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After a hard day at work, Mia's subsequent audition goes awry when the casting director takes a phone call during an emotional scene. While stuck in Los Angeles traffic, aspiring actress Amelia "Mia" Dolan has a moment of road rage directed at Sebastian "Seb" Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist. In the latter category, Chazelle became the youngest winner at age 32.
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The film also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories, including Best Actress for Stone and Best Director for Chazelle. It won a record-breaking seven awards from its seven nominations at the 74th Golden Globes and received eleven nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five, including Best Film. It went on to receive numerous accolades. The film was a commercial success, grossing $448 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million, and received widespread critical acclaim with praise directed at Chazelle's screenplay and direction, Gosling's and Stone's performances and chemistry, the musical score, musical numbers, cinematography, and production design.
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La La Land premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 9, 2016. Filming took place in Los Angeles between August and September 2015, with the film's score composed by Hurwitz and the dance choreography by Mandy Moore. Miles Teller and Emma Watson were originally slated to star, but after both dropped out Gosling and Stone were cast. After the success of his film Whiplash (2014), the project was picked up by Summit Entertainment. After moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Chazelle penned the script but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. Having been fond of musicals during his time as a drummer, Chazelle first conceptualized the film alongside Justin Hurwitz while attending Harvard University together. John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, and J. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress, respectively, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. La La Land is a 2016 American musical romance film written and directed by Damien Chazelle.