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.
Top Gun: Maverick, the much-anticipated sequel to the original 1986 Top Gun, has been a box-office smashing success. Lead Sound Designer Al Nelson from Skywalker Sound and re-recording mixer Chris Burdon rose to the challenge by creating high-adrenaline soundscapes that transported audiences directly into the cockpit of the F/A-18 jets.
In his piercing feature debut, director and writer Miles Warren asserts himself as a talent on the rise with his resonant and introspective feature, Bruiser, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Following the success of Florian Zeller’s The Father (2021), the auteur returns to cinemas this fall with its highly anticipated spiritual successor, The Son. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater on Saturday afternoon during AFI Fest, with stars Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby on the red carpet.
Stars Carey Mulligan and Patricia Clarkson arrived at the TCL Chinese Theater red carpet for the high-energy AFI Fest premiere of She Said on Friday evening.
Hulu’s award-winning dystopian drama, The Handmaid’s Tale, returns with the season five premiere this week. Before the new season, Awards Focus spoke to the team behind the show and its actors for a spoiler-free conversation on season four’s close and the grand machinations for season five.
From the post-apocalyptic HBO Max series Station Eleven, filmed in Chicago before the pandemic before shifting production to Toronto, to the critically acclaimed Donald Glover created FX series Atlanta, director Hiro Murai has had a busy few years.
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Veteran actor Christopher McDonald is enjoying a busy year amid Marvel and HBO productions and now awards consideration. His performance as Marty, the complexly layered hotel owner in HBO Max's award-winning comedy series Hacks, has earned the actor his first Emmy nomination.