Awards Chatter
562 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings'Awards Chatter' is a podcast that features in-depth interviews with the most interesting and accomplished people in show business. Created and hosted by: Scott Feinberg
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Sarah Jessica Parker - 'And Just Like That...' & 'Plaza Suite'
June 02, 2022 04:00 - 1 hourThe child performer turned iconic star reflects on unconventional beauty and how her career changed after Steve Martin cast her as a desirable woman in 1991's 'L.A. Story,' why 25 years ago she was reluctant to play sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw on 'Sex and the City' and what it has been like to revisit the character more than a decade after she last played her — this time with diverse costars but without Kim Cattrall (for reasons she addresses in-depth for the first time). Learn more about y...
Léa Seydoux - 'Crimes of the Future' & 'One Fine Morning' [LIVE]
May 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at the Cannes Film Festival, the queen of the fest reflects on the unrequited crush that led her to acting, the differences between French and Hollywood filmmaking and being the first actress to appear in multiple installments of the 007 franchise as the same Bond girl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Léa Seydoux - 'Crimes of the Future' & 'One Fine Morning' {LIVE}
May 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Courteney Cox - 'Shining Vale' [LIVE]
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the prolific actress behind a generation's favorite sitcom reflects on the early breaks that helped her land the part of Monica on 'Friends,' how working with Wes Craven on several 'Scream' films influenced her own directorial approach and why she feels her role on Starz's new horror/comedy series is the most layered and challenging she has ever played. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Courteney Cox - 'Shining Vale'
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourThe prolific actress behind a generation's favorite sitcom reflects on the early breaks that helped her land the part of Monica on 'Friends', how working with Wes Craven on 'Scream' helped influence her own directorial projects, and why she describes her role on 'Shining Vale' as the most layered and challenging character she has ever played. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert & Michelle King - 'Evil' & 'The Good Fight'
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourThe four-time Emmy nominees best known for 'The Good Wife' reflect on 35 years of marriage, the differences between making shows for broadcast versus streaming and juggling two vastly different series at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert & Michelle King - 'The Good Fight' & 'Evil'
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourThe four time Emmy winners behind 'The Good Wife' reflect on 35 years of marriage, the differences between producing shows for broadcast and streaming, and juggling two vastly different series at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Myers - 'The Pentaverate'
May 10, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutesThe legendary funnyman, in a rare interview, reflects on how his childhood shaped his comedy, the challenges and rewards of playing multiple characters in the same project and how a line he spoke in a 1993 film inspired his new Netflix comedy series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sam Waterston - 'Law & Order,' 'Grace and Frankie' & 'The Dropout'
May 05, 2022 19:36 - 59 minutesOne of our most respected and beloved actors reflects on starting out as a Shakespearean theater specialist, transitioning to screen acting and the challenges and rewards of playing ADA-turned-DA Jack McCoy on 17 seasons of Dick Cook's landmark legal drama for NBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
José Andrés - 'We Feed People'
April 29, 2022 22:01 - 1 hourThe world renowned chef and humanitarian reflects on popularizing tapas in America through his celebrated restaurants, what inspired him to establish World Central Kitchen to feed people in disaster areas and being the subject of a new Ron Howard-directed documentary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elle Fanning - 'The Girl from Plainville' & The Great'
April 19, 2022 06:41 - 1 hourThe former child star, who is now 24 and garnering career-best notices for her work on a Hulu comedy series and limited series, reflects on growing up in the biz alongside Dakota, when she took ownership of her career and what led her to projects on the small screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Isabel May - '1883'
April 14, 2022 20:54 - 1 hourThe 21-year-old breakout star of Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' prequel, an epic Western limited series on Paramount+, reflects on her first professional gig as the lead of a Netflix sitcom, how a 'Mayor of Kingstown' audition inspired Sheridan to write the part of Elsa Dutton for her and what it was like preparing for and then shooting that show over five months alongside Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Borstein - 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'
April 09, 2022 04:58 - 1 hourThe three-time Emmy winner reflects on her beginnings in sketch comedy and breakthrough gig on 'MADtv,' voicing Lois Griffin (and many other characters) on 'Family Guy' and how being cast — but unable to accept a major part — on 'Gilmore Girls' led decades later to the role of bartender-turned-manager Susie Myerson on 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Borstein - 'Family Guy' & 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'
