'The Fabelmans' with Steven Spielberg , Michelle Williams, Paul Dano & more | Academy Conversations

[@erpollock]

Steven Spielberg I have noticed is very diplomatic, good-natured, insightful. He must be a very reassuring presence for actors who may feel insecure.

[@NicholasWingComposer]

Words cannot describe the genius of Spielberg's "The Fabelmans". It is a Spielberg masterpiece, unlike any other film before it, and it has perhaps also pioneered a new genre of a directorial, autobiographical and artistic self-portrait.

[@Erasureeraser]

The shot where the young Sammy had his hand as a projector screen was the most iconic shot in the movie

[@eddythefan]

Check out Cinema Paradiso - The Director's cut

[@matthewspriggscinematographer]

"All That Jazz" will blow your mind then.

[@Denis-89]

Steven Spielberg is my all time favourite director so to see a movie about his childhood and love for movies will be the event of the year. Have a feeling The Fabelmans will be his greatest work..

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

He's certainly the most successful director of all time.

[@simonp37]

For me it will always be Schindler's List. But this movie seems very special. I cannot wait to see it.

[@morganpageofficial]

its amazzingg!! just saw it!! enjoy!!!

[@Erasureeraser]

It's amazing, it's one of Spielberg's top tier best. Not my favourite Spielberg movie but it's right about top 15

[@eddythefan]

check out Cinema Paradiso - The Director's Cut for a film with similar feel

[@erniereyes1994]

13:16 one of the all great directors playing one of the all time great directors (in a movie about and directed by one of the all time great directors). Gotta love it!

[@twentyfoursixty]

I cannot wait to see this film. Spielberg is my favorite director. I grew up on his films, and I’m thrilled to get to know his latest film. I’m sure it’ll become another friend I visit often. This cast is amazing too. Thrilled to get to see their performances in a theater soon.

[@tofansultani8472]

Hope Paul Dano will finally gets his first nod.

[@twentyfoursixty]

That would be wonderful.

[@Illustraful]

Spielberg and Lynch on the same set. Wish I could have witnessed that.

[@Gymcoach1]

I have always loved and admired Steven’s work!! This film was not only amazing but touched on so many things that influenced your (Steven’s) genius and from being in the business for so long, it really spoke to me about the man I admire and the amazing creative ability he has, just absolutely incredible! Never for one second think that your story was seen and viewed by “some” movie goers for what you have referred to as the “popcorn” movies, but by those of us in the industry, know as the bearing of your soul, those things that typically can’t be captured on film, on demand, anywhere! You are the quintessential example of an American hero, a storyteller and a man with an amazing ability to not only know what he would “like” to see on screen, but also with the ability to bring it out in everyone he works with! There’s absolutely, hands down, NO ONE BETTER!!

[@DavidRLentz]

A wondrous storyteller, a wonderful human being!

[@jeffersonborges9932]

Hope Judd Hirsch wins an Academy Award for this performance!!

[@gracewise4720]

I so loved this movie! There were so many aspects of this movie that reminded me of my own childhood growing up. The uncle played in this movie was probably a reality in almost every family. There was one of my brothers who was like him. A special person that is different from all the others. I go to movies every chance I get I love it. I am also very selective about what movies I will see I will definitely never miss a Steven Spielberg movie!

[@mekan0001]

I loved it too. It was a love letter to early filmmaking. To a better time in some ways, not so much in others, but both staggering in their beauty and at times ugliness. In many ways a lot has changed, but remarkably our problems remain the same.

[@soookie]

MICHELLE WILLIAMS DESERVES her oscar. brilliant actress, it's not fair she hasn't won yet 😠

[@jaredtalbeaux8102]

Omg michelle williams is stunning in this movie!!

[@mallurypollard7815]

Greatest director of the last two generations…tremendous achievements and influence…spellbinding talent and imagery…and no one could tell him to fix his collar. Oh God. These are the things my brain thinks about in life.

[@mattrogers6487]

Best piece of cinema he's made for different reasons. It's a stunning insight into the man that made so many memorable movies.

