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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 28th 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 Bradley Cooper, the director of a star is born.

Alfonso Quaron, the director of Roma. Peter Farrelly, the director of Green Book,

Spike Lee, the director of Black Klansman, and Adam McKay, the director of Vice.

Each of these talented directors were gathered on February 2nd 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 the final part of our Meet the Nominees Special,

and listen to the five nominees discuss directing actors and knowing when you've gotten the performance.

Highlights include Peter Farrelly, commending his directorial team for helping him keep things

moving.

Adam McKay sharing his amorphous directorial process, and Alfonso Quaron sharing why you can't

trust Dailies and can only judge a moment in context.

You asked a great question about, you know, how do you keep the,

you know, that's everything cool on the set or, you know, the tone.

And it really comes down to the, the A.Ds, you know, the first AD, second, A.

Third AD.

They, if you have a strong first A. you should never have to get excited.

Like, I never, I've never raised my voice on a set because my first AD does that.

He's walking around like, hey, come on, moving.

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