Awards Roundtable: 6 Screenwriters Talk Creative Control, ‘Painful’ Moments and the Essence of Hollywood Collaboration (VIDEO)

Writers from '12 Years a Slave,' 'Saving Mr. Banks,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Philomena,' 'August: Osag...

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Awards Roundtable: 6 Screenwriters Talk Creative Control, ‘Painful’ Moments and the Essence of Hollywood Collaboration (VIDEO) Writers from '12 Years a Slave,' 'Saving Mr. Banks,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Philomena,' 'August: Osage County' and 'Before Midnight' share Hollywood stories, insight at the Variety Awards Studio.

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