Omicron Puts a Pause on Awards Season
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A look at the wave of cancellations for some of awards season’s biggest events, plus the newly announced shortlists in 10 Oscar categories and a conversation with Parallel Mothers star Penelope Cruz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Just a quick note before this episode starts after Rebecca and I recorded |
| 0:04.6 | our conversation about the wave of Omicron related cancellations in a word season. There |
| 0:09.2 | were more cancellations, the Governor's Awards being one of the big ones as well as the |
| 0:12.8 | Critic Choice Awards. And by the time you hear this, there might have been more. It's a fast-moving |
| 0:17.2 | story. So just letting you know that we're a little behind, but we are going to be keeping |
| 0:21.0 | an eye on the wave of cancellations as they keep coming. Enjoy the episode. Happy Holidays. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the awards season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:30.5 | It's such an honor to present this next award. And Harold and Omnities. And the Oscar |
| 0:36.4 | goes to. And the Oscar goes to. And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:43.6 | You like me. On the King of the World. There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. |
| 0:55.9 | I am Katie Rich and I'm here with Rebecca Ford. Hello. And that's it. It's just a, it's a holiday |
| 1:08.5 | week recording. We wanted to record this week, even though most of our office is closed, |
| 1:13.6 | because the Academy shortlist is out as of today as we record this with the shortlist in 10 |
| 1:19.2 | different categories. But it's also been a pretty Newsy week as Omicron kind of sweeps the nation |
| 1:26.2 | in a bad way. A sweeps the nation can be good or bad. This one is bad. So we're going to catch up |
| 1:30.1 | on all those bits of news. And then later on, you'll hear an interview that David Canfield did |
| 1:34.1 | with Penelope Cruz, star of parallel mothers, shortlisted today in score, I might add. But let's |
| 1:39.8 | start with the cancellations. Rebecca, you were tweeting about this as, you know, one of the L.A. |
| 1:44.2 | people who would usually spend the first couple weeks of January very, very busy. It sounds like |
| 1:49.1 | your calendar might clear up after the event of the last few days. Yeah, it's, it's funny because |
| 1:55.0 | they all canceled on the same day. So it just felt like one hit after another. But you know, |
| 2:00.3 | the first big one was the Palm Springs Gala, which is always, except for last year, has always |
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