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Returning guest Tyler Coates joins Katey to break down the Oscar shortlists in 10 categories, with insight on the ever-chaotic best original song race, the major competition in international feature, and the impossible to predict short films.

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With Golden Globes and Critics Choice TV nominations out there and SaG right around the corner, Joe Reid joins Katey to look at the state of TV awards buzz, from last year's Emmy holdovers still holding court to exceptional fall shows like Nobody Wants This and The Penguin that might go the distance. Then, Katey talks to writer and director Steve McQueen about diving into the past — and into a child's point of view — for his stirring World War II drama Blitz, now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Listen to our first-ever Substack Live, in which Esther Zuckerman, author of the new book Falling in Love at the Movies, and Katey break down Monday's Golden Globe nominations. Then hear Katey's conversation with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, recorded mere minutes after her performance in Hard Truths won her the best actress prize from the New York Film Critics Circle.

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With the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association set to make their picks this weeks, The Atlantic's Shirley Li joins to explain why critical buzz is so important in this part of the awards race, and maybe even help Katey fill out her own Critics Choice Awards ballot. Then John Magaro, a proud "journeyman" actor who has nonetheless become a major arthouse movie draw, talks about his role in the tense thriller September 5.

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Matt Patches, Katey's old friend and co-host on the Fighting in the War Room podcast, joins to explain the emergence of the Game Awards, why the video game industry cares so much about them, and what Hollywood's awards shows might be able to learn from a much newer version of the format. Then Katey talks to Eddie Redmayne, who is spearheading the ambitious new spy series The Day of the Jackal but also reflecting on the 10 years that have passed since his Oscar win, and what he's learned about his own taste in movies in the process.

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Katey reunites with her former Little Gold Men co-host Rebecca Ford to recap the highlights of Sunday's Governors Awards, where Oscar hopefuls rubbed elbows and the Quincy Jones tribute had everybody in tears. Then Jesse Eisenberg talks about his inspirations for his film A Real Pain, why he only wants to write characters who are different from him, and when he'll find the time to write a song about South Sudan.

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Katey and Richard Rushfield join forces to pick movies from across movie history that are guaranteed to leave you feeling hopeful, no matter what the news has in store. Then Katey talks to The Piano Lesson star Danielle Deadwyler about everything that goes into her tremendous performances, from her knack for stillness to how she built trust with The Piano Lesson director Malcolm Washington. 

Katey's list of Movies For Hope on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/kateyrich/list/movies-to-give-you-hope/

Richard's list: https://letterboxd.com/rrushfield/list/movies-to-make-you-feel-ok-when-the-world/ 

Tyler Coates joins Katey to talk about why the Oscars and politics are so eternally entwined, and how no matter what happens in Tuesday's election, the impact will be felt throughout the season. The episode also includes a conversation with June Squibb, the 94-year-old star of the summertime hit Thelma, who has a lot of wisdom about tackling physical challenges small and large and putting her trust in a first-time director.

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Katey talks to Civil War star Kirsten Dunst about her powerful work in the Alex Garland thriller, and how she decides when it’s worth taking on a movie when she’s got two young boys demanding her attention at home. The episode also features a conversation with New Yorker staff writer and author Michael Schulman about the big narratives driving this year’s awards season, from the breakout stars to the movie that’s a metaphor for the Oscars themselves.

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Listen in on our live panel event at the Montclair Film Festival, featuring awards season speculation from Chris Murphy and Chris Rosen and true insider insight from Sony Pictures Classics co-president and co-founder Tom Bernard. Then Katey sits down with Stephen Colbert, who hosts some of the most high profile onstage events of the festival, and his wife Evie McGee Colbert, the president of Montclair Film.

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With the best picture race still anyone's game, This Had Oscar Buzz co-host Chris Feil joins Katey to ask the big questions that will determine the race, from how international voters play into it to what Clint Eastwood might have in store. Then, Katey talks to Morgan Neville, the Oscar-winning documentarian whose new film Piece by Piece he's calling a work of "creative nonfiction" than a documentary — though he finds all the rules about that pretty silly anyway.

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Now going toe to toe with Colin Farrell in the HBO series The Penguin, Cristin Milioti has emerged on the other side of the Hollywood strikes knowing more about what she wants from this business — even if she knows it's "crazy-making and bad for us all." 

