Rapid Response: Who really won The Oscars, w/The Black List's Franklin Leonard

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Oscars aren’t just Hollywood’s biggest night. The ceremony and the scrutiny around it captures the trends and evolving values of American culture. Rapid Response host Bob Safian digs into the business implications of the Academy Awards with incisive Hollywood observer Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List, an independent platform connecting screenwriters with studios. From Oppenheimer’s near-sweep to Killers of the Flower Moon’s donut – and how Barbie arguably won the night without taking home the top prizes, Leonard teases out lessons about creativity, missed opportunities, and where the future of entertainment is moving.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,
0:07.8	with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.
0:17.0	We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.
0:24.8	So search for rapid response in your podcast player
0:28.0	and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.
0:31.2	I'll see you on the other side.
0:33.0	And welcome to the 96 Oscars everybody.
0:37.0	Look at these beautiful human actors.
0:40.0	And the Oscar goes to... And the Oscar goes to.
0:43.0	And the Oscar goes to.
0:45.0	And the Oscar goes to.
0:46.0	And the Oscar goes to.
0:47.0	I think all movies are on some level about identity. I think Killers of the Flower Moon is
0:55.2	Martin Scorsese wrestling with his identity as a white man living on stolen land.
1:08.0	Poor things is about what it means to be a human encountering the world. Barbie is about identity because it's about women.
1:11.0	The struggles of more than 50% of the population.
1:16.0	American fiction is about, you know, black people.
1:19.5	It's about an American family
1:21.3	and what it means to be an American family and the pressures that come with that. Hi everyone Bob Safian here. Welcome to Rapid Response. This year's Academy
1:39.2	Award ceremony provided a window not only into the entertainment world, but how the U.S.
1:44.5	Consumer Marketplace is evolving.
1:47.4	To help read the tea leaves, I'll be talking with Franklin Leonard, one of my go-to
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