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Directors Guild Of America Does The Expected, Nominates Fincher, Boyle, Nolan, Howard and Van Sant!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... here... The DGA nominees for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film" have been announced , and there are no surprises. The five finalists are... David Fincher, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT Ron Howard, FROST/NIXON Gus Van Sant, MILK Here's DGA President Taylor Hackford saying nice stuff about the work of these five gentlemen: "A film is a collaboration, but it is the director's energy and vision that brings the elements of script, performance and production into a satisfying totality. ...

Directors Guild Likes Boyle, Nolan, Van Sant, Fincher, and Howard
Cinematical — The Oscar race is starting to come into focus now, with the Directors Guild of America nominations giving us a pretty good idea of which filmmakers are going to get Academy Award nominations. The nominees for the 61st annual DGA Awards ...

Director Guild Nominations
We Are Movie Geeks — The Directors Guild of America announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2008. David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight” Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon” Gus Van Sant, “Milk” Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” * Well, this pretty much clinches it for the top 5. Will Ron Howard receive the snub again from the Oscars as he did in 1995 when he was glaringly overlooked for ‘Apollo ...

Awards Watch: Directors Guild Nominations
Movie Dearest — ... There were no real surprises today when the Directors Guild of America announced their nominees for their 61st Annual Awards, with the five most likely suspects getting recognized for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2008". Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) and ...

Awards Watch: Art Isn't Easy
Movie Dearest — ... The Directors Guild of America also announced the contenders for their documentary award, with the expected nods to Man on Wire and Waltz with Bashir. See the comments section below for all the nominees from both guilds. ...

The DGA Winner Is…
We Are Movie Geeks — ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has won the Producers Guild of America Award, the Golden Globe, the SAG Award and now the Directors Guild of America Award….no big surprise there. It was Boyle’s first DGA nomination. Looks like ‘Slumdog’ is unstoppable now come Oscar night. Click here for the full list of winners. ‘Waltz With Bashir’ director Ari Folman won for Documentary. Among Hollywood’s many honors on the buildup to the Academy Awards, the Directors Guild prizes have one of the best track records for predicting eventual Oscar ...

Danny Boyle Wins Directors Guild Award
Get The Big Picture — If there is one accurate divining rod for the Academy Awards, it's the Directors Guild of America honors. In the past 61 years, the winner of the DGA has gone on to win the Best Director Oscar 56 times. However, half of the ones that have gone against the grain have occurred since 1995. But Danny Boyle's victory is no surprise, and because he's won nearly every other major directing award this year, he's the absolute favorite to win Best Director at the Academy Awards for Slumdog ...

Awards Watch: Directors Guild 2008
Movie Dearest — ... Danny Boyle won the Directors Guild of America Award last night, thereby cementing Slumdog Millionaire as the front-runner for the Academy Awards later this month. Barring any ...

Oscar Race Ends 23 Days Early
Film Experience Blog — The DGA Awards aren't exactly known for throwing the Oscar race into a frenzy of "what ifs" but last night's crowning of Danny Boyle, or plaqueing of Danny Boyle as the case may be, officially makes this the dullest most predictable Best Picture race (Slumdog Millionaire wins with ease) since... since... Maybe since Titanic. If it wasn't already. Which it probably was. And the 1997 lineup was almost as meh as 2008's. In the absence of real Oscar drama which category are you clinging to? Which race do you hope can be ...

The Emmys Controversy Explained
HeyUGuys — In the last few weeks screenwriters have a great deal of reason to feel undervalued. At the beginning of July IMDB temporarily moved the writer’s credits from the top of the page, to the ‘full cast and crew’ section. Now it has been announced that two of the screenwriting categories during this year’s Emmys will be pre-taped, and then played back during the broadcast in an edited format. It’s not just the screenwriting categories that are being culled from the live show. At the time of writing the awards in the pre-record bin are: ...