Would a More Diverse Academy Have Given That Oscar to Gabourey Sidibe?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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As AMPAS addresses its diversity problem by inducting a huge new class of voters, Mike Hogan and Richard Lawson get the inside scoop from L.A. Times reporter Rebecca Keegan - and indulge in a bit of reckless speculation regarding the 2009 race for best actress.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast from Vanity Fair and Panapley that proves that |
| 0:08.6 | awards season really is a year-round event. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Mike Hogan, |
| 0:13.0 | Venity Fair's digital director, and I'm here with |
| 0:15.2 | Venity Fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello. |
| 0:18.2 | This week we're digesting two recent announcements from the Academy of Motion |
| 0:21.8 | Picture Arts and Sciences, the body that gives out |
| 0:24.2 | the Oscars. |
| 0:25.2 | In the first, the Academy announced a large batch of new voting members, 683 in all, with a heavy |
| 0:30.6 | emphasis on women and people who aren't white. |
| 0:33.0 | That's all part of Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaac's plan to double the number of women |
| 0:37.0 | and minorities in the voting membership by 2020. |
| 0:40.0 | The second announcement put some new rules around award season events, something that could seriously |
| 0:45.3 | cramp the style of our former guest Peggy Siegel. |
| 0:48.8 | Here to discuss all that with us today is Rebecca Keegan, a staff writer covering film for the Los Angeles Times. |
| 0:54.1 | The reporters at the LA Times cover the Academy announcements the way other papers cover |
| 0:57.3 | presidential races, so we're excited to dig deep into these exciting developments with her. |
| 1:02.6 | From there, we'll talk about the new HBO series, |
| 1:05.8 | The Night of, which Richard has seen, |
| 1:08.1 | and he's here to tell us whether it is indeed |
| 1:11.9 | the great new drama that HBO semi desperately needs and |
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