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A weekly podcast hosted by The Ankler's awards editor Katey Rich, featuring lively and endlessly curious discussion of the film and television awards races and the business that surrounds them. Episodes will also include interviews with top awards contenders and the major players in the races that make Hollywood run.
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Oct 14, 2025 • 58min
The Best of the New York FIlm Festival with Richard Lawson, Plus Chase Infiniti on One Battle After Another
Katey reunites with her former Little Gold Men co-host Richard Lawson to look back at the highlights of this year's New York Film Festival, including Bradley Cooper's late-breaking contender Is This Thing On? and a memorable night of people-watching at the Polo Lounge.
Then One Battle After Another breakout star Chase Infiniti joins to talk about how she convinces Leo and PTA to participate in TikToks, how she learned to let loose on the film's set, and who she's taking advice from now that she's a truly minted movie star.
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Oct 7, 2025 • 1h 1min
Taylor Swift’s Hollywood Dreams, Plus Mary Bronstein on Her Uncompromising If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Vanity Fair’s Kase Wickman and The Ankler’s own Chris Rosen join Katey to explain exactly what Taylor Swift brought to theaters this weekend, and why making her own movie at last might be the last mountain left for the pop icon to conquer. Then Katey talks to Mary Bronstein, whose darkly funny and surreal If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is the result of years of work and struggle — but absolutely zero compromise.
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Sep 30, 2025 • 36min
Can Hollywood Learn the Right Lessons From One Battle After Another?
Richard Rushfield joins Katey to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie of the moment and reflect on the wild year for the studio that made it, Warner Bros.
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Sep 23, 2025 • 48min
Predicting the Biggest Stories of This Oscar Season
Katey is joined by Tyler Coates to discuss their biggest burning questions about this year's Oscar race, from how Warner Bros will juggle two seemingly surefire best picture nominees to how our fraught political moment will affect all of it.
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Sep 15, 2025 • 59min
The Best and Worst of the 2025 Emmys
Katey Rich and Chris Rosen share their instant reactions to the 77th Annual Emmy Awards, from thrilling victories for Jeff Hiller and Katherine LaNasa to some puzzling choices by host Nate Bargatze.
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Sep 9, 2025 • 58min
Live from Toronto: Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams, Home Movies, and Staying Ambitious
In front of a live audience at the TIFF Industry conference, I was joined onstage by Joel Edgerton, the star and executive producer of the lyrical new Netflix film Train Dreams. We talked about that gorgeous movie but also so much more, from how he and his brother Nash started making movies together at home in Australia to what it felt like to be a "stowaway" on a Star Wars set early in his career to what he's learned from working for Kathryn Bigelow, Baz Luhrmann, Barry Jenkins and many more directing luminaries. Though he may be most famous as an actor, Joel frequently works as a writer, director and producer, continuing to collaborate with his friends from his early days in Australia and even his brother — five days before our conversation, Nash was on set as his brother's stunt double.
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Sep 2, 2025 • 46min
Telluride, Venice, and New Beginnings with David Canfield and Richard Lawson
Katey reunites with her former Little Gold Men co-hosts David Canfield and Richard Lawson now that they’ve also wrapped up their time at Vanity Fair but remain very much in the thick of awards season. David, calling from Telluride, explains how Hamnet became such a sensation there while Richard, a veteran of the Venice Film Festival, explains why Jay Kelly may have met such a muted response there. They also indulge in a bit of nostalgia for their old podcast now that all three of them have left it— but we guarantee there are even bigger things ahead.
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Aug 26, 2025 • 1h 20min
This Is How Netflix Finally Wins Best Picture, Plus Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on The Studio
Joyce Eng joins her old podcast co-host Christopher Rosen as well as Katey to look at the slates for the streamers who are diving into the Oscar race. Most of them, yes, are Netflix titles, and some really promising ones at that. But Apple and Amazon both have intrigue ahead— including one of the biggest wild cards of the season.
Then Katey talks to Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg about their longtime directing partnership and how it led to The Studio, which has 23 Emmy nominations and pulls off the miracle of making the Golden Globes far more beautiful than they are in real life.
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Aug 23, 2025 • 29min
Nate Bargatze Knows His Best Shot at Making the Emmys Great
Nate Bargatze Knows His Best Shot at Making the Emmys GreatThe Emmy nominee for his special, Your Friend Nate Bargatze, is also preparing to host the show on September 15 — and to do so, he's got to translate what works for arenas full of fans into one of the most exclusive rooms in the world. In this special Saturday episode he talks about that, what he learned from many years of working his way up the stand-up ladder, and what he makes of YouTube fame vs. good old fashioned Hollywood stardom.
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Aug 20, 2025 • 25min
Alan Cumming's Tales From the 'Truman Show-y' Set of 'The Traitors'
Live onstage at Televerse, I caught up with the Emmy winning host of Peacock's reality series The Traitors, which just wrapped production on its fourth season. While keeping mum about a few things, Cumming revealed plenty of secrets from within those castle walls, including the odd relationship he builds with the contestants, how he balances his work as a producer on the set as well as hosting, and what he gets to do in character as the show's host that he can't do anywhere else.
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