Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 19th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg,

and I am so happy to be joined on this episode

by Olivia Wild, an actress who I think is just terrific

and who's also pretty terrific as a person.

Her evolution, personally and professionally, has been fascinating to watch and it has reached a milestone

in a sense with her latest movie, Metal Land, which she both stars in and produced.

The film, which marks the directorial debut of Reed

Marano, a terrific cinematographer, tells the story of a mother grieving

over the disappearance of her young child. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April,

was released by Synodime, and is now available on VOD and I highly encourage you to

check it out because both Marano and Wild are going to be forces to be reckoned with in this

industry for a long time to come. But before we get to the conversation with

Olivia, let's just recap what's happened in the world of awards since our

last episode. The big news was that the

Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association,

both of which I belong to, announced the nominations for the first ever joint Film and TV Critics Choice Awards,

which will take place in January, and somewhat surprisingly, the leader by far in terms of nominations

on the film side was Mad Max Fury Road. A movie that came

out in May is certainly not your typical awards type of movie and yet proved to be the heavy

favorite of the critics with 13 nominations for more than any other film.

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