Neither was The Danish Girl, but both Russell and Hooper are multiple nominees (Hooper won one) so I think they just invite him every year he has a movie out.

I believe these are also organized/filmed around September. THR guesses which films are likely to be nominated, so they invite the people associated with them. It doesn't always work when a hyped film falls flat, as is the case with Joy.

The Actresses - Jennifer Lawrence ('Joy'), Brie Larson ('Room'), Kate Winslet ('Steve Jobs)', Cate Blanchett ('Carol', 'Truth'), Jane Fonda ('Youth'), Helen Mirren ('Trumbo', 'Woman in Gold'), Charlotte Rampling ('45 Years') and Carey Mulligan ('Suffragette')

The Cinematographers - Robert Richardson ('The Hateful Eight'), Alwin Kuchler ('Steve Jobs'), Danny Cohen ('The Danish Girl,' 'Room'), Linus Sandgren ('Joy'), Masanobu Takayanagi ('Black Mass,' 'Spotlight') and Mandy Walker ('Truth')

The Documentary Directors - Alex Gibney ('Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief'), Michael Moore ('Where to Invade Next?'), Liz Garbus ('What Happened, Miss Simone?'), Amy Berg ('Prophet's Prey', 'Janis: Little Girl Blue'), Chai Vserhelyi ('Meru'), and Kirby Dick ('The Hunting Ground')

The Actors - Will Smith ('Concussion'), Mark Ruffalo ('Spotlight'), Benicio Del Toro ('Sicario'), Joel Edgerton ('Black Mass', 'The Gift'), Samuel L. Jackson ('The Hateful Eight'), and Michael Cain ('Youth')

45 min interview with Spielberg embedded in this article:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rac...percent-864310

Wow, they really got it wrong with the Actors. Just 1/6.

Has nothing to do with acting, just trying to get the ratios correct.

The full roundtables for 2016 have finally started to roll out!

Epic Conversation on Creativity - Lin-Manuel Miranda, Donald Glover, Issa Rae, and Damien Chazelle, hosted by Jon Favreau


The Directors - Mel Gibson ('Hacksaw Ridge'), Oliver Stone ('Snowden'), Denzel Washington ('Fences'), Damien Chazelle ('La La Land'), Mira Nair ('Queen of Katwe'), and Barry Jenkins ('Moonlight')


The Cinematographers - Rodrigo Prieto ('Silence,' 'Passengers'), Linus Sandgren ('La La Land'), John Toll ('Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'), Charlotte Bruus Christensen ('Fences,' 'The Girl on the Train,'), Bradford Young ('Arrival') and Caleb Deschanel ('Rules Don't Apply')


Animation Roundtable - Seth Rogen ('Sausage Party'), Byron Howard ('Zootopia), Garth Jennings ('Sing'), Travis Knight ('Kubo and the Two Strings'), Mike Mitchell ('Trolls'), John Musker ('Moana') and Mark Osborne ('The Little Prince')

Looking forward to watching a few of those. Thanks.

The Actors - Casey Affleck ('Manchester by the Sea'), Jeff Bridges ('Hell or High Water'), Andrew Garfield ('silence' 'Hacksaw Ridge'), Dev Patel ('Lion'), Joseph Gordon-Levitt ('Snowden'), and Mahershala Ali ('Moonlight')

First full roundtable of the year is here

Documentary Roundtable - Evgeny Afineevsky ('Cries From Syria'), Greg Barker ('The Final Year'), Yance Ford ('Strong Island'), Matthew Heineman ('City of Ghosts'), Amanda Lipitz ('Step'), Brett Morgen ('Jane') and Peter Nicks ('The Force')

I read an edited transcript of the Female Actress Roundtable at THR's website. It was filmed after Weinstein-gate, so it should be a good one to watch.

Animation Roundtable - Kyle Balda ('Despicable Me 3'), Chris McKay ('The LEGO Batman Movie'), Lee Unkrich ('Coco'), Lore Forti ('Ferdinand'), Nora Twomey ('The Breadwinner'), and Tom McGrath ('Baby Boss')


Director's Roundtable - Guillermo del Toro ('The Shape of Water'), Angelina Jolie ('First They Killed My Father'), Patty Jenkins ('Wonder Woman'), Greta Gerwig ('Lady Bird'), Denis Villeneuve ('Blade Runner 2049'), and Joe Wright ('Darkest Hour')

Actor's Roundtable - Tom Hanks ('The Post'), James Franco ('The Disaster Artist'), Gary Oldman ('Darkest Hour'), John Boyega ('Detroit'), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri'), and Willem Dafoe ('The Florida Project')

^ So Tom Hanks never heard of "The Room" until this roundtable? He never even learned about it during all the awards talk around The Disaster Artist?

A lot of these are filmed before all the awards stuff begin. Hence why you get someone like Boyega who go no recognition at all for Detroit.

I know it wasn't filmed that recently, but was it filmed before December? Because the awards hype for TDA (and other movies) started in December - even if no nominations were handed out yet. The buzz starts that early.

These are usually filmed in October if I recall correctly. The buzz for TDA started after screening at SXSW in March.

Actresses Roundtable - Jessica Chastain ('Molly's Game'), Saoirse Ronan ('Lady Bird'), Mary J. Blige ('Mudbound'), Jennifer Lawrence ('mother!'), Allison Janney ('I, Tonya'), and Emma Stone ('Battle of the Sexes')

Judd Apatow ('The Big Sick'), Eric Fellner ('Darkest Hour' 'Baby Driver'), Ridley Scott ('All the Money in the World' 'Blade Runner 2049'), Seth Rogen ('The Disaster Artist'), Amy Pascal ('The Post' 'Molly's Game'), and Jason Blum ('Get Out') join Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter for this seasons's FULL producers roundtable.

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You beat me to it, thanks!

They are good except when everybody is talking at once or someboday is laughing (brown nosing?) and you can't hear what the other person said.

Writer Roundtable - Jordan Peele ('Get Out'), Anthony McCarten ('Darkest Hour'), Aaron Sorkin ('Molly's Game'), Fatih Akin ('In the Fade'), Emily V. Gordon ('The Big Sick'), and Darren Aronofsky ('mother!')