Oscars Highlights and Surprises, Plus a Peek Inside the Vanity Fair Party

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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After a long awards season, this year’s Oscars results were… kinda great! The winners came from a host of different deserving films, and no one movie or person felt robbed. Rebecca, John, and Chris woke up bright and early to dish about the ceremony’s highs and lows — and share some highlights from inside VF’s dinner and afterparty at LACMA.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men,
0:07.9	Vanity Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.
0:11.2	I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:12.2	And I'm John Ross.
0:13.8	And joining us this extremely early post-Oskers morning is our, well, everything,
0:18.8	correspondent at this point.
0:20.1	Chris Murphy, hi, Chris. Hello. Wow. It is
0:23.6	early. Early, early, early is all I can say right now. It's early and we were up so late because of
0:31.8	the fabulous party, which we will get to. What a night. I had so much fun. And we've got a lot to get into. So today we're going to be recapping Hollywood's biggest night, the highs, the lows, the historic, the unprecedented. Let's get into it.
0:48.5	We were in different places last night. I was at the Dolby Theater, and then I went to the governor's ball. Can you guys tell us a little bit
0:55.1	about where each were? I was at Vanity Fair's cocktail hour and dinner an Oscar watch party,
1:02.5	which was also at Lackama with a bunch of celebs and stars and also tech people and media people
1:09.3	who all convened to watch the Oscars before our
1:12.7	party. So there's a party before our party. So it ends up being like a 13-hour day, which was
1:18.5	really fun. It was really great, though. I, too, was at the dinner and then the party. The viewing
1:26.5	dinner was really, really special.
1:29.5	There's a heat wave starting today in Los Angeles, but yesterday was the most glorious weather.
1:37.3	So, it really was.
1:38.1	Yeah, everyone was outside.
1:40.9	It was like under the new buildings at LACMA, it was really beautiful.
1:47.0	It was like such a beautiful night.
1:49.4	Like everyone was so happy to be outside.
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