Alejandra Gonzalez In Uri Tzu's Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, is nominated for nine Academy Awards,

including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, and Best Cinematography.

The following conversation with writer-director in Uri-itu and cinematographer Immanuel Labeschi

was recorded in front of a live audience following a screening of the film.

Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome the Academy Award-winning cinematographer

Emmanuel Labetsky.

And you know him, you love him, he actually showed up today, ladies and gentlemen, Alejandro Gonzalez and you too. You don't want to be touched or anyway.

Not by you.

Thanks for bothering.

Thanks for showing up today, by the way.

Nobody likes Mexicans.

I know that.

I know.

Okay.

Yeah, this is just a red state kind of a room.

Let me ask you this. What was your first conversation with Chivo about the film? What was that first talk?

How much you're going to charge me? And I couldn't afford it. No, Chivo, do you remember?

I think he will remember.

I remember.

One of our first conversations was you call and you said, Chivo, I have this idea I want to do this movie,

and I think I want to do it in one shot. I'm not sure if it's possible.

And at that moment, my brain just kind of switched off and he kept talking for like an hour

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