James Mangold on ‘Totally Unknown’, Oscars: Podcast Chatter Awards

James Mangoldguest in this episode Hollywood reporterwith Rewards Podcast, is – and for 30 years – one of the most reliable filmmakers in Hollywood, always good for fun and firm, if not a showy, a movie that contains great performances, regardless of the genre.

Indeed, Mangold directed the dramas (Trying and Girl, interrupted), biopics (Walk with a line), Westerners (3:10 to Yume), crime/thrillers (Policeman), action movies (Ford against Ferrari), Rom-Coms (Kate & Leopold), action/comedy (Knight and day), Mystery/horror movies (Identity) and franchise movies (Wolverine,, Logan and Indiana Jones and dialing fate). But because a little makes attention to yourself as author During most of his career, the film overlooked, in terms of talking about top filmmakers and awards.

That changed this season of awards with your latest film, Completely unknownWhat chronicles four years in life Bob Dylanbetween Dylan’s arrival in New York in 1961 and the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Three movie stars – Timothée Chalametwho plays Dylan, Edward NortonWho plays Pete Seegerand Monica BarbaroWho plays Joan Baez – They were nominated for acting Oscars for their performances in it. And Mangold himself was nominated for three Oscars: as a movie producer, for the best picture; As a movie writer, with Jay Cocksfor the best adapted scenario; And as a film director, for the best director, marking his first Oscar nomination in that category.

During a conversation at El Elcto, the Belmond Hotel on the American Riviera, a 61-year-old, he thought of how, at a very young age, his career flew like a rocket and then collapsed and then was rebuilt; How did he learn to work with the biggest names in business, from Sylvester Stallone to Tom Cruise Chalamet -ui became such a powerful director of the actors, after already led by two, Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoonto Oscar’s performances; Why did he basically write Completely unknown on the specification and how the film that made one of his late mentors, Milos Formaninfluenced his approach; plus a lot more.