Hi everyone and thank you for tuning into the 259th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast which is the it happened in Hollywood, behind the screen, and TV's top five.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of

Hollywood's greatest character actors, a man who has been acting on the big

screen for the last 52 years in films such as 1969's

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

1971's The Life Guard, 1985's Mask, 1993's Gettysburg,

1998's The Big Labowski, 2000's the contender, 2005's thank you for smoking, and 2009's up in the air.

But is only now at the age of 74 getting his due, the Best Supporting Actor National Board of Review Award

and garnering Best Supporting Actor Critics Choice and Screen Act's Guild Award nominations

and also having his handprints and footprints immortalized in front of the TCL Chinese theater last week,

in recognition of his powerful portrayal of Bradley Cooper's character's older brother

in Cooper's acclaimed 2018 version of a Star is Born, the Great Sam Elliot.

Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter,

the 74-year-old and I discussed the roots of his acting ambitions,

how the sudden death of his father who had doubted his future

in acting impacted his career path, why the first film in which he was the central star,

Lifeguard, was also his last, how, with only a few notable exceptions like Mask,

he came to be type-cast as the strong silent type,

often mounted on a horse and or out in the west,

most famously in the Big Labowski,

what sparked his recent late career

renaissance that led to a star is born, plus much more. So without further ado,

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