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.
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Anora Has Already Made Sean Baker’s Biggest Dream Come True
Winning the Palme d’Or was Baker’s singular goal for the past 30 years. Now, he’s fighting for the protection of theatrical releases.
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André Holland’s Good Fight: On The Knick Season 3, His Little Indie That Could, and Taking the Lead
The Exhibiting Forgiveness star made a name for himself as a scene-stealer in projects from Barry Jenkins and Steven Soderbergh. Now he’s taking charge—both in front of and behind the camera.
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Kieran Culkin Will Join Little Gold Men Live at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Culkin will be honored at the festival for his performance in A Real Pain and join Vanity Fair’s awards-season podcast for a wide-ranging conversation.
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Lupita Nyong’o Finds Her Voice: “The Industry Wasn’t Ready for Me”
Between A Quiet Place: Day One and The Wild Robot, the Oscar winner has spent 2024 earning rave reviews and ruling the box office. In a candid interview with Vanity Fair, she reflects on the scary, uncertain road to getting here.
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This Year’s Oscar Race Is Wide Open—and Waiting for a Big Surprise
With the fall festivals behind us, best picture is anyone’s game. Especially since a few major contenders are still waiting to be unveiled.
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Richard Linklater Doesn’t Believe In Hit Men, but He Does Believe In Patience
“I’m not afraid to sit with something and just wait until the time is right,” the writer-director says of the yearslong process of making Hit Man and two of his upcoming projects.
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Sebastian Stan’s Year of Transformation, Trump, and “One Giant Nightmare”
The actor is headed into the most exciting stretch of his career, between A Different Man and The Apprentice.
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Creative Arts Emmys 2024: See the Winners Here
The two-night Creative Arts Emmy Awards concluded on Sunday with big wins for Shōgun and a new pair of EGOT winners in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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The Highs and Lows of the Telluride Film Festival
Our Awards Insider team reflects on which films and performances just supercharged their Oscar chances.
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Keeping Up With Natasha Lyonne: On Her New Hollywood Chapter, Oscar Buzz, and Wanting a Third Boob
The star of His Three Daughters has been thinking about a lot lately—her volatile past, her industry’s perilous state, loneliness, and hitting the red carpet with “one of those metal faces and a little beady red eye.” Allow her to connect the dots.
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From “Trouble-Prone” Prisoner to Sing Sing Star
In his professional acting debut, Clarence Maclin plays a version of himself—a guarded, incarcerated man who discovers an acting program that forever changes him.
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Matt Bomer Says Even a Few Years Ago, Fellow Travelers Would Have Never Found Its Way to Him
The Emmy-nominated actor reflects on how opportunities are opening up for gay actors, with roles like Hawkins Fuller.
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How Jon Hamm Designed Two Modern American Villains: “I Can’t Play This Guy as Just a Buffoon”
The Emmy winner is nominated this year for two very different roles—both of which speak rather presciently to our current political moment.
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How Will the Presidential Election Affect This Year’s Oscar Race?
The outcome of the 2016 election was ever present at the Academy Awards that followed four months later. Could this year be the same?
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How Ripley Changed Dakota Fanning: “If I Can Do That, I Can Do Anything”
After nearly 25 years onscreen, Fanning just received her first Emmy nomination for the Netflix series. She tells Vanity Fair why it represents her next chapter in Hollywood: “People feel like they know me, but then they also don’t.”
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How Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Biopic Could Shape This Year’s Oscar Race
With A Complete Unknown, the Oscar nominee could be back in the race for the first time since his breakout in Call Me by Your Name. But that’s only the beginning of the awards potential for this movie.
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For Lessons in Chemistry, Brie Larson Learned How to Experiment
She couldn’t quite crack brilliant scientist Elizabeth Zott for the Emmy-nominated show until she had her own epiphany.
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Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning Never Saw Martha as a Villain
“She’s so much more than that,” says the newly minted Emmy nominee of her breakout role in the Netflix hit series.
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Viggo Mortensen Speaks His Mind: On Amazon’s “Shameful” Decision, Green Book’s “Disingenuous” Critics, and Indie Film’s Unclear Future
The Oscar nominee, whose acclaimed new film, The Dead Don’t Hurt, has just hit VOD, offers his frank assessment of Hollywood.
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Ready or Not, We’re Predicting the Emmy Nominations
This week on Little Gold Men, the hosts explore why Shōgun, The Bear, and Baby Reindeer are expected to clean up and which shows remain on the bubble.