Robert Licuria
@robertlicuria.bsky.social
freelance editor at Gold Derby | substack: awards heaven | TV & film nerd | ICS, HCA, AACTA | IG, Threads & X: robertlicuria
What happens when music stops backing a scene and starts shaping a character?
I spoke with composer Dave Porter about scoring PLURIBUS Episode 4: mood, identity and risk.
Read it at Gold Derby: tinyurl.com/pjwnr4d3
I spoke with composer Dave Porter about scoring PLURIBUS Episode 4: mood, identity and risk.
Read it at Gold Derby: tinyurl.com/pjwnr4d3
‘Pluribus’ composer on utilizing an ‘actual choir’ for the haunting ‘please, Carol, please’ crescendo in Episode 4
Dave Porter reveals why the new Apple TV series demands a different musical language from his previous collaborations with Vince Gilligan.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What happens when music stops backing a scene and starts shaping a character?
I spoke with composer Dave Porter about scoring PLURIBUS Episode 4: mood, identity and risk.
Read it at Gold Derby: tinyurl.com/pjwnr4d3
I spoke with composer Dave Porter about scoring PLURIBUS Episode 4: mood, identity and risk.
Read it at Gold Derby: tinyurl.com/pjwnr4d3
Australians have never landed Oscar nominations in all four Oscar acting categories in a single year.
2026 won’t change that… but 3 is possible: Edgerton, Byrne, Elordi. It’s only happened 3 times before. This year might be the fourth time.
Read here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/a-good-yea...
2026 won’t change that… but 3 is possible: Edgerton, Byrne, Elordi. It’s only happened 3 times before. This year might be the fourth time.
Read here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/a-good-yea...
A good year for Aussie actors at the Oscars
Three acting categories might have Australians nominated this year. That’s happened only three times before.
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November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Australians have never landed Oscar nominations in all four Oscar acting categories in a single year.
2026 won’t change that… but 3 is possible: Edgerton, Byrne, Elordi. It’s only happened 3 times before. This year might be the fourth time.
Read here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/a-good-yea...
2026 won’t change that… but 3 is possible: Edgerton, Byrne, Elordi. It’s only happened 3 times before. This year might be the fourth time.
Read here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/a-good-yea...
Awards Heaven Podcast episode 6 is live!
Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, chaotic Best Actress, TV's greatest achievement: The Clean Sweep, Amanda Spears joins us as special guest, & Top 5 movies we can’t stand that everyone else loves.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/wicked-rea...
Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, chaotic Best Actress, TV's greatest achievement: The Clean Sweep, Amanda Spears joins us as special guest, & Top 5 movies we can’t stand that everyone else loves.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/wicked-rea...
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Awards Heaven Podcast episode 6 is live!
Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, chaotic Best Actress, TV's greatest achievement: The Clean Sweep, Amanda Spears joins us as special guest, & Top 5 movies we can’t stand that everyone else loves.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/wicked-rea...
Wicked: For Good, Rental Family, chaotic Best Actress, TV's greatest achievement: The Clean Sweep, Amanda Spears joins us as special guest, & Top 5 movies we can’t stand that everyone else loves.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/wicked-rea...
Awards Heaven - In Conversation... with two fierce voices in awards season punditry: Jack Mahanes and David LaMan.
#oscars2026
➤ Listen and watch here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/jack-mahan...
#oscars2026
➤ Listen and watch here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/jack-mahan...
November 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Awards Heaven - In Conversation... with two fierce voices in awards season punditry: Jack Mahanes and David LaMan.
#oscars2026
➤ Listen and watch here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/jack-mahan...
#oscars2026
➤ Listen and watch here: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/jack-mahan...
Want to know what happens when a major star takes a risk and disappears into a role? I spoke with Tessa Thompson about Hedda, from the invitation-only press call to her career-best performance to date. The honest, unfiltered chat is up.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/tessa-thom... #tessathompson
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/tessa-thom... #tessathompson
Tessa Thompson on starring in 'Hedda' and how the film 'breaks you open'
From virtual press conference to a one-on-one conversation, Tessa Thompson opens up about legacy, risk and playing a new version of Hedda Gabler.
awardsheaven.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Want to know what happens when a major star takes a risk and disappears into a role? I spoke with Tessa Thompson about Hedda, from the invitation-only press call to her career-best performance to date. The honest, unfiltered chat is up.
