Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

I'm David Canfield.

I'm Richard Lawson.

And I'm Rebecca Ford.

I'm nervous, guys. It's Oscar predictions day. How are we feeling?

Well, I mean, our predictions are now set in stone-ish online, so we've taken the biggest sleep, I think.

I think to start, we should emphasize that isish, because things have changed since the SEO gods asked us to publish some Oscar predictions on Vanityfair.com.

But yes, today we are going to deliver our final, final predictions in the major categories,

not all of them. You can again read our predictions for every category, minus the shorts on vanity fair.com.

We have seen, I think, one of the more unpredictable seasons in recent memory, so I expect these to be more wrong than usual.

Any final words before we officially get into it, Rebecca?

Yeah, I think you said it. I expect these to be more wrong than usual.

It's really summarizing where we're at, I feel like.

Well, a lovely note to start on, because Rebecca, we are going to start with your predictions

for the supporting actress, which were, again, on the site.

I don't know if you've changed them since, but they are Zoe Saldanya

for Emilia Perez, Ariana Grande for Wicked, Isabella Rosalini for Conclave, Felicity Jones for the

Brutalist, and Danielle Deadweiler for the piano lesson. I'm going to hold on to Daniel

Deadweiler with my hands gripped as tightly as humanly possible until these nominations

come out. I mean, even looking back over those lists days after we wrote it and a whole,

you know, fire catastrophe later, they feel like I didn't write them because I don't have a lot of

confidence, especially in that choice. I think I feel very good about Zoe and Ariana,

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