Joe McGovern is an awards reporter at TheWrap, writing about actors, directors, craftspeople and trends in the annual Oscar race. He also moderates conversations with filmmakers for TheWrap’s Screening Series. Before joining TheWrap in 2020, he was a correspondent at Entertainment Weekly. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Experience:
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Producers Guild Launches Initiative to Offer Health Insurance to All Working Producers
The new initiative is supported by Blumhouse, Legendary, Macro and Berlanti Productions
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‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Top Prize at Producers Guild Awards
“The Bear,” “Succession” and “Beef” won in television categories at the 35th annual awards
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‘Godzilla Minus One’ Director Says His Pets Inspired the Big Monster: ‘I Love My Cats So Much’
TheWrap magazine: Japan’s Takashi Yamazaki says that when his wife watched the film, she told him, “That’s our cat!”
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Why ‘Poor Things’ Actress Kathryn Hunter Was Covered in ‘Mad and Wonderful’ Tattoos | Exclusive Photos
Hunter (“Andor”) and Oscar-nominated makeup artist Nadia Stacey tell TheWrap about the “tattoo storybook” designed for one scene in the film
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NBC, BBC and Sony Among 2024 Technology and Engineering Emmy Winners
DirectTV and Google will also be honored at the ceremony, which will be held this October in New York
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Why History-Making Oscar Nominee Neil Corbould Has 3 Choices of Seatmates at This Year’s Show
TheWrap magazine: The three-peat visual effects nominee says, “I probably won’t win, because that would be the irony of it”
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‘Godzilla Minus One’ Director ‘Flattered and Honored’ by Historic Oscar Nomination: ‘It Means So Much’
TheWrap magazine: Takashi Yamazaki is the first director nominated for Best Visual Effects since Stanley Kubrick in 1969
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TheWrap Screening Series: Best Documentary Feature Oscar Nominees on ‘Maze of Different Techniques’ in Nonfiction Storytelling | Video
Directors Christopher Sharp, Kaouther Ben Hania, Maite Alberdi and producer Michelle Mizner gathered for an engaging Q&A hosted by Steve Pond
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‘The Taste of Things’ Director Explains Why Food and Lust Are 2 ‘Main Sources of Sensuality’
“When I’m making a movie, I don’t feel any suffering. I just love doing it,” the Cannes 2023 Best Director winner Tran Anh Hung tells TheWrap
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Martin Scorsese and Justine Triet to Receive Directors of the Year Award at Santa Barbara Film Fest
The two filmmakers, both Oscar nominated this year, will participate in a joint Q&A on Feb. 12
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‘Maestro’ Makeup Artist Explains How He Turned Bradley Cooper Into Leonard Bernstein | Exclusive Video
Actor-director Cooper says that, after a grueling makeup session, prosthetics master Kazu Hiro “looked like he’d just run two marathons in a row.”
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Colman Domingo, Ayo Edebiri, ‘The Color Purple’ Among 2024 NAACP Image Award Nominees
Other nominees for the March 16 ceremony included “American Fiction,” “Origin,” Victoria Monét and Usher
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’: Justine Triet Says It Is ‘Crazy’ She’s Only the 8th Woman Nominated for Directing Oscar
“I think we’re in the beginning of a huge revolution for women,” the filmmaker says, praising fellow Best Picture nominees Greta Gerwig of “Barbie” and Celine Song of “Past Lives”
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‘Barbie’ Star Ryan Gosling ‘Disappointed’ in Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig Oscar Snub: ‘There Is No Barbie Movie’ Without Them
“No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius,” the Oscar-nominated actor says
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Oscars 2024: Justine Triet Cries, Colman Domingo ‘Bursting With Joy’ and Other Nominee Reactions
“I’m thrilled and over the moon with excitement,” says Best Actress nominee Annette Bening