April 09, 2022 04:58 - 1 hourThe three-time Emmy winner reflects on her beginnings in sketch comedy and breakthrough gig on 'MADtv,' voicing Lois Griffin (and many other characters) for Seth MacFarlane's shows and how being cast — but unable to accept a major part — on 'Gilmore Girls' led decades later to the role of bartender-turned-manager Susie Myerson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Squid Game' Squad [LIVE]
March 30, 2022 01:25 - 1 hourThe principal team behind the Korean dystopian dramedy which has become Netflix's most popular TV show ever — creator/writer/director/EP Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae (“Gi-hun”), Jung Ho-yeon (“Sae-byeok”), Park Hae-soo (“Sang-woo”) and Anupam Tripathi (“Ali”) — joins Scott and hundreds of excited fans at Chapman University to reflect on their journey to the show and its massive success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Squid Game' Squad — Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae, Jung Ho-yeon, Park Hae-soo & Anupam Tripathi
March 30, 2022 01:25 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the principal team behind the Korean dystopian dramedy which has become Netflix's most popular TV show ever — creator/writer/director/EP Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae (“Gi-hun”), Jung Ho-yeon (“Sae-byeok”), Park Hae-soo (“Sang-woo”) and Anupam Tripathi (“Ali”) — joins Scott to reflect on their journey to the show and its massive success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Liv Ullmann - Film Legend
March 24, 2022 04:53 - 53 minutesAhead of Friday’s presentation to her of an honorary Oscar, the legendary Norwegian actress emotionally reflects on her and Ingmar Bergman’s personal (five romantic years) and professional (12 collaborations) relationship, how ‘Persona’ changed her life and career and her mixed feelings about Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Troy Kotsur - 'CODA'
March 21, 2022 02:11 - 56 minutesThe first deaf male ever nominated for an acting Oscar reflects on growing up as the only deaf member of his family, making his name in deaf theater and how the making of and tremendous response to his performance in Sian Heder's film about a child of deaf adults (or "CODA") has changed his life. (Interpreting provided by Justin Mauer; video available at thr.com.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Richard Linklater - 'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood' [LIVE]
March 16, 2022 09:17 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, the city he has long called home, this indie filmmaker's indie filmmaker reflects on the medical diagnosis that led him to abandon sports for filmmaking, how he has navigated the biz to get his personal vision on the screen regardless of the size of his budget, and what is at the root of his fascination with time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jane Campion - 'The Power of the Dog'
March 14, 2022 23:37 - 1 hourThe second woman ever to receive a best director Oscar nomination and, 28 years after that, the first woman ever to receive a second one, reflects on her circuitous path to filmmaking, obstacles she has faced because of her gender and how she feels about men who disparage her films, including Sam Elliott, for whom she has some choice words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Javier Bardem - ‘Being the Ricardos,’ ‘Dune’ & ‘The Good Boss’ [LIVE]
March 07, 2022 19:45 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at the Boulder International Film Festival, the first Spaniard ever to receive an acting Oscar nomination and win reflects on his initial reluctance to follow his family into film, finding stardom in both Spain and Hollywood and working in the same business as — and being Oscar-nominated this year alongside — his wife, Penelope Cruz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kenneth Branagh - 'Belfast'
February 28, 2022 08:48 - 1 hourThe Irish-born Brit, who has been nominated in more Oscar categories over the course of his career than any other person ever (seven) but has yet to win one, reflects on his childhood as the Troubles exploded around him, achieving great success before 30 and becoming both his generation’s leading interpreter of Shakespeare and a director of popcorn movies — while also revisiting the defining events of his life 50 years after they happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
Emilia Jones - 'CODA' & 'Locke & Key'
February 22, 2022 00:10 - 58 minutesThe 19-year-old breakout reflects on her years as a child actor, her exhaustive preparation to play a child of deaf adults who finds her voice in more ways than one and becoming a star during a global pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paolo Sorrentino - 'The Hand of God'
February 19, 2022 02:55 - 1 hourThe Italian maestro best known for the Oscar-winning 'The Great Beauty' reflects on how a childhood tragedy set him on the path to becoming a filmmaker, his six collaborations with the actor Toni Servillo and being chosen to represent Italy at the Oscars for a second time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kirsten Dunst - 'The Power of the Dog'
February 07, 2022 23:25 - 1 hourThe former child star and current actors’ actor reflects on 33 years in the business, resisting conventional stardom and realizing a dream by working with Jane Campion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Caitriona Balfe - 'Belfast' & ‘Outlander’
