Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 478th episode of the Hollywood Reporters

Awards Chatter Podcasts.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most remarkable actresses

of our time or for that matter any other.

You may have previously heard her on this podcast in 2020 during the thick of COVID lockdown

which forces to record our conversation via Zoom.

I was therefore extra thrilled to have the opportunity last week to sit down with her in-person

in front of a sold out crowd of more than 2,000 people at Santa Barbara's historic Arlington

Theatre as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival celebration of her as its outstanding

performer of the year.

I'm talking of course about the greatest thing to come out of Australia since Kuala

Bears, Kate Blanchett.

Let's go now to audio of my introduction of and conversation with her there.

I'm especially thrilled and honored to be here tonight because we get to celebrate

one of the most remarkable actresses of our or any time.

She is a woman who is being fed at tonight with the outstanding performer of the year award

for 2022 for her performance in TAR.

Having already won best actress accolades for this performance from the New York LA and

London Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics and Critics Choice Association

making her the only person who has ever won all five of those and she's done it twice.

But as will be reminded tonight, she could have received this performer of the year award

in virtually any of the 26 years in which she's been on the big screen and has garnered

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