00:00It always means something so special is when the audience member says,
00:03like, I didn't even know this before, but I really needed this movie.
00:06That feels unbelievably special.
00:08Hi, my name is Celine Song, and I am nominated for Original Screenplay.
00:12Past Lives is also nominated for Best Picture.
00:21Well, I feel like it's different because, of course, the Best Picture nomination is such an amazing thing
00:26that I feel so proud of for the whole filmmaking team.
00:30Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, and David Hinojosa is their first Oscar nomination,
00:35just like it is my first Oscar nomination for, and it's my debut feature.
00:40It's my first film, you know?
00:41So I think that was such an amazing, special thing.
00:44I feel like such an amazing result of our truly deep collaboration that we had, yeah.
00:56Something that I really know always sticks with me and it always means something so special
01:00is when the audience member says, like, I didn't even know this before, but I really needed this movie.
01:04For all of us to have made a film that anybody needs, even if it's one person who needs it,
01:09I think that feels so, that feels unbelievably special.
01:13I think that for audience members to tell me, I felt that way before,
01:17or that I have needed this story and I'm here for it, that makes me feel less alone.
01:21And it kind of doesn't matter if they're the most incredible filmmaker that I admire more than anything,
01:27or if it's somebody who just bought a ticket.
01:30What I care so much about is that the feeling of, like, I felt connected to it.
01:34I felt that I needed it for my life.
01:40I really was at the Eccles Theatre where this movie premiered at Sundance,
01:43and I really do think of that moment as the beginning of my whole career.
01:47I remember I was pacing around in the green room of the Eccles feeling super nervous
01:51and not really knowing what's going to happen.
01:54And I remember after the movie ended and we were on stage,
01:59and of course we felt the warm recession of the audience.
02:02I don't think I really truly worried about this film since then,
02:05because there's something about that that you're like,
02:07well, I just know that I have that.
02:09I just know that I have that night at the Eccles where an entire audience felt so connected to the story.
02:15And what else could I ask for, right?
02:21I think it oscillates between feeling nervous and then also remembering that it's already such an amazing thing,
02:27especially because it's my very first film.
02:29Of course, some days it's more one thing than the other.
02:32Of course, I feel like Martin Scorsese, of course.
02:38And I feel like that is all part of it.
02:40But another team is like the directing team for Spider-Verse.
02:44I love meeting them because I feel like, oh my god, yes!
02:48But I think that it's all really special and really amazing and I just love meeting everyone.
02:52The advice that Eric Roth gave me, it's all competitive and it's all that,
03:00but the truth is that like we're all just so happy to have a movie that's being celebrated so much.
03:04My joke with my crew is that I'm like, well, the war season is my overtime.
03:08And I'm happy to be doing it.
03:10More people are discovering the film because of the nomination.
03:14The truth is I can't wait to get behind the camera.
03:16You know, I just can't wait.
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