Matthew Koss is the Deputy Awards Editor at Awards Focus and a Senior Film and TV coverage Partner. His writing has been featured in Voyage LA and ScreenRant.
Since joining Awards Focus in 2020, Matthew has interviewed A-list talent, including Academy Award nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emmy winner Alex Borstein, and Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors, across film and TV. He also appears on red carpets for major studios and film festivals, including Hulu’s The Bear.
After moving from Melbourne, Australia, to Los Angeles in 2014, Matthew has worked in various areas of the entertainment industry, including talent and literary representation, film/tv development as a Creative Executive, and at film festivals as a Regional Manager. Matthew is also a screenwriting consultant, most recently partnering with Roadmap Writers, where he conducted private, multi-week mentorship consultations, roundtables, and monthly coaching programs.
Matthew is also a producer, recently appearing at the Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival with his film Chimera, directed by Justin Hughes.
He continues to work with entertainment companies such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Zero Gravity Management, Sundance Institute, and MGMT Entertainment.
You can find more of his reviews, essays, and travel stories on his website, Wandering Screen.
Osage consultant Julie O'Keefe and costume designer Jacqueline West talk local artisans and research teams for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
Pioneering filmmaker Tyler Perry gets the documentary treatment with Amazon MGM Studios Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater on Friday night during AFI FEST to a rapturous audience.
With his stunning debut feature, writer-director Corey Sherman cements himself as a director to watch with his heartwarming film Big Boys, which has its West Coast premiere at Outfest Los Angeles.
Gbemisola Ikumelo’s warmly comedic and heartfelt performance in Prime Video’s remake of Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own catapults her into the awards conversation.