Indiewire interview: Edward Norton Has a Solution to the ‘Monetization’ of the Oscars1 min read

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During a trip to Switzerland for the Locarno Film Festival, the actor talked to Indiewire about his problems with awards season — and what the Academy could do to fix it.

Ever since he landed an Oscar nomination for his first-ever movie role in “Primal Fear,” Edward Norton has been dodgy about discussing his public life. Nevertheless, two more Oscar nominations and many different kind of movies later, he remains one of the most distinctive American actors working today.

Appreciation for his work has arguably never been higher. On Wednesday, Norton stood on an outdoor stage in front of 8,000 people in the Piazza Grande of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where he received the Excellence Award from Moët & Chandon. The next day, prior to a public conversation at the festival, he sat down with Indiewire to unpack some big ideas about Oscar season just as its engines start up again. He also discussed his own evolving interests in roles, the current political climate in the United States and his philanthropic efforts with his crowdfunding platform Crowdrise.

This time last year, you were on the verge of an awards campaign for “Birdman” that would last several months. What’s it like to come up for air after all that?

It’s a relief when all that ends. Not to sound cynical about it, but once a film gets channeled by the industry into that death grip of marketing via the springboard of the awards season, it’s this repetitive grind of promoting something that runs essentially from the end of the New York Film Festival to the end of February. Who wants to spend that much time talking about anything?

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