Little Gold Men's Unsolicited Advice for Hollywood in 2026
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Rebecca and John are joined by VF's Hillary Busis to share some words of wisdom for Hollywood as we enter the new year. And Hollywood had better take note as they offer priceless unsolicited advice to the powers that be. They also share their predictions for the 10 Best Picture nominees, and discuss who is on the bubble and where there could be some surprises. Finally, Rebecca and John review the biggest losers (The Testament of Ann Lee) and winners (Sirāt) of the recently announced Oscars shortlist.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Little Gold Men is sponsored by Universal Pictures, presenting Wicked for Good. |
| 0:05.8 | Now nominated for seven Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture, |
| 0:09.4 | and five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actress Cynthia Arrivo, |
| 0:14.2 | and Best Supporting Actress, Ariana Grande. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, |
| 0:23.3 | Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:30.7 | Well, John, the Academy released its Oscar shortlist on Tuesday, |
| 0:34.9 | and I know we say this a lot, |
| 0:36.3 | but this is when things are really kicking off. |
| 0:39.5 | The Oscar race is really coming into clearer focus, I think. |
| 0:43.1 | Yeah, it's true. |
| 0:44.2 | So the shortlists are for the below-the-line categories, and they're voted on by the membership |
| 0:51.1 | of each of those branches. |
| 0:54.4 | And it starts to give us a sense of what movies people across the industry are seeing, what they're liking. |
| 1:03.5 | Rebecca, did anything pop out at you this morning when we went over the short list? |
| 1:09.1 | Well, I don't want to be a downer to start off this, but I think we immediately texted about |
| 1:15.2 | how one film is very much missing from this, and they should have appeared on some of the shortlists, |
| 1:21.1 | which is the testament of Anne Lee. They didn't get score, which is very surprising because |
| 1:27.2 | it's Daniel Blumberg. |
| 1:28.3 | And they also had a song that was in the running. |
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