DGA Awards, 2012

Truly sorry, but no time to find and post articles. I saw a headline and TD was nominated. The nominations came out today. thanks to whoever has time to post article(s)!!!

What is DGA?

The Directors Guild of America posted their nominations...GC didn't get a nod..

Los Angeles – Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2011.

“The directors nominated this year for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award have each demonstrated an inspired command of the medium. The fact that their prodigious talents have been recognized by their peers is the highest honor a director can achieve,” said Hackford. “I offer my most sincere congratulations to each of the nominees.”

The winner will be named at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

WOODY ALLEN
Midnight in Paris
(Sony Pictures Classics)
Mr. Allen’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Matthieu Rubin, Helen Robin
First Assistant Director: Gil Kenny
Second Assistant Director: Delphine Bertrand

DAVID FINCHER
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
(Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Mr. Fincher’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Daniel M. Stillman
First Assistant Director: Bob Wagner
Second Assistant Director: Allen Kupetsky
Production Manager (Sweden Unit): Karolina Heimburg
Second Assistant Directors (Sweden Unit): Hanna Nilsson, Pontus Klänge
2nd Second Assistant Director (Sweden Unit): Niklas Sjöström
2nd Second Assistant Director (U.S. Unit): Maileen Williams
Unit Production Manager (Zurich Unit): Christos Dervenis
Unit Production Manager (U.K. Unit): Lara Baldwin
Second Assistant Director (U.K. Unit): Paul Taylor

MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
The Artist
(The Weinstein Company)
Mr. Hazanavicius’ Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Antoine De Cazotte
Production Manager (FR): Ségoléne Fleury
First Assistant Director (FR): James Canal
First Assistant Director (US): David Cluck
Second Assistant Director (US): Dave Paige
Second Second Assistant Directors: Karla Strum, Ricky Robinson

ALEXANDER PAYNE
The Descendants
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Mr. Payne’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: George Parra
First Assistant Director: Richard L. Fox
Second Assistant Director: Scott August
Second Second Assistant Director: Amy Wilkins Bronson

MARTIN SCORSESE
Hugo
(Paramount Pictures)
Mr. Scorsese’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Charles Newirth, Georgia Kacandes, Angus More Gordon
First Assistant Director: Chris Surgent
Second Assistant Director: Richard Graysmark
Second Assistant Directors: Tom Brewster, Fraser Fennell-Ball
Production Managers (Paris Unit): Michael Sharp, Gilles Castera
First Assistant Director (Paris Unit): Ali Cherkaoui


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thanks!

Wow that was quick the girl with the dragon tattoo only just got released! I think Huge will win.

I am so aggravated that Fincher got in there and squeezed George out of this one...THIS is the nomination I was hoping for IDES. Damn!

Ah well, he can't win them all. But dammit, that would've been a good one.

i think IOM did very well and yeah sure i wanted him to win but as you said he can't win everything!! he had a great year in a very strong year!!

I think he still has time for a great movie to win a DGA it usually takes directors awhile doesn't it?

I'm committing the cardinal sin of not bothering to look it up, but is this award voted on by other directors? In that case is it possible they don't yet see George as a fellow director but more as a hobbyist?

Or perhaps they just didn't like IoM.

The DGA is voted by the Director's Guild of America, and it is other directors. I don't really think it is an issue with George being an actor. I just think there were some really good directors and films this year, and he just got edged out. Ides was great from an audience perspective, but Directors are a funny bunch and see a lot of things we don't. I often go to movies with a friend of mind who is a tv director, and he sees things that bug him that would never bother me.