When the members of the Little Gold Men team gathered last March to make some fearless predictions about the 2020 Oscars, they got a lot of things right: earmarking Renée Zellweger’s performance in Judy as a potentially powerful comeback narrative, pegging Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood as the summer movie that would get everyone talking, and even picking out Antonio Banderas’s role in Pain and Glory as one to watch. Then again, they failed, for the second year in a row, to even mention the eventual best-picture winner. Fortune-telling is a tough business.
But that won’t stop them from trying again! On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, Mike Hogan, Richard Lawson, Katey Rich, and Joanna Robinson welcome back special guest Joe Reid to look at the year ahead in movies—but not before looking back a little to see what they got right and wrong. They flag a whole wide range of movies worth looking out for in next year’s Oscar race, from two big studio movie-musicals set in New York City (Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story) to Christopher Nolan’s next mind-bender (Tenet) to any number of tiny movies with the potential for knockout performances (Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz in Mank, Amy Adams and Glenn Close in Hillbilly Elegy; the list goes on and on).
Listen to the episode above, and subscribe to Little Gold Men on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you get your podcasts. And for posterity, the team’s 2021 best-picture predictions, below:
Joe Reid: Mank
Richard Lawson: The French Dispatch
Joanna Robinson: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Katey Rich: Those Who Wish Me Dead
Mike Hogan: None of the above!
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