January 31, 2022 11:00 - 1 hourThe Irish actress reflects on her early foray into supermodeling, landing a star-making role on Starz's adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's fantasy book series (the sixth season of which premieres March 6) and portraying Kenneth Branagh's mother in one of the most acclaimed films of 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rachel Zegler - 'West Side Story'
January 28, 2022 06:27 - 1 hourThe 20-year-old breakout star of Steven Spielberg's reimagining of the classic musical reflects on how she fell in love with musical theater, the year-long process that led to her being chosen over 30,000 others for the part of Maria and how she is handling sudden stardom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Penelope Cruz - 'Parallel Mothers'
January 25, 2022 01:02 - 1 hourThe first Spanish actress ever to win an Oscar reflects on her unlikely journey from superfan to seven-time muse of Pedro Almodóvar, her opportunities in Hollywood versus Europe and why she, like Almodóvar, feels that the part she plays in their latest collaboration was her most challenging yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bono and The Edge - 'Sing 2'
January 17, 2022 22:00 - 1 hourThe principal songwriters of U2, one of the most popular and influential bands of all time, reflect on the origins of their sound and social conscience, how they’ve managed to stay together longer than almost any other major band and why their first new tune in three years was “Your Song Saved My Life,” which is shortlisted for the best original song Oscar. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Daniel Craig - 'No Time to Die'
January 10, 2022 04:34 - 1 hourOne of only six actors who has played James Bond, and the one who has held the part the longest, reflects on why he almost turned down the offer to join the iconic film franchise, what he found most challenging and gratifying about being part of it and what's next for him following his fifth and final installment. But first: Barbara Broccoli — previously a guest on episode 192 — who, along with her half-brother and EON Productions partner Michael G. Wilson, has overseen the James Bond franchi...
Jodie Comer - 'The Last Duel' & 'Help'
January 04, 2022 22:50 - 1 hourThe English actress best known for playing psychopath Villanelle on 'Killing Eve' reflects on how the actor Stephen Graham helped her early in her career, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the best actress in a drama series Emmy (at the time) and why, prior to 2021, she feared she might never get a shot at acting in films. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamie Dornan - 'Belfast'
December 28, 2021 15:59 - 1 hourThe dashing actor best known for playing a BDSM-obsessed businessman in the '50 Shades' trilogy reflects on abandoning modeling for acting, why he signed up to play Christian Grey and the lesser known parts before, between and since that part in which he has demonstrated that he's much more than a pretty face. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Dinklage - 'Cyrano'
December 22, 2021 19:01 - 1 hourThe four-time Emmy winner for 'Game of Thrones' opens up about the personal “code” that kept him, as a person with a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, from accepting stereotypical sorts of roles even when they were the only job offers he was receiving, how the part of Tyrion Lannister changed his life and what it was like carrying a musical for the first time. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
Halle Berry - 'Bruised' [LIVE]
December 13, 2021 14:06 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the Hollywood trailblazer — a talented actress who was one of the first Black Bond girls, was the first Black comic book-movie superheroine, and remains to this day the only Black winner of the best actress Oscar — reflects on race, beauty, the "Oscar curse" and, at 55, directing for the first time and playing an MMA fighter in the same film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Denis Villeneuve - 'Dune' [LIVE]
December 06, 2021 11:00 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, one of only a few filmmakers in Hollywood who makes movies which are consistently embraced by both highbrow critics and mass audiences reflects on his beginnings in Canada, why he once took nine years off from directing features and making six major movies in the last eight years, including, most recently, one he's dreamed of making since age 13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Billie Eilish & Finneas - 'No Time to Die' & 'Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry'
November 24, 2021 15:14 - 1 hourThe Grammy-winning siblings reflect on their relationship, their different approaches to songwriting and why a Bond song was always on their bucket list: "It was almost the most we've ever wanted to do anything," says Eilish. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Harvey Keitel - 'Lansky' [LIVE]
November 22, 2021 11:00 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, an actors' actor who was at the center of the New Hollywood of the '60s and '70s and the indie boom of the '80s and '90s reflects on he was shaped by his time in the Marines, his collaborations with Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, working with first-time directors like Quentin Tarantino and what really happened on 'Apocalypse Now.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Asghar Farhadi - 'A Hero' [LIVE]
