James Mangold - 'A Complete Unknown'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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One of Hollywood's most dependable filmmakers — always good for an entertaining and solid, if not showy, film, with great performances, regardless of genre — reflects on how, at 21, his career took off like a rocket, then crashed, and then was rebuilt; how he learned to work with actors, including the biggest names in the biz (among them Stallone, Cruise and Chalamet), and guided two (Jolie and Witherspoon) to performances for which they won Oscars; and what it meant to him to personally land three Oscar noms — for producing, writing and, for the first time in his career, directing — for his new film about Bob Dylan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 573rd episode of the Hollywood Reporter's
0:42.4	Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is, and for 30 years
0:47.9	has been one of the most dependable filmmakers in Hollywood. Always good for an entertaining
0:53.3	and solid, if not showy film, featuring
0:56.4	great performances regardless of genre. James Mangold. Indeed, Mangold has directed dramas
1:03.7	like Heavy and Girl Interrupted, biopics like Walk the Line, westerns like 310 to Yuma,
1:10.3	crime thrillers like Copland, action movies
1:13.0	like Ford v. Ferrari, rom-coms like Caden Leopold, action comedies like Night and Day,
1:19.1	mystery horror films like identity, and franchise films like The Wolverine, Logan, and Indiana
1:25.1	Jones in The Dial of Destiny. But because he does little to call attention to
1:29.8	himself as the auture of a film, he has for much of his career been overlooked in terms of
1:35.7	conversations about top filmmakers and awards. That, however, changed this award season, with his
1:42.9	latest film, a complete Unknown, which chronicles
1:45.6	four years in the life of Bob Dylan between his arrival in New York in 1961 and the
1:50.9	Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Three of the film stars, Timothy Shalame, who plays Dylan,
1:57.7	Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger, and Monica Barbarrow, who plays Joan
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