tvJan 28, 201729:30pending
How 'La La Land' went from constant rejection to awards contention
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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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