Prestige Junkie
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🎧 Jane Schoenbrun’s Slasher Movie Is a Really Good Time in the Dark
The filmmaker on their horror satire with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. Plus: studio plans for Oscar season
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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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🎧 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
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‘Conclave’ Quietly Maneuvers Into Position as a Potential ‘Anora’-Killer
Timothée Chalamet wins his fellow thesps’ vote as I analyze takeaways from a big Hollywood weekend filled with surprises
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Oscar’s Final Tea Leaves: Spirits, SAG Awards & What They’ll Reveal
I talk to the producers of the actors’ big night, whose film ensemble cast winner often becomes the Academy’s best pic
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🎧 The Eternal Intrigue of Best Actress and Demi Moore’s Comeback
I analyze the category and overall race with Dan D’Addario, whose novel about five female contenders campaigning and competing is an Oscar nerd’s dream
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BAFTA’s 11th Hour Oscar Surprises
Hometown fave ‘Conclave’ wins big; ‘A Real Pain’ gets a boost. Plus: Guillermo del Toro’s auteur-to-auteurs chat with Team ‘Sing Sing’
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🎧 Don’t Ask Monica Barbaro to Sing Karaoke
The ‘Complete Unknown’ star warbles as Joan Baez on screen but tells me why she’s loath to do it on stage. Plus: diving into Oscar’s shorts contenders
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Painstaking Craft: ‘Wallace & Gromit’, ‘Wicked’ and the Art of World Building
Co-directors of ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ and Oz’s costume and hair and makeup designers tell me how they did it. Plus: Get your pundit on with our Oscar pool
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🎧 Fans’ Dirty Campaign Tricks; Plus, How ‘Anora’ Became Oscar’s ‘Heart Movie’
I talk to Kyle Buchanan of the ‘New York Times’ about this year’s rollercoaster and why the Academy often gravitates to the ‘spiky’ but ‘tender’ contender
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Oscars: Maybe It Was ‘Anora’ All Along. Plus, a ‘Conclave’ Confab
The surge no one saw coming for Sean Baker’s film
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🎧 In Search of a New Oscar Frontrunner
I game out best pic possibilities with ‘Atlantic’ critic David Sims as ‘Anora’ scores a high-profile win
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What 3 Big Awards Shows Will Mean for Oscar (& ‘Emilia Pérez’)
I survey the field ahead of Critics Choice, DGA and PGA. Plus: The designing woman behind ‘The Brutalist’
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🎧 ‘Anora’ Auteur Sean Baker Unpacks His ‘Twist’ on the Romcom
I talk to the writer-director about his Hollywood influences, from George Lucas to ‘Coming to America.’ Plus: Analyzing the implosion of ‘Emilia Pérez’
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Epic ‘Emilia Pérez’ Spiral; ‘The Wild Robot’ Music Man Soars
My convo with Kris Bowers reminds us what’s thrilling about the Oscars as the shocking controversy around Karla Sofía Gascón grows
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🎧 Nope, ‘The Brutalist’ Auteur Won’t Make a Franchise
Brady Corbet tells me he wants to keep directing his own ‘radical,’ ‘uncompromising’ films ‘in perpetuity.’ But first he wants a few days off
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Mudslinging Comes Back in Style
Dirty tricks and trolling campaigns return, this time with ‘stans’ often driving the narrative
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.