Hi everyone and thank you for joining us for the 480 second episode of The Hollywood Reporters

Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and for those of you tuning in,

we're recording this episode in front of an audience of students at Chapman University in Orange

County, where I'm a trustee professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. My guest

today is one of the most talented and exciting young actors in Hollywood. As we'll discuss

in greater detail in a moment, he started out in the business as a pre-teen on TV series

aimed at kids and young adults, then had a big breakthrough on Broadway in 2018,

and then began getting cast in films by some of the world's top filmmakers, among them Jim

Jarmusch, who directed him in The Dead Don't Die, and Quentin Tarantino, who directed him

in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which were released in 2019 just before the pandemic.

And then, of course, he starred in the film that we've just screened here,

Baz Lerman's Elvis, which was one of the most popular releases of 2022.

For his performance as Elvis Presley between the ages of 1942, this 31-year-old received the

sorts of reviews that actors dream of, and between those and the reactions of the public,

it quickly became clear that we have a major new star on our hands.

That impression has only grown over the last few months, during which he won Best Actor,

BAFTA, and Golden Globe Awards, and was nominated for Best Actor, Critics Choice, and Saga Awards.

And on March 12th, he will be up for the Best Actor Academy Award, as well,

poised to become its fifth youngest winner ever.

Whatever happens 11 nights from now, we will be seeing a lot more of him for a long time to come.

And for that, we should all consider ourselves very lucky.

Would you please join me in welcoming to Chapman University, Mr. Austin Butler.

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