Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 470 second episode of Awards Chatter,

The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, THR's executive editor of Awards Coverage, and my guest today

is one of the most admired stage and screen actresses of her generation.

A four-time Oscar nominee, a Tony nominee, an Emmy winner, and a two-time Golden Globe

winner, she broke into the public eye in her teens as Jen Lindley on the WB's Teen

Drama TV series Dawson's Creek, on which she appeared from 1998 through 2003, en route

to proving her tremendous abilities in films like 2005's Brokeback Mountain, 2008's Wendy

and Lucy, 2010's Blue Valentine, 2011's My Week with Marilyn, 2016's Manchester

by the Sea, and 2017's The Greatest Showman.

On Broadway in 2014's Cabaret and 2016's Blackbird, and on TV in the 2019 limited series

Fassi Verden.

I'm talking, of course, about Michelle Williams.

In 2022, Williams shined as brightly as ever in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical film

The Fable Men's, playing Mitzi Fable Men, a thinly disguised version of Spielberg's

own mother, the late Leah Adler, opposite Paul Deino, Seth Rogan, and Gabriel LeBel.

Spielberg has said that her performance made him feel like he had his mother back again,

and as someone who had the pleasure of meeting his mother at the Milky Way, the West L.A.

Kosha restaurant that she ran in her later years, I can totally see why.

Williams nails Adler's physical appearance, manner of speaking, and unmistakable Jwater

and this season, Williams has already received a special tribute at the Gotham Awards,

and was nominated for the Best Actress in a Drama Golden Globe Award, and she is nominated

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