Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

And the Oscar goes to.

And the Oscar goes to the winner.

It's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.

My, I just want an Oscar.

I'm Katie Rich.

I'll be here with the usual roundtable of Richard Lawson or Becca Ford and David Canfield.

And then later on, we are going to have our Oppenheimer Book Club about American Prometheus

with special guests Aaron Vanderhoof and David Sims.

But before any of that, we really have to talk about the main topic in Hollywood, the strike.

Everything in Hollywood is more or less shut down.

There are very attractive people on picket lines, which I believe Franklin Leonard came on a few weeks ago

and said as a scenario that the studios would avoid at all costs, but we're in it.

The state of confusion in the industry, I think, is really high.

And especially for the people who we're talking to this time of year as festival season looms.

We've been on some calls, David and Rebecca and I with studio reps in the last couple of days.

And I really can't overstate how much no one seems to know what's going on.

That's not about right.

It's just a comical shrug emoji.

It's from some of the most powerful studios in the country.

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