Awards
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Podcast Rivals Went on a Luxury Retreat to Fix Their $1B Metrics Problem
Plus: Creators crash Hollywood awards, I scoop Henry Smith’s CAA signing, and reps scramble for ‘Love Island’ stars
Latest Awards stories
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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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☀️Box Office Hits ’25 Low; ‘Anora’ Takes the Oscars
NETFLIX gets Portman-Dunham pic / HBO sets Horgan series, deal / ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ gets life at WBD
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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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‘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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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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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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🎧 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
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5 Oscar Best Actress Nominees Fight the Patriarchy (What’s Your Film Doing?)
A bigger-than-film campaign narrative always has been a best picture must. I assess the field of who is flexing ‘important’ with a capital I
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Making Sense of This Week’s Flurry of Awards & Noms
Gothams, NBR, NY Film Critics Circle and Indie Spirits, oh my! What they all mean for the state of the Oscar race
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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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Awards Season Upon Us and the Penske Media Greed Spiral
Inside our hometown monopolist’s Golden Globes money grab. Plus: The Emmys marked the end of the entire Streaming Era folly
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Two Words TV Buyers are Allergic To Now — and What the Emmys Have to Do With It
Creators and agents tell me about the market’s conservative flight to safety and how little what we saw onstage has to do with it