Why an Oscar Can Be Worth $50 Million
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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With Oscar night just days away, we welcome Deadline Hollywood’s awards expert Pete Hammond to talk about the real nitty gritty of the awards race, and how The Revenant seems to have pulled off a late-breaking surge to win the whole thing. Also this week: We did our homework and discuss all of the nominated short films, and dive into the best original song category to answer the question that’s truly on everyone’s minds this season— “Will Lady Gaga win an Oscar? "
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| 0:38.9 | I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm in a studio in Los Angeles, but I'm joined from New York by |
| 0:45.2 | Vanity Fair's digital director, Mike Hogan. |
| 0:47.7 | Hey Katie. |
| 0:48.7 | And Vanity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:50.1 | Hello. |
| 0:51.1 | So this week I've made my way to Los Angeles ahead of Sunday's Oscars. It really is that time. |
| 0:55.0 | And who better to join us or join me as a guest in the studio here than Pete Hammond, who is the awards guru for Deadline Hollywood and someone who's been on the ground in the thick of the Hollywood Award season that we've been talking about from a distance and he can really report back firsthand on what's been going on, especially in these last few weeks. |
| 1:12.0 | And then from there we're going to |
| 1:13.7 | to dive into the category that's always crucial to winning any Oscar pool |
| 1:17.1 | which is the short films we have watched most of them and some of them are |
| 1:21.2 | kind of hard to see which we might talk about as well and then finally we'll go big before we go home and offer some predictions for |
| 1:28.0 | the stariest non-acting category I think, best original song. Best Original Song. So now we're joined by Pete Hammond, who is the awards columnist and chief film critic for Deadline Hollywood, |
| 1:41.0 | and one of the people who follows the award season |
| 1:43.6 | obsessively the same way we do but Pete you're here with me in LA you live in |
| 1:47.6 | LA you've been kind of on the ground for this whole season and many seasons |
| 1:50.8 | before it and we've been talking about the award season for months now but I know that in the last few weeks between the |
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