Hi, everyone, and thank you for joining us for the 468th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and I am recording this episode in front

of an audience of students at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where I teach

part time. My guest today is a Mexican writer, director, producer, film editor, and composer,

who was described by Roger Ebert as unreasonably talented. He has directed seven feature films over

a period of 22 years, two thousands of Maurice Perros, two thousand threes, 21 grams, two thousand

sixes babble, two thousand tens beautiful, two thousand fourteens Birdman, two thousand fifteens

the Revenant, and two thousand twenty twos Bardot, the last four of which he also co-wrote.

He has personally won four Oscars, best picture, best director, and best original screenplay for

Birdman, and just a year later, best director for the Revenant, making him one of only three filmmakers

who have ever won that high honor in back-to-back years, after John Ford and Joseph Helmackwicks,

and he was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his 2017 virtual reality project,

Carné Iarena. Few filmmakers have ever accumulated that much hardware from the Academy,

and he's still only 59. Widely known as one of the three Amigos, a trio of Mexico-born filmmakers

who have risen to the top of the international film industry in the 21st century, the others

being Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro. Three of his films have been chosen to represent Mexico

in the best international feature Oscar race, each in a different decade, a Maurice Perros,

which was nominated, beautiful, which was nominated, and this season Bardot, which might well be

nominated. He has directed ten performances to Oscar nominations as well, those given by

Naomi Watson, Benicio del Toro, in 21 grams, Adriana Barraza, and Rico Cacucci in Babel,

Javier Bardem in Beautiful, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, and Emma Stone in Birdman,

and for the Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio, who won Best Actor, and Tom Hardy.

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