Ralph Fiennes - 'Conclave' [LIVE]

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In front of an audience at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the revered English stage and screen actor reflects on how Shakespeare led him to his path; what he learned from collaborators like Steven Spielberg ('Schindler's List'), Robert Redford ('Quiz Show'), Anthony Minghella ('The English Patient') and Kathryn Bigelow ('Strange Days' and 'The Hurt Locker'); and what went into his latest — and, some believe, greatest — perfromance, as the dean of the College of Cardinals overseeing the election of a new Pope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.7	Good evening, everyone.
0:48.3	It is a great thrill, honor and privilege to be back at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for the 17th consecutive year for me.
1:00.2	And to be moderating a career retrospective conversation with someone whose work I have watched, admired, studied, and written about for as long as I can remember. One of the greatest stage and screen actors of our time, and this year's SBIFF, outstanding performer of the year award, honorary, in recognition of his amazing work in the film Conclave, Mr. Ray Fines.
1:16.8	Over the past 35 years, this Englishman has given one knockout performance after another.
1:22.8	The problem is, he has been so consistently excellent that I think people actually take him for granted.
1:28.6	A prime example of that.
1:30.6	He has accumulated over the course of his career three Oscar nominations, including one for
1:34.7	Best Actor that he recently received for Conclave.
1:38.0	But as just noted, he has yet to win.
1:42.6	I'm not sure that I can think of anyone alive today who doesn't
1:46.1	have an Oscar who is more deserving of having one or two or three. I'm not sure that Rafe likes
1:56.4	all this talk about awards, but I'm going to ask him and you to humor me for just one more
2:00.4	minute because to me it speaks volumes about him that nine of his co-stars have received Oscar
2:06.8	nominations for their work opposite him, three of whom won Julia Epinosh for the English patient,
2:12.4	Rachel Weiss for the Constant Gardner and Kate Winslet for the reader, and that six of the films in which he starred were nominated for the Best Picture, Oscar,
2:22.0	three of which won Schindler's List, the English Patient and the Hurt Locker.
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