The Make-It-Or-Break-It Races We're Watching at the Golden Globes
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The winter break is barely over, but Rebecca and John have already hit the ground running. They share dispatches from the Palm Springs Gala and the Critics Choice Awards, and debate whether Academy voters will be able to get over the Kardashian of it all. Then, Little Gold Men's best friend, Hillary Busis, joins the conversation to make some bold predictions about what will happen at Sunday's Golden Globes — and explain why the once-embattled awards show still matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Little Goldman is sponsored by Universal Pictures presenting Wicked for Good, |
| 0:05.6 | the epic electrifying and emotional conclusion to last year's Oscar-winning Wicked, |
| 0:10.6 | now nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, for your consideration in all categories, including Best Picture. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. I'm Rebecca Ford. And I'm John Ross. |
| 0:41.1 | Happy New Year, John. How were your holidays? My holidays were lovely. We had a tale of two holidays, it sounds like. I was in New York for some of it. On Christmas Day, I went and saw Marty Supreme with my parents alongside the entire |
| 0:49.3 | Upper East side of New York City and, you know, rested and didn't get the flu. |
| 0:58.7 | Spoiler alert on my end. |
| 1:00.8 | I had a very nice Christmas, but then my family got hit hard with the flu and it messed up a little bit of our vacation time. |
| 1:08.0 | On a positive note, I caught up on a lot of movies because I was stranded |
| 1:11.7 | holding a sick two-year-old for a lot of the break. But, you know, we're back and I'm healthy |
| 1:18.1 | and I'm ready for the next couple months of craziness. And I love this time of year because |
| 1:23.5 | it is non-stop. And we have an event. It feels like almost every weekend, if not multiple events. |
| 1:29.3 | So we'll be here on this podcast every week, |
| 1:32.8 | keeping everyone caught up on all that's happened, |
| 1:35.4 | sometimes twice a week with the nominee interviews, awards analysis, |
| 1:39.6 | and coverage of the many, many stops on the trail to the Oscars, |
| 1:43.5 | which are on March 15th, which is really soon. |
| 1:47.4 | Yeah. Oh, my God. It is so soon. Well, Rebecca, we've got a lot to catch up on since the last time we were on the mic together. |
| 1:56.6 | Yes. So today on the show, we're breaking down everything that's been happening while Hollywood was on a holiday break from the announcement that the Oscars will be moving to YouTube to all those Christmas Day releases to the awards events that we've already gone to in 2026. |
| 2:11.3 | And later in the show, Little Gold Men's official best friend, Hillary Bussis, will join us for a preview of Sunday's Golden Globes. |
| 2:19.7 | We'll break down the races to watch and explain why or if the Golden Globes still matter. |
| 2:27.7 | All right, John. |
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