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

and Panoply. I'm, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.

And I'm here with our digital director, Mike Kogan.

Hi, Katie.

Our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

Hi, Katie.

And joining us for the first time, we have our executive awards editor Anna Ria.

Anna, thank you so much for joining us.

Glad to be here.

It's way overdue to have you on because you are as in the thick of award season as anyone on this earth, I think.

But it seems like a great time to have you on because this week is the

release of our second award season special issue.

It's a print edition that's going out to all of the awards voters.

It's for phase two as we call it because it's after the nominations have come out.

We talked about the first issue when it came out earlier in the year, but Anna from your perspective

what does this issue have in it? Like it's got a lot of stuff that's going to online, people can read it, but what are we, who are we targeting

with issues like this to just try to really dig into a word season?

I think the throughline with all of the stories is that we're trying to find angles that no one's already

tired of hearing or reading about with these films and with these filmmakers and with this talent.

So we kind of do a more thematic type stories.

For example, your story, Katie, that you wrote about

writing a powerful female character,

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