

Prestige Junkie
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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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Aug 19, 2025 • 1h 22min
Does A24 Have an Awards Season Surprise in Store? Plus Walton Goggins on Wanderlust, Envy and Friendship
Esther Zuckerman joins Katey and Chris to look at the fall slate for A24 as well as the newest contender for its cool kid crown, Mubi, plus a few titles from fellow indies Lionsgate and Bleecker Street. Then Katey talks to The White Lotus star Walton Goggins about the terrifying but grand adventure of being on that set, and why his offscreen reunion with Sam Rockwell might have been even more dramatic than what we saw on the show.
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Aug 16, 2025 • 23min
What Adam Brody Wants After Nobody Wants This
Katey talks to the Emmy nominated star of the Netflix rom-com about what he keeps learning about himself this far into his career, the difference between fame in your 20s and your 40s, and what happened to his Teen Choice Award surfboard.
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Aug 12, 2025 • 1h 6min
Is Sinners Still the Best Picture Frontrunner? Plus, Michelle Williams Takes Charge on Dying for Sex
David Sims joins Katey for part 3 of our fall preview series, looking at the major studios and their Oscar lineups, and whether Warner Bros can get their first best picture win in over a decade. Then Katey talks to Michelle Williams about both starring in and executive producing Dying for Sex, and how she learned the hard way which kind of sets she actually wants to be part of.
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Aug 9, 2025 • 23min
Julianne Nicholson Knows How to Find the Nicest People in Hollywood
The double Emmy nominee for Paradise and Hacks remembers how she knew she wanted to work with Sterling K. Brown, how she felt brave enough to really go for it on Hacks, and what you really learn after a three-decade career in the business.
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Aug 5, 2025 • 1h 14min
Fall Preview Part 2: Is It Finally Focus Features's Year? Plus Stephen Graham on Adolescence
Tyler Coates joins Katey and Christopher Rosen to look at the slates for three indie labels owned by studios that all hope to stake their claim in this year's awards race. Searchlight Pictures, the only one of the three to ever win best picture, is hoping to win hearts with Rental Family, while Focus Features is going heavy on auteurs with Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia and Chloe Zhao's Hamnet. Meanwhile Sony Pictures Classics has a tried-and-true formula for getting their films in front of voters, and have a heavy historical drama, Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, and much more.
The episode also includes Katey's conversation with Stephen Graham about his labor of love turned worldwide phenomenon, Adolescence. He calls the experience of making the show like working with a theater troupe, and talks about how he built the confidence to build the series around a series of astonishing single-takes, and why he thinks the show has hit such a nerve since it debuted on Netflix earlier this year.
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Jul 29, 2025 • 44min
Fall Preview Part 1: Can Neon's Winning Streak Continue?
David Canfield joins Katey and Chris to kick off our five-part fall preview, in which we take a close look at the lineups for every studio that has won best picture in the past 10 years. We're starting, naturally, with reigning best picture champion Neon, who shepherded Anora from Cannes breakout to best picture juggernaut, and are aiming to do it again this year. Can they continue their winning formula? Are they facing challenges from their fellow indie distributors? And can they finally get Elle Fanning the awards season respect she deserves? We get into it all, and much more. Don't forget that this week brings the launch of Prestige Junkie After Party, where you can get video versions of future episodes and lots of special bonus content. Join us there!
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Jul 22, 2025 • 38min
The Colbert Cancellation and Late Night’s Existential Crisis
Vulture’s Nick Quah joins Katey to talk about why Stephen Colbert feels like only the first of the late night giants to fall, why podcasts and YouTube shows won’t be able to fully replace what late night has done for decades, and how the Emmys might fit into all of this.
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Jul 15, 2025 • 52min
Emmy Nominations: The Good, The Bad, and the Shocking
Katey and Chris go live immediately after the Emmy nominations announcement — bear with the bad audio, we promise it gets better — to talk about the big morning for HBO and Apple, the dominance of Netflix actors, the upcoming battle between The Pitt and Severance, and much more. Plus, a conversation with Adolescence star Erin Doherty about her big plans for Emmy night.
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Jul 8, 2025 • 52min
Our Final Emmy Nomination Predictions
Katey and Chris run through all the major Emmy categories and share their final predictions, whether they feel confident about them or not. From the best actress in a comedy race, which seems set in stone, to the wildly unpredictable guest categories, we've got our best guesses about what to expect when the Emmy nominations are announced next Tuesday, July 15.
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Jul 1, 2025 • 32min
War of the Worlds at 20: Steven Spielberg’s Unlikeliest Blockbuster Still Packs a Punch
Katey and Chris look back at 2005’s July 4 weekend blockbuster, which was overshadowed at the time by Tom Cruise’s press tour but still holds up, with its dark metaphor for American life after 9/11 and what are still some of the most chilling action sequences ever made.
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