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This week, the Water Cooler Gang is joined by Awards Daily’s Jalal Haddad to discuss the 2020 Golden Globes nominations.

We’re joined at the Water Cooler by Awards Daily’s very own Jalal Haddad. The main topic for this week’s brief podcast is the 2020 Golden Globes nominations. Netflix dominated with four nominations each for The Crown and Unbelievable. We talk about surprising omissions and inclusions, and what the nominations mean for series moving forward in the awards race.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

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Awards Daily talks to Wylie Stateman, the supervising sound editor for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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This week, the Water Cooler Gang looks at the 2020 Golden Globes drama races in film and television. Plus, we look at A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Knives Our fresh from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

We’re closing our three week preview of the upcoming Golden Globes nominations with a look at the Golden Globes drama races in film and television. On the TV front, just how many drama slots can HBO take? The Hollywood Foreign Press has never been a huge fan of Game of Thrones, but this is their last chance to recognize the Emmy-winning series. Doing so means that either Big Little Lies (HFPA catnip), Succession (the buzziest drama on TV right now), or Watchmen (critically acclaimed prestige drama) gets left behind. And will lackluster reviews leave The Morning Show out of the running? Or will the series’s high profile stars pull it into contention? On the film front, what titles will join guaranteed nominees The Irishman, 1917, and Marriage Story? Plus, we get into the director race?

But first, we look at two films we’ve collectively seen since Thanksgiving weekend. First up, Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood uses the beloved Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks) to explore a story about forgiveness. Then, Last Jedi director Rian Johnson brings us a take on an Agatha Christie-type mystery set in New England with an all-star cast. We talk about our reactions to the films and what traction they might have with the Academy.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

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This week, the Water Cooler gang forecasts the comedy Golden Globes races in film and television. Plus, we lock down our Fantasy Oscar picks and chat about movies we’ve seen leading up to Thanksgiving.

Megan’s back at the Water Cooler, and we’re looking harder at the upcoming Golden Globes nominations! This week, we tackle the Comedy Golden Globes races in film and television. On the TV side, will Fleabag continue its Emmy dominance and impress the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? Can it break the late-breaking Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3? Or will Barry, Russian Doll, or even Schitt’s Creek jump into the mix? In the acting races, are new performances from Kirsten Dunst (On Becoming a God in Central Florida) or Ben Platt (The Politician) front runners? And on the film side, is it a Jojo Rabbit versus Once Upon a Time in Hollywood race? Will Cats break into the comedy/musical top five?

But first, we cover recent films we’ve seen in the lead-up to the lucrative Thanksgiving week box office. We also lock down our Fantasy Oscar picks just as the major critics and guilds groups start weighing in.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

And we at the Water Cooler Podcast wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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Awards Daily talks to Bryce Dessner, composer of The Two Popes and The Kitchen.

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This week, the Water Cooler gang dives into The Crown season 3 and starts looking at the 2020 Golden Globes TV supporting races.

This week, we’re joined at the Water Cooler by Awards Daily’s Jalal Haddad as Megan attends a critics’ screening of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. In her absence, Joey and Clarence discuss the third season of Netflix’s The Crown. With a new influx of actors, how does the series hold up? Does it re-invent itself successfully, or is this a failed monarchy? Plus, what are the best awards shots for the series? Then, the 2020 Golden Globes nominations will be announced Monday, December 9. In the few weeks left before the big announcement, we’re covering the major Globes races. This week, we’re looking at the insane TV supporting races. Thanks to a recent rules change, it’s even more crowded than ever before. We’ll look at the recent Globes rules changes and their impact on the supporting television races. Plus, we’ll take a look at potential contenders for the film races.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

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Oscar-nominee Willem Dafoe talks to Awards Daily about his wildly diverse 2019 roles, including The Lighthouse, Motherless Brooklyn and Togo.

Few actors working today realize as many wildly divergent roles as Willem Dafoe. Dafoe stars in A24’s psychological chamber piece The Lighthouse from director Robert Eggers (The VVitch). He then steps back into the 1950s in Warner Bros’s Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton’s throwback to socio-political dramas like Chinatown and L.A. Confidential. Next up is, of all things, the Disney+ action film Togo, a true story about dog sled teams delivering diphtheria antitoxin serum over 700 miles.

Thanks to Willem Dafoe’s extraordinary talent as an actor, none of these roles feels repetitious of the other. Each character lives as a unique entity. Each performance perfectly calibrated to the material and setting. You see an actor working at the top of his game and having the time of his life.

“Now’s a good time. I’ve been lucky to be involved in some very good projects,” Dafoe admitted in our podcast interview.

Here, Dafoe talks about working with the great Robert Eggers, someone he refers to as a near-walking encyclopedia of knowledge. Eggers’s script and side research helped Dafoe find the character of Wade, the isolated lighthouse keeper in The Lighthouse. It’s an unusual performance that has Oscar watchers tipping Dafoe for a potential fifth Academy Award nomination. Dafoe talks about finding the character, what drew him to the project, and how the work compares with his other major film role of the fall, Warner’s Motherless Brooklyn.

Finally, wonder why Willem Dafoe shows up in a Disney+ film? He describes with great passion the respect for the gorgeous landscape, animals, the historic story, and the thrill of action films all rolled to the upcoming Togo, which drops December 13 only on Disney+.

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Award-winning actor Alan Alda talks to Awards Daily about co-starring in Netflix’s Marriage Story. Alda talks to Clarence Moye in a podcast interview about what draws him to projects like Marriage Story. He also talks about his 60-plus year marriage and the secret to maintaining such a long-lasting union, quite unlike that of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson’s marriage in the film. Additionally, he describes the beauty of acting in an ensemble that includes not only Driver and Johansson but also long-time friend Laura Dern.

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This week, the Water Cooler Gang looks for the popular and awards successor to HBO’s Game of Thrones including Watchmen, His Dark Materials, and others.

This week, we’re taking a look at the post Game of Thrones fantasy landscape. HBO and other programmers have queued up a handful of immediate heirs to the throne. Everyone thought Westworld would be the heir apparent, but that series, while still very popular with the Television Academy, feels unlikely to hold the attention of the world as long as Thrones did. So, what series are the next obvious candidates? We look at new titles like HBO’s Watchmen and His Dark Materials, Apple TV’s See, and discuss Netflix’s The Witcher.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

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This week, the Water Cooler Gang is back in full force, joined by Jalal Haddad, to discuss The Morning Show, the Savannah Film Festival, Parasite and much more!

We’re all back at the Water Cooler this week, and we’re joined by Awards Daily’s very own Jalal Haddad. This week, we cover a variety of topics from the film and television worlds. First up, AppleTV+ launched last Friday. We talk about what we’ve seen, most importantly Jennifer Aniston’s The Morning Show. Will The Morning Show overcome middling reviews to garner Golden Globe or Emmy glory?

Then, Megan’s back from the Savannah Film Festival. We talk about what she saw and who she talked to while covering the festival for Awards Daily.

Finally, we talk about the films we’ve seen outside of the festival circuit. Everyone has finally seen Parasite. We rave about Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed masterpiece (SPOILERS) and pose the question, “Can it win Best Picture?” We also talk about a few other films we’ve seen individually.

We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.

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