Prestige Junkie
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Hiro Murai on ‘Widow’s Bay’ and Its Ouija Board Magic
Plus: ‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s bittersweet weekend
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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
Latest Prestige Junkie stories
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Emmy’s Clown Car Comedy Race
It’s fresh series stars vs. returning champs in an unusually crowded field. Plus: The Academy’s ‘No Other Land’ hedge backfires
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The ‘Adolescence’ Moment
The chilling series sets Netflix records, and, of course, makes Andrew Tate really mad. Plus: The Academy’s weak on ‘No Other Land’, and who’ll play Hegseth
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🎧 ‘White Lotus’, ‘Black Doves’ & the Zeitgeist Effect on Emmys
Elaine Low and Manori Ravindran join me to break down this year’s race (so far)
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‘Long Bright River’, ‘Adolescence’ & Limited Series’ Long Comeback
Inside the category’s, yes, dramatic Emmy’s evolution as ‘The Penguin’, ‘Dying for Sex’ and more reshape the race
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‘No Other Land’ & a Raucous First Amendment Fight
The campaign to protect Miami Beach’s O Cinema has activated Hollywood: ‘The city would be an international laughing stock’
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🎧 Oscars 2026: Irresponsible Predictions!
Dozens of top auteurs — PTA to Spike Lee to Edward Berger (again!) — will be in contention, not to mention Chalamet playing ping-pong
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First Thoughts About Emmy Contenders
An early look at the actors of ‘Severance’ and ‘The White Lotus’. Plus, Conan’s sequel, and Soderbergh’s thrilling return
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Sony Classics’ Pres on Strategy and ‘Big Unsaid Things’ About Streamers
‘We don’t buy a movie for an Oscar,’ Tom Bernard tells me, but SPC picks winners even so. Plus, Marvel’s new ‘Thunderbolts’ trailer is giving A24 vibes
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Bong Joon-ho, ‘Mickey 17’ and the Fine Art of Following Best Picture
I analyze the ‘Parasite’ auteur’s latest and the coming acts from this decade’s other helmers behind Oscar’s top winners
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A (Adrien) to Z (Zoe): Oscar Stars’ Next Moves
No rest for the winners! I suss out the big actors’ and directors’ follow-ups
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Holy Crap, I Went to the Oscars!
After years covering the awards, you’d think I’d be a little jaded. Nope, my first-ever night at the show got me genuinely inspired, teary and footloose
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Who’s Winning: Final Oscar Predictions
After all the drama, the precursor awards, the Karla, I make my 23 picks for Sunday. See if you can beat me in our Oscar pool!
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🎧 Making Oscar Great Again: How Do You Follow ‘I’m Just Ken’?
The show’s producers tell me how they’re ‘reimagining’ it for 2025. Plus: Final Oscar predictions with Vulture’s Joe Reid
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.