Del Toro and Peele Score Top Honors at Directors Guild Awards
Director Guillermo del Toro’s mantel is getting mighty weighed down with all of the trophies he is winning for his allegorical fish-out-of-water romance The Shape of Water. The latest came Saturday night when he picked up the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards. The DGA Award puts him in the lead to pick up the best director statue at the upcoming Academy Awards. In the last 20 years, there have been only...
Directors Guild Lauds Iñárritu for Helming ‘Birdman,’ Women Directors Rule at DGA
Birdman soared again Saturday night when the Directors Guild of America awarded its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu with its top honor, the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. “I never expected to be here,” he said in his acceptance speech for the medallion, which was presented by director Michael Mann. Yet it was actually Iñárritu’s second DGA award, and he’d been previously nominated for Babel in...
Ben Affleck ‘Auditions’ for Best Director and Wins the DGA Award
It was, of course, Ben Affleck’s night at the 65th Annual DGA Awards, and the newly anointed best director of “Argo” could be forgiven for acting almost like a kid in a candy store – or an actor auditioning for some of the best helmers in the feature film business, which he acknowledged during his acceptance speech. Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow and Tom Hooper had been his “betters,” as he called them, vying for...
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