How to Understand Critic’s Awards
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With a slew of critic’s groups and other groups handing out the first awards of the year, we take a look at what it all means, which titles have emerged on top, and how the box office might make more of a difference than anything else.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panaklee. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com, and I'm here in person with Vanity |
| 0:17.5 | Fair's digital director, Mike Kogan. |
| 0:19.2 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:19.8 | And on the line is Vanity Fair's senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:22.8 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:23.5 | We've lost Richard this morning, but for a really good reason, |
| 0:25.8 | he is with the New York film critics circle, who are voting on their awards, |
| 0:29.6 | literally as we speak. |
| 0:30.9 | They're tweeting them out on a Twitter feed as you listen to this |
| 0:33.7 | this will all be you know old news that you'll have known for a while but so far |
| 0:37.8 | Richard has helped Mehershala Ali get a best supporting actor award |
| 0:41.2 | Casey Affleck got Best Actors, Utopia animated film, and |
| 0:44.7 | OJ Made in America got Best Documentary. |
| 0:46.6 | So the latest news from Richard's very nice critics group and we're really excited, he's a |
| 0:51.4 | member, so we can't |
| 0:53.2 | be garaggered him too much he did offer to duck in the bathroom and call us and give |
| 0:55.9 | us a lot of things but just have to wait for all the good gossip but it's kind |
| 1:01.1 | of fitting that he's with the New York Phone Critics Circle right now because this is a really big week for Critics Awards and also the Gotham Awards and also whatever the National Board of Review is. |
| 1:09.7 | You know, as soon as December starts really all of a sudden you get a flood of not just |
| 1:13.8 | things that are contending to try to win an award but actual awards being |
| 1:17.2 | handed out and it's kind of an open question how much any of this means there is |
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