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evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 35 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and on this episode we are joined by an understated

50-year-old Irishman whose name may not mean a lot to you right now, but who made a 2015

film that virtually everyone who's seen it loves.

His name, Lenny Abramson, and you'll have to forgive him for taking a little while to get to this point.

He's a brilliant guy with a lot of interests and pursued a few of them before arriving at a

career in film. For a while he was into physics, then philosophy, but once he

committed he found success in a major way. First in Ireland where he began

directing quirky and unusual films 12 years ago,

including the one for which he was most famous until recently 2014's Frank, and now internationally,

starting with the immensely powerful 2015 drama Room.

Over the course of our conversation we look back at everything that led up to Room and then how he went over that novel's author,

and eventual screenwriter of the film's adaptation, Emma Donahue, to

win the opportunity to direct its big screen adaptation.

How he arrived at the casting of Brie Larson, who's now the favorite to win the best actress Oscar, and Jacob Tremblay, who was a seven-year-old kid with limited experience, but gave one of the great child performances of all time and wound up with a SAG award nomination.

And how he managed to tell a story that sounds horribly dark on the page

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