I'm Sean Fennesee.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about Steven Soderbergh.

Later in this episode, I spoke with the great filmmaker and Big Picture Hero, whose new

film Let Them All Talk starring Meryl Streep can be seen on HBO Max.

Right now, we also talked about his films, The Future of the Atrical Movie Stars,

Hank, The Good German, his annual Culture Diaries, and a whole lot more.

I hope you'll stick around for that.

I love it.

My number one guy and my number one award show, thank you, Steven Soderbergh.

We needed this.

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One of the most innovative, mischievous, thoughtful, creative figures in Hollywood for the last 30 years.

And so what better way to explore and exploit some of that creativity than by

reviving something, reinventing something, hopefully, that desperately needs some reinvention.

I think this is just plainly great news, at least for this podcast.

I think it's great news for the Oscars. I'm thrilled that Steven Sturderberg was willing to do it.

I think traditionally the Oscars, certainly hosting the Oscars, have been understood to be a

thankless task. And we were dreading it in large part because I think we couldn't conceptualize

like what it would be. There is like the physical challenges of can you have all those people in a

room in April of 2020? No idea. What will it look like? What films will qualify? What films will

we rewarded? Who will have seen them? Will people even care? You know, it's been such a strange year

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