Awards Chatter

In 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. Lear...

The 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

In 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 abou...

In 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 you...

One 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

In 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 abou...

In 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 y...

One 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

A 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

In 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

The 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 mov...

The 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 m...

One 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

In 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 cho...

In 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...

A 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 Wh...

One of the most admired stage and screen actresses of her generation shares her conflicted feelings about her star-making run run on 'The X-Files,' why she subsequently left and then returned to Hollywood and what it means to her, after so many ups and downs, to now receive universal acclaim for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurs...

One of the most artistically and commercially successful producers in Hollywood history, a 2018 recipient of the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, reflects on breaking into the biz 53 years ago with Peter Bogdanovich, the chance encounter that resulted in his longtime collaboration with Steven Spielberg and marriage to Kathleen Kennedy and what inspired him to direct — for the first tim...

The much loved actors' actor, now an Emmy frontrunner for Disney+'s first MCU series, reflects on learning to improvise with the Frat Pack, cornerning the market on sexually daring parts and landing the role she was meant to play... all along. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first female VP at a major Hollywood studio (UA in the 1970s), who died on August 3 at 95, spoke with Scott Feinberg in 2013 about working on Madison Ave. in the 1960s, transitioning from being a top literary agent to a top production executive and lessons she learned while helping to make ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘Rocky,’ ‘Carrie,’ ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Coming Home,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘The...

The powerhouse team of documentary filmmakers behind some of the most acclaimed and socially impactful docs of the 21st century reflect on their very different backgrounds, how they began collaborating and how sexual misconduct became the major theme of their work together. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

The Australian multi-hyphenate reflects on the filmmaking collective that he helped to establish 25 years ago, leveraging an early role in 'Star Wars' and the varied credits that have followed, from 'Warrior' to 'Loving' to, most recently, Barry Jenkins' acclaimed limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead's bestselling novel. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst...

The star of Hollywood's Golden Age turned author, who is now 90 and celebrating the 65th anniversary of her start in the movies in 'Giant' and 'Baby Doll,' shares the pros and cons of being a sex symbol, memories of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and thoughts about the #MeToo movement — including an unpopular opinion of Bill Cosby, who was unexpectedly released from prison the next day. Credits: Ho...

The best character actor working today, according to a 2021 industry survey, reflects on how he came to acting by way of the scene shop, why he quit the profession for two years in the early 2000s and what explains his remarkable past decade — a Tony nom, an Emmy nom (with another likely next month) and roles in five best picture Oscar nominees, two of which won. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg...

The first lady of television reflects on how her challenging childhood shaped her as a person and an actress, early jobs that were expected to be game-changers but proved not to be and the origins and evolution of her close collaboration with Ryan Murphy. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices