As we near the end of January, I'm looking back at 2023. I interviewed 10 amazing authors about their books and spoke with six filmmakers as well. There was so much new content on The Oscar Project Podcast, it was hard to pick the best bits, but here are some of my favorite parts of the interviews from 2023.

Be sure to pick up the books from all these guests and support their work.

• Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask
• The Movie Lover’s Guide to London by Charlotte Booth and Brian Billington
• Lost in Translation (BFI Film Classics) by Suzanne Ferriss
• But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films by Kristen Lopez
• Clint Eastwood: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
• David Lynch: A Retrospective by Ian Nathan
• Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula by Koren Shadmi
• Horror Unmasked: The History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope by Brad Weismann
• Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Century of Scarface by Nat Segaloff
• Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies by Andrew DeGraff
• The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave by Nate Patrin

And of course, check out the work of my filmmaker interviewees

• Boom (follow boom_shortfilm on Instagram)
• Wings of Dust (follow Giorgio Ghiotto and Wings of Dust on Instagram)
• Revisited (follow Iain Forbes on Instagram)