

Anyway, I'm going to be 10 pounds overweight because that's that's my condition in life.

Mike is still continuing his transition to on-air talent which has long been history.

I think you just have to talk a lot about how you scarfed an in an outburger on the way to the event

because that's usually what they say.

That's right, okay.

Anyway, I just wanted to throw that in there.

On work.

I'm sure your skin looks flawless. So on this episode we are going to do the first half of our predictions.

We're going to start with some of the smaller categories.

So then we'll move on to the acting categories and talk about

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