Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men,

Fanny Fares Podcasts for Film, TV, and Awards Lovers.

I'm Rebecca Ford.

And I'm John Ross.

Rebecca, you were at the Academy nominees luncheon last week,

and you came back with some big ideas, big thoughts based on the vibes in the room

when certain people were called onto the stage for the class photo. Do you want to talk about it?

Yeah, it's a really fun event. Every nominee is invited, so there's 200 and some odd nominees plus their guests

in the room. And at the end of the lunch, they get called up for the official class photo,

which is really beautifully done because each person is called up in sort of a random order.

Like they call up a few big stars first, like Jacob Allorty and Roseburn and a few others

were in the back row because they're tall.

And then it goes on to like, you know, names you're not as familiar with,

sound mixers and editors or production designers you may not know.

And then they come around and the last few names are often big names who end up right in the front.

This year was Guillermo del Toro, Ryan Coogler, and Timothy Shalame.

And I got to say, the love for Sinner, everyone got a nice applause.

But when Ryan Coogler was called up, that room went nuts.

And when most of the Sinner's team were called up.

And part of me is like, is that because they had the most nominees, obviously, with 16 nominations? No, I don't think so. I think there's, there's a lot of love for that movie and especially Ryan Coogler in those rooms. So it's hard not to get swayed by that. Obviously, it's a room of only a few hundred people, not 11,000 voters, but part of our job

is reading those rooms, you know, as we're trying to figure out who's going to win. You think I'm

just drinking the Kool-A, John? No, I don't. I think that I believe that that is one of the

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