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Save this story for later. In the early hours of February 17, 1976, Steven Spielberg was ready to receive the first best director nod of his young career for Jaws. The nominees for the 48th Academy Awards were about to be announced; a documentary crew was on hand to film the 29-year-old boy wonder’s reaction. With the camera tight on his expectant face, the last name was read…but it wasn’t his. “Oh, I didn’t get it, I didn’t get it,” Spielberg said, unsuccessfully struggling to h...

Kristi Zea had recently finished working with Jonathan Demme on Married to the Mob, so she knew him well enough to speak her mind when he started planning The Silence of the Lambs. “It gave me the creeps,” says the production designer. “I said, ‘Really? You’re going to make a movie about a guy who skins women and makes outfits out of them? Jonathan, what are you doing? Are you crazy?’ ” But the director convinced her of the story’s feminist merits. Soon...

Director Darius Marder on the sound design of his intense drama, starring Riz Ahmed as a drummer who loses his hearing.