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/tessa-thom... #tessathompson
➤ awardsheaven.substack.com/p/tessa-thom... #tessathompson
Just published: “The moral architecture of ‘Nuremberg’: A conversation with film editor Tom Eagles”
Dive into the edit-room craft behind Russell Crowe’s performance & the weight of real trial footage.
Read, watch or listen to the full interview now: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
Dive into the edit-room craft behind Russell Crowe’s performance & the weight of real trial footage.
Read, watch or listen to the full interview now: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
The moral architecture of 'Nuremberg': A conversation with film editor Tom Eagles
How precision and performance shaped one of Tom Eagles’ most demanding edits.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Just published: “The moral architecture of ‘Nuremberg’: A conversation with film editor Tom Eagles”
Dive into the edit-room craft behind Russell Crowe’s performance & the weight of real trial footage.
Read, watch or listen to the full interview now: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
Dive into the edit-room craft behind Russell Crowe’s performance & the weight of real trial footage.
Read, watch or listen to the full interview now: awardsheaven.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
BLACK RABBIT wrecked me & talking with the creators only made it hit harder. Jason & Jude go to places I didn’t expect & the bts stories are even wilder. If you’ve watched, you need this interview. If you haven’t, stream on Netflix now!
tinyurl.com/5fr2fs82
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November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
BLACK RABBIT wrecked me & talking with the creators only made it hit harder. Jason & Jude go to places I didn’t expect & the bts stories are even wilder. If you’ve watched, you need this interview. If you haven’t, stream on Netflix now!
tinyurl.com/5fr2fs82
tinyurl.com/5fr2fs82
Awards Heaven Podcast episode 5 is live!
We hit the Grammys, Hedda, Frankenstein, chaotic Supporting Actor race, Pluribus, The Girlfriend, Black Rabbit, 40 years of The Golden Girls, & Top 5 movies we love that are objectively bad.
Listen and watch here: tinyurl.com/5n8kp2z4
We hit the Grammys, Hedda, Frankenstein, chaotic Supporting Actor race, Pluribus, The Girlfriend, Black Rabbit, 40 years of The Golden Girls, & Top 5 movies we love that are objectively bad.
Listen and watch here: tinyurl.com/5n8kp2z4
Awards Heaven Podcast: Oscar season breakdown and Grammys hot takes, what we're watching, and the best bad movies we can’t quit
Hedda hype, Frankenstein feelings, Grammys side-eye, and we gush over what we’re watching. Plus: Globes nonsense (again), Golden Girls nostalgia, and our top 5 bad movies we’ll defend with our lives.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Awards Heaven Podcast episode 5 is live!
We hit the Grammys, Hedda, Frankenstein, chaotic Supporting Actor race, Pluribus, The Girlfriend, Black Rabbit, 40 years of The Golden Girls, & Top 5 movies we love that are objectively bad.
Listen and watch here: tinyurl.com/5n8kp2z4
We hit the Grammys, Hedda, Frankenstein, chaotic Supporting Actor race, Pluribus, The Girlfriend, Black Rabbit, 40 years of The Golden Girls, & Top 5 movies we love that are objectively bad.
