La La Land Is Poised to Make Oscar History

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After winning a Directors Guild Award over the weekend, La La Land director Damien Chazelle seems ready to become the youngest best director Oscar winner in history. Can anything stop him?

Plus, the annual Oscar nominee group photo:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/emma-stone-ryan-gosling-oscar-nominees-class-photo-2017

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0:00.0	Hello and Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply.
0:13.4	I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com, and I'm here with the whole crew.
0:17.1	We got Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair's film critic.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:19.6	Vanity Fair Senior writer Joanna Robinson.
0:21.6	Hi, Katie.
0:22.1	And Vanity Fair's digital
0:23.0	digital director Mike Hogan.
0:24.2	Hello.
0:25.2	We're moving fast toward Award season.
0:26.9	First on the docket this week is whether or not La-Lal-land is just this unstoppable train.
0:31.6	Damien Chiselle won the Director's Guild award for it on Saturday,
0:34.4	which was an expected victory,
0:36.2	but it does set him up to be the youngest, best director winner ever.
0:39.3	He is 32 years old, which makes us all ghost, basically.
0:44.3	So that's just a director win.
0:45.3	That's not a best picture win,
0:46.2	but it does really seem to add to the sense
0:47.7	that Lala Land has just got this thing wrapped up.
0:49.6	Yeah, it was at PGA's too, you know.
0:51.4	Yeah, which was two weeks ago. Yeah, so I don't know I think there's something about
0:55.8	Chiselle's age that has me kind of like well maybe not but no I don't I don't
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