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Nominated for eight Critics Choice Awards, including Best Picture,

Best Director and Actor Bradley Cooper, and Best Actress Carrie Mulligan, alongside an ensemble cast that features

Matt Bomer, Maya Hawk, and Sarah Silverman.

Time magazine calls it Grand-Scale filmmaking that's also bracingly intimate, one of the

best pictures of the year.

With expert craftsmanship from Leonard Bernstein prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hero,

spectacular cinematography from Matthew Leibateek, and outstanding costume designed by Mark Bridges

Maestro an epic love story spanning five decades for your consideration in all categories. I'm going to be in the

I'm going to be in the Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 511th episode of the

Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast I'm the host Scott Feinberg and

for those of you tuning in this episode is being recorded in front of a live audience at the wonderful

SCAD Savannah Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia, which I have been privileged to attend and cover

for 11 years now and which gets better every year.

My guest today is one of the great storytellers of Stage and Screen, which is why it's only fitting

that he's here at the Fest to collect the Storyteller Award.

He's a playwright best known for writing 1986

is The Colored Museum and co-writing 1992's Jelly's Last

Gym.

He's a theater director best known for directing the original Broadway productions

of Angels in America Millennium Approaches and Angels in America Peristroika, two landmark plays

in 1993 and a host of Broadway musicals including

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