Get Ready for Lin-Manuel Miranda to Dominate Oscar Season, Too
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week we check in on new buzz surrounding Fences and the AFI Film Festival, then chalk up the awards chances of Netflix’s ultra-lavish new series The Crown. Finally, we accept the inevitable: Lin-Manuel Miranda is totally going to win an Oscar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:08.0 | welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply. I'm Katie Rich the deputy |
| 0:14.0 | editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital |
| 0:17.1 | director Mike Kogan. Hello Katie. And Vanity Fair senior writer Joanna |
| 0:20.4 | Robinson. Hi Katie. So we may as well get this out of the way. |
| 0:23.5 | We are recording on Election Day, so we don't know how the election has turned out and you do as you |
| 0:28.3 | listen to this. |
| 0:29.3 | So be kind to us. |
| 0:30.3 | Our nerves are way more frazzled than yours are probably as you listen to this. |
| 0:34.0 | But it's a good thing that there is an entire industry devoted to Escapist entertainment to take our |
| 0:37.7 | mind off of the election and that would be Hollywood. |
| 0:40.8 | We're going to dive into both TV and film today talking about Netflix's super lavish |
| 0:44.8 | new series The Crown and then also the new sci-fi movie Arrival which were made at the |
| 0:49.0 | Toronto Film Festival and opens this weekend. First a few bits of news in the Oscar race. We keep talking |
| 0:54.2 | about Fences which is directed by Denzel Washington August Wilson |
| 0:57.0 | adaptation and seems like a Oscar slam dunk for Violet Davis and there are no reviews |
| 1:01.1 | out of Fences but it screened for an industry audience, quote unquote in Los Angeles, |
| 1:05.0 | and there are various posts online kind of talking about how there's buzz emerging. |
| 1:09.0 | That basically confirms what we all thought, which is that Denzel Washington and Violet Davis are really in the Oscar race. |
| 1:13.4 | Mike what's the point of screenings like this when people are kind of like nen nen n i saw the movie I |
| 1:17.2 | can't talk about it but clear space on Violet Davis's mantle like is it just to keep the |
| 1:21.8 | hype machine going? |
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