How to Hit a High Note with a Music Biopic

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Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Rebecca and John discuss Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which hits theaters Friday. Along with debating its awards chances, they are joined by music journalist Alan Light, who reveals why there’s been such an uptick in music biopics. Finally, John and Rebecca break down the best director race, which could be full of directors who have been long overdue for their first nominations.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Bany Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.
0:09.8	I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:10.8	And I'm John Ross.
0:14.7	Rebecca, it's been 24 hours since I've last seen you.
0:20.4	We were together at the annual gala for the Academy Museum.
0:26.4	How are you doing?
0:28.1	I'm good.
0:29.3	It was a fun, busy weekend, and I feel like I've been so busy just trying to catch those last remaining screenings.
0:35.8	But before we dive into all that, I wanted to let listeners
0:39.2	know that our mailbox is open. We'd love to do a mailbag episode in the coming weeks,
0:45.3	and we'd love to answer any of your questions about the upcoming award season, the movies,
0:51.4	anything you want to ask us. Please send an email or a voice note to
0:55.5	Little Gold Men at VF.com. Yeah, and as Rebecca knows, I'm in that mailbox. I'm reading your notes
1:02.6	and I'm trying to respond when I can. But let's get to the meat at hand. So Saturday, we went to the annual Academy Museum gala that is put on by Ampas,
1:17.1	the organization that puts on the Oscars.
1:21.9	It was very glamorous.
1:23.9	It was like I went home that night and was like, I cannot believe how glamorous it was because there's very few agents, there's very few publicists, there's no like hangar-ons. It's just like the famous people. And the only other time I really see that is our own Vanity Fair Party. So, but I think this was incredibly like just so selective in a way that you don't see at a lot of Hollywood events anymore.
1:47.5	Right. And it's also, as they tell you a hundred times upon your confirmation, off the record.
1:56.2	Right.
1:56.8	So careful. So we're going to be real careful here.
1:59.2	Careful, careful. Anything you say will be used against you in a court of law.
2:05.1	They have actually turned this into kind of a Metball-esque event, especially on the fashion front,
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