Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men and Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and Panaply.

I'm Katie Rich, the Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair.

And I'm here with Vanity Fair's digital director, Mike Hogan.

Hi Katie.

And Vanity Fair's film critic, Richard Lawson.

Hey guys.

Hi guys.

So this week we're going to start by actually looking backwards. We're going to be

discussing the would-be Oscar Hopefuls of years past and how they maybe fell apart

with our friend and special guest Joe Reed, creator of the Amazing Tumblr,

This Had Oscar Buzz.

From there, we'll pick out some of your Twitter responses

to our question about your favorite awards contenders

that didn't quite make the cut in years past.

And then we'll discuss Stephen Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and

whether there's room for something old-fashioned, well-liked, but not necessarily loved

in this year's race. And then we'll wrap things up by going big before we go home by predicting who we think will win best actor this year.

Now I'd like to welcome our special guest, Vanity Fair's weekend editor and our friend Joe Reed.

Hi Joe.

How are you?

Hello. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. This is very exciting. I know I'm a let down from Jason Siegel, but like...

You're dressed exactly alike as it turns... So Joe, you're a long time Oscar Obsessive and then for whatever reason a few years ago you brought this obsession to a very specific single serve Tumblr this had Oscar Buzz. Can you explain what this had Oscar Buzz is? Sure. One day at my day job at the time, I was bored and goofing around on Twitter.

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