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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, serves on the board of the Los Angeles Press Club and is a voting member of BAFTA and the Critics Choice Association.

More from Scott Feinberg

Feinberg Forecast: The Nonfiction Races Heat Up

Being Mary Tyler Moore (HBO/Max) James Adolphus’ doc out of SXSW could become the latest about a TV legend to land a nomination in this category, following Lucy and Desi in 2022, Love, Gilda in 2019 and The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling and Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like in 2018. Judy Blume Forever […]

Feinberg Forecast: Which TV Movies Look Strongest in Emmys Race

BEST TV MOVIE Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas (NBC) Earlier critic-proof Dolly Christmas specials were nominated in 2017, 2020 and 2021 (2021’s won). Given her popularity (there’s a reason her name is in the title), this one, shot at Dollywood with Willie Nelson among the guests, should wind up with a nom, too. Prey (Hulu) […]

Feinberg Forecast: Emmys Projections With Two Weeks Until Nomination Voting

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that […]

Hollywood Critics Association President Resigns, Citing “Hostile, Biased” Work Environment (Exclusive)

Nikki Fowler, an entertainment journalist who has served as the president of the Hollywood Critics Association during a tumultuous period in the history of the organization, which produces the HCA Awards, has resigned from that position and the group, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. In a letter obtained by THR on Friday, Fowler wrote to […]

Tony Nominees Roundtable: Sara Bareilles, Jessica Chastain, Victoria Clark, Josh Groban, Corey Hawkins and Ben Platt on Broadway, COVID’s Legacy and the Writers Strike

Ahead of the 76th Tony Awards, which will be held at the United Palace in New York City on June 11, The Hollywood Reporter gathered six of the 2022-23 Broadway season’s most distinguished acting nominees at PMC’s Manhattan headquarters for our annual Tony Nominees Roundtable. This year, in addition to discussing the challenges and rewards […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Taron Egerton (‘Black Bird’)

Taron Egerton, the guest on this week’s episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the top young stars in Hollywood. A British-born Welsh actor who burst onto the scene playing a juvenile delinquent turned secret agent’s protege in the 2015 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, he shot onto the A-list with […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Sydney Sweeney (‘Reality’)

Sydney Sweeney, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the top young stars in Hollywood. At just 25, she’s seemingly everywhere — indeed, over the past year, she received two Emmy nominations, best supporting actress in a drama series for Euphoria and best supporting actress in a limited […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Alicia Vikander (‘Firebrand’ and ‘Irma Vep’)

Alicia Vikander — who, at just 34, is already an Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner, a three-time BAFTA Award nominee and a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee, and has been described as “the biggest Swedish export since IKEA” — is the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which […]

Voting Reform Widens Emmy’s Embrace

How do you solve a problem like Peak TV? For TV viewers, living an era with hundreds of TV shows is pretty cool — the more choices, the merrier. But for the TV Academy and its members, it has presented a real dilemma: What is the most equitable way to approach Emmy voting when no […]

Cannes Analysis: Jury Prize Winners and Losers to Watch for Come Oscar Season

Nobody can see everything that screens in competition at the Cannes Film Festival — there were 21 titles in the mix this year — and I certainly didn’t. So, without passing judgment on all of the titles that were recognized with prizes on Saturday, I must say that I am struck by the fact that all […]

‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Brian d’Arcy James (‘Into the Woods’ & ‘Days of Wine and Roses’)

Brian d’Arcy James, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a distinguished stage and screen actor and singer who is currently nominated for the best actor in a musical Tony for the 2022-2023 Broadway revival of Into the Woods and who stars opposite Tony winner Kelli O’Hara Off-Broadway in […]

Feinberg Forecast: Updated Emmys Projections With Three Weeks Until the Start of Nomination Voting

PLEASE NOTE: This forecast, assembled by The Hollywood Reporter’s awards columnist Scott Feinberg, reflects his best attempt to predict the behavior of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, not his personal preferences. He arrives at these standings by drawing upon consultations with voters and strategists, analysis of marketing and campaigns, results of awards that […]