Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 403rd episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporter's Awards podcast.

On today's episode, we remember the magnificent character actor Michael Kenneth Williams,

who was found dead on Monday of a suspected drug overdose at the age of 54.

Williams was a five-time Emmy nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series

or TV movie for Bessie in 2015, The Night of in 2016, and when they see us in 2019.

For Best Information Series or Special for Vice in 2018, he was an executive producer

of the show, and for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series this year for HBO's Lovecraft

Country.

Indeed, even before his tragic passing, he was the favorite to take home his first statuette

on September 19th.

Williams also appeared on the sopranos, alias, Boston Legal, Happen Leonard, and many

other acclaimed TV shows, as well as in films such as 2007's Gone Baby Gone, 2009's The

Road, and 2013's Twelve Years of Slave, which won the Best Picture Oscar.

But he was best known for his work on two other HBO drama series for which he criminally

never was even nominated for an Emmy.

The Wire, on which he played Omar Little, and Boardwalk Empire, on which he played

Chucky White.

The Wire, which was created by David Simon, is considered by many, including me, to be

the greatest show in the history of television, and he, the greatest character on it.

A gay, shotgun-wielding, stick-up man who terrified even Baltimore's most hardened criminals,

whistling, a hunting we will go, as he stalked the streets, and famously warning one challenger,

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