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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The Oscar Puzzle: What Pundits Agree On — and Where Chaos Reigns
Our Prestige Junkie pundits on the surprise ‘Frankenstein’ surge and the deceptive director race. Plus: An exclusive track from Nicholas Britell’s ‘Jay Kelly’ score
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🎧 Zoey Deutch on Playing Jean Seberg in ‘Nouvelle Vague’
Plus: The movies that went up and down during the regional film festival rush
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Stars Posing with Ponies? The Unexpected Oscar Power of a Regional Film Festival
Inside the ground game as I hit horsey Middleburg, Va. and Christopher Rosen movied-it-up in Montclair, N.J.
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Best Actress: The Case For & Against 14 Contenders
Past winners and noms abound, but for me there’s one frontrunner — and everyone else
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🎧 Chase Infiniti Got Leo on TikTok. Now She’s Coming for Oscar
I talk to the breakout star of ‘One Battle After Another,’ who commands a movie set — and social feed — with fearless ease
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Bradley Cooper’s ‘Balls,’ and Kirsten Dunst on Making Channing Tatum Cry
Plus: Remembering Diane Keaton, and the hidden gem I’ll watch in her honor
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Timothée Chalamet Was Foreshadowing ‘Marty Supreme’
Plus: Kino Lorber’s Richard Lorber on his ‘uplifting’ Gaza doc about a photojournalist killed before its premiere
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🎧 ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Director’s Most Dreaded Word for a Female Role
Mary Bronstein on her incendiary new A24 movie about motherhood. Plus: Taylor Swift’s Hollywood ambitions
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Thighs Wide Open: Taylor, ‘Sinners’ & the Awards Season of Female Sexuality
Swift’s explicit new album is the latest to embrace taboos; plus the Globes podcast mess & a best actor update
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🎬 Taylor Swift Has Everything. But the Oscar She Wants
‘Showgirl’ is the latest in her tortured romance with Hollywood (remember her Searchlight directing deal?). Hunter Harris, Christopher Rosen & I explore her final frontier
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Best Actor: The Case For and Against 16 Contenders
The calculus that could swing voters in a race that includes Clooney, DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan & Dwayne Johnson
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🎧 ‘One Battle After Another’: Will Hollywood Learn Anything?
Richard Rushfield and I on what the movie business can and should learn from the success of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest
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Leonardo DiCaprio: The Last Great Movie Star
How the ‘One Battle After Another’ lead stayed big as the pictures got small
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‘To Catch a Predator’, Reconsidered
‘Predators’ is like no true-crime doc before. Plus: Apple pulled Jessica Chastain’s new show — ugh
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🎧 ‘Sinners’ vs. ‘One Battle’: Warners Takes on Warners in the Oscars
Why I don’t envy the studio’s tough awards campaigns ahead, and state of the race with Tyler Coates
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.