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The Business

How 'La La Land' went from constant rejection to awards contention

Jan 28, 2017
29:30

Writer-director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz have been friends and collaborators since first meeting at Harvard. Together, they struggled for years to make an original movie-musical. Now, their film La La Land is up for a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations.

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