Why has Brendan Fraser been anointed the comeback king of the best-actor race when Colin Farrell hasn’t? Is Rihanna guaranteed an Oscar, even going up against Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga in the best-original-song race? And if there was one Oscar win from the past 20 years you could force more people to celebrate, which would it be?
Those are just some of the head-scratchers presented to the Little Gold Men team on this week’s episode, the last roundtable conversation of 2022. Listeners who emailed [email protected] presented questions about this year’s Oscar race, the fate of the box office, and Oscar wins of the past, sparking one last lively conversation to wrap up the year.
The episode also includes a conversation with Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, the copresidents of Sony Pictures Classics, who cofounded the specialty studio 30 years ago and have held strong through many rounds of doomsaying about the independent film market (this round included). “There’s always a moment in the year where they say the business is over,” Bernard says, with the attitude of someone who has been here many times before. This year, with the ongoing success of their film Living and the best-actor campaign for star Bill Nighy, Barker and Bernard have plenty to be proud of—and with the release of a new 30th anniversary Blu-ray box set with some of the company’s greatest hits, a lot to look back on too.
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Katey Rich
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