Should Oscar Voters Worry About Nate Parker’s Past?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The director of The Birth of a Nation was acquitted on rape charges in 2001, but the controversy is just beginning. Plus: are these really the 100 best movies since 2000?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that proves without a doubt that Oscar season and award season is a year-round |
| 0:16.1 | affair. I'm Mike Hogan, the digital director of Vanity Fair. I'm here with our film critic, Richard |
| 0:20.8 | Lawson. Hello. And patching in from the Bay Area, |
| 0:24.8 | our senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello. |
| 0:27.9 | We have a very exciting, interesting show lined up, |
| 0:31.2 | lots of stuff to talk about, some that we kind of can't really talk |
| 0:35.4 | about, but we're going to talk about anyway. |
| 0:37.6 | We're going to talk about some of the movies that Richard discovered while putting together |
| 0:41.2 | an Oscar season preview that might not be on your radar yet as committed Oscar Watchers that you all are. |
| 0:48.0 | We are going to do our best to discuss the Nate Parker saga a bit here without stepping in one bucket of |
| 0:58.1 | cement or another which is going to be challenging we're going to talk about Snowden and the light between oceans, |
| 1:06.0 | which Richard's seen both. |
| 1:07.0 | I saw one, we're not really supposed to review them yet, |
| 1:10.0 | but I think we can sort of hint gently |
| 1:12.0 | at what they might spell for award season. |
| 1:15.0 | See if we can get away with that. |
| 1:17.0 | The BBC top movies of the millennium so far, which Richard and I both contributed to, as did Katie Rich, the founding host of Little |
| 1:25.8 | Gold Men. Controversial list, kind of a cool list. Number one was Mulholland Drive, which I did find quite astonishing. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | So we'll get into that. |
| 1:35.8 | And then finally, we're going to re-litigate the Best Actor Award from 2012, the 84th Academy Awards, |
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