Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 41 of Awards Chatter the

Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and while it's true that the 88 Oscars have now come and gone,

this podcast will endure.

We're going to spend the next six months until the next Oscar season commences, talking with other interesting people from the world of film, as well as contenders for Tones and Emmys, two other awards that we follow closely here.

On this episode, we welcome two of the most important influential and understated members of the film community Michael Barker and Tom Bernard the co-founders and co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics.

For the last 37 years these two guys have worked together in New York,

first at Films Incorporated, then at United Artists Classics,

then at Orion Classics, a division that they established within Orion Pictures, and for the last 25 years, at Sony. A Division of Sony Pictures

at Sony Pictures Classics, the Independent Division of Sony Pictures

which they founded with Marcy Bloom in 1992

and have run ever since.

If you're a fan of Art House movies, then you're a fan of Sony Pictures Classics because they've put

them out on a more regular basis than any other single company over the last 25 years.

Their Sony Classics filmography is formidable,

from one of its earliest releases,

Howard's End, to its most profitable

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,

to midnight in Paris,

the most successful of their many collaborations with

Woody Allen as well as a host of other films that went on to receive best

picture nominations like those three including Capote an education

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