amanda: ken feinberg, such a pleasure to have your views. rollout is one part of the equation. some countries all -- some companies are already researching cloud treatments. -- coronavirus treatments. where are you and how close to an actual market deliverable might you be? >> we announced today that we are going to be proceeding with a phase two trial. our drug therapy is different than the vaccines that are being used today and other therapies, because we focus on treating the immune system as opposed to attacking the covid virus itself. the advantage in our opinion of that approach is that the variance they keep arising every week will not be an obstacle for us in treating covid patients because our mechanism is a dampening of the immune system. in doing that, we are going after the inflammation as toac virus. matt: you are also working on multiple sclerosis treatment and you run a number of biotech's. are you impressed with the kind of progress that is being made in drugs over the past year as opposed to the decade or century previous to

let's speak to scott feinberg in los angeles, the awards columnist with the hollywood reporter.he awards are in. what stood out for you? you know, in. what stood out for you? you know. on _ in. what stood out for you? you know. on the — in. what stood out for you? you know, on the one _ in. what stood out for you? you. know, on the one hand there were some things that were very predictable or not surprising, shall we say. nomadland, the oscarfront window did shall we say. nomadland, the oscar front window did win the top two prizes on the film side, picture and director, but then, as always with these guys, the hollywood foreign press association, there were surprises and things that literally, identity anybody saw coming, andra day de the star of nomadland, frances mcdormand, along with carey mulligan and by oliver davies and people much more famous, that was among a number of performers, performers of colour who were recognised, which was interesting, because this comes just days after a big expose in the los angeles times noting that the hollywood foreign press association ha

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scott feinberg is an awards columnist for the hollywood reporter and joins me now from la. the diversity of the academy members now? it is something the academy is very proud of, particularly as it comes just chaos that became known as oscarssowhite when there was hero of the acting nominees who were people of colour. this year nine of the 20, almost a full house, are non—white and i think what has happened at the time between then and now is that the academy has really made a concerted effort to become not just more racially diverse but age wise, gender —wise, even geographically and that is reflected elsewhere in the nominations that we sought today. it nominations that we sought toda . , . ., today. it is much more international— today. it is much more international and - today. it is much more - international and therefore you get movies made in all parts of the world getting nominations which we have not seen in years gone by. in terms of the nominations what were the surprises for you? i nominations what were the surprises for you?- nominations what were the surprises