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Scott Feinberg

Executive Editor of Awards

Scott Feinberg has led The Hollywood Reporter’s awards coverage since 2011 (he covered awards for the Los Angeles Times before that). He is best known for his “Feinberg Forecast,” through which he assesses the standings of various showbiz awards races, and for Awards Chatter, the interview-centric podcast that he started in 2015, for which he has conducted career-retrospective interviews with some 500 of Hollywood’s biggest names. An alumnus of Brandeis University, he is also a trustee professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and a voting member of BAFTA and the Critics Choice Association.

More from Scott Feinberg

Listen to 59 of 2024’s Emmy Nominees on THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast

Fifty-nine past guests of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast were recognized with Emmy nominations on Wednesday morning. You can find their names and links to listen to their episodes below, and you can click here to subscribe to the podcast — for free — in order to access all past and future episodes. Awkwafina, best […]

Emmy Nominations Analysis: Trio of Presumed Frontrunners May Face Stiffer Competition Than Anticipated

The nominations for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards that were revealed on Wednesday morning confirm that there is tremendous support from the TV Academy’s 22,000 members for the three shows that have long been presumed to be the frontrunners in their respective categories: FX’s drama series Shogun (which landed a field-leading 25 noms), FX’s comedy […]

Emmy Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Scott’s Final Picks Ahead of Wednesday’s Nominations

At 8:30 a.m. PST on Wednesday morning, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will reveal its nominees for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, which were chosen by its 22,000 voting members, hailing from 31 “peer groups,” during the nominations voting period that spanned June 13 through June 24. Below, you can find my final […]

Steven Spielberg’s Longtime Publicist Marvin Levy Retires (Exclusive)

Marvin Levy, the veteran marketing and publicity professional who has worked exclusively for Steven Spielberg since 1977, is retiring. Spielberg informed employees of the news at his company, Amblin Partners, in an email sent on Monday and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, calling it “the end of an era.” Levy, who began his career in […]

Oscars: Submissions Now Open for 97th Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday. The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs. […]

Emmy Predictions via Feinberg Forecast: Voting Has Closed! Scott’s Picks One Week Before Noms

Voting to determine the nominees for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards concluded at 10 p.m. PST on June 24. Next week, on the morning of July 17, we will learn the full list of nominees. I will post my final predictions after the weekend but before the announcement. But for now, the standings below reflect […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Live: Clive Owen on Career Highlights, James Bond and TV Shows ‘Monsieur Spade’ and ‘A Murder at the End of the World’

Clive Owen, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded in front of an audience at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where Owen was feted with the fest’s President’s Award, and which was presented by Lasvit, a Bohemian design and artisan house […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Sean Penn on ‘Daddio’ Film (and Possible Stage Version), Zelensky (and the Oscar He Loaned Him) and 50 Years in the Biz

Sean Penn rarely grants interviews — he and the press haven’t always gotten along, to say the least — but last week, at his home in Malibu, the venerated actor and filmmaker sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast for an in-depth conversation about his life, career and most recent project, Daddio, an indie, […]

Kevin Costner’s Moment of Truth: With ‘Horizon,’ Has the Gambler’s Luck Finally Run Out?

Kevin Costner has been defying the odds for more than 40 years. After filming numerous flashback scenes for 1983’s The Big Chill, the movie that was poised to be his big break, he learned he had been cut out of the film entirely… but then that film’s director, Lawrence Kasdan, decided to give him another shot, […]

Karlovy Vary: Clive Owen to Guest on THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast Live From Fest

The Hollywood Reporter and Lasvit, the Czech designer and manufacturer of bespoke glass products, are pleased to invite attendees of the upcoming 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to a very special event: the recording of a career-retrospective interview with Clive Owen. On Friday, July 5, at 1 p.m. local time, Owen — an English […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Dick Van Dyke on His Emmy-Contending 98th Birthday Special, His Greatest Roles and Ageist Criticisms of Biden

Dick Van Dyke, our guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a truly legendary screen actor. An Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner who was a 1995 inductee into the Television Hall of Fame, a 2012 recipient of the SAG life achievement award and a 2021 honoree at the Kennedy Center […]

Film Academy Invites 487 to Join Including Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Lily Gladstone, Chris Silbermann and Celine Song

Four hundred and eighty-seven members of the global film community — among them Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song, CAA managing partner Chris Silbermann, and SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland — are receiving invitations on Tuesday to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture […]

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