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Peter Sarsgaard on ‘September 5’ & ‘Presumed Innocent

Peter Sarsgaard, the visitor on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded in entrance of an viewers on the Newport Seaside Movie Pageant, the place Sarsgaard was honored with the Movie Efficiency of the 12 months Award — is a outstanding character actor who’s having fun with the most important 12 months of his profession. He shines in each the brand new Paramount movie September 5, taking part in Roone Arledge as ABC Sports activities covers 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist assault, and on the brand new Apple TV+ drama sequence Presumed Harmless, as a prosecutor tasked with convicting a former colleague of a homicide.

The 53-year-old, who has a particular voice and sleepy-eyed gaze, has been performing professionally on the stage and screens large and small for 30 years. Early in his profession, it was modern to explain him with kind of backhanded compliments — for example, the New York Occasions famous in 2004 that he has a “tendency to show minor roles into main performances,” whereas Rolling Stone in 2005 referred to as him “the perfect second banana within the enterprise.” Extra lately, although, given his constantly robust work in roles and tasks of all sizes, just about everybody has gotten on the identical web page because the AP, which in 2015 referred to as him merely “the most effective of his technology.”

Over the course of this dialog, the actor displays on his unintentional path to performing; early breakthrough roles in movies equivalent to Useless Man Strolling (1995), Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and Shattered Glass (2003), for which he acquired a Golden Globe nom; being directed by his spouse, Maggie Gyllenhaal, on The Misplaced Daughter (2021), and dealing along with his brother-in-law, Jake Gyllenhaal, on Jarhead (2005), Rendition (2007) and Presumed Harmless; and the evolution of among the extra acclaimed movies of which he was a component, together with Kinsey (2004), for which he acquired a Critics Alternative nom, An Schooling (2009), which was nominated for the perfect image Oscar, and Reminiscence (2023), which introduced him the Venice Movie Pageant’s greatest actor prize.

He additionally discusses the popcorn motion pictures he has executed, equivalent to Inexperienced Lantern (2011) and The Batman (2022); sharing the display screen with superb Oscar-winning actresses in Blue Jasmine (2013), with Cate Blanchett, Jackie (2016), with Natalie Portman, and Reminiscence, with Jessica Chastain; transferring into longform TV on Hulu’s The Looming Tower (2018), for which he acquired a Critics Alternative nom, and Dopesick (2021), for which he acquired an Emmy nom, en path to Presumed Harmless; why he’s notably happy with September 5; plus extra.

Sebastian Stan Set for Award and Live ‘Awards Chatter’ Pod

Sebastian Stan, a greatest actor contender this awards season for two performances which have introduced him widespread acclaim — he performs a younger Donald Trump in The Apprentice and a person with neurofibromatosis who undergoes facial reconstructive surgical procedure in A Totally different Man — will obtain the Treasured Gem Award on the Miami Dade Faculty’s Miami Movie Pageant GEMS occasion, the fest introduced on Monday.

Stan, 42, will likely be celebrated at an occasion that can kick off on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 5pm EST, at MDC Wolfson Auditorium in downtown Miami. To start with, he’ll sit down with yours really for a career-retrospective dialog that will likely be recorded for subsequent posting as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. Then, the fest will current him together with his award.

The Treasured Gem Award is the pageant’s signature award, reserved for “one-of-a-kind artists whose contributions to cinema are lasting and unforgettable.” Previous recipients embrace Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Isabelle Huppert, Rita Moreno, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Patricia Clarkson.

“We’re thrilled to honor Sebastian Stan with our prestigious Treasured Gem Award to have fun his spectacular performing achievements, together with his transformative performances on this yr’s The Apprentice and A Totally different Man,” Lauren Cohen, the fest’s programming director, mentioned in a press release. “We’re additionally excited to companion with The Hollywood Reporter to carry Scott Feinberg and the celebrated Awards Chatter podcast to Miami.”

Stan is probably greatest identified for enjoying Bucky Barnes in seven beloved Marvel movies: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil Battle (2016), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity Battle (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has additionally accomplished extra standout work in movies equivalent to I, Tonya (2017), Destroyer (2018) and Dumb Cash (2023), and obtained a Critics Selection Award nomination for the restricted sequence Political Animals (2012) and an Emmy nomination for the restricted sequence Pam & Tommy (2022).

For A Totally different Man, which he additionally exexcutive produced, he was awarded the Silver Bear for greatest main efficiency on the Berlin Movie Pageant earlier this yr.

This yr’s Miami Movie Pageant GEMS occasion will run Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

Maya Rudolph to Guest on THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast Live

Maya Rudolph, the beloved, award-winning actress, comic and producer, would be the visitor of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in entrance of a dwell viewers on the San Vicente Bungalows on Wednesday night.

Rudolph, who’s heading in to this 12 months’s Emmys with 4 nominations unfold throughout three packages — finest comedy actress for Apple TV+’s Loot, finest visitor actress and finest music/lyrics for NBC’s Saturday Night time Stay and finest character voiceover efficiency for Netflix’s Huge Mouth — will, over the course of an hour, talk about her life, profession, nominated tasks and ideas on the state of comedy right now.

Chosen earlier this 12 months as one in every of Time journal’s 100 most influential individuals on the earth, Rudolph first burst onto the scene across the flip of the century on SNL. She then went on to star in notable tasks on screens huge (together with Bridesmaids and Wine Nation) and small (reminiscent of Maya & Marty, The Good Place). Since 2022, she has been a government producer and the principal star of Loot, a laugh-out-loud comedy on which she performs a lady who divorces a billionaire and winds up with half of his cash, after which does her finest to navigate life amongst common individuals, together with those that work for and profit from her philanthropic basis.

