Don’t touch that dial, it’s Emmys Season on The Awardist! With the dazzling Oscars season behind us, we are now turning our attention to smaller screens to track which shows are headed to the podium and which shows stopped us in our tracks. Join Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly’s Executive editor and EW’s tv-obsessed staffers every Thursday starting April 4th, as we share our opinionated hot takes and insight into the Emmys race. The Awardist will get behind the scenes with the creators and sta...
Mar 28, 2024•1 min
The time has come — EW Oscars expert Joey Nolfi offers his final predictions for who will win at the 95th Academy Awards. He also shares insights into our annual secret ballot, where four anonymous voters (a director, writer, actress, and marketer) share their picks and why they voted (or didn't) for someone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 07, 2024•40 min•Season 12Ep. 24
Unlike the 2023 BAFTA Awards, where none of the winners went on to win Oscars, this year's ceremony awarded many of the names we've heard all season — but Best Actor still remains a tight race between Cillian Murphy, who won the BAFTA, and Paul Giamatti, who's won many other precursors. We preview the SAG Awards and offer predictions for the main categories. Plus, Past Lives writer and director Celine Song, Oscar-nominated for her original screenplay, chats with Awardist host Gerrad Hall about h...
Feb 22, 2024•59 min•Season 12Ep. 23
The Holdovers star and Best Actor nominee Paul Giamatti chats with Awardist host Gerrad Hall. Plus, our thoughts on odds for that movie and whether it could pull off an upset over current presumed winner Oppenheimer, inside the Oscar nominees luncheon where Ryan Gosling and Messi, the dog from Anatomy of a Fall, were the big attractions, and which categories we'd love to see a surprise winner on Oscar Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 15, 2024•56 min•Season 12Ep. 22
From Tracy Chapman and Joni Mitchell to Fantasia's Tina Turner tribute and Taylor Swift's big win, we recap highlight of the 2024 Grammys and discuss what Billie Eilish and Finneas' two wins for their Barbie song "What Was I Made For?" mean for their Oscar hopes. Plus, we talk to Rustin star and Best Actor nominee Colman Domingo about his performance at gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, as well as his upcoming roles as Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson and Nat King Cole, the latter of ...
Feb 08, 2024•44 min•Season 12Ep. 21
Will Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, or perhaps someone else be the big winnner at the 66th Grammy Awards? Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW Music Editor Jason Lamphier break down the top categories and offer predictions for who should and will win. Plus, Gerrad chats with The Holdovers Oscar nominees Da'Vine Joy Randolph about her quietly devastating performance in that film, which which she has dominated awards season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 12Ep. 20
Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW's Oscars expert Joey Nolfi do a deep-dive into the discourse surrounding Best Director and Best Actress snubs for Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, and why it points to a more complex issue within the minds of Academy voters. Plus, Joey offers his Oscar winner predictions for Best Picture, Director, and the four acting categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 25, 2024•40 min•Season 12Ep. 19
Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW editor-in-chief break down the 2024 Oscar nominations in a live X Space, analyzing the biggest snubs — Barbie director Greta Gerwig, Barbie star Margot Robbie, Killers of the Flower Moon star Leonardo DiCaprio, and more — and surprises — Barbie star America Ferrera, American Fiction star Sterling K. Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2024•36 min•Season 12Ep. 18
Fresh off the SAG Awards nominations and Critics Choice Awards ceremony, EW awards expert Joey Nolfi and Awardist host Gerrad Hall analyze how those will impact the race, and Joey offers his Oscar nomination predictions for Picture, Director, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Animated Feature, and Song. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 18, 2024•28 min•Season 12Ep. 17
Four months later...the 2023 Emmys will finally be handed out. EW critic Kristen Baldwin shares her predictions for who she thinks will and should win in the major categories. Plus, our theories about why ratings for the Golden Globes were up and thoughts on Jo Koy's hosting job. And Awardist host Gerrad Hall sits down with for 'Hot Priest' Andrew Scott, who turns in a deeply emotional and profound performance in All of Us Strangers, his highest profile role to date. Learn more about your ad cho...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 12Ep. 16
Will Carey Mulligan or Lily Gladstone win Best Drama Actress? Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, or Fantasia Barrino for Musical or Comedy Actress? And can anyone beat Maestro's Bradley Cooper? We break down the categories we're most excited about at this weekend's Golden Globes. And EW's Oscars expert Joey Nolfi shares his updated Oscar nomination predictions. Plus, Awardist host Gerrad Hall chats with Maestro star Mulligan, as well as May December's Charles Melton. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 12Ep. 15
The one and only Oprah Winfrey sits down with The Awardist for an in-depth chat about the new musical movie version of The Color Purple, which she produces, alongside star Fantasia Barrino, who previously starred in the Broadway version. Plus, we breakdown the Critics Choice Award nominations, where Barbie dominated with 18 total, and we analyze Ryan Gosling's unexpected awards run for his stellar performance as that movie's Ken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...
