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's 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 three of our Meet the nominees special and listen to the

five nominees show their thoughts on working with ADs, the last image they wanted to leave the audience

with, and how they handle pressure. M, you made some very, very specific choices in terms of camera.

There's a lot of short sightings.

There's lots of shots that have headroom.

Can you talk about your use of camera in this particular movie?

Yeah, I think, like everything in the movie,

it was about making it a it like Cassidy's world so she's very

contained and formal and still and so a lot of the time it was about creating these kind of

tablo's that were quite, quite formal and old-fashioned

in that for those and static.

I think it really helped often, as so people call off centre, it's, well, there's sort of slightly

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