Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 430th episode of Awards Shatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and this episode was recorded

live in front of an audience at the Boulder International Film Festival, shortly after

my guest was honored with the Fest Outstanding Performer of the Year Award.

He is a Spanish actor who the Los Angeles Times called, quote, Spain's leading male star

of his generation, close quote.

Also noting, quote, not since Victor mature was at the height of his career in the 40s,

has there been a male star of such bold sensuality, close quote.

The New York Times for its part noted, quote, he has displayed a dazzling range that has

made him part of that rare breed of actor, one who is capable of playing any role, close

quote.

Indeed, over the course of some 30 years in the business and dozens of films on both sides

of the Atlantic, he has been nominated for an Oscar four times, winning once.

He was the first Spanish performer of any gender to receive an acting Oscar nomination,

and also the first to win, and he is one of only two performers of any gender who has received

multiple Oscar nominations for films not in the English language.

And his mental piece also includes Golden Globe, Sad, Critics Choice, and BAFTA Awards,

Spain's equivalent of the Oscar, two Venice Film Festival Best Actor prizes, and one

can Film Festival Best Actor prize. And in 2021, as the Boulder International Film Festival

acknowledged, he had a year, second to none, starring in this Spanish entry for the best

international feature Oscar, which was ultimately shortlisted, The Good Boss, also in Deneville,

Syphi Epic Dune, which is nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, and, as Desi Arnaz

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