Why has Brendan Fraser been anointed the comeback king of the best-actor race when Colin Farrell hasn’t? Is Rihanna assured an Oscar, even going up in opposition to Taylor Swift and Girl Gaga within the best-original-song race? And if there was one Oscar win from the previous 20 years you possibly can power extra individuals to have fun, which wouldn’t it be?
These are simply a number of the head-scratchers introduced to the Little Gold Males crew on this week’s episode, the final roundtable dialog of 2022. Listeners who emailed littlegoldmen@vf.com introduced questions on this yr’s Oscar race, the destiny of the field workplace, and Oscar wins of the previous, sparking one final full of life dialog to wrap up the yr.
The episode additionally features a dialog with Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, the copresidents of Sony Footage Classics, who cofounded the specialty studio 30 years in the past and have held robust by many rounds of doomsaying in regards to the impartial movie market (this spherical included). “There’s at all times a second within the yr the place they are saying the enterprise is over,” Bernard says, with the angle of somebody who has been right here many occasions earlier than. This yr, with the continuing success of their movie Dwelling and the best-actor marketing campaign for star Invoice Nighy, Barker and Bernard have loads to be happy with—and with the discharge of a brand new thirtieth anniversary Blu-ray field set with a number of the firm’s best hits, loads to look again on too.
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