Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the awards 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.

Mom, I just want an Oscar.

I am David Canfield filling in for Katie Rish.

We are recording this on Long Memorial Day weekend and she is on the road.

So I hope to be a substantial substitute along with Rebecca Ford, who's here with me for this week's interview episode.

Hi, Rebecca.

Big shoes to Phil, David.

You're doing great. We're doing fine.

Hi.

We have two excellent guests this week.

I spoke with Henry Winkler about the Barry series family, which aired on Sunday.

So that's a spoilery conversation just to get out ahead of that.

But to start, let's talk about your conversation with Selene Song, who's the writer director of my favorite movie of the year.

I think also your favorite movie of the year past lives.

Yes. So we both saw this. We saw this movie together after Sundance, but still an early screening.

And I think we were both just blown away by the way she told this story.

And you know, it's her directorial debut.

So the confidence of her as a filmmaker, I found pretty stunning.

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