Hi everyone and thank you for joining us for the 444th episode of Awards Shatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and this special live episode is

being recorded at the Cannes Film Festival in the Campari Lounge of the Festival's historic

Palais in front of an audience of movie lovers from around the world. Before we get down

to business, I want to offer tremendous thanks to the organizers of this event, Curtis Thompson,

Allison Smith-Plazer, and Nicole Onopri. And the Hollywood Reporter is delighted to be partnering

on today's event with SAG AFTRA and to be joined today by Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

Pamela Greenwald and who brings greetings from President Fran Drescher and National Executive

Director Duncan Crabtree Ireland. We also want to recognize a new band in Bush head of communications

for the International Federation of Actors who is with us today on behalf of FIA President

Gabrielle Cartaris, also Johann Gujon with the Society of French Actors and our distinguished

guests from European Sonoma Guilds and Societies. As for my guest on the podcast, we couldn't

ask for a more perfect one for our first episode ever recorded in France, then the Queen

of Cannes, a distinguished French actress who first attended this festival in 2010 and has

rarely missed an edition since, having had more than a dozen film screen here, including two this

year, David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future, and Mia Hansen loves one fine morning, and having

also served on the jury in 2018. I personally will always associate Cannes with her because my first

time covering the fest nine years ago happened to be another year in which she had two films here,

and I had the pleasure of interviewing her for the first time shortly before one of them

blew as the warmest color was chosen by a Steven Spielberg lead jury to receive the pom-door,

and with specific instructions to present that highest of Cannes honors not only to the film's

director, but also for the first and still only time to its stars as well. Though she is still

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