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Michael Douglas - 'Franklin'
Awards Chatter - April 02, 2024 02:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe second-generation Hollywood legend reflects on growing up in the shadow of Kirk, breaking into the biz as both a producer (he won an Oscar for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest') and an actor (he won an Oscar for 'Wall Street') and breaking away from the contemporary roles for which he's best ...
Tony Goldwyn - 'Ezra' & 'Law & Order' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - March 04, 2024 21:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at the Boulder International Film Festival, the beloved character actor-turned-filmmaker reflects on his deep Hollywood roots, juggling acting roles like the ones he played in the film 'Ghost' and on the TV series 'Scandal' with directing gigs like 'A Walk on the Moon' and...
Lily Gladstone - 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Awards Chatter - February 26, 2024 17:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe trailblazing actress, who recently became the first Indigenous American ever nominated for the best actress Oscar, reflects on deciding to pursue a screen acting career despite the historically limited opportunities for Native Americans; almost walking away from the business after her award-w...
Celine Song - 'Past Lives' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - February 24, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the Korean-Canadian filmmaker, who is Oscar-nominated for her autobiographical feature directorial debut, reflects on her transition from playwright to filmmaker, the biggest challenges that a first-time filmmaker faces and her aspirations for the fu...
America Ferrera - 'Barbie' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - February 22, 2024 22:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the trailblazing actress, producer, director and activist reflects on the unlikely path to her breakthrough role in the indie film 'Real Women Have Curves'; becoming the first Latina ever to win the best actress in a comedy series Emmy, for 'Ugly Bet...
Cillian Murphy - 'Oppenheimer'
Awards Chatter - February 13, 2024 08:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Irish actor who is Oscar-nominated for playing the father of the atomic bomb reflects on his unexpected shift from making music to acting, what led him to the beloved drama series 'Peaky Blinders' and what is at the center of his special six-film, 20-year collaboration with Christopher Nolan....
Jon Batiste - 'American Symphony' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - February 05, 2024 19:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Grammy-winning songwriter and Oscar-winning composer reflects on his legendary New Orleans music family, waging war against genres and being featured in and writing an original song that is now nominated for an Oscar, "It Never Went Away," for Matthew Heineman's Netflix documentary feature. L...
Annette Bening - 'Nyad'
Awards Chatter - January 23, 2024 01:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe admired veteran reflects on breaking into Hollywood with 'The Grifters' (en route to an Oscar nom) and 'Bugsy' (opposite husband-to-be Warren Beatty), standout turns in films ranging from 'The Kids Are All Right' to '20th Century Women' to 'Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool' and taking on one...
Michelle Satter - Sundance Institute
Awards Chatter - January 14, 2024 00:26 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe founding director of the Sundance Institute, who since 1981 has presided over the "labs" that help rising filmmakers to realize their visions, reflects on how she came to work for Robert Redford, what filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Chloé Zhao and Darren Aronofsky got out ...
Martin Scorsese - 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Awards Chatter - January 12, 2024 23:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe legendary filmmaker reflects on the tug of war that he has always felt between his faith and the reality of his life, and how that has shaped the films that he has made; the origins and evolution of his special relationships with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio; how his latest film is so...
Ava DuVernay - 'Origin'
Awards Chatter - January 09, 2024 18:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe trailblazing filmmaker reflects on her circuitous path to the film industry, in which she originally worked as a publicist; the evolution of her social conscience; how her feelings about Hollywood have changed since 'Selma' and #OscarsSoWhite; and why she is so passionate about her latest fil...
Billie Eilish & Finneas - 'Barbie' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - January 08, 2024 22:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at Chapman University, the sibling singer/songwriters return to the podcast to take questions from the host and students about their path to music, why they love writing songs for movies and how "What Was I Made For?," their Oscar-shortlisted tune for Greta Gerwig's acclai...
Danielle Brooks ('The Color Purple')
Awards Chatter - January 03, 2024 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Grammy winner and Tony and Emmy nominee reflects on her path from Greenville, South Carolina to Juilliard to Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black' and Broadway, overcoming impostor syndrome and her fateful Zoom with Oprah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Danielle Brooks - 'The Color Purple'
Awards Chatter - January 03, 2024 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Grammy winner and Tony and Emmy nominee reflects on her path from Greenville, South Carolina to Juilliard to Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black' and Broadway, overcoming impostor syndrome and her fateful Zoom with Oprah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Paul Giamatti - 'The Holdovers'
Awards Chatter - December 19, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOne of our greatest character actors reflects on how the sudden death of his father motivated him to pursue an acting career, the different challenges of roles small and large and what it was like to reunite with Alexander Payne, 19 years after 'Sideways,' for a new film about a cranky boarding s...
