Prestige Junkie
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The Clues Pointing to ‘Widow’s Bay’ Beating ‘Hacks’
The toughest Emmy race to call — unless you know where to look
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🎧 Noah Wyle Manages the Young Docs of ‘The Pitt’ Onscreen & Off
The Gen X star on handling the show’s millennials and Gen Zers — and why he won’t say, ‘you know what we used to do…’
Latest Prestige Junkie stories
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🎧 Dwayne Johnson Is Not Giving Up on ‘The Smashing Machine’
The actor says playing fighter Mark Kerr changed his life: ‘I was a completely different human being’
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🎧 Chloé Zhao Won an Oscar. Then She Learned Enough to Make ‘Hamnet’
The acclaimed filmmaker tells me how she tapped into grief, joy, her inner volcano and ‘harmonizing the vibration of everyone’ to create her film’s transcendent finale
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He’s the Reason ‘Hamnet’ Makes You Cry Your Eyes Out
Composer Max Richter tells me about scoring the year’s most heartbreaking scene and how his Iraq War protest song became an indelible emotional anthem
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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
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.