Awards Chatter

In front of an audience at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the musican and actor reflects on his colorful adolescence, his gravitation to and success with both rap and pop-punk and why he has added acting to his portfolio, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, one of the biggest box-office stars of the past quarter-century reflects on his path to comedy and acting, what inspired his funniest movies and lines and his mid-career foray into more dramatic roles, such as the NBA scout he played in an acclaimed Netflix film earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In front of an audience at Chapman University, the Malaysian actress reflects on blazing a trail for female martial artists in Hong Kong cinema, introducing the modern Bond girl 25 years ago and getting to show that she can do, well, everything everywhere all at once in A24's biggest hit to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Oscar and Tony winner returns to the podcast, seven years after his first visit, and reflects on his collaborations with Tom Hooper, the movie on which Harvey Weinstein bullied him and the roles for which he has received the most acclaim, from Dr. Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything' to a nurse with a dark secret in a new Netflix film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Aussie actress who has shot to stardom as Shiv Roy on HBO's Emmy-winning drama series reflects on almost landing the lead in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' right out of drama school, how the casting director who cast her in 'Steve Jobs' changed her career years later, what makes Shiv tick and what it's been like becoming a celebrity during a pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The voice of millennial Black women for more than a decade," in the words of The Washington Post, reflects on how she became enamored with TV, the robbery that inspired her web series 'The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl' and how that show, along with Larry Wilmore and Prentice Penny, shaped her five-season masterpiece for HBO, the first premium cable scripted series ever created by and starring a Black woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The TV veteran of '8 Simple Rules' and 'The Big Bang Theory' reflects on her start in the business, the lessons and loss of mentor John Ritter and breaking out of sitcoms to produce and star in an HBO Max comedic thriller that has now brought her three Emmy nominations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first woman of color to ever run a Hollywood studio, who is now the head of global television at the world's preeminent streamer and one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world, reflects on climbing the ranks in a business in which no one looked like her, championing shows like 'The Mindy Project' and 'Master of None' and helping to guide to fruition 'Squid Game,' which is the biggest hit in her company's history and the first non-English-language show ever nominated for a best series Emmy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar-winning filmmaker and world’s most famous living New Zealander reflects on his path to filmmaking and passion for visual effects, the crazy series of events that made it possible for him to make the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and the loss of a longtime collaborator that has driven him towards documentary filmmaking, most recently with an epic docuseries about the run-up to The Beatles’ final public performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in to Scott’s 2014 Dodger Stadium interview with the greatest broadcaster in the history of sports, the voice of the Dodgers from 1950 in Brooklyn through 2016 in Los Angeles, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 94. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices