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Awards Chatter

Paul Giamatti - 'The Holdovers'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

One of our greatest character actors reflects on how the sudden death of his father motivated him to pursue an acting career, the different challenges of roles small and large and what it was like to reunite with Alexander Payne, 19 years after 'Sideways,' for a new film about a cranky boarding school teacher who is made even crankier by having to spend the 1970 Christmas break on campus with an aggrieved student. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is

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one of the greatest character actors of all time. He's an Oscar nominee and

0:48.8

winner of Emmy Spirit and Critics Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three SAG Awards, with credits to his

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name including 2003 is American Splendor, 2004 Sideways, 2005 Cinderella Man, 2006 is

1:02.1

The Illusionist, the 2008 limited series John Adams, 2012's

1:06.5

win win, 2013's 12 years of slave, the drama series Billions which ran from 2016 through earlier this year, and this year's the

1:14.8

Holdovers, which reunites him with his sideways director Alexander Payne, in which he

1:20.3

plays a cranky boarding school teacher who was made even crankier by having to spend the 1970

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Christmas break on campus within a grieved student and for which he has already won the Best

1:30.1

Actor National Board of Review Award and received Best Actor Golden Globe and Critics' Choice

1:34.2

Award nominations and could well receive a long overdue first Best Actor Oscar nomination.

1:40.8

Paul Giamotti has been described by the New York Times as the kind of actor

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whom directors rely on if not to open a movie than to bring it home always

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pleasant to spend time with and in an age of stars and would be stars a true character actor who can play drama comedy or romance

1:59.3

The Guardian has called him one of the most interesting figures in American cinema.

2:03.5

Schran magazine noted that he possesses such striking presence and versatility

2:08.6

that he elevates each character he inhabits into something completely unique and

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