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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

What Does Netflix Have to Do to Win Best Picture?

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca and John are joined by VF's Hillary Busis to discuss Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite, which hits select theaters Friday. Then, they take a closer look at Netflix's packed Oscars slate, and discuss what's been holding the streamer back from nabbing their first best picture Oscar win. Could this be the year?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men,

0:06.2

Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

0:09.5

I'm Rebecca Ford.

0:10.7

I'm John Ross.

0:14.4

Hi, John. Welcome back from London. How are you feeling?

0:17.3

I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. I got back on Friday. We did an event for Down Cemetery Road,

0:27.0

which is a TV show that stars Emma Thompson. And may we all live our lives as fabulously as Emma Thompson is living her life.

0:37.6

She just is a fabulous woman.

0:41.1

There's no other way to describe it.

0:43.2

She walked through the party with a martini.

0:47.2

She said hello to everyone.

0:49.6

And then she was like, where is home for you?

0:52.1

And I said, L.A.

0:53.0

And she said, oh, I'm sorry.

0:55.7

But she did talk about she's going to go be on Colbert.

1:00.8

And she was like, you know, I've been on Colbert a hundred times.

1:03.8

I can't believe it's going to be my last time being on the show.

1:08.3

And she had some pointed remarks about what's going on in our country,

1:16.1

while also being just totally fabulous. And Ruth Wilson was there and also fabulous and wonderful.

1:22.9

Sounds like it was a good time. Yeah, it was a good time. It was a good time. Nice. Well, there was a bunch of news while you were out. I know. I think the most exciting thing for me was the Testament of Anne Lee finally got picked up. I was getting pretty nervous for that film after we got to see it at Tiff. I just wasn't sure it was going to find its home. But Fox Searchlight picked it up. I think that's a great

1:46.0

home for it. What do you think? Well, I remember I said there was only one home possible for it,

1:51.7

and it was Fox Searchlight given the other studio slates. And, you know, this movie doesn't

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