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Awards Heaven Podcast — 100 episodes

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Daniel Pemberton on ‘Musk’ and the seductive power of selling a dream

2

Has the Oscar race just changed? You Can See Everything surges as we go on about our favorite epics

3

Joseph Trapanese scores the crushing depths of grief within the immense scale of ‘Whalefall’

4

Oscar’s Best Director race takes shape, plus the top 5 director nominations that missed Best Picture

5

In ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry,’ Paloma Schneideman looks back at the restless summers that shape us

6

Julia Michels makes ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ sing with the sound of Runway reborn

7

Jonas Åkerlund finds the life beneath the legend in ‘Billy Idol Should Be Dead’

8

D.P. Christine Ng invites us into the hilarious chaos of ‘Adults,’ where the camera feels like a sixth roommate

9

The 2027 Best Picture race takes shape, plus the great films we never want to watch again

10

Tom Howe reveals the richer musical heartbeat behind ‘Ted Lasso’

11

Fall film festival round-up, Oscar frontrunners and the top 5 music videos of all time

12

In ‘The Militia,’ filmmaker Dylan King Welter traces the dangerous pull of belonging

13

A restless ocean, two superpowers and history in the balance: Magdalena Górka on ‘The Brink of War’

14

Tori Letzler and Steven Richard Davis on finding the human heart of ‘The Man Will Burn’

15

‘Heartstopper Forever’ editor Todd Downing on shaping a goodbye & finding emotion between the lines

16

LIVE - 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards - Reactions Show

17

Award-winning composer Steven Price finds the bruised heart beating beneath ‘Coyote vs. Acme’

18

Michael Abels on composing the gathering storm at the heart of Na Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’

19

Emmy 2026 final predictions: The last word before television’s biggest night

20

Rodrigo Santoro and Scott Waugh on the heart-pounding action behind ‘Runner’

21

The Emmy races are heating up. Then we ranked the TV scenes that absolutely wrecked us.

22

How production designer Nick Bassett built fear into the walls of ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’

23

Emmy writing and directing, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and the strangest Top 5 we've ever attempted

24

Atli Örvarsson’s evolving vision for ‘Silo’: bridging timelines through memory and music

25

Who is winning Limited Series Actor and Actress? Plus our Top 5 Emmy moments of all time

26

Red states, blue states and two awards nerds: Mapping the 2026 midterms

27

Sarah Pidgeon’s career-defining turn in ‘Love Story’ reveals the woman behind the myth

28

The stories we tell ourselves: Gabe Rotter and Daniel Pearle on grief and obsession in 'The Beast in Me'

29

In 'Abbott Elementary', Randall Einhorn turns a Phillies game into television magic

30

A performance to remember: Constance Zimmer gives 'Love Story' its deepest heartbreak

31

The Art of 'Welcome to Wrexham': DP Leighton Cox & editor Michael Oliver find the heartbeat behind football’s most remarkable story

32

Beneath the silk and spectacle: John Glaser on dressing the world of 'Bridgerton'

33

A battle felt from the inside: DP Gustav Danielsson's immersive vision of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'

34

Listening to the darkness: Niv Adiri and the sonic descent of 'Lord of the Flies'

35

The Emmy guest races are endlessly fascinating. That's why we love them.

36

The art of unease: Ruy Garcia & Antonio Campos on the hidden dread of 'The Beast in Me'

37

The weight of winning: John Battsek and Joe Pearlman on the restless soul of 'Mourinho'

38

Rudy Mance on stitching memory into ‘Love Story’ and recreating a wedding that became legend

39

Australian gothic: Zohie Castellano on weaving desire and fear into horror hit 'Leviticus'

40

David Collins & Michael Williams on ‘Queer Eye,’ stories that changed TV & a legacy built on empathy

41

Olivia Newman on finding wonder in grief, connection and 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'

42

The face of a monster: Corey Castellano on transforming Charlie Hunnam in Monster: The Ed Gein Story

43

Charles Melton on being 'completely exposed' in one of the year’s finest TV performances in 'Beef'

44

The sound beneath the chaos: Steve 'Major' Giammaria and Scott D. Smith on 'The Bear'

45

Rikki Hughes captures the lion’s roar of 'Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable...'

