Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men and Award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panapley.

I'm Katie Rich, the Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair.com, and I'm Katie Rich the Hollywood editor of vanity fair

and I'm here with vanity fair's digital director Mike Kogan I Mike. Hi

and vanity fair's film critic Richard Lawson. Hello. So we've started this

podcast because award season culminates with the Oscars in February

but it's actually already begun because winning an Oscar is a long process of shaking hands and

courting voters and sitting out screeners and listening to people like us yammer on about who's ahead in the race.

So this year we want to share with you the conversations that we're having amongst ourselves

and other insiders this time of year.

The three of us will be getting together every other week between now and February to hash it all out and put it all into context and tell all the best stories about just how crazy this season gets for the sake of winning one little gold statue.

On this week's episode, we'll catch you up on the Oscar Buzz

that got started at the Toronto Film Festival and then look at two A-list actors who

were trying to change their Oscar fates with really big fall movies and then to to finish will go big before we go home

predicting almost entirely sight unseen

this year's best picture winner.

So we've all recently returned

from the Toronto Film Festival,

which ended last week,

and it's usually like a starting gun for award season. from the Toronto Film Festival, which ended last week.

And it's usually like a starting gun for award season.

There's a movie premiere, the movies rack up

as much buzz as they can, and then we all spend the next six months

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