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Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 99 minutes

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In front of an audience at Chapman University, the co-chairs/co-CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group reflect on their paths through the business as producers and execs over the last three decades; their crazy 2025, during which they went from almost losing their jobs to presiding over one of the most successful years any studio has ever had; and what it's like being behind both horses in a two-horse best picture Oscar race, 'Sinners' and 'One Battle After Another.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.0	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.0	They think they're better than us.
0:08.0	Who do you think you are?
0:10.0	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:12.0	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.0	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A Woman of Substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:29.4	Good evening, everyone.
0:32.6	I'm Scott Feinberg, the executive veteran of awards coverage at The Hollywood Reporter and a trustee professor at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts,
0:37.2	from which I will say for
0:39.7	our listeners, tonight's episode of the podcast is being recorded. Tonight, several hundred students
0:45.9	and I are fortunate enough to be joined by two of the most distinguished and powerful people in Hollywood.
0:51.1	Like many in this room, they were once film students who landed internships
0:55.0	in the business while harboring dreams of one day becoming a producer or an executive.
1:00.0	Tonight we'll discuss their journeys as individuals and then as a team that led them to achieve not only those ambitions,
1:06.0	but also to the jobs they hold today, as co-chairs and co-CEOs of Warner Brothers Motion Picture Group,
1:12.6	which encompasses one of the oldest and most storied of the Hollywood Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures
1:17.6	as well as New Line Cinema and Warner Brothers Pictures Animation.
1:21.6	The co-recipients in 2013 of the Producers Guild of America's Highest Honor, the Milestone Award,
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