Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 32 of Awards Chatter

the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and I've got to tell you, it does not get better than this episode.

Why?

Because we are going to spend 45 minutes with someone who is as great a filmmaker as anyone alive today and maybe ever.

Yes, I'm talking about Stephen Spielberg, whose films have been seen and loved by more people

than anyone else's in history.

Among them, Jaws.

Close encounters of the third kind.

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

E.T. the color purple.

Schindler's list, saving private Ryan, Munich, Warhorse, Lincoln,

and most recently, Bridge of Spies.

Nobody can match that body of work and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Over the course of the conversation we talk about why Bridge of Spies is such a personal film for Spielberg

and why it's so gratifying to him that it's been recognized as much as it has been.

With a 91% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes, $162 million in ticket sales around the world,

and six Oscar nominations including Best Picture

which puts Spielberg one of the film's producers in sole possession of the record for most

nominated producer with nine nominations in that category.

We also talk about the inspiration for and impact of many of his other great films.

And we get his take on the Hot Button Controversy of the Day,

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