Paul Giamatti on how he joined the Oscar race with ‘The Holdovers’, why people think he won with ‘Sideways’, his dream role as an orangutan and how the ‘Billions’ final shocked him – The Actor’s Side

Paul Giamatti is back in awards season and Oscar is right there this year with his wonderfully rich, funny and human spin on Alexander Payne’s drama series. The survivors. He has already won the National Board of Review and the Boston Film Critics Best Actor Awards and has been nominated for the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for his role as a grumpy adjunct professor who teams up with a student and a school employee at a boarding school Massachusetts was left in the snow. Public holidays.

Giamatti is certainly no stranger to awards, having won an Emmy for it John Adams In addition to numerous other nominations, he received two Golden Globes, an Indie Spirit Award, as well as an Academy Award nomination and a SAG Award (one of three) for his supporting role in the 2002 film. Cinderella man. Many thought of his groundbreaking performance twenty years ago in his first and only previous collaboration with Payne Sideways had to won gave him an Oscar (he told me that some people still thought it was an Oscar), but shockingly, he wasn’t even nominated. Hopefully this year makes up for it all, because it’s taken all this time for Giamatti and Payne to finally get the stars together and team up for another critically acclaimed film collaboration.

Giamatti is featured in this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The actor’s side not just to talk The survivors but also so many of his notable past successes, including the just-concluded Showtime series billion and the twist of an ending he never expected: the 1997 Howard Stern film genitals It meant a big break for him, his dream role as an orangutan in Tim Burton’s planet of apes It was a childhood obsession, to act in movies like… real people Straight from Compton, Love and Grace, Too Great to Fail , man in the moon and the above John Adamsand so much more.

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