The episode also includes a conversation with Vanity Fair's Chris Murphy about his recent cover story on Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, and what to expect from an awards season full of musicals, including Emilia Perez, Moana 2, Mufasa and even the ill-fated Joker: Folie á Deux.

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Chris Sanders, the writer and director of The Wild Robot, explains the groundbreaking technology that allows his animated film to look like it's hand-painted — because it is! Plus, Jordan Hoffman joins for a conversation about the New York Film Festival, the buzz around Nickel Boys and what makes this festival unlike any other in the fall schedule.

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The titular stars of the road trip documentary Will & Harper, Will Ferrell and Harper Steele are reuniting to talk about the film with eager audiences around the country— and they’re still busy trying to make each other laugh, too.

The episode also includes a conversation between Katey and The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield about the biggest burning questions of awards season, from whether this is finally Netflix’s year to the relevance of the Golden Globes.

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Elaine Low joins Katey for a dispatch from Emmys weekend parties, and a look at how this year's Emmy results might tell us where Hollywood is headed next. Then Katey catches up with Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon, who already won a best actress prize at Cannes for her breakthrough role in the film. She's freshly home from Telluride and Toronto and is gearing up for a lot more attention this season — whether or not she's ready for the red carpet fashion that goes with it.

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Hello TIFF! For Prestige Junkie's inaugural year in Toronto we teamed up with TIFF to present this live edition of the podcast. First Katey is joined by Vulture's Joe Reid to look back at the festival thus far, with plenty of buzzy best actress performances and a coveted audience award on the line. Then Hugh Grant joins Katey to discuss his new A24 thriller Heretic but also so much more, from how he's learned to weather social media storms to the imitation Meryl Streep does of him on set when he's worried about a close-up. Heretic opens in theaters on November 15.

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Katey is joined by Indiewire’s David Ehrlich to run down the highlights of the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals, which already have awards season running at full speed— and we haven’t even gotten to Toronto yet. The episode also includes a conversation with Willa Fitzgerald, the star of the summer’s breakout thriller Strange Darling. She gets into spoilers about this very twisty movie at the 52 minute mark, so be warned!

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The prolific producer, whose new project Fight Night debuts on Peacock September 5, has built a career on entertaining audiences Hollywood often overlooks. He shares a few secrets of how he's done it, and how surviving the TikTok era and the post-strike industry requires some optimism — but also willingness to take risks. 

The episode also includes a look ahead to the Telluride Film Festival with guest co-host Sean Fennessey, and some speculation about how Challengers might make a slow awards-season comeback.

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The Emmy nominee and star of Fallout and the upcoming White Lotus season three looks back at what drove him to make a living in Hollywood, how he and Jonathan Nolan crossed paths at the Oscar nominee luncheon years before teaming up for Fallout, and what keeps him coming back to film and TV sets. 

The episode also includes a conversation between Katey and Gold Derby's Chris Rosen about the state of play in the Emmys race, the most competitive categories, and how the presence of Meryl Streep upends any awards season.

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The Emmy-nominated talent behind the fifth season of Fargo joined me live in Los Angeles to talk about the connections they built on set and the hit show's new nod to the original movie.

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The Slow Horses Emmy nominee describes the surprising joys of being part of a television show that's already filmed five seasons, with more on the way, and how it brings him back to his roots in the theater. But before that, guest co-host Tyler Coates joins Katey to dig into the true inner workings of awards season, which controversies might still be on the horizon, and why some things about the process may never change no matter what.

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David Canfield joins Katey Rich to look at the films that have already built a strong base of awards season support, from early year standouts like Sing Sing and Anora to upcoming hopefuls like Gladiator 2 and The Wild Robot. Then Katey talks to Nikki Glaser, who earned her first-ever Emmy nomination for her hit standup special Someday You'll Die, and is still trying to figure out what to do with her new level of fame following the Tom Brady roast.

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Chris Feil joins Katey to break down all the premieres announced for festivals in Venice, Toronto and beyond, and go deep on William S. Burroughs's Queer, soon to be a film from Luca Guadagnino. Then, Katey talks to songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who are Emmy-nominated for their Only Murders in the Building original song "Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It". They will be in the extremely rare class of EGOT winners if they take home the Emmy — but they have to get past their friend and collaborator Sara Bareilles first.

