WHAT: Announcement of the five nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 1999.
WHEN: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:00 AM
WHERE: DGA Headquarters Theatre 2
7920 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046
WHO: Director Steven Spielberg, winner of the 1998 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Saving Private Ryan, will join DGA President Jack Shea to announce the nominees.
For more information please contact Chuck Warn or Andrew Levy at 310-289-5333.
To RSVP please contact Frank Lin at 310-289-5333.
Only four times since 1949 has the winner of the DGA Award not gone on to win the Best Director Oscar.
In 1968, Anthony Harvey took home Guild honors for The Lion in Winter, while the Oscar went to Carol Reed for Oliver!
In 1972, the DGA’s selection of Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather was overlooked by the Academy in favor of Bob Fosse for Cabaret.
In 1985, Steven Spielberg won his first DGA Award for The Color Purple, but Academy voters selected Sydney Pollack’s work on Out of Africa.
Most recently, Ron Howard was a DGA Award winner for Apollo 13 in 1995, but failed to even receive an Oscar nomination. The Academy Award that year went to Mel Gibson for Braveheart.
