How to Get Away With Category Fraud

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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With the news confirmed that Viola Davis will be running as a supporting actress for Fences— the role that won her a lead actress Tony award— we talk about the perennial problem of category fraud, and why women are so much more likely to be considered supporting for roles that are actually leads. Plus we share our interview with Kelly Reichardt, director of Certain Women, and make bold predictions about who will win the best original screenplay Oscar.

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0:00.0	Hello and Welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply.
0:14.2	I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com, and I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital
0:18.8	director, Mike Hogan.
0:19.8	Hey Katie.
0:20.3	Recently returned from San Francisco.
0:22.2	Vanity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson.
0:24.0	Hello.
0:25.0	And over in San Francisco, Vanity Fair senior writer Joanna Robinson.
0:28.0	Hello.
0:29.0	So this week we'll be sharing the interview that Richard did with Kelly Reichert, the director of Certain Women,
0:33.8	which debuted at the New York Film Festival and is in limited theaters now.
0:37.1	It stars Kristen Stewart Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, among other very talented actresses.
0:42.2	As we've discussed throughout the season, it's a really good year for actresses.
0:45.0	There's a lot of really powerful performances out there, including in certain women.
0:48.8	Which might be the reason behind the week's big Oscar news, which is that Violet Davis is submitting as a best
0:54.3	supporting actress for Fences. None of us have seen Fences as far as I know no one has
0:58.3	seen Fences it might not even be finished yet. Well actually I think I can say
1:02.4	this because Pete Hammond sent it out to all the Gold Derby nerds of which I am won on an email.
1:08.0	He says Denzel is locking the picture on November 4th. I don't know if that's true.
1:12.0	Oh, just so he gets it down before the election so he can really focus on an election night.
1:18.0	Right, exactly. So I don't know.
1:19.4	So until then we're all still chasing fences. Yeah. And right now he's and right now I understand
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