Prestige Junkie
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Could Robert Pattinson Really Get Four Oscar Nominations?
Plus: Richard Jenkins is back in Emmy contention, and the TIFF docs to know
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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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Sean Baker & Co. on Getting a Sex Worker’s Hair Tinsel Just Right
The ‘Anora’ team reveal painstaking details behind the production. Plus: Is the next ‘To Leslie’ here? And this week’s awards chatter from L.A.
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🎧 Jesse Eisenberg’s Fortysomething Creative Renaissance
The writer-director-star of ‘A Real Pain’ on writing against type, directing awkward scenes and his next project
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My Night at the Governors Awards
Also: I talk to producers Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick about their perilous journey with Ridley Scott’s epic ‘Gladiator II’
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‘Gladiator II’ and ‘Wicked’ Battle for Perfect Timing
Plus: Days after the ‘podcast election,’ an awards show for podcasts
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🎧 Danielle Deadwyler’s Golden Silence
‘The Piano Lesson’ star on using stillness to make noise. Plus: Movies that give you hope
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8 Ways the Election Changes the Oscar Race
How will Academy voters choose to speak to this moment? The films and studios best and worst positioned
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Director Malcolm Washington’s ‘Lesson’: ‘America Can’t Exist Without Black People’
The first-time director tells me how he made his explosive adaptation of August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ his own
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🎧 June Squibb: 94 and Unstoppable
The ‘Thelma’ star shares her 70-year journey to late-career stardom. Plus: The ties that bind the Oscars and politics
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James Carville: ‘I Think We’re Going to Win.’ If Not? ‘I’m Going to the Caribbean’
For the legendary Dem strategist and his documentarian, Matt Tyrnauer, the first campaign is the election. Then come the Oscars
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🎧 Kirsten Dunst: ‘I Can’t Do Things for Money’
The Oscar-nominated star opens up about being ‘director driven’ and why ‘I’m not someone who can bring work home . . . [my kids] want their mom’
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The Clint Eastwood Snub. Ouch
What to make of WBD’s cold shoulder? Plus: ‘Daily Show’ co-creator Lizz Winstead on her abortion access doc barnstorming the country
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The Denzel Washington Hype Is Even Realer Than You Think
A showy performance in ‘Gladiator II’ suggests a revival for the Oscar-worthy movie star turn. Plus: Smell-o-Vision’s back!
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🎧 Stephen & Evie Colbert: Local Heroes, Oscar Influencers!
‘The Late Show’ host and his wife tell me how their work with the Montclair Film Festival fuels their love of film and film culture. Plus: Awards insider intel
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On the Ground at One of Oscar Season’s Early Proving Grounds
I take in the kickoff of the Montclair Film Festival, with ‘Conclave’ director Edward Berger, Sony Pictures Classics’ Tom Bernard and its influential creative-class crowd
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3 Big Ideas to Fix Oscar Host Phobia
A parachuting Tom Cruise, Lady Gaga, Keke Palmer? Where the Academy Awards could start
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.