The Biggest Surprises on the Emmy Ballot
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
David, Richard, and Rebecca dive deep into the Emmy ballot to reveal some surprising submissions and glaring omissions. Plus, they take a look at the most promising Oscar contenders (or lack thereof) from the first half of the year and what some new trailers might reveal for what’s to come.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Marvel Studios Agatha All Along. |
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| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm David Canfield. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:34.8 | And I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:46.3 | Thank you. I'm Richard Lawson. And I'm Rebecca Ford. We are about halfway through June already, which means two things. We can both check in on the films in the Oscar race, what's premiered so far, what we know about, |
| 0:52.3 | what's coming down the pike. |
| 0:59.9 | We've had a lot of trailers over the last few weeks, and we've had a lot of first looks here VanityFair.com, all kinds of things that give us a slightly better picture of what we got |
| 1:03.9 | to work with in addition to stuff like Cannes and film releases already. |
| 1:08.7 | The other thing it means is that Emmy voting is going on, |
| 1:11.3 | and we've had a chance to look through the Emmy ballot a little bit. |
| 1:14.8 | The Emmys are unique in that unlike the Oscars, |
| 1:17.3 | they post the ballot publicly that voters use, |
| 1:20.5 | meaning we can get all kinds of insights into strategy and omissions and things like that. |
| 1:26.2 | The nominations voting window closes on Monday, so this is the |
| 1:30.6 | last chance, I guess, for people to start making their plays. I thought we should start with the |
| 1:35.7 | Emmys, and particularly one detail that jumped out at me, which is that because of the lack of submissions in the lead acting categories, |
| 1:47.0 | there will only be five lead actors nominated for drama, comedy, and limited. |
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