Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 258th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast, which is now but one of four

podcasts that comprise the Hollywood Reporters Podcast Network. The others being

it happened in Hollywood, behind the screen, and TV's top five.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a filmmaker from Mexico

who is not only one of the key figures of New Mexican cinema,

but also one of the most accomplished and admired

filmmakers in the world. The director of 1995's A Little Princess,

1998's Great Expectations, 2001's Itumama Tom Bien, 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaman, 2006's Children of Men, 2013's

Gravity for which he won the Best Director Oscar, and 2018's Roma, a black and white Spanish language masterpiece inspired by his own

childhood and the women who raised him, which he also wrote, produced, shot, and edited, and which is now poised to become Netflix's first best

picture Oscar nominee and to propel him to his second best director Oscar in just six years,

the great Alfonso Quarone.

Over the course of our conversation on the Raleigh Studios lot in Hollywood, the 57-year-old

and I discuss all of the above, plus much more, including why he was kicked out of

film school, how he,

Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez and Yari to became

The Three Amigos, and Emmanuel Chivo Lebeski became, in essence,

their honorary fourth.

How 9-11 influenced the direction of his career, why he makes

films spanning such a wide range of genres and scales, how he feels about Netflix and its move

into theatrical exhibition, and what his thoughts are on the man who said

Mexico is quote not sending their best close quote to America Donald Trump so without

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