Julianne Moore - 'May December'
Awards Chatter - December 18, 2023 01:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOne of the most admired actresses of our or any time reflects on how a nomadic childhood led her to acting; the most important roles of her career, ranging from 'The Big Lebowski' to 'Far from Heaven' to 'Still Alice'; and her special relationship with filmmaker Todd Haynes, which has yielded fiv...
Emerald Fennell - 'Saltburn' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - December 14, 2023 19:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at Chapman Univeristy, the British actress/writer/director, who for 'Promising Young Woman' won the best original screenplay Oscar and became the first British female ever nominated for the best director Oscar, reflects on the roots of her interest in dark material, being ...
Lenny Kravitz - 'Rustin'
Awards Chatter - December 12, 2023 19:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsNearing his 60th birthday, the legendary singer/songwriter and rock star reflects on growing up biracial and half-Jewish, his greatest hits and his new Golden Globe-nominated tune "Road to Freedom." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Olivia Rodrigo - 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'
Awards Chatter - December 04, 2023 23:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe 20-year-old Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, one of the world's biggest pop stars, reflects on her path to acting and singing, rocketing to mega-fame during COVID lockdown with "Driver's License" and writing songs for her two albums versus writing a song — "Can't Catch Me Now" — for a film. ...
Emily Blunt - 'Oppenheimer'
Awards Chatter - December 03, 2023 22:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Brit described by her three-time collaborator Meryl Streep as "the best young actress I’ve worked with in some time, perhaps ever" reflects on how a childhood stutter led her to acting, taking on frightening physical and vocal challenges in film roles and playing the wife of J. Robert Oppenhe...
Christine Vachon - 'May December' & 'Past Lives'
Awards Chatter - November 27, 2023 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsOne of the all-time most distinguished producers of independent film — who has somehow never received a best picture Oscar nomination, despite credits including 'Boys Don't Cry,' 'Far from Heaven' and 'Carol' — reflects on meeting Todd Haynes and abandoning early ambitions to become a director, h...
Dua Lipa - 'Barbie'
Awards Chatter - November 22, 2023 22:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Grammy-winning pop superstar opens up about her childhood split between London and Kosovo, breaking into the music biz with hits like 'New Rules' and 'Levitating,' the unique challenges of writing 'Dance the Night' for Greta Gerwig's summer blockbuster and releasing 'Houdini,' the first singl...
George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin'
Awards Chatter - November 14, 2023 00:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, one of the premier writers and directors of stage and screen reflects on directing the original Broadway production of 'Angels in America' (for which he won one of his three Tonys), transitioning to film directing and, most recently, tel...
George C. Wolfe - 'Rustin' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - November 14, 2023 00:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, one of the premier writers and directors of stage and screen reflects on directing the original Broadway production of 'Angels in America' (for which he won one of his three Tonys), transitioning to film directing and, most recently, tel...
15 Authors of Titles on THR's List of the 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - November 09, 2023 05:51 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at Hollywood's historic Grauman's Chinese Theater, for a panel convened as part of AFI FEST, Scott sits down with A. Scott Berg, Cameron Crowe, Nancy Griffin, Aljean Harmetz, Leonard Maltin, Kim Masters, Dennis McDougal, James Andrew Miller, Eddie Muller, John Pierson, Geo...
Alexander Payne - 'The Holdovers'
Awards Chatter - November 03, 2023 05:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe Omaha-born filmmaker known for dramedies including 'Election,' 'About Schmidt,' 'Sideways,' 'The Descendants' and 'Nebraska' reflects on his differing feelings about writing and directing, the ways in which he casts A-listers and extras and reuniting with Paul Giamatti 19 years after their pr...
Mark Ronson - 'Barbie' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - October 17, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the star DJ-turned-producer/songwriter reflects on his path to music, notable collaborations (with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga) and expansive work on Greta Gerwig's 2023 blockbuster (he EP'd the soundtrack, co-wr...
Tim Burton - 'Wednesday' [LIVE]
Awards Chatter - October 01, 2023 20:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsIn front of an audience at the Burbank International Film Festival, the brilliant and eccentric filmmaker reflects on his childhood in Burbank and how it led him to animation and to characters regarded by others as freaks, alternating between mainstream blockbusters and personal art films and col...
Wim Wenders - ‘Anselm’ & ‘Perfect Days’
Awards Chatter - September 11, 2023 21:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe legend of New German Cinema reflects on making movies in Germany and America, moving between narrative and doc features and the making of his greatest films including ‘Paris, Texas,’ ‘Wings of Desire’ and ‘Buena Vista Social Club.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cedric the Entertainer - ‘Flipping Boxcars: A Novel’
Awards Chatter - August 31, 2023 14:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsThe veteran fan favorite reflects on his path to standup and his unusual stage name, how the Spike Lee documentary 'The Original Kings of Comedy' changed his career trajectory and his forthcoming debut novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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