Dec 21, 2023•57 min•Season 12Ep. 14
We break down the nominations for the Golden Globe Awards and what it means for lead nominees Barbie and Oppenheimer, and whether Killers of the Flower Moon will come out on top. Plus, we sit down with American Fiction writer and director Cord Jefferson, as well as Origin writer and director Ava DuVernay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 12Ep. 13
A handful of movies are making recent leaps ahead in the 2024 Oscars race including Killers of the Flower Moon — along with its director, Martin Scorsese, and star Lily Gladstone — as well as May December supporting star Charles Melton, The Holdovers supporting star Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and All of Us Strangers. We analyze their latest wins and honors. Plus, American Fiction, May December, and Past Lives lead Film Independent's Spirit Awards nominations — we discuss how those could influence Osc...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 12Ep. 12
It's one of the most buzzed-about movies of Fall, but will Saltburn's shocking moments be too much for Oscar voters or will they appreciate the story's emotional complexity and commentary on status and class? We break down which categories Emerald Fennell's movie should and could get nominated, including the Best Director race. Awardist host Gerrad Hall also chats with Fennell about her second feature, starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. Plus, post-Gotham Awards analysis and who stands the ...
Nov 30, 2023•58 min•Season 12Ep. 11
First reactions from The Color Purple are declaring it a series contender — Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW editor in chief Patrick Gomez share their thoughts on the movie and who stands the best chance for nominations. Plus, the Best Actress race is a heated contest, with a dozen serious contenders — we discuss whether the Academy should expand the category to include more nominees. And Past Lives star Greta Lee chats with Gerrad about her emotional performance that could land her a Best Actre...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 12Ep. 10
Killers of the Flower Moon stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone reflect on their experience making Martin Scorsese's epic about the Osage Reign of Terror in 1920 Oklahoma. Plus, EW writer Lauren Huff joins Awardist host Gerrad Hall to discuss Jimmy Kimmel's return as Oscars host, how tributes from film festivals and awards bodies factor into campaigns, and audience reaction to Emerald Fennell's new film Saltburn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 16, 2023•44 min•Season 12Ep. 9
This year's supporting actress race is a loaded one: Does Oppenheimer's Emily Blunt have the staying power to land her first nomination? Will The Color Purple score two noms with Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson? Will Da'Vine Joy Randolph's understated and emotionally raw performance take her to the Oscars? Will Julianne Moore add to her list of noms? EW's Oscars expert Joey Nolfi breaks down the action with Awardist host Gerrad Hall. Plus, thoughts on this year's long movie runtimes, and a ...
Nov 09, 2023•48 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Disney-Pixar's Elemental was a surprise box office hit this summer, rising from the ashes of a disappointing opening weekend — Awardist host Gerrad Hall talks to the movie's director, Peter Sohn, about the movie's reception and complicated road to theaters. And EW Oscars expert Joey Nolfi breaks down its chances for an Oscar nomination. Plus, Venice's best actor winner Peter Sarsgaard is now officially in the race with Memory, which just got distribution and will be released in December — we ana...
Nov 02, 2023•53 min•Season 12Ep. 7
Inside the debate over Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon — should it have centered more on Osage people or is its focus on those who murdered them for their money and land justified? Plus, EW Oscars expert Joey Nolfi reveals which categories he thinks the movie will score nominations. And we chat with Priscilla director Sofia Coppola and stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi about their movie that takes audiences inside the sometimes dark relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presle...
