Hey folks, Harry here... The DGA (Director's Guild of America) has announced their nominees for BEST DIRECTOR this year. What this means is that... basically, you'll see these five names announced with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announces their nominees for Best Director. It is almost always the same. And when we hear the name of the DGA award, it'll be nearly a guarantee that we'll see that winner come Oscar night. Only on extremely bizarre occasions does it not follow through.
It is extremely interesting to see Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott take the spots that many would have thought were heading towards David Lynch and Robert Altman... But hey... thems the whims... The winner will be announced on March 9th...
RON HOWARD - A BEAUTIFUL MIND
PETER JACKSON - LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
BAZ LUHRMANN - MOULIN ROUGE
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN - MEMENTO
RIDLEY SCOTT - BLACKHAWK DOWN
"The DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film has traditionally been one of the industry's most accurate barometers for who will win the Best Director Academy Award.
Only five times since the DGA Award's inception in 1949 has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award:
1968: Anthony Harvey won the DGA Award for The Lion in Winter while Carol Reed took home the Oscar® for Oliver!.
1972: Francis Ford Coppola received the DGA's nod for The Godfather while the Academy selected Bob Fosse for Cabaret.
1985: Steven Spielberg received his first DGA Award for The Color Purple while the Oscar® went to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa.
1995: Ron Howard was chosen by the DGA for his direction of Apollo 13 while Academy voters selected Mel Gibson for Braveheart.
2000: Ang Lee was chosen by the DGA for his direction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while Steven Soderbergh won the Best Director Academy Award for Traffic."
