This podcast is supported by the film Amelia Perez, the most Oscar-nominated film of the year.

13 nominations, including Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, and Best Director Jacques O'Diard.

ABC News raves, you've never seen anything like it.

The genre-defying musical features the Oscar-nominated original song El Malle and original score from

Clement Ducol and Camille.

Time calls Amelia Perez an exuberant ode to Human Possibility.

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to a very special 571st episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a former child actress who has been one of the biggest pop stars on the planet for the past 12 years, and is now in recognition of her first starring role in a film playing Galinda, or Glinda the Good Witch, in John M. Chu's

big screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, and Oscar-nominated actress as well,

Ariana Grande. Let's first establish just how big of a music star Grande is. She was Spotify's

most streamed female artists of the 2010s, despite only making her debut three years into the decade.

She was the first artist to ever have the lead single of each of her first four albums debut in the

top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

She has had a total of 23 singles cracked the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100,

nine of which went to number one.

Die for you, thank you next, seven rings, save your tears, stuck with you, rain on me, positions,

yes and, and we can't be friends.

And she has had eight albums cracked the top ten of the Billboard 200, six of which went to number one. Yours truly,

my everything, Swedener, thank you next, positions, and eternal sunshine. And she has been

nominated for 18 Grammys, winning two, Best Pop Vocal Album for Swedener in 2019,

and Best Pop Duo Group Performance for Rain on Me in 2021.

Beyond that, she was one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2016,

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