Interview With Former Academy Awards Writer Bruce Vilanch

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL EPISODE. Please check out the full podcast episode on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Two-time Emmy Award-winner, American comedy writer, songwriter, and actor Bruce Vilanch wrote for the Academy Awards from 1989 to 2014 and was the head writer for his final fifteen years. He was kind enough to come onto our show back in November and lend some insight into the process of writing for the show, his thoughts on the current state of the Oscars, which movies he would've chosen for Best Picture in the years he wrote for the show, and more. Please be sure to listen below and check out the 97th Academy Awards this Sunday on ABC. They will be simultaneously streaming on Hulu, and Conan O'Brien will be hosting. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture Podcast, where I am having a special conversation here with the former writer for the Academy Awards comedian Bruce Valange.
0:13.7	Bruce, how are you today?
0:15.5	I'm moderate to have.
0:16.8	How are you?
0:17.8	Good.
0:18.5	You know, it's Friday where I am. About to be Thanksgiving, so everything is kind of like chilling, which is what...
0:26.2	Yes, yes. It's the holiday season. Everyone's coming together. Even though the country is tearing itself apart right now, it's, you know, typical.
0:35.3	It's time to stuff something. Maybe a turkey.
0:38.5	Yeah, maybe.
0:39.8	We'll see about that.
0:48.5	I'm really excited to talk to you because you can provide insight into a world that our listeners are heavily obsessive over, including myself.
0:49.4	Yeah, really?
0:50.3	I've learned that.
0:51.1	Right.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:57.7	So I'm excited to dive into this with you because you worked on the Academy Awards from, I believe, 1989 until 2014, was it? That was exactly right. Yeah. Wow.
1:04.7	Those 25 of them, yeah. That's many years of Billy Crystal and a lot of years of change.
1:10.2	You know, it's one quarter of all the shows because it's like they're creeping up to
1:14.3	100.
1:15.1	So, you know, yeah, it's it.
1:18.5	Yeah, I was in the wing.
1:22.2	So take me behind the scenes first and foremost into how does one get that job and what did the job exactly
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