SOFIA COPPOLA LOST IN TRANSLATION (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.

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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).

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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.

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PETER WEIR MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Twentieth Century Fox)

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