This episode of Awards Chatter is brought to you by Crunchyroll, presenting Demon Slayer Kemetsu Noyaiba, Infinity Castle, for your consideration in best animated feature.

Adapted from the hit anime series, the film has broken multiple records as a critical and box office success, including becoming the highest grossing international film of all time in the U.S.

and has received praise for its stunning animation.

Demon Slayer, Kimetsu Noyaiba, Infinity Castle, for your consideration.

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 615th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg.

And my guest today is an English singer-songwriter who has been described by Rolling Stone as among the 21st century's very biggest global pop superstars, by the Los Angeles Times as arguably the most successful male pop star in the world, by The Guardian as the most commercially successful British artist of his age, and an era-defining musician who has earned his place alongside Bowie, Elton, George Michael, Morrissey, and Elvis Costello in the pantheon of Great British Male Solo Artists, and by the New York Times as

this generation's James Taylor, one of the few consistently bankable solo male global pop stars

working and a defining pop artist of the modern era. Ed Shearren. At just 34,

Shearin is already a four-time Grammy winner who has had two songs top the Billboard Hot 100,

shape of view and perfect, and four albums topped the Billboard 200. On the back of his mega-hit

2017 album, Divide, he was that year's best-selling musician

in the world, and he ultimately became Spotify's second most streamed artists of the 2010s,

behind only Drake. And today, with more than 200 million records sold worldwide, he is one of

the best-selling music artists of all time, the third most followed

person on Spotify behind only the Indian singer Arrigitt Singh and Taylor Swift, and one of

times 100 most influential people in the world for 2025.

Earlier this fall, he released his eighth studio album, Play, and he is currently in the running

for the best original song Oscar for not one but two songs that he co-wrote and performed

for Blockbuster 2025 films.

Drive for F1 The Movie, which he wrote with John Mayer and Blake Slatkin, and Zoo for Zootopia, too, which he wrote with

Shakira and Slatkin.

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