Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

I'm David Canfield.

I'm Richard Lawson.

And I'm Rebecca Ford.

We wanted to start today's show by acknowledging the news that we know some of you have seen already.

Richard and I are leaving Vanity Fair at the end of

this month. Next week will be our last episode and we will save our final goodbyes for then. Little Gold Men is going to continue and I hope all of you who are listening will stick with us. We'll have more details about that shortly, but for now I'm just going to say I'm going to miss you guys so much and I'll save the rest of it for next week. That's all I'm going to say. But yeah, we wanted to make sure that we had a chance

to answer any of your film, TV or awards questions. Next week's episode is going to be a mailback

episode. Please write in your questions or send a voice memo to little gold men at vf.com.

You know, we want to hear your questions about this coming award season, but also anything

from the past, like a favorite winner or, yes, I'm willing to answer my least favorite

winner.

We'd love to hear from you.

Maybe you want to recast the Oscars for what is widely known as the best movie year ever, 1999.

I know I would make some swaps into who the Academy picked that year.

Yeah, honestly, if it's just a 1999 mailbag episode, I'm fine with that.

Yeah, not to give you any ideas, but yes, we will accept that.

Please make sure to send this in by end of day Sunday, as we'll be recording on Monday morning.

We look forward to hearing from you. And with that,

let's move on to today's episode. We are going to very bravely share our best picture 10

predictions. We usually do these after we've all been to the fall festivals, but I suppose

we are upping the stakes this year

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