Missy Schwartz, Deputy Editor, Awards & Special Projects, joined TheWrap in 2021. Previously she was a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, covering film and television.
Experience:
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‘Navalny’ Director Daniel Roher: Imprisoned Russian Opposition Leader’s Impact on History is Unfulfilled
TheWrap magazine: “It’s very, very sad to know that (Alexei Navalny) has never seen our film and he may never see our film,” the filmmaker says
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‘Return to Seoul’ Director Davy Chou on What It Means to Live Between Two Cultures
TheWrap magazine: Chou’s film, about a woman struggling to figure out who she is and where she belongs, is Cambodia’s Oscar entry
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‘Holy Spider’ Director Ali Abbasi Says Protests in Iran Have Made His Film About Murdered Sex Workers ‘Part of a Bigger Thing’
TheWrap magazine: “The magnitude of what’s happening in Iran, it’s so huge that I forget about the movie sometimes,” Abbasi says
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Director Laura Poitras Was Intimidated to Work With ‘Incredibly Brave’ Artist Nan Goldin on Doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’
TheWrap magazine: “Both in the process of this film and in her own work, she goes to a place that rarely artists go to, in terms of vulnerability and honesty,” Poitras told TheWrap
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Steven Spielberg and ‘The Fabelmans’ Cast to Receive the Palm Springs Vanguard Award
The honor is given in recognition of an “exceptional film project”
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‘Saint Omer’ Director Alice Diop on How Her Film About Infanticide Explores the ‘Mystery That Is the Human Soul’
TheWrap magazine: Diop based her first fiction film, which is France’s submission to the Oscars, on a tragic real-life story
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Directors the Daniels on the ‘Surreal,’ ‘Wild’ Ride of Success
TheWrap magazine: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert chat about the Oscars, Michelle Yeoh magic and preserving their unique approach to filmmaking
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Bad Bunny, ‘Nope,’ Harry Styles and Lizzo Lead People’s Choice Awards Nominations: Complete List
“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Bullet Train” and Harry Styles also scored multiple nominations
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Kenan Thompson to Host the 2022 People’s Choice Awards
The “SNL” star returns as host for a second straight year
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How James Goldston Turned the Jan. 6 Congressional Hearings Into a Riveting True-Crime Serial
Innovators 2022: The former head of ABC News explains how he helped Congress tell the story of the Capitol attack as a serialized narrative
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Texas Tribune Editor Sewell Chan on Covering Uvalde and the Power of Journalism
Innovators 2022: The Tribune leader talks about his team’s extraordinary coverage of the Texas school shooting and why civilized debate is good for democracy
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Brendan Fraser to Receive Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s American Riviera Award
“The Whale” star will be recognized for his “significant contribution to American Cinema”
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‘Moonage Daydream’ Director Brett Morgen on Why His David Bowie Doc Isn’t Really a Doc at All (Video)
TIFF 2022: “This was very consciously and deliberately made as a kind of experiment in form, an adventure,” the filmmaker said
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Tilda Swinton on Making the Eerie Mother-Daughter Drama ‘The Eternal Daughter’: ‘The Film Possessed Me’
TIFF 2022: The actress and director Joanna Hogg discussed their new film’s spooky exploration of one of life’s most complicated relationships
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Primetime Emmy Awards 2022: Complete List of Winners
At the 74th annual ceremony, actors Zendaya, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lee Jung-jae made history
