From the Times Dispatch article:

Director Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Tony Kushner and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin — whose collaboration created the multinominated movie filmed entirely in the Richmond area — will speak tonight at the sold-out Landmark Theater before an audience of 4,200 people.
“Lincoln” has been nominated for seven Golden Globe awards and is expected to pick up several Oscar nominations on Thursday. Kushner’s screenplay was nominated for a Writer’s Guild award for best adaptation.
The Richmond Forum program will be taped for broadcast on WCVE at 9 p.m. Jan. 17 to accommodate “so many more that we couldn’t possibly fit in,” said Bill Chapman, executive director of the forum.
When Chapman heard that “Lincoln” would film here in late 2011, he immediately thought of a program featuring Spielberg and Goodwin, who has appeared twice before at Richmond Forum programs. Her book, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” was an inspiration for the movie.
“The idea started as a pipe dream,” Chapman said. “She loved the idea. When she was in Richmond during the filming, she talked with Spielberg.”
Chapman’s own overtures to Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios had begun in June 2011 and picked up during the filming, he said. “It was Spielberg’s idea to bring Kushner into the conversation. It was a great addition. Doris Kearns Goodwin is the beginning of the story as a historian. Kushner interpreted her work for the screen. It makes a nice continuum for the discussion,” Chapman said. “We were very excited about that.”
The forum’s season will continue with former President Bill Clinton on Feb. 8; former astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, his wife and survivor of an assassination attempt, on March 9; and Jane Goodall on April 13.