This podcast is supported by the film Amelia Perez, nominated for 10 Critics' Choice Awards,

including Best Picture and Best Director Jacques Odiard, and winner of five European film awards,

starring Carlos Sophia Gascon, Zoe Saldania, and Selena Gomez, ABC News raves.

It's an unmissable movie event. You've never seen anything like it.

A cinematic editing feat with breathtaking cinematography,

transformative hair and makeup, and bold musicality

featuring the original song Me Camino.

Awards Watch calls Amelia Perez the best picture of the year

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Hi, everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 566th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a terrific American actor who began his big screen career 36 years ago while still in his teens,

and has since been directed by the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderberg, Terrence Malick, Spike Lee, Ken Lodge, Roman Polonsky, M. Knight, Shammelon, Peter Jackson,

Wes Anderson, Ryan Johnson, Robert Rodriguez, and Woody Allen.

Back in 2003, at the age of just 29, he became, and to this day, remains, the youngest ever

best actor Oscar winner, in recognition of his tour-to-force performance as a Jewish musician living in Poland

during the rise of the Nazis in the pianist. And last night, some 22 years and a lot of ups

and downs later, he was back on top, winning the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe

Award for his portrayal of another Jewish man who survives the Holocaust,

in this case a brilliant architect who then comes to America and discovers that the American

dream is not all it's cracked up to be in Brady Corbe's The Brutalist, Adrian Brody.

Over the course of our conversation at the London West Hollywood Hotel, the 51-year-old and I

discussed how he began acting in the first place, and early examples of luck, both great and

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