[@fredlada1634]

It really was a good movie, really great story telling and very good performances as well. Another masterpiece from Steven. 75 and billions of dollars but still kicking it hard, hats off

[@hellosadnessss4265]

I think it's time for Michelle Willams to win an Oscar.

[@yuijalion7622]

Cate Blanchett will be the hardest rivalry in this upcoming oscars

[@Abrakadabro666]

She already won in Manchester By the Sea 🤷‍♂️

[@hellosadnessss4265]

@@Abrakadabro666 nahh, Viola Davis won that year

[@Erasureeraser]

I would love to see Michelle win an Oscar for this but my god she's facing Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh, a massive tough competition

[@Spiderstan727]

She looks like a dinosaur in a lot of scenes. It’s kind of funny

[@beatsbyslun]

Man this movie was amazing. Every actor killed their role and it has so many different great aspects that a top tier film should have🔥

[@Nancy-sf2pl]

I would love to see Gabriel LaBelle get nominated

[@skyeslaton3435]

This is more cinema than anything mcu combine

[@deesticco1719]

Can’t wait to see the movie of Steven the Fableman or the Great ! 😊

[@HighSound-Studios]

Can´t wait to see this movie. Steven is a living legend!

[@timi9265]

I breathed a sigh of relief that literally didn't win the Best Picture. Because he's already Hollywood itself, and he's still an ongoing writer. He is not old at all. The burden of still carrying one's duties and weight and leaving one's legacy at the same time is never easy. He must be a real Master Yoda.

[@gabriellalipani4356]

So Amazing!! I cried ...very emotional, great photografy📸 great soundtrack 🎶🎵 perfect actors👏👏👏👏 A PERFECT MICHELLE 🏆 GRAZIE STEVEN X THIS JEWEL ITALY THANKS YOU 🙏🏻👏📽🎬🎥

[@FischToGo]

Love this!

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

The camping footage editing scene is why I watch movies.

[@QforzFovfi]

When is Adam Sandler going to play Tony Kushner in a biopic?

[@scribblerfilms]

I enjoyed film, Master of his craft and all time great filmmakers

[@nathanthesubzeromangold4615]

I love all Steven Spielberg's movies including Jurassic Park.

[@frankcastle179]

And I love all Steven Spielberg's movies including Sugarland Express, 1941, Always, Hook, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and The BGG

[@TheJPSouza]

Don't forget his other classic movies from the 20th Century: Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T., Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan...

[@frankcastle179]

@@TheJPSouza Yes, I said I love "all" Spielberg's movies but I should say even Sugarland Express, 1941, Always...

[@titusmccarthy]

Including the Lost World and Always and 1941?

[@frankcastle179]

@@titusmccarthy There are no bad Spielberg movies, there are only minor Spielberg movies:)

[@martymontano7493]

My top fave directors → these are the great story tellers (in no particular order) Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Sam Mendes, PT Anderson, Paul Haggis...

[@classicfanforever5139]

Paul Dano: Force to be reckon with. Legend.

[@JohnDoe-tm9wz]

Legend? WTF!

[@samanthawhite2801]

paul dano is fucking amazing.

[@sammyfabelman]

Thank you Steven...My childhood hero 😍

[@paulj6138]

Consider part 2 with main actors again Gabriel will go far.

[@REECEM92]

I loved this film so much, there were so many of Steven's life that related to mine. Already my favourite movie of the year!!!

[@topcat4807]

I hope you win Best Director again. I’m on team Steven Spielberg for an Oscar nomination and win. His team reply back to my fan letter. His team replied back with a personal typed up letter and they sent a first class FEDEX EXPRESS package to my porch.

[@lelmath]

Cheetos story is an instant classic

[@whitedaisy0707]

Hello! Mr. Steven Spielberg. How are you today? from Daisy🤗🤗🤗🌸🌸🌸🐞🐞🐞from Japan

[@fillumwaali]

Delightful and emotional! 4 Stars out of 5.

[@ArmandoGarcia-ci7el]

Give to John Williams his last oscar please!!!

[@jeffreyksiazek7890]

Yes, please!!! Before he retires! 🙁💼✈🏝

[@skyeslaton3435]

I think he's had enough lol

[@dariussalepetru6770]

No because he is very old

[@martinkiss3333]

13 minutes only? Why

[@ariweiss8992]

Wonderful movie 🎬 ❤️👏

[@ivanamulovic1774]

I love the movie so much! It was amazing.

