Your Friendly DGA Reminder; Whoever Wins Will Likely Win Oscar For Best Director
Speaking of an Oscar barometer, since the DGA began in 1948, only six times has the winner not aligned with the Oscar winner. And we're not going to bitch anymore about Fincher and 'The Boring Case of Benjamin Button,' but let it be known we'd rather see Sam Mendes (or anyone else for that matter) in this spot, and will, save for makeup and art direction, disagree with all noms it receives. It's just not that good people.
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 won the DGA Award for his direction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon while Steven Soderbergh won the Academy Award for Traffic.
2002: Rob Marshall won the DGA Award for Chicago while Roman Polanski received the Academy Award for The Pianist.
- Jonathan Helm
1/09/2009
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2 comments:
Don't you think you're being a little hard on a movie you semi-enjoyed (Ben Button)? I mean I understand your friends didn't like it, but it seems you're against it because others aren't at this point. Either that or your feelings on the film have changed heavily. Not saying you can't hate the film, I too know a lot of people that thought it was meh, but it just seems odd coming from you.
i didn't write this. Jonathan did, though i do agree with him. He was actually a bit harder on the film and i edited it a bit.
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