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So What Actually Deserves to Win Best Picture This Year? Feb 08, 2025

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David Sims joins Katey to look broadly at the best picture field after the Emilia Perez fallout, the Complete Unknown surge, and everything else that’s made this season so impossible to predict. What actually deserves to win best picture after all this? What will look like a good win in 10 years? We get into all of it.

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Inside the Emilia Pérez Scandal With Sam Adams, Plus Sean Baker On Making Anora As Funny as It's Sad Feb 04, 2025

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After a whirlwind few days of scandal and seemingly endless interviews from Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón, Slate's Sam Adams join Katey to figure out how it all played out, how fervent fan bases have played outsize roles in this awards season, and where Emilia Pérez's Oscar hopes can go from here. Then Katey talks to Anora's director, writer, co-producer and editor Sean Baker about his very particular way of making movies, how he challenged himself with Anora and where he'll go from here.

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How the Oscars Learned to Love Horror with Joanna Robinson, Plus Brady Corbet on His Future of "Radical" Films Feb 01, 2025

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The Ringer's Joanna Robinson returns to join Katey and look at the Oscar success of not just The Substance but also Nosferatu, and why it's good for everyone when there's a popular genre movie that the Oscars can already embrace. Then, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet calls from London, where he reflects on the long promotional campaign he's still in the middle of, what the future of Hollywood and AI should actually look like, and what he'll do on March 3 when this awards season rush is all over.

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The Best of Sundance So Far: Stars, Docs, and At Least One Buzzy Masterpiece Jan 28, 2025

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The Ankler's Alison Brower joins Katey from Park City to talk about the highlights from the first few days of Sundance, which as usual is heavy on excellent docs and has plenty of hit-or-miss star vehicles. Luckily for the rest of us, there are at least a few surefire hits to look forward to.

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2025 Oscar Nominations: The Good, The Bad, and the Shocking Jan 23, 2025

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Katey shares instant reactions to this year’s Oscar nominations with Esther Zuckerman, then shares segments of a Substack Live session with Richard Rushfield, asking some of the bigger questions about what this years nominations mean for Hollywood. Want to be part of our next Substack Live? Become a paid subscriber to The Ankler and join us!

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Awards Season in the Time of Wildfires with Tyler Coates, Plus Robert Eggers Goes Deep on Nosferatu Jan 14, 2025

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It feels like an eternity since last week’s Golden Globes, and with all of Los Angeles focused on the wildfires and their aftermath, awards season has taken a backseat— but hasn’t ended entirely. Tyler Coates joins Katey to talk about the impact of all this turmoil, and how awards season might boost the city’s recovery once it finally returns.

Then Katey talks to Robert Eggers, the director of stylish horror films who just had his biggest hit ever with Nosferatu, a movie he’s spent more than a decade trying to get made— and was absolutely worth the wait.

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Fernanda Torres Finds Hope In Dystopic Times Jan 11, 2025

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The Golden Globe-winning star of I’m Still Here on reuniting with Walter Salles for their acclaimed historical drama, and how she learned from her mother how to prepare for a run through awards season.

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2024 In Review Part 2: The Best Performances of the Year Jan 08, 2025

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Katey and Richard Rushfield continue their look back at the year that was in Hollywood, selecting the year's standout performances in everything from little-seen Sundance indies to some likely future Oscar winners. It's enough good work to even make Richard feel a little optimistic as the new year begins.

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LIVE with Inside Out 2 Director Kelsey Mann Jan 08, 2025

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Katey sits down in front of a live audience in Hollywood with the director of the animated sensation, discussing what it took to make his directorial debut after years at Pixar, the many versions of the film that existed before the one we see today, and the emotions driving his console these days.

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Golden Globes Morning After With David Canfield, Plus Guy Pearce on the Lessons of The Brutalist Jan 07, 2025

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Katey reunites with Vanity Fair's David Canfield to break down the highlights of the Golden Globes, which had some surprisingly great winners and a very capable host in addition to some bizarre production snafus. Then Katey talks to Guy Pearce, a Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominee for his role in The Brutalist, about some hard-won wisdom from a long, up-and-down career in Hollywood.

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