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Thank you. or wherever you get your podcasts. Today's episode is the third and final in our annual series devoted to our popular Meet

the nominees feature film symposium. Now in its 27th year, the event is a roundtable discussion

with the directors nominated for the Guild's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.

This year's nominees include Guillermo del Toro, the director of the shape of water,

Greta Gerwig, the director of Lady Bird, Martin McDonough, the director of three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Christopher Nolan,

the director of Dunkirk, and Jordan Peel, the director of Get Out.

Each of these talented directors were gathered on February 3rd at the DGA Theatre in Los Angeles

to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator Jeremy Kagan.

So please enjoy Part 3 of our Meet the Nominees Special and listen to the five nominees

share their insights on dealing with the unexpected and the best and worst days of directing

their films.

Highlights from the conversation include Jordan Peel on the scene and get out that truly

made him feel like a director, Greta Gerwick on how the best and worst days are two sides

of the same coin, and why Guillermo del Toro believes that part of directing is orchestrating accidents.

One of the factors that, I could sit with you all now for the next couple of hours,

but I don't know if that's fair to any of us here, but one of the factors that I think is an

interesting thing for us to look at is the issue of the unexpected and how you deal with it

and how it sometimes becomes one of the gifts in the movie itself.

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