DGA Monthly - Volume 6 - Issue 2 - February 2009 - click here to return to table of contents
The DGA Awards is kicked off each year by the Annual Nominee Breakfast. The morning offers honorees in all categories the opportunity to mingle with their fellow nominees and officers of the Guild in an informal atmosphere, preceding the “Meet the Nominees: Feature Film” Symposium.
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  • Meet the Nominees: Feature Film Symposium moderator Jeremy Kagan; DGA National Executive Director Jay D. Roth; 2009 Feature Film Nominees Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Lee Daniels (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), James Cameron (Avatar), and DGA President Taylor Hackford.
  • Hackford welcomes the nominees

    Three-time Movies for Television winner Joe Sargent, 2010 Capra recipient Cleve Landsberg and 2009 nominee John Kent Harrison

    Director Laura Belsey breakfasts with Documentary Nominee Geoffrey Smith

    Two-time Feature Film winner Ron Howard with Cameron and Director Michael Mann

    Bigelow chats with DGA Third
    Vice President Betty Thomas

    Jay D. Roth with 2009 Childrens'
    Programs Nominee Martha Coolidge

    Lee Daniels chats with First Vice President/Drama/Comedy nominee Paris Barclay and DGA President Hackford

    DGA Board Member Ed Sherin, Assistant Secretary Treasurer Scott Berger and Second Vice President William M. Brady

    1999 Musical Variety winner Dennie Gordon with 1990 Dramatic Series Night winner Michael Zinberg

    Reitman gets advice from 1983
    Feature Film winner James L. Brooks

    Franklin J. Schaffner Award recipients Stanley Faer (‘05), Anita Cooper Avrick (‘02), Maria Jimenez Henley (‘10), Scott Rindenow (‘00), Scott Berger (‘09) and Donald Jacob (‘06)

    DGA Awards Committee Chair
    Howard Storm greets Bigelow

    Kagan has a pre symposium
    chat with Tarantino

    2009 Childrens' Programs Nominee
    Fred Savage with Jason Reitman

    Feature Film Nominees take a last photo for
    the press before heading into the Symposium


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