[@riaaapratiwi7892]

Michelle Williams should get an Oscar for her role in here.

[@Cwebbussenterprise]

Independence Day should've nominated Judd Hirsh for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

[@kelkel4815]

I love tou Steven 😍

[@paulj6138]

This is extremely minor and inconsequential assuming the Ditch Day sequence was supposed to be Northern California anyone familiar with the area filmed can recognize it's actually ZUMA BEACH north of Malibu and it is constantly used for a location every year even for commercials.

[@debbieallen3861]

I was scrutinizing that a bit too....Half Moon Bay maybe??..hmmm...no..didn't quite ring true...looked a bit S Cal...I did love the movie though..

[@cobaltfalcon9458]

David Lynch is a madman for that request

[@beachfan1278]

Steven Spielberg about to get Best Director again and hopefully Best Picture again.

[@dariussalepetru6770]

Not Best Picture please no

[@jsweezey6487]

Thank you Steven Spielberg for sharing some of the most intimate, pivotal moments of your life. It took alot of courage & character to reveal your private, personal story... Amazing performances from entire cast & Gabriel was perfect. And to get Lynch in as Ford... P-E-R-F-E-C-T-I-O-N! But... "Please Sir... Can we have some more...?" :)

[@spi25888]

He made His own Cinema Paradiso

[@samanthawhite2801]

I LOVE PAUL DANO

[@lazarmarkov3304]

Tony Kushner, the lost older brother of Adam Sandler. :D

[@leopeper5874]

Don't disrespect Tony Kushner.

[@AXXXXA]

damn, i thought maybe it was Speilbergs idea to cast Lynch. Because maybe he was his favorite modern director or something.

[@ceciliamucciarelli1209]

La pueden traducir al español, por favor...

[@ludonymous526]

Looks like Steven will get a handful of Oscars this year.

[@ericrhein2157]

His film will clean up at the Oscars

[@Erasureeraser]

I can see Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Musical Score. I would love to see Michelle win Best Actress but she is facing tough competition

[@ceciliamucciarelli1209]

O es solamente para los que hablan inglés....Quiero saber sus pensamientos sobre la película...

[@weasley2o13]

As a psychotic cinafile and a Jewish granddaughter of a holocaust survivor this story is both incredibly moving and incredibly important to me. Too bad the narrator is so smug, unpleasant and has zero capacity for listening, it really takes me out of the conversation.

[@beckylang91]

You mean the person leading the interview?

[@jameskekula6397]

professor here

[@j.goebbels2134]

Gabriel LaBelle doesn't come off as the crispest latke in the pan.

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Big loving hug Maestro Spielberg, the word "Maestro"in Italian stands for .. teacher, rabbie, guru, a guiding star, a master of artistic skills that anyone should follow, now that these comments become another alternative marketing strategy, wish you suggest Maestro Spielberg right away, make movie post Covid trauma, the most painful movie possible, you can call it. ..Another Day Of Average Madness, how people had to lose their minds due to the Covid pandemic isolation, put them there on cinema screens rivers of tears of grief and let them worth like Avatar fantasy seven billion dollars incomes because that's what we need the most. Wish you pull out so much pain to the point to throw up, when l feel sad, my body fever is going up and in the end l puke of pain...nobody really realize what Covid trauma was until it's not there on cinema screens

[@4512red]

Michelle!!!

[@DocPicklez]

I thought the movie was simply brilliant

[@Breondan]

The movie will begin in five moments. All those unseated will have to await the next show......

[@cynthiagoldstein1133]

Amazing movie, cast, story, director, production...but the interviewer is not truly as invested consisted as he should be...until he mentions the John Ford scene.

[@Yorubamemories]

Like it

[@dariussalepetru6770]

Give Spielberg winning Oscar

[@rkomgm3932]

He’s doing a Woody Allen

[@christiangonella984]

I hope Spielberg win the Oscar for directing... not the Daniels

[@azv343]

SEQUEL!!!!!!

