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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The Design of ‘Mank’: How Costumes and Sets Energized David Fincher’s Homage to Old Hollywood
TheWrap magazine: Costume designer Trish Summerville and production designer Donald Graham Burt take us behind the scenes
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‘Emma.’ Costume Designer Explains How She Spun Clothes With the ‘Power of Sugared Macarons’
Oscar winner Alexandra Byrne, an industry veteran of historical dramas and superhero film, deployed bold colors in the Jane Austen adaptation
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‘Collective’ Director on Documentary’s Curious Link to Orson Welles’ 1949 Classic ‘The Third Man’
“It was natural to follow the script that life was writing for us,” Alexander Nanau says of how his acclaimed Oscar hopeful took shape
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‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Cinematographer On Reunion With ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’ Director: ‘We Got on Great’
Cameraman Stephen Goldblatt reunited after three decades with director John Patrick Shanley for a mystical romance set in Ireland
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‘Palm Springs’ Editor Details the Alternate Beginning You Didn’t See
For veteran editor Matt Friedman, the time loop aspect of the Andy Samberg-Cristin Milioti film was “the cherry on top”
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Steve McQueen on How John Boyega’s ‘Star Wars’ Experience Shaped His ‘Small Axe’ Role
TheWrap magazine: Oscar winner also shares the inspiration behind his other “Small Axe” stories
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‘Time’ Director Garrett Bradley Explains How She Exposed Mass Incarceration Via One Woman’s Fight
TheWrap magazine: The film has been named Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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How ‘The Prom’ Re-Created New York’s Broadway Theater District in Downtown LA
Production designer Jamie Walker McCall explains how she re-created the “comic book pop” of 44th Street for the opening sequence of Ryan Murphy new musical
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‘Mank’ Editor Kirk Baxter Describes His Preparation: ‘Lurking and Sneaking’
David Fincher’s longtime editor also says a trick that Fincher borrowed from Orson Welles made his editing job easier
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Talking Life, Death and ‘Jackass’ With ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ Director Kirsten Johnson
“I have this wish to compile a death wish bible, so now I ask everyone I talk to, ‘How do you wish to die?’” says the filmmaker
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Here’s Why ‘Fireball’ Director Werner Herzog’s Flipped for ’90s Disaster Movie ‘Deep Impact’
Film editor Marco Capalbo discusses the 1998 blockbuster, which makes an appearance in Herzog’s new documentary
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Steve McQueen Calls His New ‘Small Axe’ Cinematographer ‘a Skater and a Sailor’
For the five-film anthology, the ’12 Years a Slave’ director collaborated with cinematographer Shabier Kirchner for the first time
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‘Greyhound’ Editors’ Big Lesson: Trust the Power of Tom Hanks’ Face in Battleship Thriller
Sidney Wolinsky and and Mark Czyzewski talk about how a little information can go a long way in the cutting department
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‘The Outpost’ Cinematographer on How the ‘Das Boot’ Submarine Inspired His Afghanistan Battle Scenes
Lorenzo Senatore talks about his hyper-realistic approach to filming Rod Lurie’s immersive Afghanistan War drama
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Riz Ahmed’s ‘Sound of Metal’: How the Outer Space Silence of ‘Gravity’ Shaped Hearing Loss Drama
Sound designer Nicolas Becker drew on his sci-fi experience for the new drama
