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Thanks so much for listening to Little Gold Men, the Award Season Podcast from Vanity Fair.

I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner.

And the Oscar goes to...

And the Oscar goes to...

The winner, it's a tie.

And any little... No winner, it's a tie.

And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller, you never know. Ma, I just want an Oscar.

I want an Oscar.

I'm Rebecca Ford,

I'm Rebecca Ford, and my guest today is legendary filmmaker Richard Link later, the writer and director behind such classics as Dazed and Confused, The Before trilogy and Boyhood.

His most recent film is Hit Man, which he

co-wrote with Glenn Powell. Powell also stars as Gary Johnson, a mild-mannered

professor who ends up working undercover for the New Orleans Police Department, posing as a hit man for hire.

But things get complicated when he falls for one of his clients.

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