Hi, everyone, and thank you for joining us for the 416th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards podcast.

I'm Scott Feinberg, the host, and also a trustee professor at Chapman University's Dodge

College of Film and Media Arts.

I should tell those of you tuning in that this is a special live episode being recorded

at Chapman's Felino Theatre in Orange, California.

In front of an audience of my students and other members of the community of this great

film school.

My guest today is a 54 year old Canadian who is now one of a select few filmmakers in

Hollywood who makes movies which are consistently embraced by both critics and large audiences.

After directing his first four features in Canada, three of which were the nation's

submission for what is now known as the best international feature Oscar and one of

which 2010s on Sundays was nominated.

He began working in America and in just the eight years since he has rather remarkably

helmed six major features, 2013's Prisoners and Enemy, 2015's Sicario, 2016's Arrival,

2017's Blade Runner 2049, and this year Dune, the film that he dreamed of making since

he read Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel of the same name when he was just 13.

A recent New York Times magazine profile of him was titled, quote,

the man who finally made a dune that fans will love, how Denise Villeneuve broke the

curse.

Close quote.

We're going to get into that today and much more, so would you please join me in welcoming

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