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Awards Heaven Podcast — 180 episodes
Emmy writing and directing, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and the strangest Top 5 we've ever attempted
Atli Örvarsson’s evolving vision for ‘Silo’: bridging timelines through memory and music
Who is winning Limited Series Actor and Actress? Plus our Top 5 Emmy moments of all time
Red states, blue states and two awards nerds: Mapping the 2026 midterms
Sarah Pidgeon’s career-defining turn in ‘Love Story’ reveals the woman behind the myth
The stories we tell ourselves: Gabe Rotter and Daniel Pearle on grief and obsession in 'The Beast in Me'
In 'Abbott Elementary', Randall Einhorn turns a Phillies game into television magic
A performance to remember: Constance Zimmer gives 'Love Story' its deepest heartbreak
The Art of 'Welcome to Wrexham': DP Leighton Cox & editor Michael Oliver find the heartbeat behind football’s most remarkable story
Beneath the silk and spectacle: John Glaser on dressing the world of 'Bridgerton'
A battle felt from the inside: DP Gustav Danielsson's immersive vision of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'
Listening to the darkness: Niv Adiri and the sonic descent of 'Lord of the Flies'
The Emmy guest races are endlessly fascinating. That's why we love them.
The art of unease: Ruy Garcia & Antonio Campos on the hidden dread of 'The Beast in Me'
The weight of winning: John Battsek and Joe Pearlman on the restless soul of 'Mourinho'
Rudy Mance on stitching memory into ‘Love Story’ and recreating a wedding that became legend
Australian gothic: Zohie Castellano on weaving desire and fear into horror hit 'Leviticus'
David Collins & Michael Williams on ‘Queer Eye,’ stories that changed TV & a legacy built on empathy
Olivia Newman on finding wonder in grief, connection and 'Remarkably Bright Creatures'
The face of a monster: Corey Castellano on transforming Charlie Hunnam in Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Charles Melton on being 'completely exposed' in one of the year’s finest TV performances in 'Beef'
The sound beneath the chaos: Steve 'Major' Giammaria and Scott D. Smith on 'The Bear'
Rikki Hughes captures the lion’s roar of 'Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable...'
Danny Bensi and Saunder Juriaans find beauty in the wreckage of 'Black Rabbit'
Dan Romer finds the wounded heartbeat of Westeros in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
Manish Raval on how every great love story starts with the right song in ‘Nobody Wants This’
Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' dazzles us. Then we attempt the impossible: ranking his Top 5 films
Carlos Rafael Rivera and David Stal turn Deborah Vance’s wildest EGOT dream into gold in 'Hacks'
An Emmy-nominated debut takes flight: Cameron Moody on the wonder of 'Washington Black'
Sean Callery and Sara Barone find the sound of 'the beast within' in Netflix's 'The Beast in Me'
Joanna Naugle, ACE on turning The Bear's most anxious gathering into a cathartic emotional crescendo
Tari Segal, ASC turns Las Vegas into an emotional playground in 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles'
The art of revelation: D.P. Michael Bauman on the Emmy-nominated 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story'
Emmy nominee Jeff Kober on the quiet power of being seen in ‘The Pitt’
The Emmys' latest controversy sparks a fiery debate, and our Top 5 snubs get personal
How editor Vikash Patel turned ‘Black Rabbit’ into TV’s most nerve-shredding ride
David Fleming on 'embracing the edges' of Widow's Bay's beautifully haunted score
How prosthetics maestro Barrie Gower turned Stranger Things' Vecna into a television icon
The island is listening: How Widow’s Bay's sound team turned Episode 5 into TV's most haunting trip
How scoring mixer Phil McGowan sharpened the emotional edge of Black Rabbit's score
Production designer Rob Tokarz takes us inside Hacks’ most ambitious episode yet
Julie Schubert on the casting instincts powering The Diplomat’s most inspired choices
Every glance matters: Emmy-nominated editors Laura Zempel and Lauren Connelly on 'Beef' Season 2
The art of embracing the unexpected: DeMane Davis on 'Ride or Die' and 'Brilliant Minds'
