The DGA (Director’s Guild of America) announced its nominees for 2007’s Best Director.
The nominations are the Coen Brothers for “No Country For Old Men,” Sean Penn for “Into The Wild,” Paul Thomas Anderson for “There Will Be Blood,” first time feature-director Tony Gilroy for “Micheal Clayton” and Julian Schnabel for “The Diving Bell & The Butterfly.”
Look for repetition here when the Best Oscar nominations are given out later this month (January 22). Aside from Joel Coen, the rest of this group are all first-time DGA nominees. The wild-cards or directors least likely to not make this group Oscar-wise, are PTA and Schnabel, but something tells us the list will look almost exactly the same (and that’s great for ‘Butterfly’ a film we’ve been championing for months). Just for the record, we loved ‘Blood,’ but hell will freeze over before that movie ever wins an Academy Award for Best Picture.
As the AP notes, the winner of this DGA is almost always an Oscar lock:
Throughout the 60-year history of the guild honors, the winner almost always has gone on to win the best-directing prize at the Academy Awards, including last year’s recipient, Martin Scorsese for “The Departed.”
Atonement Snubbed
How happy are we that shit like “Atonement” and “Charlie Wilson’s War” didn’t get nominated? Very. The latter probably didn’t have a chance in hell, but sometimes we’re so skeptical about Hollywood, we get worried. “Atonement” on the other hand has been unjustly scooping up to many award noms despite being fairly mediocre (aside from that amazing tracking shot), so this will probably put an end to its decent award-season reign (and if that’s the case, thank god).
