Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 181 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a living legend.

A British actress revered for her work on the stage, television, and film, who found an international audience

as M in eight James Bond films and who has accumulated seven Oscar nominations over the years.

For 1997's Mrs. Brown, 1998 Shakespeare in Love, 2000 Shokalot, 2001's Iris, 2005's

Mrs Henderson presents, 2006's Notes on a Scandal, and 2013's Philomena winning best supporting actress for Shakespeare and Love and returning to best actress contention this year for Victoria and Abdul

a Stephen Freire's dramedy in which she plays Queen Victoria, which opened in select cities on Friday.

Dame, Judy Dench.

But first, I sat down at the offices of the Hollywood reporter with one of the most experienced and

knowledgeable people in entertainment journalism, our film editor, Greg Kilday, to discuss some of

what's gone on in the awards race since our last episode a week ago.

Greg, thanks for joining me.

Good.

So we have had an interesting week here.

I guess the first thing we should know, the biggest news of the last week,

was that the Audience Award out of the last week was that the audience award out of the Toronto

International Film Festival went to Fox Search Lights, three billboards outside Ebing,

Missouri. I wonder if you can just contextualize was this out of the blue?

Well I think it was a surprise in that the movie was well received.

It hadn't gotten quite as much buzz as some of the other films like The Shape of Water, another Searchlight filming

contention or Coming By Your Name, Sunny Classics movie, which originally played

Sundance but then reappeared in Toronto and also got great buzz and chatter.

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