Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 466th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a British actress

and screenwriter who is the only person who has ever won Academy Awards for both acting

and writing.

In addition to those two Oscars, the former for 1992's Howard's End and the latter for

1995's Sense and Sensibility, she has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards,

one Emmy Award and one Critics Choice Award, with her other credits including 1993's The

Remains of the Day and in the name of the Father, 1998's Primary Colors, 2003's Love

Actually and for TV, the limited series Angels in America, 2004's Harry Potter and the

President of Azkaban, 2006's Stranger than Fiction, 2007's Harry Potter and the Order

of the Phoenix, 2009's Education, 2013's Saving Mr. Banks, 2017's The Myerwood Stories,

2019's Late Night and this year's Good Luck to You, Leo Grant, all of which might explain

why the 2018 citation in which Queen Elizabeth II made her a Dame describes her as quote,

one of Britain's most versatile and celebrated actresses, close quote, why Vanity Fair

has said she quote, redefined our image of female stardom, close quote, why interview has

called her quote, the rarest of cinematic talents, close quote, and why the observers

mark her mode once said quote, she's up there with the great, I mean really great, British

female performers, close quote, I'm talking of course about Emma Thompson.

For the course of our conversation, which Thompson recorded from her London home after

being honored at a luncheon by the UK Critics Circle, the oldest association of critics

in the world for her services to the arts and at which she gave a speech about the impact

of film critics, the 63 year old and I discussed the origins of her pursuit of acting and

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