February 4, 1996
DGA ANNOUNCES FIVE NOMINEES FOR OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOTION PICTURES DURING 1996
DGA President Gene Reynolds and Awards Committee Chairman Howard Storm today announced the Guild's five nominees for outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures during 1996. The winner will be announced on March 8 at the 49th Annual DGA Awards banquet at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and at the Sheraton in New York.
Only four times since 1949 has the winner of the DGA Award not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar.
In its first nineteen years, the Guild's Award was a perfect barometer of the Oscar winner. In 1968, however, Anthony Harvey took home Guild honors for The Lion in Winter while Carol Reed's Oliver! was the Academy's choice.
Four years later, voters of the two organizations disagreed a second time when the DGA's choice of Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather was overlooked by Oscar in favor of Bob Fosse for his direction of Cabaret.
After another thirteen years of agreement between Guild and Academy voters, DGA members selected The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg as the outstanding directorial achievement of 1985 while Oscar voters preferred Sydney Pollack's work on Out of Africa.
The most recent example of divergent picks occurred a decade later when DGA members last year selected Ron Howard's direction of Apollo 13 as the best of 1995 while Academy voters gave Mel Gibson the Best Director Oscar for Braveheart.
THE NOMINEES FOR THE DGA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOTION PICTURES FOR A FILM RELEASED DURING 1995 ARE:
1. THE ENGLISH PATIENT
DIRECTED BY: ANTHONY MINGHELLA
UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGERS: FRANCO BALLATI, LYNN KAMERN
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: STEVE ANDREWS
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: EMMA SCHOFIELD
2. FARGO
DIRECTED BY: JOEL COEN
UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER: GILLY RUBEN
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: MICHELANGELO CSABA BOLLA
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTORS: JAMES ALLEN HENSZ, BRIAN O'KELLEY
SECOND SECOND A.D.: DONALD MURPHY
3. JERRY MAGUIRE
DIRECTED BY: CAMERON CROWE
UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER: ANDREW STONE
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: JERRY ZIESMER
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: WARREN TURNER
SECOND SECOND A.D.: BRYAN DENEGAL
DGA TRAINEE: JILL MUSSER
4. SECRETS & LIES
DIRECTED BY: MIKE LEIGH
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTORS: JENNIE OSBORN, CHRIS ROSE
5. SHINE
DIRECTED BY: SCOTT HICKS
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: CAROLYNNE CUNNINGHAM
SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTORS: HENRY OSBORNE, GUY CAMPBELL
THIRD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: TOM READ
MEDIA NOTES
This is the first DGA nomination for all five directors.
DGA television nominees will be announced in early February.
The 5th Annual DGA Feature Film Nominees Symposium will be held from 10am-1pm on Saturday, March 8 at the DGA Theater, 7920 Sunset Blvd.