[@skyeslaton3435]

Both this and babylon are definitely oscar baits

[@jameskekula6397]

currency, spare 1 nap, nile, stream,

[@terrim302]

deep in the heart of Texas

[@tfries72]

It was good just a little too long it felt at times.

[@IbizanHound2]

I am a big fan of Spielberg, I think he influenced to a huge degree an entire era and I don't mean just the movie industry. He made people dream big! But I honestly felt really disappointed by this movie. Put aside that I was hoping for him to show us some insights to the conditions that led to the creation of some of the most beloved movies, like for example how he met with John Williams or some never before shared anecdotes from filming Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park, I really found this movie meaningless. For me what we saw in this entire film should have been at most 20 mins and then move to his adult life chapter. The pace felt extremely slow and some scenes seemed pointless and irrelevant. I found nothing special about his early life. His parents got a divorce but other than that, they were both great, accomplished and graceful people and ok, he got bullied once or twice. Its honestly nothing that special... And on top of that the acting felt so weird... Everyone acted so over the top and even silly at times. It felt so corny. I even started to doubt as I was watching it, if Spielberg did indeed direct this film. It didn't feel like his style.

[@nospin9831]

Wow a movie about how great you were and your family had money so you could accomplish your dream no thanks.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

Who gives these people the right to remove my pertinent comment?

[@VFXforfilm]

Problem is todays audiences don’t relate to filmmakers/filmmaking of the 70’s. Film cameras? These directors are self-indulgent past dwellers not giving audience what they could relate to. Tarantino:Once Upon a Time, PT Anderson: Licorice Pizza. 40+ old directors forcing un-relatable stories on 20 some old kids. We already saw this film in Amblin’s failed “Super8”. This is why cinema has to change. Todays movie going demographic no longer can relate to the 60’s and 70’s. To ignore this fact is self-indulgent narcissism even for a gentleman like Spielberg.

[@dead_ones]

Sure, relatability is important when making a film that audiences will enjoy. But relatability can also come from an array of different ideas and perspectives. The movie is about the joys of film and filmmaking. I personally love watching films and experiencing them for myself. So, I think I could relate to this film quite a lot in that aspect. Rather than the period time when it takes place.

[@VFXforfilm]

@@dead_ones yeah but the “follow Your heart” line is getting as old as “with great power comes great responsibility”

[@4-kathryn]

I have never experienced what it was like to live day to day in the 60s and 70s because I wasn't born then... I'm just fascinated by what my parents experienced at that time and other directors lived through too. Not everything has to be new, I've found that I'm quite fond of film... the way it speckles on the shot, it evokes warmth to me. Digital cameras and filming has its place too but when I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey in a movie theater not too long ago... I was blown away at the sight of film and how it captured that fictionalized movie and its images. When I dream, I sometimes think it's shot on film... what pictures flash to my mind... it's never something a crisp nor sterile. Film... to my preferences anyway... makes movies better. I hope more directors consider using it or at the very least... have more filters so evoke that classic look that film can offer.

[@captlazer5509]

20 year olds shouldn't listen to music from the 60's and 70's because they won't relate to it? I was kid watching movies that were generations old and easily relate to what was happening. Cinema Paridiso is a good example of a love letter to the movie viewing past I never knew.

[@RicardoGarcia-xz1rz]

It neither moves nor entertains. Steven Spielberg ends up weaving a love letter to John Ford that is actually a love letter to Steven Spielberg himself. I propose that Spielberg go out and present the Oscar for best director so that he himself can take it and everyone is happy. A lot of hypocrisy rewarding a false and hypocritical, insipid, boring, dishonest film, with the help of The Guardian, that has the most ****** film critics ever. and Hollywood digging its own grave rewarding this type of mediocrity, nothing artistic, nothing risky.

[@Leg-xx5md]

Lots of wolves in sheep's clothing out there, be careful who you worship. Especially in Hellwood.

[@delrey874]

I love Spielberg, but this movie was so childish and so lame... he needs to make more adult philosophical movies. His movies are always about kids, and watching those movies makes my IQ go down.

[@beckylang91]

This movie is about what it’s like to be Jewish and creative in a world that doesn’t understand those things, but ok.

