Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Little Gold Men is the inside story of Hollywood, from awards shows and red-carpet premieres to the hard work and whisper campaigns that get people there. Weekly episodes feature obsessive, expert conversations about the best of television and film, with special guest appearances from stars, creators, and critics. LGM also dives deep into Oscar history, and offers insight into all the other awards that make up Hollywood’s continual dash toward glitz and glory.
For more on Little Gold Men, visit vanityfair.com/podcast/little-gold-men
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Will Every Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Eventuall...
Cameron Crowe has had a rough go of it since winning the best original screenplay Oscar for Almost Famous, but Showtime’s Roadies could serve as something of a comeback. Maybe.
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What the Oscars Should Learn From the Tonys
Plus: discussion of Meryl Streep’s would-be summer hit Florence Foster Jenkins.
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The 50 Movies That Should Have Changed Hollywoo...
We’re joined by Slate’s Aisha Harris, co-author of The Black Film Canon, a piece that highlights the 50 best films by black directors.
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The Oscar Winner Butterfly Effect
With a special guest appearance from Decider.com's Joe Reid, we look back at Oscar history to watch what would happen if, say, you took Kathy Bates's Oscar and gave it to Julia Roberts.
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What Everyone Got Mad About at Cannes
When the Cannes Film Festival awards were announced on Sunday they were met with boos in the press room. But why?
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Inside the Cannes Film Festival
Richard phones in from Cannes to fill Katey and Mike in on the highlights of this year's Cannes Film Festival
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Game of Thrones Is Great, But What About Its Ac...
With Mike and Richard both en route to the Cannes Film Festival, Katey enlists VF.com’s Hollywood writer, and podcast expert, Joanna Robinson as co-host.
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Rob Reiner Has a Plan to Save the Oscars—and th...
The acclaimed director of A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, and now Being Charlie weighs in on modern politics, as well as what went into making his most personal film.
36 min
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How Jason Bateman Has Kept Up a 3-Decade Hollyw...
The actor and director of the new indie The Family Fang joins us to talk about his newfound directing career.
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What Will Be This Year's Mad Max? Or Carol? We ...
We're joined by Indiewire's film editor Kate Erbland to run down this year's TriBeCa Film Festival.
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The Best Movies of the Year So Far Are . . .
We’re a quarter of the way through 2016, and are there any good movies out there at all?
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Where Are All the Good Scripts in Hollywood? Th...
This week we welcome special guest Franklin Leonard, the founder and CEO of The Blacklist
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The Best Movie of 2016 So Far Is Not a Movie
Giving in to what we’ve actually been obsessed with since the Oscars, we dive into The People v. O.J. Simpson.
38 min
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The 1996 Oscars, 20 Years Later
Joined by Christine Lahti, who won an Oscar in 1996, we look back at the ceremony that happened 20 years ago.
37 min
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Who Is Crazy Enough To Make 2017 Oscar Predicti...
The Oscars may be over, but the seeds of Oscar season are sown well before anybody actually starts campaigning.
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Explaining the Oscars
Oscar night is over, so how did it all happen, and why?
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Inside the Vanity Fair Oscar Party
In this special pre-Oscars episode, we're joined by Vanity Fair's executive director of public relations Beth Kseniak to share stories from inside Vanity Fair's annual Oscar party.
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Why an Oscar Can Be Worth $50 Million
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.
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Meet the Woman Who Tells Leonardo DiCaprio Who ...
This week we’re joined by the New York legend and awards season powerhouse Peggy Siegal.
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Being an Oscar Nominee Isn’t as Hard as Climbin...
Room’s best director nominee Lenny Abrahamson joins us with a dispatch from the thick of awards season.
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Whoopi Goldberg and Tom McCarthy Share Secrets ...
Interviews with four-time Oscars host and Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg, plus Oscar-nominated director of "Spotlight" Tom McCarthy
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How Can the Oscars Actually Fix Their Diversity...
In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and the Academy's bold new rule changes to try to correct the problem, we talk about Hollywood's overall diversity dilemma, with some input from Spike Lee, Don Cheadle, and John Legend.
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Why Nobody Really Knows What Will Win Best Picture
With the Oscar nominations now behind us, we take a look at the closest best picture race in recent memory, and bring back Decider's Joe Reid to talk about This Had Oscar Buzz, the 2015 class.
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Explaining the Oscar Nominations
We react to the 2016 Oscar nominations with surprise, resignation, and in the case of Mad Max: Fury Road, awe that it happened at all. Plus: a conversation with Domhnall Gleeson.
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The Golden Globes After-Party
While Hollywood recovers from its hangovers, we gather for a special Little Gold Men episode to digest the Golden Globes— the winners, the losers, the many surprises, and the standing ovations that tell us a lot about Oscar season.
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