Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair.

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

And the Oscar goes to.

And the Oscar goes to the winner. It's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know.

Mom, I just want an Oscar.

I'm Katie Rich. I'm here with David Canfield.

Hi.

And with Rebecca Ford.

Hi.

We'll be joined by Richard Lawson later.

He is heading off to the Venice Film Festival for us later this week.

But first we have a stopover in the mountains.

So David and Rebecca, you guys are getting ready to head off to the mountains of telly ride.

As usual, they have held their lineup a secret basically until the festival begins.

Although as I think we've hinted at a few times, we get a decent sense of what's coming just from other festival lineups alone.

So you guys have known for a while that it's a pretty solid telly ride lineup this year.

As we record this, we don't know exactly when everything is premiering, but it's a compact festival.

It happens over what is it four days now this year? They've expanded the lineup four days.

Four days for full days for full days.

So maybe instead of going in chronological order of what people should look out for reactions to.

Just maybe what's the like the heaviest hitter?

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