The Oscars Are Seven Months Away, But The Buzz Has Already Begun
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
A look at the Toronto International Film Festival and the winners from Venice, plus a look ahead at Sunday's Emmy awards and a conversation with Academy governor DeVon Franklin about the organization's new inclusivity standards.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men the Award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award and |
| 0:08.0 | here on the nominees and the Oscar goes to and I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:17.0 | You like me. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:22.0 | Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our chief |
| 0:39.7 | critic Richard Lawson. Hello and our senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:43.4 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:44.4 | I honestly can't even remember like what we've done for Toronto |
| 0:47.8 | episodes of this podcast in years past. |
| 0:49.3 | I know one time Richard you and Mike and I were like in a studio in Toronto together and that was fun. |
| 0:53.9 | Like we've used audio from our in-person interviews. |
| 0:56.1 | Obviously none of that is happening right now. |
| 0:58.3 | The Toronto Film Festival is ongoing, but it is happening pretty much entirely virtually, including for movie goers mostly in Canada, which I'm curious about but that's a separate thing. |
| 1:07.0 | So Richard and I will talk about our virtual TIF experiences and some of the genuinely great movies we've seen despite all the challenges around it. |
| 1:16.0 | We're also going to talk about Joanna going to the movies and about the Emmys which are coming up and |
| 1:20.2 | then in the back half of the episode I got on the the phone with Devon Franklin, who was one of the Academy governors, who was really instrumental behind the inclusivity standards that got announced last week. We talked about them briefly, and as we said, we were planning to get into them again so |
| 1:33.7 | Devon Franklin really kind of breaks it down for me which was really exciting but |
| 1:37.9 | before we get into all of that real quick Richard and Joanna I wanted to give |
| 1:40.9 | you guys a chance to promote the new season of still watching |
| 1:43.6 | which is back after summer vacation and you guys are talking about the |
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