Also beginning with this season the number of jury members increased from six to seven.
On the third number, one of the jury members came in late; he had been having car trouble.
The questions asked are agreed upon by the first 6 Jury members with the 7th asking a question of his/her choice.
Its currently ca. 145 jury members are not allowed to judge a production they were involved in.
Each jury member has different feelings about the events leading to the final day.
Each jury member then votes for one of the final players, saying which player he or she wants to win the game.
He was a jury member for many international film festivals.
After all, many of the jury members were once struggling (and in some cases still are).
Lead jury members were also the show's producers in charge of music.
"I spent a lot of my time making eye contact with the grand jury members," he says.