November 16, 2021 00:41 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the Iranian master, one of only six filmmakers ever to direct multiple winners of the best international feature Oscar (the others being Bergman, Fellini, De Sica, Kurosawa and Clement), reflects on making films with limited resources, censorship and fanaticism. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Todd Haynes - 'The Velvet Underground'
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hourOne of the most significant indie filmmakers of the last 35 years reflects on his start in experimental film, the origins of New Queer Cinema and why, at the age of 60, he is venturing into the world of documentary filmmaking for the first time. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dakota Johnson - 'The Lost Daughter' [LIVE]
November 08, 2021 12:29 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the third-generation Hollywood star reflects on what she learned about the biz — good and bad — from her family, shooting to fame through the blockbuster ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy and challenging herself in art house projects like Maggie Gyllenhaal’s forthcoming directorial debut, which has already won raves on the fall film fest circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David Chase - 'The Many Saints of Newark' [LIVE]
November 02, 2021 21:50 - 1 hourIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the creator of 'The Sopranos,' which is widely regarded as the greatest TV show of all time, opens up as never before about what inspired that series and its new prequel, how his feelings about film versus TV have evolved over the years and, in a major disclosure, what really happened to Tony Soprano at the end of the series finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oscar Isaac - 'The Card Counter,' 'Dune' & 'Scenes from a Marriage'
October 24, 2021 10:10 - 58 minutesOne of the most talented and exciting actors of his generation reflects on his roots in the theater but lifelong passion for film, how ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ led to ‘Star Wars’ and exploded his career and what’s next on his to-do list. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Simon Rex - 'Red Rocket'
October 12, 2021 02:56 - 1 hourA Hollywood character unlike any other reflects on his accidental journey from MTV VJ to white rapper to best actor Oscar contender for his portrayal of a has-been porn star in Sean Baker’s latest indie about people on the fringes of American society. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nicolas Cage - 'Pig'
October 04, 2021 11:00 - 1 hourIn a rare interview, the enigmatic Oscar winner reflects on growing up Coppola, following 'Leaving Las Vegas' by going full Bruckheimer, why he now works constantly and what it's like being "rediscovered" at 57. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rita Moreno - 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It'
September 30, 2021 08:26 - 1 hourThe first Latina ever to win an Oscar and one of only 16 EGOTs ever reflects on the stereotypical casting and abusive behavior she encountered as a Hollywood starlet, working on classics like 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'West Side Story' and why she is convinced that the latter's upcoming remake — in which she appears and on which she was an EP — will avoid the pitfalls that undid another recent movie musical about Latinos in America, 'In the Heights.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and prod...
Eugenio Derbez - 'CODA'
September 21, 2021 01:22 - 1 hourThe Mexican-born "king of Latino comedy" reflects on discovering his calling and becoming a huge star in his homeland at 27, his humbling pursuit of stardom north of the border and how his 2013 film 'Instructions Not Included' — the highest-grossing Spanish-language film of all time in United States — changed everything. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hayley Mills - Film Legend
September 14, 2021 04:06 - 1 hourOne of the all-time great child stars reflects on anchoring six films for Walt Disney (including 'Pollyanna' and 'The Parent Trap'), breaking into grown-up roles and writing her new memoir 'Forever Young.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remembering Michael K. Williams (1966-2021)
September 09, 2021 05:35 - 1 hourIn the wake of the unexpected loss of a great chatacter actor who played, among many other parts, the most memorable character on the greatest TV show of all time — Omar Little on ‘The Wire’ — we resurface a 2011 conversation he had with Scott Feinberg about his scar, his struggles and his salvation. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Remembering Ed Asner (1929-2021)
August 30, 2021 17:49 - 58 minutesIn his last interview, the TV legend best known for playing Lou Grant on the landmark comedy series 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and drama series 'Lou Grant' — he won Emmys for both, as well as for 'Rich Man, Poor Man' and 'Roots' — reflects on his late-breaking success, his date with Mary Tyler Moore and life during the pandemic. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pat Boone - Film & Music Legend
August 26, 2021 09:25 - 1 hourA titan of ’50s and ’60s popular music — rivaled only by Elvis Presley, who once opened for him — reflects on reconciling his religious upbringing with mainstream stardom, his now-controversial covering of songs by Black artists and being one of the last people put under contract to a Hollywood studio before the studio system’s collapse. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices