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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Why Some People Never Stop Chasing Oscars

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We welcome special guest David Sims, co-host of the Blank Check Podcast, to discuss Steven Spielberg's Oscar history and how he might win one more. Plus an early look at the Emmy best drama race.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and Hanifley that proves proves that award season is a year-round event.

0:14.8

I am Katie Rich, the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our

0:18.0

film critic Richard Lawson.

0:19.1

Hello.

0:20.1

And our senior writer Joanna Robinson.

0:21.1

Hello.

0:22.1

We've lost Mike this week but as you you're here later, we have a special guest.

0:25.0

David Sims of The Atlantic and the Blank Check Podcast, which all three of us have been guests on,

0:29.3

which is very exciting.

0:30.6

He's here to talk about Stephen Spielberg, which is what his current podcast series is about, and his effort toward an Oscar this year.

0:36.5

Because it's kind of a quiet period for Oscar related movies.

0:40.0

Richard Joining, you guys covered Beauty and the Beast last week which made a ton of money.

0:43.2

It sure did. So therefore might be in the conversation. But kind of using this quiet period in film we thought

0:47.8

we talked about television, which is the movies that come to our house.

0:52.2

Elegantly put.

0:54.0

We have had one Twitter follower

0:56.0

asked us to talk about feud which we are going to do because the current episodes are kind

0:59.7

of gearing up for the Oscars and I don't know any TV show that's really focused so much on an

1:04.0

Oscar ceremony. It's a little surreal to watch actually. It's really fun.

1:07.0

People talk about this other than me. Who else cares about what Lee Remick was doing at the Oscars

1:12.4

in 1963.

1:14.0

In the meantime, we wanted to cover Legion, which is a show that Joanna, I think you know more about

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