Directors Guild Announces 2008 Nominees
by Peter Knegt (January 8, 2009)
Ron Howard, David Fincher, Gus Van Sant, Danny Boyle, and Christopher Nolan.
The Directors Guild of America have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in directing for the screen during 2008. The nominees are Danny Boyle for “Slumdog Millionaire,” David Fincher for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Ron Howard for “Frost/Nixon,” Christopher Nolan for “The Dark Knight” and Gus Van Sant for “Milk.” The winner will be announced at the DGA Awards dinner and ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Last year, four of the five DGA nominees went on to an Oscar nomination: Paul Thomas Anderson, Tony Gilroy, Julian Schnabel and the Coen Brothers. The Oscars chose “Juno”‘s Jason Reitman over DGA nominee “Into The Wild”‘s Sean Penn. Only six times since the DGA Award began in 1949 has the winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Anthony Harvey won the DGA for “The Lion in Winter,” Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing Oliver!); 1972 (Francis Ford Coppola won the DGA for “The Godfather,” Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing “Cabaret”); 1985 (Steven Spielberg won the DGA for “The Color Purple,” Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing “Out of Africa”); 1995 (Ron Howard won the DGA for “Apollo 13,” Mel Gibson won the Oscar for directing “Braveheart”); 2000 (Ang Lee won the DGA for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing “Traffic”); and 2002 (Rob Marshall won the DGA for “Chicago, Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing “The Pianist”). This year’s nominees are: DANNY BOYLE Mr. Boyle’s Directorial Team: This is Mr. Boyle’s first DGA Feature Film Award Nomination.
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