DGA Magazine VOL 28-6 February 2004

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Peter Jackson accepts the 2003 DGA Award for Feature Film Directing

Mr. Jackson's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Managers: Nikolas Korda, Zane Weiner
  • First Assistant Director: Carolynne Cunningham
  • Key Second Assistant Directors: Guy Campbell, Marc Ashton

This was Peter Jackson's third DGA Feature Film Award Nomination. He received two previous nominations for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

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DGA Feature Film Award nominee Sofia Coppola - Photo by Yoshio Sato - © 2003 Focus Features

Ms. Coppola's Directorial Team:

  • First Assistant Director: Takahide Kawakami
  • Chief Assistant Director: Hiroya Igawa
  • Second Assistant Director: Taiichi Sugiyama
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Motonobu Kato, Shu Fujimoto

This was Ms. Coppola's first DGA nomination.


DGA Feature Film Award nominee Clint Eastwood. - Photo by Merie W. Wallace - © 2003 Warner Brothers Ent.

CLINT EASTWOOD

MYSTIC RIVER

(Warner Bros. Pictures)

Mr. Eastwood's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Timothy Alan Moore
  • First Assistant Director: Robert Lorenz
  • Second Assistant Director: Melissa Cummins Lorenz
  • Second Second Assistant Director: Katie Carroll

This was Mr. Eastwood's second nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Unforgiven (1992).


DGA Feature Film Award nominee Gary Ross. - Photo by Francois Duhamel. - © 2003 Universal Pictures and DreamWorks LLC.

GARY ROSS

SEABISCUIT

(Universal Pictures)

Mr. Ross's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Patricia Churchill
  • First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
  • Second Assistant Director: Basil Grillo
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Jeff Bilger, Kristina Peterson, Robert Skidmore

This was Mr. Ross's first nomination.


DGA Feature Film Award nominee Peter Weir. - Photo by Steven Vaughan - © and TM 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Universal Studios and Miramax Film Corp.

Mr. Weir's Directorial Team:

  • Unit Production Manager: Todd Arnow
  • First Assistant Director: Alan B. Curtiss
  • Second Assistant Director: David Bernstein
  • Second Second Assistant Directors: Steven F. Beaupre, Tyler T. Romary, Susan Ransom

This was Mr. Weir's fourth nomination. He received previous nominations for Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Truman Show (1998).



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