46

Danny Bensi and Saunder Juriaans find beauty in the wreckage of 'Black Rabbit'

47

Dan Romer finds the wounded heartbeat of Westeros in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’

48

Manish Raval on how every great love story starts with the right song in ‘Nobody Wants This’

49

Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' dazzles us. Then we attempt the impossible: ranking his Top 5 films

50

Carlos Rafael Rivera and David Stal turn Deborah Vance’s wildest EGOT dream into gold in 'Hacks'

51

An Emmy-nominated debut takes flight: Cameron Moody on the wonder of 'Washington Black'

52

Sean Callery and Sara Barone find the sound of 'the beast within' in Netflix's 'The Beast in Me'

53

Joanna Naugle, ACE on turning The Bear's most anxious gathering into a cathartic emotional crescendo

54

Tari Segal, ASC turns Las Vegas into an emotional playground in 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles'

55

The art of revelation: D.P. Michael Bauman on the Emmy-nominated 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story'

56

Emmy nominee Jeff Kober on the quiet power of being seen in ‘The Pitt’

57

The Emmys' latest controversy sparks a fiery debate, and our Top 5 snubs get personal

58

How editor Vikash Patel turned ‘Black Rabbit’ into TV’s most nerve-shredding ride

59

David Fleming on 'embracing the edges' of Widow's Bay's beautifully haunted score

60

How prosthetics maestro Barrie Gower turned Stranger Things' Vecna into a television icon

61

The island is listening: How Widow’s Bay's sound team turned Episode 5 into TV's most haunting trip

62

How scoring mixer Phil McGowan sharpened the emotional edge of Black Rabbit's score

63

Production designer Rob Tokarz takes us inside Hacks’ most ambitious episode yet

64

Julie Schubert on the casting instincts powering The Diplomat’s most inspired choices

65

Every glance matters: Emmy-nominated editors Laura Zempel and Lauren Connelly on 'Beef' Season 2

66

The art of embracing the unexpected: DeMane Davis on 'Ride or Die' and 'Brilliant Minds'

67

Can 'Widow’s Bay' pull off the upset? Emmy frontrunners, surprises and more

68

The art of mystery: Meghan C. Rogers on building the seductive world of 'Sugar' season 2

69

2026 Emmy nominations instant reactions: The surprises, snubs and head-scratchers

70

No instruments. Just Amy Lee's voice: Michael Wandmacher's audacious score for 'The Seventh Turn'

71

Emmy writing and directing races under the microscope, then our most hated songs ever

72

Inside the Battle of the Gullet: P.J. Dillon on crafting House of the Dragon's most devastating hour

73

Tribute to James Burrows, the Emmy limited series lead actors, and top 5 all-time favorite songs

74

Inside the Emmy ballots, a crowded limited series race, and our favorite TV finales

75

Thom Khoury Williams & Chris Romrell on visceral, story-driven stunts of ‘Terminal List: Dark Wolf’

76

Ryan Collins and Nick Offord build the sound of 'Spider-Noir' across shadows and scale

77

In ‘The Girlfriend,’ Ruth Barrett’s score blurs the line between seduction and suspicion

78

Jacqueline Fowler shapes the wear and tear of the boys' harrowing descent in 'Lord of the Flies'

79

A spider in the shadows: Kris Bowers and Michael Dean Parsons on scoring the soul of 'Spider-Noir'

80

Breton Vivian on his luminous 'The Madison' score, where performance inspired every note

81

Bryce Dessner scores the emotional current beneath the Kennedy-Bessette mythology in ‘Love Story’

82

Tony reactions, Emmy comedy supporting races heat up and our Top 5 unforgettable screen deaths

83

Owen Harris redefines how fantasy combat is experienced in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’

84

Harry & Rupert Gregson-Williams score 'The Gilded Age' as power shifts and fortunes collide

85

‘Death by Lightning’ editor Michael Ruscio on cutting obsession, tension and the collision of Garfield and Guiteau

86

Inside the casting of ‘Love Story’: Courtney Bright & Nicole Daniels on the truth behind two icons

87

Avery Plewes on reinventing the next generation's silhouette and style in 'Starfleet Academy'

88

Jessica Harper commands the room as stoic, elegant matriarch Ethel Kennedy in 'Love Story'

89

In 'Bait,' Riz Ahmed gets personal: 'Life feeling like one big audition'

90

Kerry Kenney-Silver finds the heartbeat of The Four Seasons in Anne’s beautiful undoing

91

Free solo legend Alex Honnold scales the unimaginable in Netflix’s audacious ‘Skyscraper Live’

92

John Paesano goes big for 'The Boroughs' and finds the show’s emotional core

93

Mac Quayle scores a packed season with ‘Monster,’ ‘The Beauty,’ ‘His & Hers’ and ‘9-1-1: Nashville’

94

In ‘IT: Welcome to Derry,’ Esther Sokolow balances terror and empathy on a knife’s edge

95

Laura Karpman turns “Down Cemetery Road” into a haunting, maximalist fever dream

96

Mary McDonnell unlocks the soul of ‘The Boroughs’ with a character who sees beyond time

97

In ‘Big Mistakes,’ Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum scores the impulse behind every hilariously bad decision

98

Mitchell Robertson lays the emotional foundation for Niall’s unraveling in ‘Half Man’

99

Yolonda Ross steps behind the camera on 'The Chi' and finds a voice that’s entirely her own

100

In ‘The Boroughs,’ Ruth Ammon builds a community you want to live in… until you don’t