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Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 593rd episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the truly great character actresses of all time.

A powerhouse on the stage and screens big and small for the past 50 years, Kathy Bates. Bates won a best actress Oscar for

bringing from the page to the screen Annie Wilkes, the psychopathic number one fan of an author

of romance novels, in Rob Reiner's Misery, a character that was later chosen in a poll

conducted by the American Film Institute as the 17th greatest movie villain of all time.

She subsequently garnered three other Oscar nominations, all in the category of best supporting

actress for Mike Nichols' primary colors, Alexander Payne's about Schmidt and Clint Eastwood's

Richard Jewell. She also was a part of the film that became the biggest blockbuster of all time for 12 years,

1997's Titanic, which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar,

and she starred in 2009's The Blindside and 2011's Midnight in Paris,

which both were nominated for that same prize.

She played the mother of Adam Sandler in 1998's The Waterboy and Billy Bob Thornton in 2016's Bad Santa 2. She directed episodes of

Homicide Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Oz, 6 Feet Under, for which she received a

Director's Guild Award nomination, and Everwood,

she beat two different forms of cancer, and the list goes on. In short, there's nothing that

Kathy Bates cannot do. But not even Bates, who is now 76, anticipated the massive success of her

latest project, the CBS drama series Matlock,

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