This podcast is brought to you by Netflix, presenting Jay Kelly, a film by Academy Award nominee Noah Bombach.

George Clooney stars as Jay Kelly, a famous movie actor who embarks on a relationship of self-discovery confronting his past and present as he reflects on not only his career, but his relationships with his father, his daughters, and his devoted team, led by his manager played by Adam Sandler.

The L.A. Times raves, Jay Kelly, is a fully formed knockout, and Awards Watch hails it as one of the best films of the year.

Available on Netflix for your awards consideration. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 616th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a singer-songwriter and actress, who has been described by Billboard as a generational talent,

and the 15th greatest pop star of the 21st century, by the New York Times as one of

pop's reigning female queens, and by the BBC as the ultimate 21st century pop star.

Twice named one of Times 100 most influential people in the world, she is also a two-time

Grammy winner who is behind six songs that have been streamed more than a billion times on

Spotify, has had 13 singles that cracked the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, two of which

went to number one, has had 15 albums that cracked the top 10 of the Billboard 200,

five of which went to number one,

and is now in serious contention for an Oscar nomination, for Best Original Song, for Dream is one, an original song that she co-wrote with Simon Franklin, Mark Ronson, and Andrew Wyatt,

for James Cameron's Avatar, Fire, and Ash.

Miley Cyrus.

Over the course of a conversation at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, which took place

just moments after Cyrus confirmed that she and Max Morando had gotten engaged, the 33-year-old

and I discussed her path to and journey through child stardom on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana,

juggling multiple identities both on her TV show and in real life as she began releasing albums,

the backstories of her best-known songs and of the various controversies in which she has

found herself during what the Los Angeles Times once described as her weird,

winding one-of-one career, how she came to Avatar, Fire, and Ash, and what the creative process

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