Hello, and welcome back to the Directors' Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

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This episode, in honor of the 72nd annual DGA Awards,

we're bringing back our annual series of episodes devoted to our popular Meet the nominees'

Theatrical Feature Film Symposium.

Now, in its 29th year, the event is a roundtable discussion with the directors nominated

for the Guild's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film.

This year's nominees include Bong Joon Ho, the director of Parasite,

Sam Mendez, the director of 1917, Martin Scorsese, the director of the Irishman,

Quentin Tarantino, the director of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,

and Tycho Waititi, the director of Jojo Rabbit.

These talented directors were gathered on January 25th at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, with director Bong Joon Ho, accompanied

by his translator Sharon Choi to discuss the craft of directing and the making of their films

with moderator Jeremy Kagan. Martin Scorsese was unable to attend the last portion of the event,

but to hear him engage in conversation about his film The Irishman,

please listen to parts one and two of this special,

or go to his Q&A with director Spike Lee, recorded in New York.

So please enjoy part three of our Meet the Nominees special,

and listen to the nominees discuss working with actors

and what they learned on this movie.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Let me pick up on there with this idea.

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