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Rob Long, the host of the Martini Shot podcast, joins Katey Rich to talk about what it's really like when you're nominated for an Emmy, and why in an era of endless uncertainty in Hollywood, awards might actually mean more than ever. Then Katey talks to Moses Ingram, the star of the new Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake, about coming home to Baltimore to make the show, and how her co-star Natalie Portman has shown genuine allyship as they hit the promotional circuit together.

Jordan Hoffman joins Katey Rich to discuss the highlights of this year’s Emmy nominations, from FX getting even better news than expected to the shutout for a recent Oscar winner. Plus, Shogun creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks join Katey to reflect on the unlikely road to 25 nominations — and how they wish they were celebrating.

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The star and executive producer of the new film Sing Sing talks about the fearless collaboration required to make the movie, both with the director Greg Kwedar and his co-stars, many of whom were formerly incarcerated members of the theater program at the heart of the film. 

The episode also includes a conversation between Katey Rich and Gold Derby’s Chris Rosen about their final Emmy nomination predictions, and which shows might surprise us when the nominations are announced next week.

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The writer and director Michael Sarnoski says that before he said yes to directing the spinoff A Quiet Place: Day One, he had to be certain he could bring something personal to the franchise world created by John Krasinski. On this week's episode he tells Katey Rich how he did just that, and found remarkable box office success in the process. 

But before that, The Ringer's Joanna Robinson joins Katey Rich for our first Oscar flashback, celebrating the 35th anniversary of sex lies and videotape and the indie film boom it inspired. Joanna and Katey look back at Steven Soderbergh's autobiographical inspirations, the performances that hold up the best, and why the Oscars weren't quite ready for this movie, even if they would be now.

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Esther Zuckerman joins Katey Rich to talk about Kinds of Kindness, The Bikeriders, and Janet Planet, made by some of the most exciting directors working and with varying levels of hope for hanging around until awards season at the year’s end. Then Katey talks to Julianne Nicholson, the star of Janet Planet, about building the film’s unique world with writer-director Annie Baker.

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Host Katey Rich is joined by The Atlantic and Blank Check's David SIms to take a look at Inside Out 2, what it means for the summer's sputtering box office and the future of Disney, and how it might fit into the next Oscar race. Then Katey talk to two stars of Abbott Elementary, Lisa Ann Walter and Sheryl Lee Ralph, who have bonded closely over everything from union work to TCM.

Katey Rich is joined by The Ankler's founder and chief columnist Richard Rushfield, who has spent a lot of the summer talking about the ways Hollywood is going wrong but consents to some optimism when it comes to the Emmys race. Then, Baby Reindeer Jessica Gunning talks to Katey about the Oscar-winning makeup artist who helped with her Baby Reindeer audition, what it's like when she and co-star Richard Gadd go out together in public now, and what might come next after such a huge breakout performance.

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Elaine Low joins Katey Rich to explain why shows like Emmy heavyweights The Bear, Shogun, and The White Lotus are so hard to replicate, and which successful TV trends might be poised for a cargo pants-style comeback. Then Katey talks to Seth Meyers about 10 years of his show Late Night With Seth Meyers, getting heckled via text by John Oliver, and why when Dolly Parton asks if she can send people your children's book, you say yes. 

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Host Katey Rich is joined by This Had Oscar Buzz co-host Joe Reid to discuss the Cannes Film Festival winners, and which titles could follow in the footsteps of The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall to major Oscar success. 

Then, Katey talks to Maya Rudolph about the second season of her series Loot, in which she co-stars alongside Michaela Jae Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster, Nat Faxon, and more. After coming up on Saturday Night Live and guest starring on virtually every great comedy of the past two decades, Rudolph says “I feel far funnier among funny people as opposed to being the center of something.” As Loot emerges as a true workplace comedy in its second season, it certainly allows her to do just that.

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Host Katey Rich is joined by Sean McNulty to talk about the impact of Shogun moving to the best drama series Emmy race, and why the show’s success is so thrilling even if you’re not an FX or Disney shareholder.

Then Katey talks to Under the Bridge star Lily Gladstone about her busy life post-Oscar nomination, her personal connection to the true story behind the show, and why making a comedy with Bowen Yang is a more logical step for her than you might expect.

Hosted by The Ankler’s Awards Editor Katey Rich, the Prestige Junkie podcast is your weekly guide to all of Hollywood’s awards season, featuring conversations with the biggest talents who make it happen. First episode drops May 21.