Vanity Fair's awards podcast "Little Gold Men" offered insight into this year's Oscar race. They also shared BTS gossip about the financial state of the various campaigns.
Summary of the first 10 minutes of the podcast
-- The gossip at Sundance 2018 was that Sony Picture Classic (
Call Me By Your Name) has allegedly given up on Timothée Chalamet winning Best Actor
-- Chalamet's team will throw their full weight behind next year's "Beautiful Boy".
-- A potential Gary Oldman backlash was allegedly tampered by the actor's team.
-- According to Little Gold Men, people of color in the industry are throwing their support (and money!) behind "
Get Out".
-- Jason Blum (of Blumhouse and Get Out producer) wants to switch over from "genre guy" to Oscar guy. He has the support of Universal.
-- Get Out has "very smart [campagin] consultants".
-- The two official Gold Derby frontrunners "
The Shape of Water" and "
3 Billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri" share a studio (Fox Searchlight). They have to juggle two awards campaign and could overstretch.
-- The team at Little Gold Men speculate that if Fox Searchlight doesn't invest in their frontrunner films buzzy films like
Get Out and
Lady Bird could win because A24 (Lady Bird) and Universal (Get Out) aren't worried about keeping two sets of people happy.
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