Why Is It So Hard to Pick the Best Movies of 2015?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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For the final episode of the year, we look back at the year in film and the wacky Oscar race that has resulted. Plus, a conversation with Elizabeth Banks, star of Love and Mercy and the final Hunger Games movie as well as director of Pitch Perfect 2. Finally, we check in on the state of the extremely competitive best actress race.
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| 0:15.9 | Hello and welcome to the final 2015 episode of Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the |
| 0:20.1 | Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with vanity fair's digital |
| 0:24.1 | director Mike Hogan hey Katie and vanity fair's film critic Richard Lawson |
| 0:27.6 | hello this week we are wrapping up 2015 asking ourselves what kind of year it's been for movies, what might have changed |
| 0:34.5 | forever this year, and then of course how the Oscars have or have not reflected all of it. |
| 0:39.8 | And then from there we'll share our conversation with Elizabeth Banks, who stars in the Brian |
| 0:43.9 | Wilson biopick Love and Mercy, as well as in the final Hunger Games movie. |
| 0:48.3 | And despite being incredibly busy and well connected, she still claims that she feels like an outsider from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. |
| 0:56.0 | Finally, we'll go big before we go home one last time this year and check in on the state of the extremely competitive best actress race. |
| 1:04.1 | So guys we've reached the end of 2015 we've all seen Star Wars which kind of felt like |
| 1:07.8 | the official end of the year and the rest of this is just gravy. |
| 1:11.5 | It's been a odd year for movies and that the biggest movies have been |
| 1:15.2 | giant franchises but some of the more interesting stuff to talk about has been a |
| 1:18.9 | lot more unique. It's been a really weird Oscar race as we've been talking |
| 1:22.1 | about for weeks now. |
| 1:23.5 | I kind of want to start just by asking a big general question. |
| 1:26.4 | Richard, has it been a good year for movies? |
| 1:28.6 | I think it has been a good year. |
| 1:29.7 | I think it's been, like you said, a kind of odd kind of lopsided year I think that it's not that usual that we get a lot of good |
| 1:36.1 | movies kind of in the earlier part of the year but this year we had Clasasasills Maria we had |
| 1:40.5 | ex machina we had you know like there were some interesting things coming out in the spring, and then the summer started with amazingly well with Mad Max and then kind of slowed and there were a couple, you know, we had Fantastic Four Bomb, Tomorrowland Bombed, like they were kind of these weird instances |
| 1:55.6 | of the Hollywood machine seeming to kind of create... |
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