James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adaptation “Logan” believes there’s a growing hostility to films that wear “their hearts on their sleeve.

Trailblazer honoree James Mangold says now is the time for storytellers to lean into "sincerity and earnestness" more than ever: "We shouldn’t be embarrassed to feel shit and show it."

Angelina Jolie became the star that she is today thanks to her work in Mangold’s 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted, which earned her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Mangold also made his first attempt at a musician biopic with the Johnny Cash film Walk the Line,

James Mangold was celebrating eight Oscar nominations for his film A Complete Unknown. He watched the announcement at 5.30am L.A. time on his cellphone “with one bar of data” because he was without power due to the L.

While we have a positive update on James Mangold's plans for Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, it sounds like it could be a while before the filmmaker is able to make time for DC Studios' Swamp Thing

Michelle Satter, the founding director of the non-profit's filmmaker labs, was showered with praise at the festival's annual gala.

The Grand Hyatt Deer Valley hosted a starry Celebrating Sundance Institute that also honored James Mangold, Cynthia Erivo and filmmakers Sean Wang, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.

James Mangold is tackling Star Wars and DC next, and his Swamp Thing could be entirely separate from the larger DCU plans to avoid angering fans.

With hits like Logan & Walk the Line, and the currently playing A Complete Unknown, James Mangold is climbing the list of highest-grossing directors.

For James Mangold, Thursday morning was a day like any other, aside from the fact he woke up to three Academy Award nominations for his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown – for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (shared with co-writer Jay Cocks) and Best Picture.

James Mangold, who was nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for A Complete Unknown, told Variety, “I was in my house with no power [because of the L.A. wildfires], with my wife looking at a cellphone on a single bar of data watching an infinitesimally small telecast.”

Oscar nominees Cynthia Erivo and James Mangold were honored at the Sundance Film Festival a day after they landed Oscar nominations for starring in "Wicked" and directing "A Complete Unknown."