Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 473rd episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, THR's Executive Editor of Awards

Coverage, and on this very special episode I have not won, not two, but three guests, all

of whom have appeared on the podcast before alone, but whose stories are so intertwined

that I have always wanted to speak with them together.

They are each incredible filmmakers who were born in Mexico in the early 1960s, became

friends and consultants on each other's work around the turn of the century, and helped to

usher in the new golden age of Mexican cinema in which we now live.

The three amigos, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro Gonzales in your

retu.

This trio has been doing outstanding work for decades, going back as far as del Toro's

1993 film Cronos, in your retu's 2000 film Amores Peros, and Cuaron's 2001 film Eto

Mama Tambien.

But they shot to a new degree of fame in 2006, when they each had a breakthrough film in

Oscar contention, Cuaron with Children of Men, del Toro with Pan's Labyrinth, and in

your retu with Babel, each of which dealt with struggles to communicate, and which collectively

wound up with 16 Oscar nominations, three of which resulted in below the line wins.

Then, in a period of just six years, spanning 2014 through 2019, at a time of rising anti-immigrant

sentiment in parts of America, which was certainly not discouraged by Donald Trump, who famously

declared in the 2015 speech announcing his presidential campaign that Mexico was, quote,

not sending their best clothes, quote, these immigrants collectively claimed five best

director Oscars, Cuaron for Gravity and Roma in your retu for Birdman and the Revenant

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