On this episode of The Hollywood Reporter ’s Awards Chatter podcast, the award-winning writer/director Noah Baumbach — who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of American cinema’s most distinctive voices” and by The Guardian as “millennials’ answer to Woody Allen ” — reflects on his life, career and latest film, Jay Kelly , a dramedy about a movie star (played by George Clooney ) in the midst of an existential crisis, which dropped on Netflix last week.

Over the past 30 years, Baumbach has written or co-written and directed 12 narrative features, many of them semi-autobiographical, including instant classics like 2005’s The Squid and the Whale , 2013’s Frances Ha , 2019’s Marriage Story . He also has co-written several blockbusters that were direc

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