Prestige Junkie
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‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Crashes the Best Actress Race
Plus: ‘Task’ and ‘The Gilded Age’ director Salli Richardson-Whitfield on her history-making Emmy noms
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🎧 ‘Task’ Star Tom Pelphrey’s Worst Emmy Birthday Is Behind Him
‘You cannot make it up,’ the nominee tells me of the year he was a sure thing — until he wasn’t
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He Acts! He Embroiders! Josh O’Connor Says ‘I Keep Telling Myself I’ll Take a Break’
Four movies, four star turns: The in-demand talent tells me about wanting to slow down. But then Spielberg calls
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🎧 How Jenny Han Tricked ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Fans (in the Best Way)
During a live conversation, Gen Z’s rom-com queen told me how she keeps surprising audiences
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Governors Awards: My Night Inside Hollywood’s Starry Power Room
Tom Cruise got an Oscar, the ‘One Battle’ cast rolled deep and Timothée Chalamet was MIA (again!). Plus: My chat with Park Chan-wook
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June Squibb, 96, Is Having the Career Surge of a Lifetime
The Oscar nominee is back on the circuit, headed to Broadway — and still waiting for her Western
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🎧 Gus Van Sant: ‘You Have To Be Obsessed’
The Oscar-nominated director of ‘Good Will Hunting’ and ‘Milk’ is back with ‘Dead Man’s Wire,’ his first film in almost a decade
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The Women at the Heart of Making ‘Sinners’
How artisans Ruth E. Carter, Hannah Beachler and Autumn Durald Arkapaw helped turn Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster into an Oscar fave
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Adam Sandler’s AARP Era is Here
Plus: Denver Film Festival, IMAX wows & yet another Golden Globes TV show
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🎧 Sydney Sweeney on Building a Career on Her Own Terms
The actress is in the Oscar race for her work in ‘Christy.’ She tells me it’s a part she’s unwittingly wanted since she was a kid
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Oscar Showdown: Gen Z vs. Millennials vs. X-ers vs. Boomers
Which generation is on the cusp of domination? I’ll tell you
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Oscar Puzzle Part II: The Acting Categories That Have Pundits On Edge
Plus: What to read into the Gotham Awards noms
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🎧 The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright Plucked by Kathryn Bigelow
Tracy Letts has become one of the industry’s most in-demand character actors: ‘I pretend with authority’
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The ‘Frankenstein’ Surge, and How Its Crafts Can Lead to an Oscars Future
Guillermo del Toro’s movie may follow a path paved by ‘Dune’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road.’ Plus: Category tomfoolery at the Globes
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The Oscar Puzzle: What Pundits Agree On — and Where Chaos Reigns
Our Prestige Junkie pundits on the surprise ‘Frankenstein’ surge and the deceptive director race. Plus: An exclusive track from Nicholas Britell’s ‘Jay Kelly’ score
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🎧 Zoey Deutch on Playing Jean Seberg in ‘Nouvelle Vague’
Plus: The movies that went up and down during the regional film festival rush
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Stars Posing with Ponies? The Unexpected Oscar Power of a Regional Film Festival
Inside the ground game as I hit horsey Middleburg, Va. and Christopher Rosen movied-it-up in Montclair, N.J.
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.