The Awards Chatter podcast, which debuted in 2015, has welcomed greater than 500 visitors for career-retrospective conversations, together with Hollywood A-listers Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorne Michaels, Carol Burnett, Jerry Seinfeld, Cate Blanchett, Bono, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Dolly Parton, Norman Lear, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Elton John, Sophia Loren, Jimmy Fallon, Billie Eilish, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Dua Lipa, Conan O’Brien, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, David Letterman, Julianne Moore, Eddie Murphy, Olivia Rodrigo, Al Pacino, Ava DuVernay, Stephen Colbert, Selena Gomez, Jimmy Kimmel, Glenn Shut, Jay Leno, Michelle Williams, Michael Douglas and Sydney Sweeney; and non-showbiz visitors reminiscent of Malala Yousafzai, Invoice Gates, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Buzz Aldrin, Gloria Steinem, Kobe Bryant, Fran Lebowitz, José Andrés and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Peter Morgan on Writing The Crown, Meeting Tony Blair

Peter Morgan is a playwright, screenwriter and TV sequence creator and showrunner who has been described by The Guardian as “Britain’s main modern display dramatist,” and about whom the publication wrote, “There isn’t any one who works fairly like him. Truly, there could be no one who has labored fairly like him in British drama since Shakespeare. He focuses on taking the lives of public figures, mingling the occasions and phrases of their lives together with his personal imaginings, and recasting it as drama that’s as near documentary as potential with out truly being a docudrama.”

Morgan wrote the theatrical productions Frost/Nixon, which was on the West Finish in 2006 and Broadway in 2007; The Viewers, which was on the West Finish in 2013 and Broadway in 2015; and Patriots, which was on the West Finish in 2023 and Broadway in 2024. He was additionally the screenwriter of TV movies together with 2003’s The Deal, 2006’s Longford and 2010’s The Particular Relationship and theatrical movies together with 2006’s The Queen and The Final King of Scotland, 2008’s Frost/Nixon, 2009’s The Damned United, 2010’s Hereafter and 2013’s Rush.

Most famously, he created, show-ran and wrote or co-wrote all 60 episodes that comprised the six-season landmark Netflix drama sequence The Crown. That present, which unspooled between 2016 and 2024, has been described by The Los Angeles Instances as “maybe the ultimate providing of TV’s Golden Age” and by The New York Instances as “one of the crucial watched, argued over and influential creations in latest tv historical past.” It was awarded 10 Emmys for its previous 5 season and is now, for its sixth and last season, nominated for 18 Emmys, together with greatest drama sequence and greatest writing for a drama sequence.

Morgan personally is the winner of 5 BAFTA Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards; has additionally been nominated for 2 Academy Awards, one Tony Award and one Olivier Award; and was, in 2015, named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for “companies to drama” — an honor conferred upon him by none aside from then-Prince Charles — and, in 2017, awarded a British Movie Institute Fellowship.

Over the course of this episode, the 61-year-old mirrored on how he was formed by rising up the kid of immigrants and shedding his father when he was simply 9; the unintentional method by which he wound up a author; how he started utilizing historic folks and occasions as springing-off factors for imagined exchanges involving highly effective folks — together with presidents, prime ministers and a queen; what he hopes the legacy of The Crown shall be; plus far more.

Clive Owen to Guest on THR’s ‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast From Karlovy Vary

The Hollywood Reporter and Lasvit, the Czech designer and producer of bespoke glass merchandise, are happy to ask attendees of the upcoming 58th Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Pageant to a really particular occasion: the recording of a career-retrospective interview with Clive Owen.

On Friday, July 5, at 1 p.m. native time, Owen — an English actor with an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe and BAFTA awards to his title, who is ready to obtain KVIFF’s President’s Award on July 6 — will sit down with yours actually on the Spa Lodge Imperial to report an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.

The 59-year-old is greatest recognized for his work in movies akin to Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001), Mike Nichols’s Nearer (2004), Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin Metropolis (2005), Alfonso Cuarón’s Kids of Males (2006) and Ang Lee’s Gemini Man (2019), in addition to on tv packages together with Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick (2014-2015) and Ryan Murphy’s Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021-2021).

Over the previous 12 months, he gave standout turns in two restricted TV collection, FX’s A Homicide on the Finish of the World (2023) and AMC’s Monsieur Spade (2024), and is presently in competition for Emmys recognition for each.

The Awards Chatter podcast, since its debut in 2015, has featured greater than 500 company, together with Hollywood A-listers Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorne Michaels, Carol Burnett, Jerry Seinfeld, Cate Blanchett, Bono, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Dolly Parton, Norman Lear, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Elton John, Sophia Loren, Jimmy Fallon, Billie Eilish, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Dua Lipa, Conan O’Brien, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, David Letterman, Julianne Moore, Eddie Murphy, Olivia Rodrigo, Al Pacino, Ava DuVernay, Stephen Colbert, Selena Gomez, Jimmy Kimmel, Glenn Shut, Jay Leno, Michelle Williams, Michael Douglas, Sydney Sweeney, Dick Van Dyke, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Shonda Rhimes and Kevin Costner; and non-showbiz company akin to Malala Yousafzai, Invoice Gates, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Buzz Aldrin, Gloria Steinem, Kobe Bryant, Fran Lebowitz, José Andrés and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.