[@walterreiter8780]

Worst movie I've seen. So unbelievable!!! Such a dreamy, flaky movie, actually stupid in spots. Hated the mom role. Too much over the top. This is Spielberg's past??? Omg. Terrible film.

[@RB-.-]

This movie was great.

[@dariussalepetru6770]

@@RB-.- Spielberg is the GOAT

[@jwelch5742]

Principal photography began in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Los Angeles on July 17, 2021, lasting for 59 days until ending on September 27, 2021. Steven Spielberg claimed that although he and Tony Kushner had discussed the idea of the movie for years, it was during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 that he decided to write the screenplay with Kushner from scratch while his schedule was clear. The two of them wrote the script from their homes during lockdown and finished it in 2 months. Steven Spielberg's first screenplay credit since A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The film's development goes back to 1999, when Steven Spielberg considered directing a film about his childhood for some time, with its initial incarnation being titled "I'll Be Home." It would have been directed from a screenplay written by his sister Anne Spielberg (who inspired the character of Reggie Fabelman in this film). In March 2022, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski provided more information on the film's plot. He revealed that the film will chronicle Spielberg's life from age seven to eighteen and deal with "his family, with his parents, conundrums with his sisters, but primarily deals with his passion for movie-making," while adding that it will touch on the themes of "young love, parental divorce, and early formative relationships ... It's a very beautiful, beautiful personal movie. It's very revealing about Steven's life and who he is as a filmmaker." This is the fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, and the first screenplay they've written together. Tony Kushner had previously written Munich, Lincoln, and West Side Story, which were all directed by Steven Spielberg. It was filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film's title is presumed to be the family's surname that the story is based around. First film from Steven Spielberg to be distributed by Universal Pictures since Munich. The work on the screenplay for The Fabelmans began in October 2020 during the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Tony Kushner reflected on the experience, saying, "We wrote three days a week, four hours a day, and we finished the script in two months: by leagues the fastest I've finished anything. It was a blast. I loved it." Spielberg, at that time, felt that the climate caused by the pandemic convinced him that the time was now right to make the film, saying, "I started seriously thinking, if I had to make one movie I haven't made yet, something that I really want to do on a very personally atomic level, what would that be? And there was only one story I really wanted to tell ... My life with my mom and dad taught me a lesson, which I hope this film in a small way imparts ... Which is, when does a young person in a family start to see his parents as human beings? In my case, because of what happened between the ages of 7 and 18, I started to appreciate my mom and dad not as parents but as real people." He gave drafts of the script to his sisters, Sue and Nancy, to ensure that their memories be included in the story and that the details in the film were portrayed as accurately as possible. On the meaning behind the family name "Fabelman", Kushner (who came up with that name) said, "Spielberg means play-mountain; 'spieler' is an actor in Yiddish, and a 'spiel' can be speech or can be a play ... I wanted to have some of that meaning, and I’ve always liked the German word 'fabel,' which means fable. And because the movie is autobiographical for Steven but it isn’t an autobiography, it’s not a documentary, so there’s a fictional element as well. So I thought that ‘Fabelman’ was a nod to that."

[@leopeper5874]

And if (if) the movie win an Oscar, you will say "The Fabelmans has great..." what ever it win. If it win.

[@ocean4332]

Спилберг, ты должен уничтожить все свои ужасные фильмы про динозавров и подобные. Ты сам их знаешь. Нельзя больше допускать эти фильмы на экраны проката или домашнего просмотра. Это плохие фильмы для программирования нас, как цивилизации на гибель. Эта программа тебе была дана Лукасом, который сам работает по принципу, мне все равно, после меня хоть потоп. Это неправильные установки. Эти установки нас привели почти к ядерной войне. Мы были вчера на волосок от ядерной катастрофы.

[@puneetjindal6426]

Dekh me in unpad ho.. Pade likho.. Ko Suna..

[@Mandrew56]

downthumbed this propaganda

[@beckylang91]

What makes it propaganda?

[@Mandrew56]

@@beckylang91 if you have to ask then goodluck to you.

[@dr.aniasara7038]

Nice plug for yourself writing for yourself /Vanity Fair. boo.