Fall is both the best and busiest time to be a movie fan, as we enter awards season — that thrilling period when the studios (and increasingly the streaming services) trot out their best hopes for Oscar glory. This year’s entries also arrive during a time of remarkable upheaval in Hollywood; a shaky summer at the box office and Disney’s takeover of the storied Fox movie studio were recent shocks to a system that has gone through seismic shifts many times before.

To help make sense of it all, whether you’re looking to keep up with the Oscar contenders, better understand the changing business or just dive into Hollywood history (the good, the bad and the baffling), here are seven movie-themed podcasts worth sampling.

‘Filmspotting’