Oct 26, 2023•40 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film — is it a documentary? A Best Picture contender? EW Oscars expert Joey Nolfi shares what we know from our sources about whether the movie will be a contender, and in which category it could compete. Plus, Joey shares his thoughts on movies released in the first half that could be contenders in animation, production design, costumes, and other categories. And Air director Ben Affleck is receiving a special honor from the Gotham Awards — how will it factor ...
Oct 19, 2023•55 min•Season 12Ep. 5
Outside of The Dark Knight and The Dark Night Rises, Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan's biggest movie — not to mention one of the best reviewed and most ambitious. We look back on the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called "father of the atomic bomb," with Nolan and stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey Jr., who gathered prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike for EW's Around the Table video series. Plus, EW editor-in-chief Patrick Gomez and Awardist host Gerrad Hall b...
Oct 12, 2023•52 min•Season 12Ep. 4
After it's record-breaking, $1-billion-plus worldwide run, we are looking back on Barbie's success this summer and take a look back at our Around the Table interview with director/co-writer Greta Gerwig, and stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, and Michael Cera. Plus, Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW's resident Oscars expert Joey Nolfi break down the movie's Oscar chances and which categories we think they'll be nominees. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
Oct 05, 2023•47 min•Season 12Ep. 3
We kick off the new season of the Awardist by breaking down the fall festivals and discussing the early Oscar frontrunners to emerge from Telluride, Venice, and Toronto — from Poor Things and The Holdovers to American Fiction and Priscilla. Awardist host Gerrad Hall is joined by EW's Oscars expert Joey Nolfi and Sr. Writer Maureen Lee Lenker to take stock of the current state of the race. Plus, Gerrad chats with Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest star Sandra Hüller about her two very dif...
Sep 28, 2023•58 min•Season 12Ep. 1
Movie fans, it’s Oscars season! Hollywood might be on strike, but there’s no shortage of contenders for the 2024 Oscars and the latest season of The Awardist is here to cover it all. Join me, EW executive editor Gerrad Hall and other movie-obsessed, opinionated EW staffers as we make predictions about who will take home a golden statuette on Hollywood’s biggest night. Follow The Awardist wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes starting Thursday September 28th and be sure check out ew.com...
Sep 14, 2023•45 sec•Season 12Ep. 1
The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin looks back on the hit first season of the HBO drama starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey — he also dives into some of the show's many Easter eggs and fills us in on where things stand with season 2. Plus, EW Editor in Chief Patrick Gomez and Sr. Editor Nick Romano break down the chances for The Last of Us and The White Lotus to beat frontrunner Succession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 28, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 19
Will RuPaul's Drag Race reclaim the reality competition crown or can Survivor or Top Chef win? We break down that category, as well as structured and unstructured reality, and reality/competition host, where our guest, Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi is nominated for her final season. She tells us about saying goodbye, the evolution of the show during her 19 seasons there, and her other nominated series, Taste the Nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 11Ep. 18
'George & Tammy' star Jessica Chastain (in an interview conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTA strike) explains her 10-year journey with the project and reveals the scenes that scared her the most and why she still gets emotional thinking about Tammy Wynette. Plus, Awardist host Gerrad Hall and EW critic Kristen Baldwin break down the drama and limited series lead actor and actress categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 14, 2023•59 min•Season 11Ep. 17
Dahmer star Niecy Nash-Betts breaks down some of her pivotal and heartbreaking moments in the Netflix limited series (in an interview conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike) — plus she explains the leap she made into drama, why she was happy to film Dahmer and Reno 911 at the same time, and more. Plus, we break down the Limited/Anthology Series race, as well as the drama and limited supporting actor and actress categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...
Aug 07, 2023•58 min•Season 11Ep. 16
Will Ted Lasso three-peat as best comedy series Emmy winner or will it be The Bear? Maybe something else, like surprise (and beloved) nominee Jury Duty? Awardist host Gerrad Hall, EW editor in chief Patrick Gomez, and Sr. TV Editor Samantha Highfill debated that category, as well as supporting comedy actor. Plus, Jury Duty showrunner Cody Heller reveals how they were really able to pull off the show's big ruse — and when they thought they had blown it. And we discuss the latest on the SAG-AFTRA ...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 11Ep. 15
