This episode of Awards chatter is brought to you by Universal Pictures Wicked, now nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Cynthia Arrivo, best supporting actress Ariana Grande, and Best Picture Musical or Comedy.

Forbes hails Wicked as a triumph of cinema, and Variety calls it a musical masterpiece.

The American Film Institute has included Wicked as one of their top ten films of the year,

and the National Board of Review awarded it Best Director, John M. Chu, and Best Picture of the Year.

Wicked, now playing in theaters.

Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 563rd episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is an Englishman,

who has been one of our finest screen actors for some 30 years.

He was twice Oscar nominated before he was even 30,

first for his breakout supporting turn in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley,

and then for his first major leading role in 2003's Cold Mountain,

both of which were directed by Anthony Minghella.

He has also been directed by Clint Eastwood, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendez, David O'Russle, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Joe Wright, Steven Soderberg, Wes Anderson, Paolo Sorrentino, and Brady Corbe, among others.

And now, at the age of 51, he is starring on the well-received Disney Plus series Star Wars Skeleton Crew and has given what many regard as his finest performance yet, as an FBI agent

on the hunt for white nationalists in 1980s, Idaho, in Justin Kersel's new film, The Order, which premiered at the Venice

Film Festival back in August and began a platform release via vertical pictures on December 6th.

Jude Law.

Over the course of our conversation at the Hollywood offices of Law's publicists, law reflected

on his path to the movies and the special relationship

that he formed early on with Mingela, who also directed him in 2006's Breaking and Entering,

and who died unexpectedly in 2008. The sorts of roles that he deliberately avoided until he couldn't

turn down the money he was offered to star in a 2004 remake of Alfie,

and how his public persona, influenced by British tabloid coverage, may have limited the way in which

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