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Tyler Coates

Awards Editor

Tyler Coates is the Awards Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, where he has covered the Oscars and Emmys races since 2019. Before joining THR, Coates was a Senior Culture Editor at Esquire, the founding Deputy Editor at Decider and a Deputy Editor at Flavorwire; his writing has also been published in Billboard, Columbia Journalism Review, Slate and Wired. A Virginia native, Coates graduated from James Madison University with a degree in English.

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Carrie Coon on Her ‘Gilded Age’ Character: “I Love That People Don’t Like Her”

On HBO’s The Gilded Age, Carrie Coon stands out among the stacked ensemble cast (she was just one of 34 players to receive a SAG Award nom for best drama ensemble this year), in part because her lead role of Bertha Reynolds allows her to play a rare kind of character on TV these days: […]

‘Hacks’ Guest Star, Kaitlin Olson, on Royally Trashing Jean Smart as Her Mom

When The Good Place creator Mike Schur called Kaitlin Olson to convince her to take a guest role on an upcoming comedy series back in 2020 — the passion project he was producing from a trio of showrunners about a legendary female comedian staging a career resurgence — the actress says she was a little […]

Is the Emmys Comedy Category Finally Funny Again?

When it comes to the comedy series category, a hypothetical question arises when imagining how Television Academy members may vote. Should the top prize go to the best show of the eventual eight nominees or the funniest show? Should a series’ humor — or in some cases, lack thereof — impact an Emmy pick? Last […]

“People Always Related to How Personal It Felt”: ‘THR Frontrunners’ Q&A With the Cast and Creators of ‘Young Sheldon’

In this edition of THR Frontrunners, the cast and creatives of CBS’ hit comedy series Young Sheldon joined Tyler Coates for a conversation about the seventh and final season at a live event hosted by the San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles. Stars Zoe Perry, Lance Barber and Annie Potts appeared with executive producers and […]

‘Elsbeth’ Boss on Pulling Off One Final Twist in Season 1 Finale

Each episode of CBS’ Elsbeth — starring Carrie Preston in the title role, which won her a 2013 Emmy for best guest actress in a drama for the character’s appearance on The Good Wife — follows a similar “howdunit” premise: The audience sees a guest star commit murder, and Preston’s idiosyncratic Elsbeth Tascioni puts together […]

Carla Gugino Talks Finding Humanity in Horror

When Mike Flanagan first spoke to Carla Gugino about his latest Netflix production, The Fall of the House of Usher, he didn’t yet know what it would be beyond something inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. “It was going to be something around a family and elements of Succession,” recalls Gugino. Having worked […]

“Can an Artist Just Be an Artist Without Representing Their Culture?”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With the Director of ‘Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story’

Despite the many plays, films and TV shows produced by the prolific writer-director, Tyler Perry has avoided overtly mining his own personal history for this body of work. For Gelila Bekele, co-director of Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story (who also shares a child with Perry), she recognized an opportunity to share how Perry built […]

Riley Keough, Sandra Oh and More Reveal Which Actors Left Them Starstruck

Sarayu Blue  Expats (Prime video) The ways in which I am like my character We don’t have many similarities, but I’d say our sarcastic humor? My husband says the one moment he sees me in Hilary is in episode four, when she realizes she miscalculated her mother’s arrival date. It makes me laugh because it’s […]

Busy Philipps, Janelle James, Michael Cera and More on the Scenes That Kept Them Up at Night

Michael Cera Life & Beth (Hulu) The scene that kept me up at night The scene where I’m diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. I didn’t want this to be played for melodrama or be over-the-top. It’s a diagnosis that countless people get every day, people of all ages and at all junctures of life, and […]

“Everyone Had Such a Personal, Ferocious Tie to This”: ‘THR Frontrunners’ Q&A With ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ Star Joey King

In this edition of THR Frontrunners, Emmy-nominated actress Joey King joins Tyler Coates for a conversation about her lead role in Hulu’s limited series We Were the Lucky Ones at a live event hosted by the San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles. “I’ve never really experienced anything like it,” says King of the show, based on the novel […]

Emmys: 20 Supporting Actors Who Stole the Show

Tadanobu Asano Shōgun (FX on Hulu) The ways in which I’m like my character I’m like Kashigi Yabushige in the sense that he goes “all out” during every interaction on the show. Similarly, when I’m performing, I just go for it. And the ways that I’m not The fact that I’m not going to boil […]

How to Bring Back a Mammoth

For Netflix’s Life on Our Planet, cinematographer Jamie McPherson had to capture action that simply wasn’t there. In the eighth episode, titled “Age of Ice and Fire,” McPherson framed this shot of cave lions facing off against woolly mammoths. Some creatures from the series went extinct millions or even hundreds of years ago, but not […]

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