Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity and Panoply that proves that

Award Season really is a year-round event.

I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com, and I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital

director, Mike Hogan.

Hi, Kitty.

And Vanity Fair's film film critic Richard Lawson. Hello

This week we have a special guest who is from within the panoply family

Aisha Harris is the slate staff writer who co-wrote a piece called the Black Film Cannon that went up on slate last week.

She co-wrote it with the culture editor Dan Coise. With Oscars so white kind of in the

distance but a Hollywood not really looking any more diverse than it was before.

We wanted to talk to Aisha about why now is the time for a

black film canon and what it might teach Hollywood about inclusivity

going forward. And then speaking of inclusivity, the Tony Awards, which is not

usually a transition that makes sense but they are happening on Sunday they are prime to hand a lot of awards to people of color and have included a lot of them in the nominees which is very exciting and maybe another example to the

Oscars what they can learn. So we'll talk about the big contenders for the year

which is Hamilton and everybody else and then what sets these really nerdy theater

awards apart and why we can't stop watching them.

But first the week in Oscar news, just very briefly, this weekend ESPAN and ABC are debuting the first

part of a mini-series but also a movie called OJ Made in America.

It's a documentary.

It's eight hours long.

Seven hours long, eight hours long.

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