Listen and watch here: tinyurl.com/5n8kp2z4
Awards Heaven Podcast - Rob, Charles & Tony dive into:
• Yorgos Lanthimos’ 'Bugonia'
• Rose Byrne’s awards-worthy turn
• The prestige 'Predator: Badlands'
• Russell Crowe’s wild Nuremberg role
• Sydney Sweeney’s 'Christy' breakout
• The Original Score race
🎧 Listen & watch now: tinyurl.com/y2xtmme6
• Yorgos Lanthimos’ 'Bugonia'
• Rose Byrne’s awards-worthy turn
• The prestige 'Predator: Badlands'
• Russell Crowe’s wild Nuremberg role
• Sydney Sweeney’s 'Christy' breakout
• The Original Score race
🎧 Listen & watch now: tinyurl.com/y2xtmme6
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Awards Heaven Podcast - Rob, Charles & Tony dive into:
• Yorgos Lanthimos’ 'Bugonia'
• Rose Byrne’s awards-worthy turn
• The prestige 'Predator: Badlands'
• Russell Crowe’s wild Nuremberg role
• Sydney Sweeney’s 'Christy' breakout
• The Original Score race
🎧 Listen & watch now: tinyurl.com/y2xtmme6
• Yorgos Lanthimos’ 'Bugonia'
• Rose Byrne’s awards-worthy turn
• The prestige 'Predator: Badlands'
• Russell Crowe’s wild Nuremberg role
• Sydney Sweeney’s 'Christy' breakout
• The Original Score race
🎧 Listen & watch now: tinyurl.com/y2xtmme6
Just walked out of the IMAX Sydney media preview screening of PREDATOR: BADLANDS in awe. Full first-look impressions now live on Substack: 🔗 tinyurl.com/ymv47ctv
Predator: Badlands at IMAX Sydney - early impressions of Dan Trachtenberg’s boldest hunt yet
Just walked out of the IMAX Sydney media preview of #PredatorBadlands in awe. This is a lot of fun. See it on the biggest screen you can find.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just walked out of the IMAX Sydney media preview screening of PREDATOR: BADLANDS in awe. Full first-look impressions now live on Substack: 🔗 tinyurl.com/ymv47ctv
“Crying in the car” might be the most LA thing ever, and according to the cast of HBO's new comedy "I Love LA", also the most relatable. I sat in on the press junket with Rachel Sennott and the cast - here’s what stood out.
Substack: tinyurl.com/5d4jz6wj
Substack: tinyurl.com/5d4jz6wj
Inside HBO’s “I Love LA”: Rachel Sennott’s chaotic, heartfelt ode to ambition and friendship
Rachel Sennott and her cast unpack what makes I Love LA more than another comedy about twenty-somethings chasing dreams in Los Angeles.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“Crying in the car” might be the most LA thing ever, and according to the cast of HBO's new comedy "I Love LA", also the most relatable. I sat in on the press junket with Rachel Sennott and the cast - here’s what stood out.
Substack: tinyurl.com/5d4jz6wj
Substack: tinyurl.com/5d4jz6wj
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Every October, I go back to Hill House. Not for the scares, but for the ache it leaves behind. Six years later, Entertainment Weekly says it’s still Netflix’s best show - and I think they’re right.
Read and share: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Every October, I go back to Hill House. Not for the scares, but for the ache it leaves behind. Six years later, Entertainment Weekly says it’s still Netflix’s best show - and I think they’re right.
Read and share: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Haunting of Hill House is Netflix's best series of all time (to date)
Six years on, Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House remains Netflix’s most haunting success, not because it scared us, but because it understood that horror and grief speak the same language.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Every October, I go back to Hill House. Not for the scares, but for the ache it leaves behind. Six years later, Entertainment Weekly says it’s still Netflix’s best show - and I think they’re right.
Read and share: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Every October, I go back to Hill House. Not for the scares, but for the ache it leaves behind. Six years later, Entertainment Weekly says it’s still Netflix’s best show - and I think they’re right.
Read and share: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Episode 3 of Awards Heaven: In Conversation - The Podcast
Gothams have spoken, A House of Dynamite detonated our brains, & Tony’s ranking Hallmark Christmas movies.
🎧Link → tinyurl.com/ynkvs4t3
Gothams have spoken, A House of Dynamite detonated our brains, & Tony’s ranking Hallmark Christmas movies.
🎧Link → tinyurl.com/ynkvs4t3
Awards Heaven: In Conversation - The Podcast Episode 3
The Gothams, the early buzz, the House that blew us away, and Hallmark miracles.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Episode 3 of Awards Heaven: In Conversation - The Podcast
Gothams have spoken, A House of Dynamite detonated our brains, & Tony’s ranking Hallmark Christmas movies.
