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

In honor of the 73rd annual DGA Awards, we're bringing back our annual series of episodes devoted to our popular Meet the nominees' theatrical feature film symposium.

The event, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, 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 Lee Isaac Chung, the director of Minari,

Emerald Fennell, the director of Promising Young Woman, David Fincher, the director of Mank,

Aaron Sorkin, the director of the Trial of the Chicago

Seven, and Chloe Zhao, the director of Nomadland. These talented directors gathered on April 10th to discuss

the craft of directing and the making of their films with moderator Jeremy Kagan in front of a

virtual audience. So please enjoy part one of our Meet the

Nominees special and listen to the five nominees share the advice they've gotten from other directors,

how they prepare for the next day on a shoot, and where they like to position themselves on set.

It is so great to have all five of you here at the same time. I don't know if you heard what I just said,

but if we were in the theater at this moment, you would be being acknowledged by a standing ovation

of well over seven, 800 people because of the amazing work you've done. And so thank you for sharing

it. And as you know, this conversation we're about to have is with your peers.

This is with directors.

This is with the directorial team.

And they're most interested in learning about how you do, what you do.

And just to get us started, I was thinking you're so experienced now, all of you now, having done so many

of these video interviews that you may be zoomed out doing them. And I was thinking that on the

stage years ago, Steven Spielberg was asking for advice from Frederico Fellini, really

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