Hello and welcome to special Oscar week edition of Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and

Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of vanityfair.com and I'm here with the

whole team. We have Richard Lawson, vanity fair's film critic.

Hello. Joanna Robinson, vanity fair senior writer. Hello. And Mike Robinson, vanity fair senior writer.

Hello.

And Mike Hogan, vanity fair's digital director.

Hey guys.

So this is the first of five special Oscar week episodes we are doing to lead up to the big night.

We're going to have a bunch of predictions.

We've got some interviews. We've got some

deep dives into some categories. And we're going to start this entire week off

with the documentary shorts that are nominated. We'll do the live action

and animated shorts in another episode episode but we'll start with the

docks and also featured an interview with Roger West Williams which is

topical because he is a previous winner in this category and a nominee this year for

life animated in the future category. So this year's docs, as I tweeted the Holocaust

one is the most uplifting I think. It still made me high. Oh my God it's a cry fast. Yeah, all of them. fest but in the like sort of enjoyable way. Yeah that's the one where you

where you like cry because you have faith in people and then the rest right is

although it's also there's a subject...

Okay, so we're talking about Joe's violin.

Yeah.

Should we just jump right in?

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