Why It Might Be Hard to Get Oscar Nominations For The Year’s Best Performances
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Opening in theaters this week, Moonlight features stellar performances from everyone in its cast—but its unique structure makes it particularly challenging in the context of an Oscar campaign. We discuss the film that has us all swooning, and then talk to Moonlight’s director Barry Jenkins, who has a theory that if one of his actors were onscreen longer, he’d have the best supporting actor statue wrapped up already.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:08.0 | welcome to Little Gold Men, the Award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply. I'm Katie Rich, the deputy editor of the writer Joanna Robinson. Hello. We have lost Mike Hogan this week. |
| 0:23.0 | He's out in San Francisco at the Vanity Fair Summit, but we're all here and we get to mark the release of one |
| 0:28.8 | of the most universally acclaimed movies of the festival season, which is Barry Jenkins Moonlight. |
| 0:33.8 | It's something I was hearing about a lot from a telly ride in Toronto, and I was really |
| 0:37.1 | excited to actually get to see. |
| 0:38.3 | And all three of us have seen it, which is wonderful. |
| 0:40.6 | It's this heartfelt coming of age drama. It's got a series of incredible performances, |
| 0:45.0 | but it's got an interesting challenge in that not only does it have three different actors playing the main character over the course of his life, |
| 0:50.0 | but it's got all of these other great supporting performances and it's |
| 0:53.5 | wonderful for the film but a real challenge when it comes to Oscar season. |
| 0:57.0 | So we'll talk about Moonlight in the context of Oscar season and then be joined by Barry Jenkins himself |
| 1:01.6 | via phone who is talking about the experience of going |
| 1:04.6 | through the awards ringer with Moonlight and making a film that feels so personal |
| 1:08.7 | but believe it or not he actually didn't think was that personal when he started |
| 1:11.7 | making it. But first the New York |
| 1:13.4 | Film Festival has concluded and ended with a pretty big and splashy premiere of Billy Lynn's |
| 1:18.8 | long-a-half-time walk, which is an angling movie which means it's highly anticipated and comes with a twist in the way it was filmed which sounds like it |
| 1:27.2 | maybe divisive is the kindest way to put it it sounded kind of complicated |
| 1:30.8 | it's very diplomatic yes |
| 1:32.0 | divisive yeah It sounded kind of complicated. It's very diplomatic, yes. Devices. |
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