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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One of These 12 Movies Will Win the TIFF Audience Award (I Think)
The People’s Choice Award at Toronto has an enviable Oscar track record. This is my ranked list
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🎧 Late-Night’s Existential Crisis
Culture critic Nick Quah tells me how ‘The Late Show’ end was inevitable
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Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is Coming for an Oscar
Plus: ‘The Daily Show’ host Desi Lydic on ‘Foxsplaining’ in the Trump era
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Katey & Chris: The Case for ‘Severance’ to Win Best Drama & Two Acting Emmys
In a sneak preview of Prestige Junkie After Party, Christopher Rosen and I hash out lingering Emmy takes, Nolan’s IMAX sellout and ‘After the Hunt’
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‘Nobody Expected This’: Meet the Year’s Least Likely Emmy Nominee
‘Somebody Somewhere’ star Jeff Hiller became a first-timer for the cult HBO comedy. Plus: The cancel culture movie that could rock Oscar season
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New! Prestige Junkie After Party is Here
Surprise! I just launched a special separate newsletter where I get uncensored — and go even deeper on awards season
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10 Most Burning Qs Before Emmy Noms Next Week
Can HBO beat Netflix, are voters bearish on ‘The Bear’, does YouTube stand a chance, and will my ‘Andor’ ardor translate?
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🎧 ‘The Bear,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘Adolescence’: Final Emmy Nom Predictions
Christopher Rosen and I make our picks ahead of next week’s nods
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‘Sinners,’ ‘Barbie’ & Oscar Double Standards That Won’t Go Away
Plus: ‘The Bear’ makes another reservation, and the return of James L. Brooks in more ways than one
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My Watchlist of Second Chance Movies for a Long Weekend
Before firing up the BBQ, catch up on these greats, past and present — including an unsung A24 gem — streaming this holiday weekend
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🎧 Cruise, Spielberg & the Couch: ‘War of the Worlds’ 20 Years Later
A blockbuster, a media circus and one very unfortunate piece of daytime TV history. But does the movie hold up?
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The Early Oscar Race: ‘Nuremberg’, Bruce, Bigelow & ‘Bugonia’
Reading between the lines of the 2025 release schedule
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New Academy Members List: Surprises, Snubs & Shifting Power
As the voting body tops 10,000, I look at what the new 534 invitees mean for next year’s nominees. Plus: Decoding the early TIFF announcements
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🎧 The Celebrity Press Tour is Upended
‘Publicists are scrambling and pulling their hair out to figure out what platform is hot this week,’ Nicole LaPorte tells me
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.















