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The DGA held its 23rd annual Meet The Nominees: Feature Film Symposium on Saturday morning, January 25, 2014. Directors Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips), Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), David O. Russell (American Hustle), and Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street) joined moderator Jeremy Kagan onstage before a standing room only crowd in the Guild’s Los Angeles Theatre. Alfonso Cuarón, nominated for Gravity, was unable to attend.
After screening clips from each film, the directors headed to the stage where Kagan began the discussion into the creative processes to “see how you do what you do.” Kagan fittingly opened the conversation by asking each director how they first begin their day on set.
With that start, the symposium continued into the morning where each Director offered further insight to their creative process, the struggles they faced getting their films made, and the advice they would give an aspiring director. Just a few hours after everyone had left the stage, one of the nominees would be walking on to a different one—accepting the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award—but for a few hours each nominee displayed through their camaraderie and love of the craft why each one of them, and their films, were equally as outstanding and deserving of the award.