Matt Koss is the Deputy Awards Editor at Awards Focus and a senior partner for Film and TV coverage.
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Koss moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and received a Master's in Film/TV Producing from the New York Film Academy. Prior to joining Awards Focus, Koss wrote for numerous publications including Screen Rant and Voyage LA.
Koss earned his stripes as a Creative Executive with Zero Gravity Management (known for Netflix's Emmy nominated Ozark) and he continues to work with entertainment companies such as Warner Media, MGMT Entertainment, and Sundance Institute.
Awards Focus spoke to lyricist Carin Besser and composer/songwriter Aaron Dessner about their incredible journey on this project and the challenges of making Cyrano amid the pandemic.
Only Murders in the Building Showrunner and co-creator John Hoffman drew upon his own investigative impulses while creating Hulu’s most watched comedy ever after experiencing a true crime mystery within his own life.
Emmy award winning cinematographer Gavin Thurston has worked alongside legendary natural historian David Attenborough for over 30 years. Their latest collaboration, Netflix’s David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, is Thurston’s most important project to date.
“With Lovecraft Country, the exhaustion was there yet I felt energized everyday too,” Jurnee Smollett explains. “That’s just the artist’s brain, that we’re wired to be in that cycle. One feeds the other; the exhaustion feeds the energy.”
Jonathan Majors has burst into the limelight with projects ranging from Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods to the Indie film sensation The Last Black Man in San Francisco, but it’s his quiet and forceful turn in HBO’s su... Read More...
Actor, writer and director Max Minghella carries an enormous weight in Hulu’s esteemed series The Handmaid’s Tale, providing a rare comfort in a show that seldom sits in moments of tenderness.
Working closely with Shonda Rhimes for the last 17 years, Emmy-nominee Chris Van Dusen has had a hand in writing landmark Shondaland series like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. With Bridgerton, Van Dusen took the reigns as the creator and showrunner of the Emmy nominated Netflix series.
With National Geographic’s City So Real, filmmaker Steve James deftly highlights the voices of a variety of Chicagoans with the vast array of candidates in the 2019 Chicago mayoral race.
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist has excelled in a very competitive space with its creativity and technical mastery — thanks in no small part to creator Austin Winsberg and Emmy winning choreographer Mandy Moore.