Meet the Nominees: Feature Film

65th Annual DGA Awards

The DGA held its twenty-second annual Meet The Nominees: Feature Film symposium on Saturday morning, February 2. Following a welcome from DGA President Taylor Hackford, Directors Ben Affleck (Argo), Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Tom Hooper (Les Misérables), Ang Lee (Life of Pi), and Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) joined moderator/DGA Special Projects Committee Chair Jeremy Kagan onstage before a standing-room only crowd in the Guild's Los Angeles Theater. The event was also viewed by DGA members in New York via a simulcast held at DGA Headquarters.

Meet the Nominees: Feature Film symosium:
Directed by: Jim Drake; Stage Manager: Tracey Smith Baumert

DGA Awards Section Photo Credits:
Frederick Brown/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Steve Granitz/WireImage, Byron Gamarro, Krista Kennell and Howard Wise.

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DGA Award Nominees Tom Hooper, Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg onstage with Meet the Nominees: Feature Film Symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan during the 2013 Symposium.
DGA President Taylor Hackford welcomes the audience to the 22nd the Nominees: Feature Film Symposium.
Meet the Nominees: Feature Film Symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan opens the event with the first question.
Ang Lee speaks about how he was able to film the ‘unfilmable’ in Life of Pi.
Ben Affleck explains how he was able to maintain suspense in a story where most already knew the ending in Argo.
Tom Hooper speaks about the challenges of filming a musical with live singing as he did with Les Misérables.
Kathryn Bigelow speaks about maintaining the balance between reality and art as she did with Zero Dark Thirty.
Steven Spielberg discusses the daunting task of depicting the life of a beloved and iconic figure as he accomplished in Lincoln.
Hooper, Affleck and Bigelow share a laugh.
The DGA Los Angeles Theater is filled to capacity to hear about the making of these award nominated films.
Meet the Nominees: Feature Film Symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan congratulates the nominees on yet another successful event.