🎧Link → tinyurl.com/ynkvs4t3
Gothams have spoken, A House of Dynamite detonated our brains, & Tony’s ranking Hallmark Christmas movies.
🎧Link → tinyurl.com/ynkvs4t3
Everyone wanted A House of Dynamite to end with a bang. But the whole film is about what happens before the blast: fear, paralysis, power buckling under pressure.
Bigelow knows exactly what she’s doing.
✦ New piece: '#AHouseofDynamite: The ending isn’t the point'
Link: tinyurl.com/4drjhk9d
Bigelow knows exactly what she’s doing.
✦ New piece: '#AHouseofDynamite: The ending isn’t the point'
Link: tinyurl.com/4drjhk9d
A House of Dynamite: The ending isn’t the point
We’ve mistaken resolution for meaning. The best films, like A House of Dynamite, know when to stop. Some stories end before the blast, and the silence that follows says everything.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Everyone wanted A House of Dynamite to end with a bang. But the whole film is about what happens before the blast: fear, paralysis, power buckling under pressure.
Bigelow knows exactly what she’s doing.
✦ New piece: '#AHouseofDynamite: The ending isn’t the point'
Link: tinyurl.com/4drjhk9d
Bigelow knows exactly what she’s doing.
✦ New piece: '#AHouseofDynamite: The ending isn’t the point'
Link: tinyurl.com/4drjhk9d
Awards Heaven: In Conversation - The Podcast Episode 2 - this week, we unpack the chaos of awards season and celebrate the life and legacy of Diane Keaton, one of Hollywood’s great originals.
Available now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Link: tinyurl.com/96ujcf3s
Available now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Link: tinyurl.com/96ujcf3s
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Awards Heaven: In Conversation - The Podcast Episode 2 - this week, we unpack the chaos of awards season and celebrate the life and legacy of Diane Keaton, one of Hollywood’s great originals.
Available now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Link: tinyurl.com/96ujcf3s
Available now on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.
Link: tinyurl.com/96ujcf3s
Subscribe to the Awards Heaven: In Conversation podcast on Apple Podcasts! 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/.../awards-h...
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Subscribe to the Awards Heaven: In Conversation podcast on Apple Podcasts! 🔗 podcasts.apple.com/.../awards-h...
'Black Phone 2' star Madeleine McGraw opens up about fear, growth and finding beauty in darkness in the latest Awards Heaven: In Conversation
Link: tinyurl.com/5n77uuax
Link: tinyurl.com/5n77uuax
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
'Black Phone 2' star Madeleine McGraw opens up about fear, growth and finding beauty in darkness in the latest Awards Heaven: In Conversation
Link: tinyurl.com/5n77uuax
Link: tinyurl.com/5n77uuax
The debut episode of Awards Heaven: In Conversation is here!
Charles Bright & Tony Ruiz join me to dish early Oscar contenders, the new Globes podcast category, and the first-ever Casting Oscar. Plus: Middleburg, Peacemaker, Alien: Earth & KPop Demon Hunters:
tinyurl.com/yc7a9hwy
Charles Bright & Tony Ruiz join me to dish early Oscar contenders, the new Globes podcast category, and the first-ever Casting Oscar. Plus: Middleburg, Peacemaker, Alien: Earth & KPop Demon Hunters:
tinyurl.com/yc7a9hwy
October 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The debut episode of Awards Heaven: In Conversation is here!
Charles Bright & Tony Ruiz join me to dish early Oscar contenders, the new Globes podcast category, and the first-ever Casting Oscar. Plus: Middleburg, Peacemaker, Alien: Earth & KPop Demon Hunters:
tinyurl.com/yc7a9hwy
Charles Bright & Tony Ruiz join me to dish early Oscar contenders, the new Globes podcast category, and the first-ever Casting Oscar. Plus: Middleburg, Peacemaker, Alien: Earth & KPop Demon Hunters:
tinyurl.com/yc7a9hwy
Just launched my new Substack🎙️🗞️
🎬 Awards Heaven: In Conversation, my new space for film and TV talk, awards chat and everything else I’m watching (and overthinking).
