Sasha Stone

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2,833 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 6 Aug

Sasha Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I stayed independent even as the ad money made life more comfortable for me and my daughter than it had ever been.

There was never any question why my career ended in Hollywood.

I had been outed as a Trump voter.

I was on the wrong side of Hollywood's progressive orthodoxy.

And that meant I was finished.

How it started.

I started OscarWatch.com as a single mom with a one-year-old baby living in a studio guest house in Van Nuys, California in 1999.

I was an early web pioneer with a 1200 baud modem and a really good idea.

For podcast listeners, an old screen grab of Oscar Watch from the year 2000.

I was already catching the attention of publicists and rocking the boat.

as all of us amateurs did back then.

We were moving fast and breaking things.

Traditional media was not ready.

The studios weren't either.

They were used to having a monopoly on Oscar FYC ads and variety in The Hollywood Reporter.

They're bread and butter until the blogs came along.

By 2006, I was starting to make money because my little site had birthed a big bang of other Oscar sites.

And by then, even the New York Times had an Oscar blogger, the late, great David Carr, who called himself the carpetbagger.

For podcast listeners, a story in Fishbowl.

When David Carr was focused on the Hollywood equation, Sasha Stone pays tribute to a valued friend and mentor.

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