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🎧 ‘The Pitt’: Patrick Ball’s 15-Year Overnight Success
‘I’ve done a lot of things to survive,’ the actor tells me
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🎧 Power, Delusion & Matthew Macfadyen’s Post-‘Succession’ Bet
The Emmy winner plays a real-life presidential assassin in Netflix’s ‘Death by Lightning’
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Sepideh Moafi on ‘The Pitt’ Twist She’s Been Hiding All Season
The actress explains her character’s emotional ending, and what comes next
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🎧 Jean Smart’s Perfect Exit (Again)
Why five seasons may be her sweet spot — but leaving ‘Hacks’ is more complicated
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🎧 Steven Soderbergh on Art, Commerce & Legacy
The renaissance filmmaker on his new film, ‘The Christophers.’ Plus: An early Emmy season primer
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🎧 Recklessly Early Oscar Predictions for 2027
From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to ‘The Odyssey,’ it’s never too soon to start thinking about next year’s top contenders
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🎧 Drew Goddard, ‘Project Hail Mary’ Whisperer
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter on adapting Andy Weir novels into blockbusters
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My Final Oscar Predictions: Part 2
Who will win the ‘Sinners’ vs. ‘One Battle’ showdowns, and the acting category primed for an upset
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🎧 How the Oscars Actually Happen
Academy heads Lynette Howell Taylor & Bill Kramer (almost) tell me their secrets. Plus: My final predictions!
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🎧 Two Days Out: Oscar Shockers, Shorts and Second Thoughts
Need help winning your Oscar pool? I’ve got you covered
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🎧 Kate Hudson’s Wild Oscar Ride: ‘It Doesn’t Come Along Often’
The nominee talks betting on herself, bringing grown-up dramas back to theaters and that no career ‘has a crystal ball’
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🎧 The Hug That Helped Make an Oscar Nominee
‘Sentimental Value’ best supporting actress contender Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas tells me how she created the film’s enduring moment
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🎧 ‘Blue Moon’ Pushed Ethan Hawke Harder Than Ever
The best actor nominee opens up about self-doubt in his latest collaboration with Richard Linklater
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🎧 Ryan Coogler Wrote ‘Sinners’ for Wunmi Mosaku — She Just Didn’t Know It
The Oscar-nominated star on her breakout role. Plus: Which Spirit Award wins really matter
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🎧 What It Really Feels Like to Be an Oscar Nominee
I talk to 16 of this year’s contenders — including Amy Madigan and Rose Byrne — to find out
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🎧 The Death of Sex on Screen Was Greatly Exaggerated
‘Pillion’ actor Harry Melling is a breakout thanks to the sweet (yes!) BDSM story as romance in all forms revs up
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🎧 ‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Maggie Kang on Rumi’s Skateboard Origins
The Oscar-nominated co-director on turning a personal sketch into a global phenomenon — and trusting her instincts

Prestige Junkie podcast brings awards editor Katey Rich and deputy editor Christopher Rosen together to banter and break down film and TV from opening weekend to awards race.
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