Bo Burnham - 'Eighth Grade'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The YouTube star turned internationally-popular standup comedian turned acclaimed filmmaker reflects on his unusual career path, his debilitating battles with anxiety and how technology is changing our lives. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 261st episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcasts, which is now but one of four
0:15.9	podcasts that comprise the Hollywood Reporters Podcast Network. The others being
0:20.2	it happened in Hollywood, behind the screen screen and TV's top five. I'm the
0:25.2	host Scott Feinberg and my guest today has had a professional journey unlike
0:29.0	any other morphing from one of the first YouTube stars to an internationally popular stand-up comedian,
0:35.6	to a filmmaker.
0:37.1	He is currently the toast of Hollywood for his feature writing and directing debut,
0:41.1	eighth grade, a dramedy about an anxiety-rittled 13-year-old
0:44.5	girl during her last week of 8th grade, which proved one of the most critically
0:48.6	acclaimed films of 2018, clocking in at 99% on Rodden Tomatoes.com, and a breakout art house hit, costing $2 million, but
0:57.5	grossing close to $14 million.
0:59.8	He has been awarded the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Gotham Award, Best Directorial
1:03.8	debut National Board of Review Award, and Best First Film Film Critics Circle Award.
1:08.7	He was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Critics Choice Award, and he is nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Writers
1:14.6	Guild of America Award and Best Screenplay Spirit Award.
1:18.6	All for a film that cracked Best of 2018 lists from sources ranging from the National Board of Review to the
1:24.0	American Film Institute to former President Barack Obama and that may have more
1:28.5	accolades still to come. Bo Burnham. Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter, the 28-year-old and I discussed the origins and implications of his accidental YouTube stardom,
1:40.0	how performing comedy alone in his bedroom, compared and contrasted to doing so in front of live audiences
1:45.6	How his own intense battles with anxiety motivated him to look for a way out of stand-up and ultimately to write eighth grade plus much more so without further ado let's go to that
1:57.2	conversation. All right both thank you so much for Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Scott.
2:05.0	Absolutely. We always begin with just a few basics. Where were you born and raised and what did your folks do for a living?
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