Can 'Widow’s Bay' pull off the upset? Emmy frontrunners, surprises and more
The art of mystery: Meghan C. Rogers on building the seductive world of 'Sugar' season 2
2026 Emmy nominations instant reactions: The surprises, snubs and head-scratchers
No instruments. Just Amy Lee's voice: Michael Wandmacher's audacious score for 'The Seventh Turn'
Emmy writing and directing races under the microscope, then our most hated songs ever
Inside the Battle of the Gullet: P.J. Dillon on crafting House of the Dragon's most devastating hour
Tribute to James Burrows, the Emmy limited series lead actors, and top 5 all-time favorite songs
Inside the Emmy ballots, a crowded limited series race, and our favorite TV finales
Thom Khoury Williams & Chris Romrell on visceral, story-driven stunts of ‘Terminal List: Dark Wolf’
Ryan Collins and Nick Offord build the sound of 'Spider-Noir' across shadows and scale
In ‘The Girlfriend,’ Ruth Barrett’s score blurs the line between seduction and suspicion
Jacqueline Fowler shapes the wear and tear of the boys' harrowing descent in 'Lord of the Flies'
A spider in the shadows: Kris Bowers and Michael Dean Parsons on scoring the soul of 'Spider-Noir'
Breton Vivian on his luminous 'The Madison' score, where performance inspired every note
Bryce Dessner scores the emotional current beneath the Kennedy-Bessette mythology in ‘Love Story’
Tony reactions, Emmy comedy supporting races heat up and our Top 5 unforgettable screen deaths
Owen Harris redefines how fantasy combat is experienced in ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
Harry & Rupert Gregson-Williams score 'The Gilded Age' as power shifts and fortunes collide
‘Death by Lightning’ editor Michael Ruscio on cutting obsession, tension and the collision of Garfield and Guiteau
Inside the casting of ‘Love Story’: Courtney Bright & Nicole Daniels on the truth behind two icons
Avery Plewes on reinventing the next generation's silhouette and style in 'Starfleet Academy'
Jessica Harper commands the room as stoic, elegant matriarch Ethel Kennedy in 'Love Story'
In 'Bait,' Riz Ahmed gets personal: 'Life feeling like one big audition'
Kerry Kenney-Silver finds the heartbeat of The Four Seasons in Anne’s beautiful undoing
Free solo legend Alex Honnold scales the unimaginable in Netflix’s audacious ‘Skyscraper Live’
John Paesano goes big for 'The Boroughs' and finds the show’s emotional core
Mac Quayle scores a packed season with ‘Monster,’ ‘The Beauty,’ ‘His & Hers’ and ‘9-1-1: Nashville’
In ‘IT: Welcome to Derry,’ Esther Sokolow balances terror and empathy on a knife’s edge
Laura Karpman turns “Down Cemetery Road” into a haunting, maximalist fever dream
Mary McDonnell unlocks the soul of ‘The Boroughs’ with a character who sees beyond time
In ‘Big Mistakes,’ Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum scores the impulse behind every hilariously bad decision
Mitchell Robertson lays the emotional foundation for Niall’s unraveling in ‘Half Man’
Yolonda Ross steps behind the camera on 'The Chi' and finds a voice that’s entirely her own
In ‘The Boroughs,’ Ruth Ammon builds a community you want to live in… until you don’t
Beef creator Lee Sung Jin shifts the beef from a detonating public clash to a corrosive private war
Designing ‘Wednesday’: Mark Scruton expands a gothic world that elevates Season 2
Dressing Cold War with intent: Anastasia Magoutas turns ‘Ponies’ into coded character storytelling
Aleshea Harris steps behind the camera with a fearless feature debut in 'Is God Is'
'Half Man' reactions, unpacking the Emmy comedy lead acting races, and the TV themes we never skip
Camila Morrone finds the fault lines of love & commitment in 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen'
In 'Propeller One-Way Night Coach,' DP Paul de Lumen shoots flight through the eyes of a child
Chris Ritvo on the VFX alchemy of an octopus we care about in ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’
Jake Schreier on turning 'Beef' s2 into a slow-burn spiral of status, shame and emotional wreckage
In ‘Selena y Los Dinos,’ Isabel Castro finds the woman behind the legend
In ‘DTF St. Louis,’ DP James Whitaker finds the unease hiding in plain sight
In ‘Love Story,’ editor Franzis Müller reveals the fracture inside a public fairy tale
Amanda Jones finds the pulse inside the endearingly self-aware 'Murderbot'
Daniel Lawson turns bold fashion into a sleuth’s sharpest edge in ‘Elsbeth’
In ‘Bring Them Home,’ Roger Suen composes a living bridge between tradition and today
DP Ashley Connor on the emotional lens of 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' & bringing Marcellus to life
In ‘The ’Burbs,’ Susie Mancini builds a neighborhood that’s always watching
Richard Rutkowski, ASC turns Silicon Valley into a pressure cooker in AMC’s ‘The Audacity’
Cannes reactions, Emmy comedy supporting races and the movie ensemble magic we keep chasing
Matthew Davies reimagines Starfleet for a new generation in ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’
Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews on finding heart, monsters and late-life heroism in ‘The Boroughs’
Mike Makowsky on humanity, humor & heartbreak in forgotten American tragedy in 'Death by Lightning'
Stunt coordinator Freddie Poole on designing the impact of 'Tulsa King' from planning to payoff
Cannes chatter builds while Best Drama Actor at the Emmys already has a frontrunner
Jamie Campbell Bower on his haunting final act as Vecna and letting go of TV’s most chilling villain
Sara K. White transforms ‘Ponies’ into a living, breathing Cold War playground
Gavin Brivik on shaping the heartbeat of ‘The Pitt’ through realism and emotional clarity
Rachel Lee Goldenberg finds the pulse of ambition in ‘Swiped’
Guz Khan on playing Zulfi, the swaggering voice of truth at the heart of ‘Bait’
Minkie Spiro: ‘All Her Fault’ is a 'masterclass in psychological dread' and 'parent's worst nightmare'
Christopher Lennertz on the fearless and unhinged soundscape that carries 'The Boys' to its endgame
Emmy drama actress deep dive: It's Keri Russell vs. Rhea Seehorn, right?
The sound team behind 'Pillion' on turning sound into sensation in its most intimate moments
David Berry on John's bond with Jamie as 'Outlander' nears its series finale: 'His heart is always a tell'
Emmy season is well under way, and the Drama Supporting Actor race is wide open
Ande Schurr on capturing the deafening sound of survival in 'Lord of the Flies'
Haley Z. Boston stages a haunting red wedding countdown in ‘Something Very Bad is Going to Happen’
Gary Levy, ACE on cutting the third season finale of 'The Diplomat' like a thriller
Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans on scoring a Silicon Valley nervous breakdown in 'The Audacity'
Emmys 2026: an early check-in on the crowded Drama Supporting Actress race
Lucinda Wright on continuity, combat and Liam Hemsworth’s new 'panther'-like Geralt in ‘The Witcher’
Inside the emotional architecture of 'Beef' Season 2 with D.P. James Laxton
Burning with intent: Max Aruj lights the fuse on Netflix’s most muscular new TV score
Ben Karlin on 'Bait,' Riz Ahmed, four wild days, one audition, and a world weighing in
Scott D. Hanson, ACE: Finding the heartbeat between 'Billy Preston' and 'Born to Bowl'
From sitcom kid to indie lead: Hank Greenspan goes all in for 'Ethan Bloom'
Alex DiGerlando built 'Black Rabbit' from the ground up: Inside the expansive set that reveals the history, illusion and soul of New York City
Beautiful spaces, broken people: Grace Yun on revealing character through design in ‘Beef’ Season 2
Mid-decade Oscar check-in: Taking stock of the Oscars from 2020 to 2025
Guest stars, scene-stealers and our Top 5 unforgettable limited-time film performances
A film in motion: Andrew Baker’s ‘The Potter’ takes shape
Cannes is stacked, the Tonys are up for grabs, and our Top 5 Broadway musicals get personal
Hiding in plain sight: Joel Kinnaman and Corey Stoll on the mysterious men of 'Imperfect Women'
The music of the manosphere: Paul Leonard-Morgan and Ross Hamilton on scoring Louis Theroux’s most talked-about film
Emmy season starts now. Here’s where the races stand and what’s coming next
'The Addiction of Hope' and the courage to change your life
The 2026 Oscars are over. Here’s what actually went down and what it all means
2026 Live Post-Oscars Reactions Show
Stop overthinking the 2026 Oscars: Our final, category-by-category predictions
Oscar cheat sheet: Charlie and Tony watched every Oscar short. Here’s what will win and why.
