This podcast is brought to you by Netflix, presenting Frankenstein.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor Jacob Allorty,

the New York Times calls it stunning the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to make.

Nominated for three actor awards, including Jacob Allorty, who gives the most transformative performance of the year.

Winner of four Critics Choice Awards for the outstanding artistry behind the hair and makeup,

costumes and production design, Frankenstein, for your awards consideration.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Scott Feinberg, the executive editor of awards coverage,

The Hollywood Reporter, and a trustee professor here at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts,

from which I will say for our listeners, this episode of Awards Chatter is being recorded.

Tonight, several hundred students and I are fortunate enough to be joined by one of the world's great filmmakers, a 51-year-old Danish-Norwegian writer and director who has been

described by the New York Times as, sensationalally talented, a meticulous craftsman, and

incapable of making an ugly image, close quote.

Black Book Magazine, which once hailed him as one of the most interesting young filmmakers

to emerge in years and the master of gutting cinema, may have put it best when it wrote,

quote, his films are poetic and haunting, honest and visceral, telling stories of

friendship, illness, love, ambition, foolishness, and intellect that are both playful in their

style and striking in their frankness, close quote. He was until recently best known for his

massively acclaimed Oslo trilogy, comprising 2006's reprise, 2011's Oslo August 31st, and 2021s the worst person in the world,

each of which he directed and co-wrote with Escalvot are set in Norway's capital,

explore memory, identity, and time, center on upper middle class, intelligent but self-doubting protagonists,

and star the actor Anders Danielson Lee, while two of them feature to varying degrees,

the actress Renato Reinsford.

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