Emmy Podcast #36: Final Emmy Predictions with special guest, GoldDerby’s Robert Licuria [VIDEO]

In the most unprecedented year imaginable, with a raging global pandemic shutting down businesses and all entertainment productions, there has almost never been more of a need for something ‘trivial’ like awards or awards shows. We need the distraction, the normalcy of something and that’s how me and my guest approached our conversation about the Emmy nominations for this year and our predictions for the winners.

I’ve known Robert Licuria, Senior Editor at GoldDerby, for over a decade – virtually, of course, as we are across the world from each other – and finally have him on my show and I couldn’t have been more pleased and happy to look at what we think an all virtual Emmy Awards will look like, the historic year of Black acting nominees, discuss our super risky predictions (Zendaya! Steve Carell!) that might pay off and maybe even change each other’s minds as we close in the weeklong Emmy events beginning Monday, September 14 with the first of five nights of the Creative Arts Emmys leading up to the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, the first ever to be all virtual, on Sunday, September 20.

Oh, and did I mention it’s a video chat? This video podcast runs 1h 30m.

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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