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Good evening, everyone. I'm Scott Feimer, the Hollywood Reporter's Executive Editor of Awards coverage and the host of its awards chatter podcast, as well as a trustee professor at Chapman

University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, from which I say for our listeners, this

episode is being recorded in front of an audience of some 500 students.

Tonight, we are so fortunate to be joined by one of the true masters of world cinema.

He's a wildly creative Mexicanuteur, equally acclaimed by fanboys and Sineas alike who has directed 13 feature films almost all of which he

also wrote or co-wrote and many of which he also produced he also happens to be one of the most liked

and respected people in the business and has six Oscar nominations to his name three of which

resulted in him taking home

Little Gold Men. His latest, and some would argue, greatest film, is Frankenstein,

which the audience here has just seen. It's a bold interpretation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel

of the same name, which was previously made into several movies, most notably the 1931

classic directed by James Whalen starring Boris Karloff.

Most wouldn't dare to follow in such giant footsteps, but this gentleman did, and his film

has been met with rave reviews and massive viewership. It was just announced today, I believe,

that for the second week in a row, it is the most watch film streaming on Netflix.

And that is not to mention considerable awards buzz for it as well. Tonight, he and I will discuss his journey to and with Frankenstein and will close with questions from students.

And so, eight years after he first appeared on this podcast solo,

and three years after he did so with his fellow members of the three amigos,

Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez and Uriot, would you please join me in welcoming back to the Award Shatter podcast

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