BAFTA chaos, SAG curveballs, and we party like it's 1999
Bryan Bishop was given six months to live. Seventeen years later, he’s laughing in cancer’s face
Anthony Willis and the radical romance of 'Wuthering Heights'
Dissolving into desire: Oliver Coates’ 'Pillion' score is 'radiant, grounded, romantic melancholy'
Oscar voting is imminent. Is anything truly locked?
The ubiquity of cameras and the courage to hit record: David Borenstein on 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin'
Oscar anxiety is back: The races we still can’t call, plus our Bad Bunny halftime show obsession
Grammy fallout, Indie Spirit ballots, and a deep-dive into our favorite documentary features
Beauty as violence: Inside the Oscar-nominated makeup and hairstyling of 'The Ugly Stepsister'
A clear-eyed read on the Oscar nominations, BAFTA’s verdict and a Grammy deep-dive
Jeffrey Roth on 'The Man with the Hat' and gaining unprecedented access to the awe of Ancient Egypt
Saul Rubinek and the art of moral compromise
Our final Oscar nomination predictions and our top films of 2025
Inside the mind of 'Bugonia': Will Tracy on conspiracy, compassion, and that killer ending
Simon Hayes on the art of capturing the immediacy and fragility of live performance in 'Wicked: For Good'
Awards season whiplash: Critics’ Choice, SAG, DGA reactions and Golden Globe predictions
Christmas takes and Oscar stakes: It's the most wonderful time of the year
Kaouther Ben Hania on the harrowing call that became 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
Oscar shortlists shake the race, Secret Agent & Sirāt surge and the Emmy wins we still can’t forgive
Awards season momentum swings as critics picks, Globes nominations and new releases redefine the race
How author Nick Spake rewrote the hidden history of animation at awards shows
The evolution of Johnnie Burn: From Oscar-winning sound design to the psychology of sound in 'Hamnet' and 'Bugonia'
'Children No More' and the power of a silent vigil
The sound of 'Sinners': How Chris Welcker pulled off the impossible
Awards season chaos arrives: Tony hosts, Daniel joins, and the first big contenders take shape
Greg Whiteley on courage, vulnerability and the untold truth behind 'America’s Sweethearts'
Breathing in the 'Meanwhile': Catherine Gund on identity, memory, and what lives between us
Inside 'America’s Team': Chapman and Maclain Way on myth, power and the making of a Cowboys dynasty
Sound as a fifth character in 'Anemone'
Sound as psychology in 'If I Had Legs I’d Kick You'
Hamnet or Train Dreams: which one sticks the landing better?
Wicked reactions, Best Actress shake-up and what is The Clean Sweep?
Jack Mahanes and David LaMan debate early Oscar frontrunners
Tessa Thompson on starring in 'Hedda' and how the film 'breaks you open'
The moral architecture of 'Nuremberg': A conversation with film editor Tom Eagles
Black Rabbit: Zach Baylin & Kate Susman on Netflix’s devastating new drama
Oscar season breakdown and Grammys hot takes, what we're watching, and the best bad movies we can’t quit
Awards Heaven Podcast: Emma Stone goes weird, Rose Byrne goes deep, and 'Predator' goes prestige
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Facing Fear: Madeleine McGraw on Returning to Black Phone 2
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