New posts and podcast episodes drop regularly, so please join me.
Subscribe now → 🔗 awardsheaven.substack.com
🎬 Awards Heaven: In Conversation, my new space for film and TV talk, awards chat and everything else I’m watching (and overthinking).
New posts and podcast episodes drop regularly, so please join me.
Subscribe now → 🔗 awardsheaven.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just launched my new Substack🎙️🗞️
🎬 Awards Heaven: In Conversation, my new space for film and TV talk, awards chat and everything else I’m watching (and overthinking).
New posts and podcast episodes drop regularly, so please join me.
Subscribe now → 🔗 awardsheaven.substack.com
🎬 Awards Heaven: In Conversation, my new space for film and TV talk, awards chat and everything else I’m watching (and overthinking).
New posts and podcast episodes drop regularly, so please join me.
Subscribe now → 🔗 awardsheaven.substack.com
Check out my bonus video chat with FROM star Harold Perrineau; a fun "lightning round" where I mention the best FROM fan theories and gauge his reactions 😆
youtu.be/DR08wcPZHyw
youtu.be/DR08wcPZHyw
December 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Check out my bonus video chat with FROM star Harold Perrineau; a fun "lightning round" where I mention the best FROM fan theories and gauge his reactions 😆
youtu.be/DR08wcPZHyw
youtu.be/DR08wcPZHyw
Reposted by Robert Licuria
Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
December 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?
Here’s my interview with Fernanda Torres, star of I’M STILL HERE with her legendary mother, Oscar-nominated Fernanda Montenegro. Will Torres repeat her mother’s legacy as an Oscar nominee? 🙏🏼🇧🇷
tinyurl.com/msr6v2d9
#imstillhere #fernandamontenegro #fernandatorres
tinyurl.com/msr6v2d9
#imstillhere #fernandamontenegro #fernandatorres
December 3, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Here’s my interview with Fernanda Torres, star of I’M STILL HERE with her legendary mother, Oscar-nominated Fernanda Montenegro. Will Torres repeat her mother’s legacy as an Oscar nominee? 🙏🏼🇧🇷
tinyurl.com/msr6v2d9
#imstillhere #fernandamontenegro #fernandatorres
tinyurl.com/msr6v2d9
#imstillhere #fernandamontenegro #fernandatorres
⭐️Interview: ‘FROM’ star Harold Perrineau⭐️
Click here for the full video interview: tinyurl.com/2ysnbet8
@haroldperrineau.bsky.social #from #FROMily #haroldperrineau #goldenglobes #emmys #sagawards @goldderby.bsky.social
Click here for the full video interview: tinyurl.com/2ysnbet8
@haroldperrineau.bsky.social #from #FROMily #haroldperrineau #goldenglobes #emmys #sagawards @goldderby.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 9:18 PM
⭐️Interview: ‘FROM’ star Harold Perrineau⭐️
Click here for the full video interview: tinyurl.com/2ysnbet8
@haroldperrineau.bsky.social #from #FROMily #haroldperrineau #goldenglobes #emmys #sagawards @goldderby.bsky.social
Click here for the full video interview: tinyurl.com/2ysnbet8
@haroldperrineau.bsky.social #from #FROMily #haroldperrineau #goldenglobes #emmys #sagawards @goldderby.bsky.social
Here’s a sneak peak of my interview with FROM star @HaroldPerrineau, in which we discuss the s3 finale, his highlight scene from s3 and his thoughts on the show’s success and dedicated fans.
Premieres at Gold Derby tomorrow (Tues 11/26) morning (PT)!
@fromonmgm #from #FROMily
Premieres at Gold Derby tomorrow (Tues 11/26) morning (PT)!
@fromonmgm #from #FROMily
November 26, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Sorry, but this is the best post/election discussion/reckoning from two very smart people. Give it a listen.
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podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Sam Harris: Our Democracy Is Already Unraveling
Podcast Episode · The Bulwark Podcast · 21/11/2024 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Sorry, but this is the best post/election discussion/reckoning from two very smart people. Give it a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...